Specimens

Examples of Different Forms of Breakage in Minerals

Geometric Shapes and Structures of Crystalline Minerals.

Samples of Minerals That Are Found in Rocks

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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.

Pure kaolinite powder, 200 mesh.

Classic “peacock” aluminum ore.

Cut black mica cleavage sheets.

Deep red, hexagonal, 3/8". India.

Beautiful, blue, hexagonal, sapphire crystals. Average size: 3/8". Madagascar.

Sharp, brown, twinned, orthorhombic, ³/₈– ¹/₂".

Small 1–1.5 mm crystal, octahedrans or cubes, Mohs” hardness of 10.