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Mineral hardness scale

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Diagram of mineral hardness comparing Mohs relational scale and Rosiwal absolute hardness. Includes photographs of specimens for each number on Mohs Hardness Scale. Best printed in colour at A3 or larger.

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Field Value
Title Mineral hardness scale
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/4f39ea13-5971-44db-af05-c1f3e8109cb3
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 18/04/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Mineral hardness scale". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/mineral-hardness-scale