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1. Calcite

   Flattened grouping of brownish gray opaque rhombohedral calcite crystals with heavy striations on crystal faces. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 23. It was a part of the college's original acquisition from Thomas Cooper in 1821.

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2. Calcite

   Cluster of large colorless translucent scalenohedral calcite crystals intergrown with dark gray metallic massive and cubic galena. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 21. It was a part of the college's original acquisition from Thomas Cooper in 1821.

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3. Calcite

   Large cluster of large colorless translucent bladed calcite crystals.

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4. Calcite

   Specimen is a cluster of ten pale yellow translucent scalenohedral calcite crystals formed on a triangular base of microcrystalline calcite. Largest crystal is approximately six centimeters long.

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5. Calcite

   Cluster of colorless to pale gray scalenohedral calcite crystals (largest is approx. 5 cm in length) on a base of light gray laminated limestone. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 21. It was a part of the college's original acquisition from Thomas Cooper in 1821.

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6. Calcite

   Specimen consists of 6-10 twinned doubly terminated colorless transparent scalenohedral calcite crystals aligned at the center points. Disphenoidal chalcopyrite is included in numerous calcite crystals, in addition to an earthy greenish coating (copper staining) on crystals to the right of the specimen number. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 21. It was a part...

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7. Calcite

   Sample of light gray fine-grained limestone covered with small and large pale yellow translucent scalenohedral crystals of calcite. Some are doubly terminated, the largest of which is just over four centimeters long.

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8. Carving

   Stylized turtle carved from brown and white banded microcrystalline calcite (Mexican onyx). This variety of calcite originates from a stalagmite. Abstract angular form with head, shell, four flipper-style feet, and tail. Scute pattern and eyes are etched rather than deeply carved.

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9. Carving

   Small stylized turtle carved from a black unknown material (possibly plastic or wood). Abstract angular form with head, shell, four feet, and tail. Shell is unpatterned with a triangular cross-section. Blue faceted stones are set-in as eyes.

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10. Dolomite

    Large sample of gray crystalline limestone with pale pink pearly opaque curved rhombohedral dolomite crystals covering one side, and large to tiny black adamantine tetrahedral sphalerite crystals on the opposite surface. Scattered over the sphalerite are also tiny crystals of yellow metallic striated blade-like marcasite.

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11. Dolomite

    Blocky sample of pearly white and gray massive dolomite with small pale yellow metallic crystals of pyrite embedded within on side. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 31. It was a part of the college's original acquisition from Thomas Cooper in 1821.

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12. Dolomite

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13. Dolomite

    Cluster of at least 12 large crystals of pale pink translucent curved rhombohedral dolomite with smaller pale & dark yellow rhombohedral translucent calcite on a base of colorless granular calcite matrix. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 31. It was a part of the college's original acquisition from Thomas Cooper in 1821.

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14. Calcite

    Large cluster of fine dark yellow scalenohedral calcite crystals some of which are doubly terminated and or twinned. Largest crystal is more than four centimeters long. Base of the specimen is white massive calcite and dark grey limestone.

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15. Siderite

    Large black igneous rock (basalt or diabase) with a large cavity lined with black brown botryoidal siderite exhibiting fibrous habit on broken crystals.

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16. Smithsonite

    Small, though heavy, mass of colorless to tan coarsely granular smithsonite covering a dark gray rock. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 121.

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17. Aragonite

    Large sample of pale blue green clusters of radiating aggregates of slender columnar aragonite crystals. Surrounding matrix is brown.

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18. Aragonite

    Small sample of dark red translucent tabular hexagonal aragonite formed from six twinned crystals intergrown. A rectangular embayment exists on one of the flat sides.

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19. Aragonite

    Small cluster of twelve slender colorless translucent well terminated crystals of aragonite emanating from a tightly packed base with no matrix preserved. Crystals have diamond shaped in cross section.

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20. Aragonite

    Small block of white to tan fibrous aragonite composed of at least 5 successive layers, each with tan terminations and a white base. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 30.

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21. Aragonite

    Large cluster of small dark pink translucent hexagonal (penetration twins) crystals of aragonite. Crystals emanate from a thick layer of massive reddish brown aragonite.

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22. Witherite

    Heavy sample of colorless to white translucent massive and columnar witherite with small amounts of brown matrix on a few surfaces. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 17.

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23. Alstonite

    Small cluster of white to colorless translucent short dipyramidal alstonite crystals emanating from a base of white sharply bladed calcite and massive calcite.

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24. Strontianite

    Specimen is a small fragment of translucent white tabular intergrown strontianite crystals with colorless hexagonal quartz crystal present in a vug. Some black staining is present on the strontianite. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 18.

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25. Cerussite

    This fragile specimen consists of light gray fibrous Cerussite crystals in radial patterns, on a thin crust of opaque light gray matrix. The occurrence of Cerussite, a lead carbonate, in fibrous form is somewhat rare. The Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho has long been a productive area for silver and lead ore.

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26. Cerussite

    Two heavy specimens of many gray translucent intergrown tabular and striated cerussite crystals with much yellow and orange powdery iron oxide staining. This specimen is probably associated with object ID 8915. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 122.

