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Gold will have a gold metallic streak, and Fool's Gold (pyrite) will have a greenish black streak.
One way would be to perform a streak test by sliding the sample across an unglazed tile with a little bit of pressure. Gold will have a gold colored streak and pyrite will have a greenish black streak. After exposure to flame, pyrite will have a slight sulfur smell which gold will not. == == == ==
The powder indicates the true color of the mineral and is an aid in mineral identification. That can also be called a streak.
Pyrite ranges in color from dull and brassy to shiny yellow-gold.
The streak should be olive greenish. My class did a streak test and found that out with pyrite. You want to do it? Get pyrite, a tile, and rub it across the tile. You should find out. But according to our results, pyrite had the olive green streak.
Gold will have a yellow metallic streak, pyrite will have a greenish-black streak.
Pyrite's color is extremely similar to that of gold. However, the streak of pyrite is black. This can be used to distinguish it from gold.
When dragged across a streak plate, gold will leave a yellow streak, pyrite will leave a greenish-black streak. It is one way of differentiating gold from pyrite.
Greenish black
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Pyrite
the color of crushed pyrite is a greenish brown. Compared to gold which is gold.
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Gold will have a gold metallic streak, and Fool's Gold (pyrite) will have a greenish black streak.
Pyrite and gold are similar in color, and both are relatively heavy when compared to other minerals and rock. Pyrite fractures when hit with a hammer. Gold, however, is malleable. Pyrite leaves a brownish-black streak on a streak plate. Gold leaves a gold-colored streak. Gold is nearly 4 times as heavy as pyrite. Gold is much softer than pyrite on the Mohs hardness scale.