Échantillons

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.

Light pink, massive, crystalline, translucent.

Dark brown to black; polycrystalline zinc ore.

Exemplary display of hexoctahedral crystal shape.

Feldspar group; calcium end member plagioclase crystals in pyroxene matrix.