MINERAL AND ORE SPECIMENS

These ore and mineral specimens, along with many others, are on display at the W.M. Keck Museum.   New images are added frequently, so please visit again.  To view more of the museum's collections, go to the Fossil Collection and the Mining History pages.

• MINERALS
• COPPER ORES
• GOLD & SILVER ORES
• MISCELLANEOUS ORES

Blue Topaz, Brazil	Pyromorphite Sierra Madre Mtns., Mexico	Azurite, Tsumeb, Namibia Washington Roebling Collection
Sphalerite, Barite and Quartz Manualita Mine, Peru		Pyrite and Quartz Casapalca Mine, Peru
Opal - Virgin Valley, Nevada		Okenite with minor Gyrolite Poona, India

Muscovite, Albite and Quartz Sapo Mine, Brazil	Aquamarine - a variety of beryl	Barite Murray Mine (AngloGold) Elko Co., Nevada
Calcite (CaCO3) - Iceland Spar	Calcite (CaCO3) - double refraction	Dolomite
Fluorite	quartz crystal	Wulfenite
Barite on Dolomite	Amethyst	Gypsum
Fulgerite	Rhodochrosite	Staurolite
Covellite on Pyrite	Dioptase	Sulfur

Datolite and Copper, Rockland, Michigan	Linarite, Candelaria Dist., Nevada	Native Copper
Azurite	Azurite and Limonite Kimberly, Nevada	Copper Zinc Ore Cerro Gordo Mine
Azurite and Malachite Bisbee, Arizona	Native Copper	Copper on quartz Butte, Montana

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