"Freeze-Dried Specimens"

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.

Feldspar group; greenish gray alkali feldspar, coarse crystalline, some iridescence.

Coarse, 'salt and pepper': dark pyroxene and light andesine. Provides perfect representation of an intermediate igneous rock.

Amphibole group; black, coarse, massive.

Black, Micaceous, glittery metallic.