Collections

• Our collections
  • Systematic collection
  • Gem and meteorite collections
  • Type collection
• History
• Virtual Visit
  • Main Stairs
  • Room A: Exceptional minerals
  • Room B: Haüy room
  • Room G: Native elements
  • Room I: Sulfides, halides, oxides
  • Room J: Fischesser room
  • Room K: Carbonates, oxides
  • Room L: Carbonates, borates, sulfates
  • Room M: Sulfates
  • Room N: Phosphates, arsenates, vanadates
  • Room O: Silicates
• Panoramic Views
• Exhibits
  • Gems from the Crown Jewels
  • Meteorites
    • Canyon Diablo Meteorite
    • Martian Meteorites
    • Lunar meteorites

Room I

Sulfides, halides and oxides

Floor map of the Mineralogy Museum

Boleite and cumengeite

(Display case I38, samples #775 and #778)

Weardale fluorite

(Display case  I37, sample #740, from Weardale, Cumbria, England)

Pink Alpine fluorite

(Display case I37, sample #728, from Massif du Mont-Blanc, Haute-Savoie, France)

Wieliczka Halite 

(Display case I7, sample #1613, Wieliczka, Malopolskie, Poland)

Halite with petroleum

(Display case I35, sample #696 from Starnnia, Poland)

Blue halite

(Display case I35, sample #692 from Wintershall, Heringen, Rottenburg, Germany)

"Dauphinois" Quartz

(Display case J31, sample #1082 from Isère, France)

Quartz "Herkimer diamond"

(Display case  J31, sample #1068, from Herkimer Co., New York, USA)

Smokey Quartz

(Display case J32, sample #1107, from Tessin, Switzerland)

Quartz, La Gardette twin

(Display case J31, sample #1055 from Kai, Japan)

Corundum: Ceylan Sapphire

(Display case J28, sample #947, from Ratnapura, Sri Lanka -"Ceylan")

Corundum: Ural Sapphire

(Display case J28, sample #936, from Kyshtym, Cheljabinskaia, Fédération de Russie)

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