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MINERALS AND ROCKS
Collection of minerals and rocks
It includes:
- about 3500 specimens of minerals coming from ancient collections of the Royal Application School for engineers and from Crida collection, gifted to the Municipality of Turin in 1963. At present, there are 1150 shown samples in 48 windows located at the library of the department of Geological Resources and Territory, whereas 200 samples (mostly large dimensioned) which are highly valuable from an exhibitory viewpoint, now are shown at the new meeting-room of the department;
- 24 meteorites;
- 25 radioactive minerals and 25 fluorescent minerals acquired by the American company Ward's Nat. Sc. Est. in 1962;
- 250 small dimensioned samples of the Mine collection of the Mining Eng. John Henry Johns, gifted to his heirs in 1966;
- circa 1200 esemplari di rocce, fra i quali va menzionata una raccolta di campioni illustranti fenomeni tettonici a scala mesoscopica e la geomorfologia di formazioni superficiali, dovuta a L. Peretti;
- about 1200 specimens of rocks, among which we mention a collection of samples showing tectonic phenomena, with mesoscopic scale and geomorphology of surface formations, due to L. Peretti;
- 100 samples of the new Alpine Rock Collection, selected by A. Boriani of the University of Milan, purchased in 1977;
- an important collection of Italian and foreign important ornamental stone plates, annexed to the Laboratory of Marble;
- un considerevole numero di campioni di minerali e rocce, raccolte da docenti e studiosi che dal dopoguerra ai giorni nostri hanno operato nella Scuola mineraria torinese.
Deposit Collection
It includes over 500 samples coming from the main Italian and European mines. The collection was created by A. Cavinato and his students S. Zucchetti and P. Natale, all of them died recently.
Fossil Collection
It includes samples selected due to didactic purposes within a rich collection.
Collections of thin rock sections
Unique in its kind, this collection of thin large dimensioned rock sections, was created by Alfonso Cossa (1881), and now includes 700 units.
Other Didactic Materials
Then, we can remember some hundreds of samples of minerals and rocks, located at the class-room of the 'ex-Institute of Mine Deposits and Applied Geology, and several sets of thin and bright sections for the microscope study of transmitted light rocks and metal minerals (opaque) at reflex light.
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