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Give Your Students a Lesson in Economics as Well as Geology

Examine the Mineral Composition of Igneous Rocks

Examine the Mineral Composition of Metamorphic Rocks.

Examine the Mineral Composition of Sedimentary Rocks

A variety of tensile strengths and physical traits represented.

Activities to Examine the Appearance of Minerals

Create a suitable home for fish, brine shrimp and other marine invertebrates. A 450 g bag will make three gallons of sea water (1.020-1.025 specific gravity). (Please note: This item is recommended for use with saltwater aquaria only.)

Substantial Set of Economically Important Minerals

Everything You Need to Organize Your Specimens

Good grade, green, massive; copper ore.

Nearly pure, green crystalline forsterite.

Coarse-grained plagioclase and pyroxene with some olivine.

Massive, chlorite-rich.

Red, classic oolitic texture.

Brown, fluorescent crystals intergrown in dolomite rock.

Brown, earthy, massive; used for yellow pigment.