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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.

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.


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Supplier: Avantor
Description: Feldspar group; good cleavages of pure soda lime feldspar; most show twinning and labradorescence.

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Description: Amphibole group; dark greenish black cleavages, somewhat columnar.

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Description: White, fibrous, silky luster.

Catalog Number: (470025-474)
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Description: Pure kaolinite powder, 200 mesh.


Catalog Number: (470226-258)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: A textbook example of pure crystalline carbon which is extermely soft.


Supplier: Avantor
Description: Bright blue crystalline veins and coatings in a matrix of mixed copper ore.<BR><BR>WARD’S offers four different specimen sizes to meet your various needs:<BR><BR>Student Specimens. Ideal for students to use for study and identification. Specimens range in size from 1" x 1" to 1" x 2" and come in packages of ten.<BR><BR>Hand Specimens. Great for lectures, demonstrations, and display. Specimens range in size from 2" x 3" to 3" x 4", and each comes in a labeled plastic tray.<BR><BR>Bulk Pack. Several of the smaller pieces are suitable for classroom study, while the larger specimens in the one kilogram pack can be cut to sizes that meet your specific needs. The number and size of pieces will vary.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Cut black mica cleavage plates. Books and sheets in bulk pack.

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Description: Feldspar group; white to gray, sodium plagioclase cleavages; some faces may show twinning.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Deep purple crystal clusters.

Catalog Number: (470226-344)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Massive white quartz with a moh's hardness 7.


Catalog Number: (470226-342)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Hornblende is a dark amphibole group mineral, perfect for teaching Bowen's reaction series.


Catalog Number: (470226-468)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Introduce your students to a broad selection of minerals.


Catalog Number: (470025-248)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Specimens Illustrate Smooth Mineral Breakage


Catalog Number: (470025-252)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Clear examples of a key method of identification.


Supplier: Avantor
Description: Good grade, bronze-colored ore, massive.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Clear, pure cleavages, Mohs’ hardness of 2.

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