The Geology Museum displays many dazzling specimens of minerals, both common and rare. This list covers many of the more familiar minerals plus some of the more showy ones.

• Azurite (hydrous copper carbonate)
• Calcite (calcium carbonate)
• Copper (native copper)
• Fluorite (calcium fluoride)
• Graphite (native carbon)
• Gypsum (hydrated calcium sulfate)
• Magnetite (iron oxide)
• Malachite (hydrous copper carbonate)
• Pyrite (iron sulfide)
• Quartz (silicon oxide)
• Sulfur (native sulfur)
• Tincalconite (hydrated sodium borate)
• Tourmaline (complex borosilicate)
• Vanadinite (lead vanadate chloride)
• Wulfenite (lead molybdate)

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