Échantillons

Amazonite

Brownish gray, translucent.

Feldspar group; white to gray, sodium plagioclase cleavages; some faces may show twinning.

Deep purple crystal clusters.

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

Cut black mica cleavage sheets.

Bright metallic cubic cleavages; lead ore.

Clear, pure cleavages, Mohs’ hardness of 2.

Good grade, bronze-colored ore, massive.

Spinel group; iron-black, massive; natural magnet.