"Classroom Mineral Specimens"

Pure, white, earthy “China clay”.

Cleaned, pure, bright, metallic native copper.

Spinel group; black, dull metallic luster; common iron oxide.

Brown, fluorescent crystals intergrown in dolomite rock.

Brown, earthy, massive; used for yellow pigment.

Bright metallic cubic cleavages; lead ore.

Himalayan mineral great for teaching and display.

Clear, pure cleavages, Mohs’ hardness of 2.

Spinel group; iron-black, massive; natural magnet.

Fluorite is Green Halide mineral with moh's hardness 4.

Feldspar group; white-to-gray cleavages of sodic plagioclase; some show twinning.

Red, earthy, in natural chunk form; common pigment ore.

Soapstone is a talc-schist primarily composed of talc.

Feldspar group; pink cleavages showing perthitic texture, common potassium feldspar, Mohs’ hardness of 6.

Good grade, brass-yellow copper ore, massive.

Pure, large, transparent-to-translucent cleavages, Mohs’ hardness of 4.