This basic educational kit is designed to help students and teachers test key physical properties of minerals, especially hardness and magnetic response.

It includes common, easy-to-recognise and replaceable materials that allow comparative hardness tests on mineral samples using practical reference values related to the Mohs scale. It is a useful accessory to keep alongside mineral collections in classrooms, school laboratories, geology workshops or introductory mineralogy activities.

The combination of copper, steel, glass and a quartz point helps users observe which materials can scratch, or be scratched by, different mineral samples. The rectangular ferrite magnet adds the possibility of checking whether a mineral shows magnetic attraction.

This kit is especially suitable for schools, science teachers, educational workshops, museums, geology outreach activities and students learning basic mineral identification.

Technical specifications:

• Kit for basic testing of mineral properties.
• Includes copper, approximate hardness 2.5-3.2.
• Includes steel, approximate hardness 3.2-5.5.
• Includes glass, approximate hardness 5.5-6.5.
• Includes quartz point, approximate hardness 6.5-7.
• Includes rectangular ferrite magnet.
• Made with common and replaceable materials.
• Especially suitable for educational centres and teaching mineral collections.