Author(s)

Emanuele Costa¹, Alessandro Delmastro², Luca Di Gregorio³, Silvia Ronchetti², Massimo Umberto Tomalino²

¹Department of Earth Science, University of Turin, Torino, Italy.
²Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT), Polytechnic University of Turin, Torino, Italy.
³Former Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT), Polytechnic University of Turin, Torino, Italy.

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.

Blowpipe, XRPD, SEM-EDS, Historical Collection, Dry Analysis, Ore Identification

Costa, E., Delmastro, A., Gregorio, L.D., Ronchetti, S. and Tomalino, M.U. (2016) XRPD and SEM-EDS Identification of a Mineralogical Standards Kit Forming a 19th Century Collection for Educational Analysis. Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, 4, 73-86. doi: 10.4236/jmmce.2016.41008.