Mineral Specimens
Mineral specimens are cut in a variety of sizes to meet various user needs, with common uses including identification on the part of students, displays to be used during lectures and demonstrations, or as chips for convenient physical identification tests in labs. These mineral specimens also demonstrate a number of classic geological features, such as cleavage, and collections of minerals can be used to test the Mohs hardness of other minerals and compare them.
Ward's® Geo-Logic Cleavage, Fracture, and Parting Collection
Examples of Different Forms of Breakage in Minerals
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Crystal Form Topic Set
Geometric Shapes and Structures of Crystalline Minerals.
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Ward's® GEO-Logic Rock-Forming Minerals Set
Samples of Minerals That Are Found in Rocks
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Ward's® GEO-Logic Metallic Mineral Resources Set
Give Your Students a Lesson in Economics as Well as Geology
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Ward's® Fluorite (Fluorescent)
Brown, fluorescent crystals intergrown in dolomite rock.
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Ward's® Hornblende (Cleavage)
Amphibole group; dark greenish black cleavages, somewhat columnar.
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Ward's® Hematite (Red Ochre)
Red, earthy, in natural chunk form; common pigment ore.
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Ward's® Azurite
Bright blue crystalline veins and coatings in a matrix of mixed copper ore.
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Corundum (Sapphire)
Beautiful, blue, hexagonal, sapphire crystals. Average size: 3/8". Madagascar.
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Ward's® Diamond
Small 1–1.5 mm crystal, octahedrans or cubes, Mohs” hardness of 10.