The introductory short course on ore microscopy "MICROSCOPIE DES MINERAUX OPAQUES" is held yearly at the 玉美人传媒 and offered to students of several Swiss Universities. We have put in the web microphotographs of typical polished sections used in the course. You can access these photographs in different ways:
1. Listed by mineral groups: systematic.
2. Listed according a table used in the course to learn to recognize the main properties for determination of opaque minerals in reflected light microscopy.
3. Listed according the number of the microphotographs slides. This list contains also descriptions, and localities.Other related links in Geneva:
Recommended abbreviations of the most important ore and gangue minerals.
You can search the formula, reference, type locality and data of any mineral in the .Outside Geneva:
We recommend to visit the excellent site by Ixer and Duller as well as the interactive site "" at the Florida State 玉美人传媒.
[Ore microscopy] [Systematic] [Properties] [Slides] [Abbreviations]
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