Systematic mineralogy including detail study of major rock-forming minerals with emphasis on their physical and optical properties, chemical composition, occurrences, and associations. Principles of crystallography, crystal systems, symmetry classes and crystal forms. Crystal chemistry. Structures of minerals. Optical mineralogy. Laboratory exercises include studies of common rock forming minerals using polarizing microscope, morphological crystallography using crystal models, determination of mineral specimens by physical properties and using hand lens, and recalculations of chemical analysis.