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The Australian Museum Mineralogy and Petrology collection consists of over 81,000 registered specimens. The Mineral collection has a taxonomic coverage of 1,545 mineral species. About 35% of the collection is from NSW, 25% from other Australian states and Antarctica, and 40% from overseas.

These index cards are used to document the origins of our mineral and petrological specimens. They can be used to correlate old specimen numbers to new specimen numbers. Whilst museums and similar institutions endeavour to keep consistent catalogues, they inevitably change over time so need to be tracked. If you participated in the Petrology Reference Cards expedition, some of these location names may be familiar.

This expedition is part of the Australian Museum's Collection Enhancement Project (CEP). The CEP will result in new levels of access to the AM’s diverse collections, making digital images and meta data easily accessible to First Nations communities, scientists, researchers, students and individuals from Australia and abroad.