Hi everyone! I'm looking to find some different sizes specimen boxes like this to store my specimens. Thing is, I live in Canada and all retailers I could find were from the US or Europe, making the shipping cost higher than the order itself. Anyone knows of canadian suppliers or sellers for these types of boxes?
In the next few days, I'll be posting more ID requests, since I'm allowed only one per day, I'll split my batches per day.
I'm new to mineralogy and has been collecting minerals in southern Quebec for a few weeks now, my ID requests are not exactly oriented towards super fancy minerals, but rather to confirm my thoughts about minerals I attempted to identify by myself through books and the internet.
The paper behind the rocks is meant to balance the white and each square is 5mm x 5mm.
The first two pictures group (pics 1-2), I was thinking it might be pegmatite. Large black crystals reminding me of amphibole, white feldspar like creamy white minerals, less quartz than granite... I'm really leaning toward pegmatite because of the grain size, compared to diorite.
Now, the second two pictures group (pics 3-4), that seems to lean more towards diorite (some a little iron-stained) to me. The composition is very similar to the first group, but the grain is much smaller.
Last group, (pics 5-6), I'm leaning more toward andesite for what I can compare on the internet. Darker, but still with those amphibole crystals...
What are your thoughts? Thanks a lot!