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Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems

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exhibit consisted of about 550 specimens loaned by Professor Gustave Guttenberg, then purchased after his death in 1896 to become the core of the museum's collection. In subsequent decades, it was augmented primarily by gifts, including
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Hillman Hall contains more than 1,300 specimens, a curated sample of the Section Minerals collection of more than 30,000 specimens. The Hall is arranged in the following major sections:
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provided substantial donations for purchasing new specimens and building the current exhibit hall, which opened in 1980, and was expanded and remodeled from 2006-2007.
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Locality Suites - illustrates the diversity of mineral species that come from a single geographic environment and how they impacted civilizations.
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Systematic Collection - exhibiting minerals in systematic groupings by chemical classification according to Dana's System of Mineralogy.
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collection, containing 17 permanent exhibits that display nearly 530 pieces, including a Birthstones exhibit.
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Masterpiece Gallery - an esthetic collection of notable mineral specimens from around the world.
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Pennsylvania Minerals and Gems - specimens representing some of the finest minerals and
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Lithology and Processes - illustrates the processes that create and transform
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Mineral and gem collection of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
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Mineral Properties - physical properties of a variety of
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Chalcopyrite on sphalerite (Bolut Mine, Cavnic, Romania)
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Fluorescence and Phosphorescence - displays of mineral
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Undated pamphlet, Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems
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sulfur
Baja California
mineral
gem
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
mineralogy
Andrew Carnegie
William W. Jefferis
West Chester, Pennsylvania
ores
metals
tin
lead
copper
antimony
bismuth
steel
petroleum
coal
coke
graphite
Henry L. Hillman


Autunite
rocks

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