1. Mineral Specimens

2. Magnatite Strongly Magnetic Form of Iron Ore

3.  Hardness 1- 2

4. Pyrite Brass Yellow Cubic “Fool’s Gold” Form of Iron Ore

5. Chalcopyrite Yellow Brass Purple “Peacock Ore” Form of Iron Ore

6. Galena Gray S.G. = 7.5 Cubic Form of LEAD Ore

7. Limonite Yellow-brown to rust Hardness = 5.5 Form of Iron Ore

8. hematite Red to Brown Streak Form of Iron Ore Shiny when polished

9. Orthoclase Cleavage Planes at 90 

10. ORTHOCLASE (cont)

11. Quartz HEXAGONAL 6 Crystals Shell-like Fracture

12. Citrine Amethyst Rose Smoky

13. Olivine Shades of Green Peridot birthstone

14. Halite Colorless to White Salty Taste

15. Calcite Hardness = 3 “Scale” in water Triclinic

16. Calcite may DOUBLE REFRACT

17. Gypsum Hardness = 2

18. Talc Hardness = 1 Greasy luster

19. Muscovite Cleavage in flat sheets

20. Fluorite 8 sided cleavage

21. Fluorite samples

22. Augite 2 Cleavage planes @ 90  Black

23. Corundum HEXAGONAL 6 crystals Hardness = 9 Red = RUBY Other = Sapphire

24. Garnet Reddish Brown Brittle

25. Shell-like Fracture Petrified Wood

26. Black Cleavage in flat sheets

27. Shell-like Fracture

28. minerals NATURAL LIGHT UV Light