Geosciences Department Mineral Collection
The Geosciences Department Mineral collection is housed mainly in ESS Room 351 ("Museum Store Room"). It is intended for research, display, and reference. The specimens can also be used for demonstration in advanced classes, but should NOT be made available to students in labs or where they can apply acids, scratch tests, and the like. The general departmental collection has been augmented by two donated collections, The Belsky Collection (donated by Mel and Charlotte Belsky in memory of their son Howard) and the Siegel Collection of African Minerals (donated by Dorothy (Dot) Siegel). You can get a key through either the Building Manager or the Museum staff.
There are three catalog files.
Two pdf files,
The third file is a Microsoft Access file, which requires that program to use. It can be sorted to meet your need. To view it, click on the file (Mineral_Collection 2new.mdb), click OK that it's read-only, and click on Mineral Collection 2005 (or on Belsky and Siegel Collections if you wish).
The database opens in sample-number order (100xxx for elements, 110xxx for sulfides, 120xxx for oxides, etc.), but you can sort by mineral name or locality by highlighting the column, then clicking Record, Sort, and Sort Ascending in sequence.
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The Department welcomes its new faculty member, Deanne Rogers
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