You're doing a little weekend prospecting in the california foothills and you notice a shiny stone in a shallow creek bed. how would you go about identifying it and it's value?

Explanation:

Stones have minerals in it which reflects light. Luster is the property that gives the idea about the reflection of light by the minerals. i.e., how brightly they shine.

To identify the luster of a mineral or a metal, geologists first divides the stone to be either metallic luster (opaque and shiny) or non-metallic luster (fails to appear like metals). The minerals in the stone is identified by mineralogy database. It can also be identified by minerals class or name.

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