TITLE:
XRPD and SEM-EDS Identification of a Mineralogical Standards Kit Forming a 19th Century Collection for Educational Analysis
AUTHORS:
Emanuele Costa, Alessandro Delmastro, Luca Di Gregorio, Silvia Ronchetti, Massimo Umberto Tomalino
KEYWORDS:
Blowpipe, XRPD, SEM-EDS, Historical Collection, Dry Analysis, Ore Identification
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering,
Vol.4 No.1,
January
28,
2016
ABSTRACT: An historical collection of more than one hundred samples of minerals and ore, used in the second
half of the XVIII century was found and acquired during Munich Mineralientage 2014. The samples
contained in numbered glass vials but lacking description, were prepared for teaching purpose
about determinative mineralogy and ore recognition. All samples were analysed and identified.
The identification effort drove the authors along a historical excursus about the didactics of mineralogy
and the dry method analysis, nowadays neglected.