Mineral Collections

Five Types of Cohesiveness

Great value for the microscopic study of Feldspar minerals.

Specimens Illustrate Smooth Mineral Breakage

Great value for the microscopic study of Pyroxene minerals

Clear examples of a key method of identification.

Explore the differences of how light interacts with the surface of a mineral.

Demonstrates irregular breakage of minerals.

Brazil.

Specially selected thin sections of important rock forming minerals. Set may contain more than one example of the same mineral to depict variations in occurrence and distinct mineral associations.

Slides (12): actinolite, anthophyllite, cummingtonite, ferrohornblende, fluoredenite, glaucophane, grunerite, hexagonite, kaersutite, magnesiohornblende, riebeckite, tremolite.

Specimens to supplement the most widely-used college lab manual for physical geology.