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® Streak and Color Collection
Supplier: Avantor
Clear examples of a key method of identification.
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Ward's® Introductory Mineral Collection
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Beginner’s Collection Illustrates Important Physical Properties
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Crystal Form Topic Set
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Geometric Shapes and Structures of Crystalline Minerals.
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Ward's® GEO-Logic Rock-Forming Minerals Set
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Samples of Minerals That Are Found in Rocks
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Ward's® GEO-Logic Metallic Mineral Resources Set
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Give Your Students a Lesson in Economics as Well as Geology
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Ward's® Chalcopyrite
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Good grade, brass-yellow copper ore, massive.
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Ward's® Fluorite (Fluorescent)
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Brown, fluorescent crystals intergrown in dolomite rock.
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Ward's® Hornblende (Cleavage)
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Amphibole group; dark greenish black cleavages, somewhat columnar.
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Ward's® Hematite (Red Ochre)
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Red, earthy, in natural chunk form; common pigment ore.
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Ward's® Azurite
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Bright blue crystalline veins and coatings in a matrix of mixed copper ore.
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Ward's® Kaolin (Powdered)
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Pure kaolinite powder, 200 mesh.
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Corundum (Sapphire)
Supplier: ADAM MOORE MO
Beautiful, blue, hexagonal, sapphire crystals. Average size: 3/8". Madagascar.
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Staurolite
Supplier: ADAM MOORE MO
Sharp, brown, twinned, orthorhombic, 3/8– 1/2".
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Ward's® Oligoclase
Supplier: Avantor
Feldspar group; white-to-gray cleavages of sodic plagioclase; some show twinning.
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