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Minldent Data
Base
for
Minerals
and a FORTR N Program
for
Their Identifcation
REFERENCE
MANUAL
D G
W
Smith
D P
Leibovitz
manual
version
February 12,
1987 Department
of
Geology
University
of
Alberta EDMONTON, ALBERT A CANADA, T6G 2E3
 
Printed at
the
University
of
Alberta
©
1987
D
P
Leibovitz and D
G
W.
Smith
 
I NTRODU T
ON
Minldent is
an
interactive mineral
identification
and mineral data base management
program written
in FORTRAN
77.
The data base contains compositional, optical and
other
parameters
describing
more
than
3700
minerals. The data base management aspect
of
the
program
will
not
be used
by
the general user. It contains facilities
to modify
the data base
through
additions, deletions,
etc.
The normal usage consists
of
the
following
steps: 1 entering data
for
a mineral
to
be
identified
the unknown)
or
entering search criteria.
2.
identifying
the mineral,
or
matching minerals meeting the search criteria.
3.
displaying data
for
specified identified
or
matched minerals. This manual assumes the reader is already familiar
to
some extent
with
Minldent. It contains
all
the
terms
that may be explained via the
?
H LP
/ EXPLAIN commands. Minldent -iii

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