Mineral Collection (page 4)

France. Women working inside of a coal mine. Drawing color
France. Women working inside of a coal mine. The moulineuses.Drawing color. 19th century

Georgius Agricola (1494-1555). German scientist. Known as the father of mineralogy. Engraving belonging to his work De Re Metallica. Basel 1564. Colored

Stockton Mineral Baths, Stockton, California, USA
Stockton Mineral Baths, Stockton, San Joaquin County, California, USA. Date: circa 1920

Octahedral crystals in columns, quartz matrix
Groups of octahedral crystals forming columns in parallel position in quartz matrix. Presented by Percy Tarbutt in 1942 Date: 1942

Moon rock fragment from the last Apollo space mission, Apollo 17, encased in perspex on a wooden plaque. The thumbnail-size rock is around 3.7 billion years old

Basking shark
Hand-drawn graphite and watercolour wash depicting side view of head of Basking shark transported from Brighton to London. 10th Dec 1812. Date: 1812

Emiliania huxleyi coccolithophores collected from a bloom in the SW Approaches to the English Channel in June 2004. Date: 2004

Fossils of diatoms, foraminifera, ferns and mollusks.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolles Geology and Paleontology section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich, 1886

Extinct crinoids, ammonites and squid.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolles Geology and Paleontology section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich, 1886

Metals including sulfur-nickel, nickeline, chloanthite, etc.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Adolph Kenngotts Mineralogy section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich, 1886

Precious stones including agate, onyx, opal and sardonyx.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Adolph Kenngotts Mineralogy section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich, 1886

Precious stones and crystals including topaz, almandine, etc.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Adolph Kenngotts Mineralogy section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich, 1886

Palast Hotel, Wiesbaden, Germany
Scene outside the Palast Hotel, Wiesbaden, Germany, with a horse-drawn carriage and spectators. Date: circa 1908

Tunisia - Metlaoui - Phosphate Society Mines of Sfax-Gafsa - unloading the wagns. Date: circa 1910s

Buxton, Derbyshire - Mineral Water spring - St. Anns Well - fed by the geothermal spring. The waters are bottled and sold internationally by Buxton Mineral Water Company. Date: circa 1910s

The Hope Chrysoberyl
Glittering 45-carat chrysoberyl gemstone from Brazil which, has been known among gemmologists for about 170 years

Crystalline limestone, collected in the Himalayas, India by Dr Benza c.1837. NHM specimen number: BM 967

Quartz-feldspar porphyry
Geological specimen collected by Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition. It had a broad scientific programme and collected thousands of geological

Sapphire Buddha pin less then two centimetres tall. Sapphie is so hard it would have needed something as hard or harder to shape it, most probably another Sapphire

Verdite head
African head carved in verdite by James Tandi. Verdite is also known as Africas Green Gold and is a member of the Silicates mineral group

Pyrophyllite, green radiating in quartz from Berezovsk, Russia. Close-up of specimen on display in the Mineral Gallery at the Natural History Museum, London

Jadarite
Minerals curator Mike Rumsey studying the mineral called jadarite which has the same chemical composition as kryptonite. Discovered in Serbia in 2006, jadarite is composed of sodium, lithium

Sunday stone, a calendar in rock
Formed in a Tyneside coal mine in the 1800s, the white mineral barium sulphate, settled out in a water trough and during working shifts was blackened by coal dust

Halite
Large cubes of halite (sodium chloride) which is a common resource of salt. This specimen is from Orenburg, Russia

Limonite, also known as ironstone, is comprised of (hydrated iron oxide) and is characterized by its rusty colour and banded appearance

Colenso Diamond
A 133-carat diamond donated to the Natural History Museum in 1887 by the poet John Ruskin. It was stolen in 1965 and remains missing

Colenso Diamond Wanted Poster
Poster offering reward of e750 for the return of the Colenso Diamond. On 29th April, 1965, from the Mineral Gallery at the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd, SW7

Cinnabar
Twinned dark red cinnabar crystals with small quartz crystals. Cinnabar comprises of (mercury sulphide). Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London

Shale (right) and garnet-mica-schist (left)
Shale is sedimentary and garnet-mica-schist is metamorphoc in origin. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Niccolite mineral with metallic lustre, comprises of nickel arsenide. It is also known as coppernickel and nickeline. This specimen is from the Natural History Museum, London

Gold
A specimen of the metal element, gold, from Hopes Nose near Torquay, Devon. A beautifully delicate dendritic growh in cream-coloured calcite, with brown weathered dolomite

Bentonite
A specimen of the mineral Bentonite Reg No. 1926, 216 light grey mass, Range 19, W4, Township 28, Rosedale, Alberta, Canada. Predented by the Canadian Government Exhibition Commision, 1926

Sperrylite is a platinum di-arsenide (PtAs2) which occurs rarely in a few localities across the world. This specimen originates from South Africa, and is of exceptional quality

The Allende carbonaceous chondrite
Photograph of the Allende carbonaceous chondrite, partly covered in jet-black fusion crust. This contains numerous white inclusions called CAIs. This stone is about 10cm across

Magnesite
Dyed magnesite specimen

Emu egg
Fresh emu eggs are a dark turquoise colour, which fades over time if they are preserved

Plate XXXXIV: Lava Samples
Pl XXXXIV. Observation on the volcanoes of the two Sicilies, Naples, 1776 & 1779 compiled by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) while Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples

Peridot
Crystal of peridot from Zebirget (St Johns Island), Red Sea. Peridot is the gemstone variety of olivine (magnesium iron silicate)

Garnet-topped doublet
A green garnet-topped doublet. Garnets are common in metamorphosed rocks and also in some igneous formations

Fortification agate
A section of fortification agate from Scurdie Ness. Agate is cryptocrystalline quartz. This specimen is from the collections held at the Natural History Museum, London

Chrysoberyl cut stone
This is Alexandrite, a cushion-shaped Chrysoberyl (beryllium aluminum oxide) gemstone. Alexandrite is named after the former czar of Russia, Alexander II

Diamond crystal
Natural diamond crystal in Kimberlite from Kimberley, South Africa. Kimberlite is the rock in which diamonds occur. The rock was named after the the South African site, Kimberley

WERNER, Abraham Gottlob (1750-1817). Etching

Replicas of the Koh-I-Noor diamond
Replicas of the Kor-i-noor diamond created from cubic zirconia by John Nels Hatleberg

Calcite (Calcium Carbonate) variant iceland spar
A cleaved rhomb of iceland spar showing double refraction from near Eskifjordr, Iceland

Train at Mineralovodsky Station, Kislovodsk, Russia
Train at Mineralovodsky Station, Kislovodsk, a popular spa town (now a city) in Stavropol Krai, North Caucasus, Russia. The name of the town translates as sour waters - founded in 1803 as a military

Luxeuil-les-Bains, France
Luxeuil-les-Bains - a commune in the Haute-Saone department in the region of Franche-Comte in eastern France. The Flower Baths - The Thermal Spa Establishment. Date: circa 1906

Buxton, Derbyshire - Taking the waters from The Pump. Date: circa 1910s

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