Mineral Specimens
Mineral specimens are cut in a variety of sizes to meet various user needs, with common uses including identification on the part of students, displays to be used during lectures and demonstrations, or as chips for convenient physical identification tests in labs. These mineral specimens also demonstrate a number of classic geological features, such as cleavage, and collections of minerals can be used to test the Mohs hardness of other minerals and compare them.
Ward's® Sillimanite
When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.
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Ward's® Cordierite
When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.
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Ward's® Streak and Color Collection
Clear examples of a key method of identification.
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Ward's® Introductory Mineral Collection
Beginner’s Collection Illustrates Important Physical Properties
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Crystal Form Topic Set
Geometric Shapes and Structures of Crystalline Minerals.
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Ward's® GEO-Logic Rock-Forming Minerals Set
Samples of Minerals That Are Found in Rocks
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Ward's® GEO-Logic Metallic Mineral Resources Set
Give Your Students a Lesson in Economics as Well as Geology
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Ward's® Fluorite (Fluorescent)
Brown, fluorescent crystals intergrown in dolomite rock.
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Ward's® Hornblende (Cleavage)
Amphibole group; dark greenish black cleavages, somewhat columnar.
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Ward's® Hematite (Red Ochre)
Red, earthy, in natural chunk form; common pigment ore.
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Ward's® Azurite
Bright blue crystalline veins and coatings in a matrix of mixed copper ore.