This comprises some 200 medium and small size specimens of collectable minerals.
Worthy of note are specimens including Sicilian sulphur, quartz, pericline from the Valle Aurina (South Tyrol), hematite from the Isle of Elba, and demantoid from the Val Malenco (Lombardy) and numerous isolated crystals of aquamarine, apatite, fluorite, quartz, spodumene, polychrome tourmaline and topaz from Brazil, featuring optimum colour tones and gem quality.
The collection of professor Angelo Bianchi, donated to the Museum by his family, is enriched with original descriptions written personally by the collector.
