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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® Labradorite (Cleavage)
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Feldspar group; good cleavages of pure soda lime feldspar; most show twinning and labradorescence.
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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® Corundum
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Crystals and crystal sections up to 1", Mohs’ hardness of 9.
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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® Kaolin (Massive)
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Pure, white, earthy “China clay”.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Hornblende
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Hornblende is a dark amphibole group mineral, perfect for teaching Bowen's reaction series.
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Ward's® Hornblende (Crystalline)
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Amphibole group; black, coarse, massive.
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Ward's® Sodalite
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Deep blue, massive, with nepheline; key feldspathoid.
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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® Magnetite (Lodestone)
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Spinel group; iron-black, massive; natural magnet.
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Ward's® Hematite (Specular)
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Black, Micaceous, glittery metallic.
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Ward's® Graphite
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Black, high grade, foliated, greasy feel.
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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® Sphalerite (Crystalline)
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Dark brown to black; polycrystalline zinc ore.
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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® Pyrite
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Fools gold Brassy color which leaves a black streak.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Graphite
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A textbook example of pure crystalline carbon which is extermely soft.
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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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Almandine Garnet
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Exemplary display of hexoctahedral crystal shape.
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Ward's® Quartz (Chert)
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Light gray, compact, opaque, microcrystalline.
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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® Olivine (Coarse)
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Fresh Green forsterite, classic “twin sisters” dunite.
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Augite
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Pyroxene group; dark green, pure cleaved fragments.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Fluorite
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Fluorite is Green Halide mineral with moh's hardness 4.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Kaolin
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Kaolin is a white clay mineral that has vast industrial uses
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Ward's® Introductory Mineral Collection
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Beginner’s Collection Illustrates Important Physical Properties
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Ward's Science Essentials® Apatite
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Apatite is a gemmy blue phosphate mineral, mohs hardness 5.
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Ward's® Caliche
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Hardened natural cement of calcium carbonate that binds other material such as gravel, sand, clay, and silt.
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Calcite (Chalk)
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Classic, white chalk, massive; from Cliffs of Dover, England.