"High School - Earth Science"

Hornblende is a dark amphibole group mineral, perfect for teaching Bowen's reaction series.

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

Massive white quartz with a moh's hardness 7.

Bituminous rich black shale for hands-on investigations.

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

Conglomerate is a sedimentary rock made up rounded quartz pebbles.

Pegmatite is igneous rock similar to granite but with larger crystals.

Red clastic rock composed of sand sized particles and hematite.

Introduce your students to rocks formed metamorphism of other rocks.

Slaty metamorphic rock containing hematite giving it its red color.

Substantial Set of Economically Important Minerals

Introduce your students to Gray Andesite with large phenocrysts of hornblende.

Limestone is a gray calcium carbonate that will fizz with dilute HCl.

Scoria is a dark-colored rock formed from lava with a high gas content.

Introduce your students to rocks formed from deposition of sediment.

A high quality starter net.