Museum of
Mineralogy
What is a Mineral? ... |... the minerals and the life ... |... interesting links
THE MUSEUM
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For anxious minds, that look for rare
minerals, suggestions of where can look for them:
a
phenomenal page where you can look for minerals.
Finder Athena of Minerals.
Finder Galleries of
Minerals
The museum is
in 4ª Planta of Modulo C-VI of the Faculty of Sciences in the
UAM and in a collection of
about 500 Minerals of great beauty
is exposed that to a large extent come from disinterested
donations of some professors of the University.
In the last 2 years have been acquired new and
spectacular units, have renewed the labels of such and the
mineral species have been ordered according to the classification of
Strunz .
The existing mineral list in
the world is growing day to day so that every year they are
discovered around 20 or 30 new minerals that after a rigorous
analysis remain single in 5 or 6, because the rest is mineral
variations already known .
The forms and colors arrive at unsuspected
forms, as it would be the case of the antimonite (in the photo) that can get to crystallize
forming needles, that are arranged radially.
As museum of fundamentally university
character we offer a more recent range of definitions and
photographies to you about the subject of the mineralogy and the
best units of the Museum .
Museum´s Director: Millán
Changoyen, Mª Asuncion
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