What if she wanted the halite and the calcite removed, leaving only the quartz?

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What if she wanted the halite and the calcite removed, leaving only the quartz? How could you remove both the halite and the calcite but then recover the halite? Pyrite and chalcopyrite are sometimes known as "fool's gold" because prospectors have supposedly mistaken them for the real thing. Any confusion must arise from superficial resemblances of color and luster. A prospector worthy of the name would never confuse native gold and these sulfides because most of the physical properties are quite different. Look up the properties of these three minerals online or in any mineralogy textbook and compare them below. What does this say about jumping to conclusions when identifying minerals (and other things)?

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The following are the properties which are similar in some ways and different in many.

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