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DALTON, John (1766-1844). British chemist and physicist. Founder of the athomic theory in 1803-05. Oil

Encyclopedia. Forges
Encyclop餩 e by Denis Diderot and Jean D Alembert (1751). Mineral extraction and transport. Etching. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia)

Hotel at Bad Wildungen, Hesse, Germany
Furstl Badehotel at Bad Wildungen, a spa in Hesse, Germany. Date: circa 1910

Hotel Victoria, Baden Baden, Germany
Hotel Victoria and street scene, Baden Baden, Germany

People at Golf Club, Baden Baden, Germany
People relaxing at the Golf Club, Baden Baden, Germany. Date: circa 1908

Wooden construction at Bad Nauheim, Hesse, Germany. Date: circa 1902

Aerial view of Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany
Aerial view of Bad Reichenhall, a spa town in Upper Bavaria, Germany

Mineral spa in Budapest, Hungary

Street scene in Dole, Jura, France
Scene in the Rue des Arenes, Dole, Jura, eastern France, with shops and pedestrians. Date: early 20th century

Effects of taking the waters
The rather adverse effect of taking the waters at Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg !!! Date: circa 1910s

Slovakia - Spa (Kupele) Sliac - thermal baths
Spa (Kupele) Sliac are thermal baths located in Sliac in the Zvolen valley, on both sides of the river Hron. Sliac is surrounded by the Slovak Ore Mountains, Kremnicke and Stiavnicke hills. Date: 1938

WW1 - Serbian girl gets water for the Allied Troops
WW1 era - Serbian Woman Water Carrier providing fresh drinking water to Allied Troops Date: circa 1917

Taking the Waters - I hope no ones looking! A glamorous lady takes the Strong Sulphur waters and hopes nobody spots her... Date: circa 1905

Loading Appollinaris Water at Remagen, Germany
Loading Appollinaris Water onto a riverboat on the River Rhein (Rhine) at Remagen, Germany. Date: circa 1910s

Le Mont-Dore, France - Gargling Room at The Thermal spring, known since Roman times. Le Mont-Dore, formerly called Mont-Dore-les-Bains

The Homestead - Hot Springs, Bath County, Virginia, USA Date: circa 1903

A Burmese Oilfield - showing a vast forest of wooden drilling rigs. Date: circa 1910s

Franco-British Exhibition - The Perrier Pavilion
Franco-British Exhibition, White City, Shepherds Bush, London - The Perrier Pavilion Card gievn away with the compliments of Perrier table water. Date: 1908

Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita Spa, Hakone, Japan Date: 1920s

Yessentuki, Russia - Spa Town
Yessentuki - a city in Stavropol Krai, Russia, located at the base of the Caucasus Mountains - Health Resort town in the Stavropol Krai region

A Bristol Sycamore operated by Australian National Airways equipped with an electromagnetometer for locating mineral ore deposits

Diamond in pebble
A solitary diamond in conglomerate, from Golconda, India

Aquamarine
This Russian gem is about the size of a peach and weighs 898 carats

Agate geode

Agate Botswana

Morganite
This gemstone is 600 carats and one of the worlds largest Morganite specimens

Opal in its natural form. The boulder has been split open to reveal the shimmering opal inside

Feldspar, collected by Dr Benza c.1837. NHM specimen number: BM 650

Diamond flower brooch
Victorian diamond-encrusted flower with a sapphire at its centre

Butterscotch wulfenite
A large specimen of the mineral wulfenite from the Glove Mine, Arizona, USA

Tourmaline cut stones see 666
A group of tourmaline cut stones. Tourmaline is the name given to a group of eleven minerals which all have a general chemical formula

Belemnotheutis antiquus
A well-preserved Upper Jurassic squid aged 160 million years. This specimen originates from the famous clay deposits in Wiltshire

Black opal
131-carat black opal found in the Lightning Ridge area of New South Wales, Australia

Emerald
Possibly from the collection of Rt Hon Charles Greville in 1810. Emerald is a variety of beryl (beryllium aluminum silicate). The green colour attributed to small amounts of chromium

Yellow sapphire from Sri Lanka, 101 carats. Acquired by the museum in 1874

Agate
Blue lace

Turritella agate

Agate thundereggs

Agate slice

Imperial Topaz
Found in 1852 in one of the oldest mines in the southeastern Ouro Preto region of Brazil

Padparadscha is one of the most unusual varieties of the mineral corundum

Blue sapphire
Sri Lankan specimen of blue sapphire. A rare example of the uncut material

Moss agate specimen

Agate

Copper mass
This copper block was discovered by Samuel Hearne in the Arctic Circle in 1771. He carried it for a year before presenting it to the Hudsons Bay Company

Bloodstone or heliotrope carvings
These frogs were carved from bloodstone by Paul Dreher. Bloodstone is green agate containing speckles of red jasper. All these derive from the cryptocrystalline quartz group

Spinel specimen
Spinel crystals from Vietnam. The rock has been chipped away to reveal the well-defined crystals

Crystal balls are produced by grinding and polishing quartz (silicon dyoxide) cystal into spheres

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