The BGS mineralogy and petrology collections contain upwards of a million samples, housed at Keyworth and in Edinburgh. Roughly a quarter of this is prime material arranged into a number of major archive collections denoted by alphabetical prefixes :
Prefix | Description | Location |
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C | UK Continental Shelf thin sections | Keyworth |
E | English and Welsh samples with thin sections | Keyworth |
ED | General collection, some with thin sections | Edinburgh |
EMC | Display quality specimens previously in the former Geological Survey gallery of the Royal Museum of Scotland | Edinburgh |
F | Overseas samples with thin sections | Keyworth |
G | Polished thin sections | Keyworth |
PB | Polished blocks | Keyworth |
MR | General collection, hand specimens only, many of display quality | Keyworth |
MC | General collection, hand specimens only, many of display quality. Includes minerals. | Edinburgh |
N | Scottish samples with thin sections | Edinburgh |
RC | Minerals | Keyworth |
S | Scottish samples with thin sections | Edinburgh |
UG | Minerals | Keyworth |