Classroom Minerals
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® Microcline (Pink)
Feldspar group; pink cleavages showing perthitic texture, common potassium feldspar, Mohs’ hardness of 6.
Ward's® Dolomite (Coarse)
Coarse, 'salt and pepper': dark pyroxene and light andesine. Provides perfect representation of an intermediate igneous rock.
Ward's® Labradorite (Cleavage)
Feldspar group; good cleavages of pure soda lime feldspar; most show twinning and labradorescence.