Geological Museum of Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad established in 1926, is a treasure trove of more than 12,000 exhibits and displays of typical and rare specimens of minerals, rocks and fossils and models of earth processes & evolution of life. Besides, the museum has an excellent collection of gemstones; in natural and polished forms.
There are collections of fossils (age-wise, phylum-wise) of both plants and animals, rocks of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic groups, and minerals (element-wise, state-wise, genesis-wise- type/group-wise).
Various physical features of rocks, namely folds, faults, joints and foliations together with different geomorphic models are also included in the exhibits. The museum has collections from the Ward’s Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, New York; Gregory Bottley, London; Dr. F. Krantz, Bonn, Germany; Hubbard Scientific Company, North Brook, Illinois, USA; Thomas Murby & Co., London; Academy of Cracow, Poland; Institute of Computer Science Academy, Republic of Czech and Badwin Lead Zinc Mines, Burma.
There are several Indian contributors as well, namely Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow; Geological Survey of India; State Departments of Mines & Geology; Tata Steel Mines; Mosabani Copper Mines; Manganese Mines; Mica Mines, Koderma; Hindustan Zinc Ltd ; BCCL Mines; Kolar Gold field; Hindustan Minerals and Natural History Specimen Supply Company, Kolkata; P. Gupta, Artist, Sculptor, Bronze founder & Photographer, Kolkata; Munshi Ambika Charan & Sons, Geologist & Biologist, Varanasi; Cosmos Industries, Varanasi; and Bharat Educational Stores, Merrut among innumerable others.
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