"Microscope Slide Boxes"

Beginner’s Collection Illustrates Important Physical Properties

Geometric Shapes and Structures of Crystalline Minerals.

Samples of Minerals That Are Found in Rocks

Good grade, brass-yellow copper ore, massive.

Brown, fluorescent crystals intergrown in dolomite rock.

Amphibole group; dark greenish black cleavages, somewhat columnar.

Red, earthy, in natural chunk form; common pigment ore.

Bright blue crystalline veins and coatings in a matrix of mixed copper ore.

Classic “peacock” aluminum ore.

Cut black mica cleavage sheets.

Feldspar group; white-to-gray cleavages of sodic plagioclase; some show twinning.

Clear rhombs showing double refraction.

Crystals and crystal sections up to 1", Mohs’ hardness of 9.

Pure, large, transparent-to-translucent cleavages, Mohs’ hardness of 4.

Bright metallic cubic cleavages; lead ore.

Black, high grade, foliated, greasy feel.