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 K: Carbonates and oxides

Floor map of the Mineralogy Museum

Twinned Aragonite

(Display case K35, sample #2376, from Minglanilla, Cuenca, Spain)

Fontainebleau Calcite

(Display case K7, sample #1842, Bellecroix, Fontainbleau, Seine-et-Marne, France)

Urchin in Calcite

(K33 Echantillon 2275, from Fresville, Manche, France)

Published in Lacroix, "Minéralogie de la France", tome III, page 444, fig.28.

Dolomite

(Display case K34, sample #16105, from Eugi, Navarre, Spain)

Rhodochrosite

(Display case K31, sample #17745, from Capillitas, Andalgala, Argentina)

Twinned rutile

(Display case J37, sample #13158, from Dom Bosco, Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Rutile on hematite

(Display case J29, sample 5139, from Cavradi, Disentis, Switzerland)