Minerals

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Across
  1. 3. red precious stone
  2. 4. Midas favorite gold
  3. 6. often used in sandpaper
  4. 8. purple variety of quartz
  5. 10. dioxide used by plants
  6. 12. mercury-containing mineral
  7. 14. dark mica
  8. 16. Fools gold
Down
  1. 1. A green precious stone
  2. 2. main ingredient of drywall
  3. 5. a common cave-forming mineral
  4. 7. used in powders
  5. 9. found on dinner tables
  6. 11. light mica
  7. 12. burnable rock
  8. 13. an aluminum ore
  9. 15. Given off by plants