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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® Copper
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Cleaned, pure, bright, metallic native copper.
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Ward's® Gypsum (Alabaster)
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White, fine, massive, opaque to slightly translucent.
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Ward's® Graphite
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Black, high grade, foliated, greasy feel.
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Ward's® Quartz (Milky)
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White, massive, coarse crystalline vein, Mohs’ hardness of 7.
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Ward's® Quartz (Rock Crystal Points)
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Clear, euhedral points and sections.
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Ward's® Corundum
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Crystals and crystal sections up to 1", Mohs’ hardness of 9.
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Ward's® Hornblende (Crystalline)
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Amphibole group; black, coarse, massive.
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Ward's® Pyrrhotite
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Good grade, bronze-colored ore, massive.
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Ward's® Magnetite (Lodestone)
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Spinel group; iron-black, massive; natural magnet.
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Ward's® Sphalerite (Crystalline)
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Dark brown to black; polycrystalline zinc ore.
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Ward's® Kaolin (Massive)
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Pure, white, earthy “China clay”.
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Ward's® Microcline (Pink)
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Feldspar group; pink cleavages showing perthitic texture, common potassium feldspar, Mohs’ hardness of 6.
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Ward's® Hematite (Specular)
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Black, Micaceous, glittery metallic.
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Ward's® Sodalite
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Deep blue, massive, with nepheline; key feldspathoid.
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Almandine Garnet
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Exemplary display of hexoctahedral crystal shape.
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Biotite
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Cut black mica cleavage plates. Books and sheets in bulk pack.
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Ward's® Quartz (Chert)
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Light gray, compact, opaque, microcrystalline.
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Albite
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Feldspar group; white to gray, sodium plagioclase cleavages; some faces may show twinning.
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Ward's® Malachite
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Good grade, green, massive; copper ore.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Basic Minerals Collection
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Introduce your students to a broad selection of minerals.
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Ward's® Oligoclase
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Feldspar group; white-to-gray cleavages of sodic plagioclase; some show twinning.
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Ward's® Topaz (Crystals)
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Gemmy, sherry-colored crystals and sections approximately 3/8– 1/2"
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Anorthoclase
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Feldspar group; greenish gray alkali feldspar, coarse crystalline, some iridescence.
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Ward's® Introductory Mineral Collection
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Beginner’s Collection Illustrates Important Physical Properties
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Calcite (Chalk)
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Classic, white chalk, massive; from Cliffs of Dover, England.
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