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27. Phosgenite

    Single colorless adamantine translucent crystal of phosgenite with partly cubic and partly hexagonal crystal shape. There is a small amount of dark gray metallic mineral on one side of the crystal - likely galena. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 123.

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28. Malachite

    Bright green velvety crystals of malachite encrusting a rock of white massive and crystalline quartz with veins of dark gray submetallic cuprite. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 127. It was a part of the college's original acquisition from Thomas Cooper in 1821.

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29. Azurite

    Aggregate of thin, dark blue tabular azurite crystals forming a rounded hollow geode, with smaller dark blue bladed crystals inside. The outside of the geode has red clay coating. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 126. It was a part of the college's original acquisition from Thomas Cooper in 1821.

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30. Rosasite

    A sample of dark brown, earthy, oxidized matrix with several encrustations of bright green botryoidal rosasite lining cavitous areas with several clusters of colorless, rhombohedral calcite. A small area of encrusted austinite - also known as barthite - is also present. An unknown radioactive mineral is present as well, but it is not apparent. ** RADIOACTIVE **

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31. Tourmaline

    Large fractured crystal of striated tourmaline, variety elbaite that is dark pink at one end changing to dark green at the other end. Platy white albite feldspar and colorless massive quartz are also associated.

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32. Niter

    Small sample of gray fine grained quartz sandstone with white granular layers of niter between the layers. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 11. It was a part of the college's original acquisition from Thomas Cooper in 1821.

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33. Lithograph - 2000 circa

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34. Uranophane

    A large sample of granitic rock composed of white plagioclase feldspar, colorless massive quartz, and silvery muscovite mica and covered on many surfaces with waxy, yellow uranophane. ** RADIOACTIVE **

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35. Ulexite

    Three small fragments of white opaque polysynthetically twinned arrangement of fibrous acicular ulexite that is quite friable. Specimen is on brown matrix, and one fragment is matrix only. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 39.

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36. Probertite

    Large sample of massive tan translucent probertite in large radiating fibrous forms.

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37. Meyerhofferite Pseudomorph

    Large and smaller (broken off) cluster of numerous crystals of opaque white tabular (though broken) rhombohedral meyerhofferite pseudomorphs after inyoite in light brown microcrystalline matrix, with tufts of colorless meyerhofferite crystals.

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38. Monazite Sand

    One small vial of fine-grained, brown monazite sand. The vial is stoppered with a cork and has a wad of cotton at the bottom. ** RADIOACTIVE **

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39. Triphylite

    Irregularly shaped rock fragment with dark brown to green massive and resinous triphylite. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 116.

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40. Monazite Sand

    Ten small vials of fine-grained monazite sand. Four vials contain reddish sand, two contain black sand, and the remaining four contain brown sand. ** RADIOACTIVE **

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41. Apatite

    Cluster of colorless stacked plates, forming pseudocubic aggregates, inside a vug of black basalt. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 33. It was a part of the college's original acquisition from Thomas Cooper in 1821.

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42. Apatite

    Rock specimen with small hexagonal olive green apatite crystals (some with formed terminations) in a matrix of clear quartz and pink vesicular volcanic rock. A few diamond shaped biotite crystals are also present. Asparagus Stone is an obsolete name referring to the crystal color. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 33. It was a part of the college's original ac...

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43. Apatite

    Rock specimen with tiny pale yellow translucent apatite in dark gray fibrous tremolite and massive colorless quartz. Historical label suggests this is moroxite (a blue-green variety of apatite). Either the color has altered to yellow, or this is not moroxite. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 33. It was a part of the college's original acquisition from Thomas ...

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44. Olivenite

    Specimen consists of colorless massive quartz and orange limonite with dark gray green (almost black) crystalline and botryoidal earthy olivenite encrusting one surface. Yellow green crystals are apparent along the edge of the specimen.

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45. Neuropteris loschii

    Dark gray shale containing several fronds. Pinnule bipinnate, showing midrib, smooth margin and palmate venation. Back of specimen contains fronds as well as Annularia specimen. Dark brown, decaying plant tissue seems to be present on rachis as well as pinnule.

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46. Fossil, Miscellaneous

    Two samples of gray sandstone packed with black vertebrate fossils, that are largely abraded and broken teeth, bones, and coprolites of fish and reptiles.

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47. Rhynchotreta cuneata

    Blocky sample of gray limestone packed with branching corals, crinoids, brachiopods and bryozoans with two small shell casts of Rhynchotreta cuneata (one is adjacent to the applied label, the other is along one edge of the block). The shell has heavy ribbing with a narrow hinge.

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48. Iguanodon sp.

    Dark brown partial bone fragment embedded in a dark conglomerate composed of small rounded clasts.

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49. Coronafulgur coronatum

    Small isolated whelk. Externally the shell is inflated with prominent knobs along the shoulder of the spire. The aperture is ovate with a long siphonal canal below. The outer lip of the aperture is broken in this specimen and the body whorl is smooth at the largest inflated portion, however this may be due to abrasion.

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50. Agriopoma morrhuanum

    Single isolated internal cast (steinkern) of the clam Pitar morrhuanus. No internal features are apparent due to preservation.

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