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® Albite
Feldspar group; white to gray, sodium plagioclase cleavages; some faces may show twinning.
Ward's® Anorthoclase
Feldspar group; greenish gray alkali feldspar, coarse crystalline, some iridescence.
Ward's® Anorthoclase
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.
Ward's® Enstatite
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.
Ward's® Kyanite
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.
Ward's® Microcline (Pink)
Feldspar group; pink cleavages showing perthitic texture, common potassium feldspar, Mohs’ hardness of 6.
Ward's® Muscovite
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.
Nepheline
Our excellent series of standard thin sections features important and interesting rock-forming mineral types most often found in field samples.