Specimens

Great value for the microscopic study of Feldspar minerals.

Great value for the microscopic study of Pyroxene minerals

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); annite, biotite, clinochlore, fuschite, glauconite, lepidolite, margarite, muscovite, paragonite, phlogopite, sericite, zinnwaldite.

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.

Ten New Slides in a Complete Teaching Set

Examples of the More Important Minerals Found in Rocks

Five Types of Cohesiveness

Demonstrates Irregular Breakage

Activities to Examine the Appearance of Minerals

A variety of tensile strengths and physical traits represented.

Substantial Set of Economically Important Minerals

Amazonite

Calcite is a translucent calcium carbonate mineral, mohs hardness 3.

A textbook example of pure crystalline carbon which is extermely soft.

Selenite is a Clear gypsum mineral with a moh's hardness of 2.

Talc is the softest know mineral with a moh's hardness of 1, and composed of clay.