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An interactive visit to Valentě Masachs Museum

Minerals' applications
Minerals' applications
© Museo Masachs UPC (Photo: Catalina Restrepo Martínez)
The red coloured showcases are seven and they show minerals' applications with the didactic intent to show the relationships among the mineral, its by-products and the most well-known applications so as to make the visitors understand the importance of the minerals themselves. In these showcases 45 minerals and 150 ways of use them are displayed. Some of these mineral are: kaolin, gold, silver, copper, bauxite mercury, corundum, chrome, quartz, galena, graphite, pyrite, chalk, calcite talc etc.
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