MUSEE MINES ET MINERAUX DE LA FERME DE L'ORME

Visitors will be able to discover the world of mining and the life of a miner, thanks to a collection of tools (picks, lamps, axes) and various minerals mined in the region.
The various minerals used in industry and the history of all the mines in Loire-Atlantique will also be on display.
The museum aims to be a place where visitors can discover mineralogy, and to this end five educational display cases explain the science of mineralogy through visual examples. The collection, which is the largest presented by a private museum in France, has been classified by chemical order, according to the 9 recognised classes. Visitors can see well-known minerals such as quartz, gold, fluorite, magnetite and pyrite, as well as rarities such as lulzacite, a mineral extracted only from the Saint Aubin des Châteaux deposit in Loire-Atlantique, myniulite, stolzite and pyromorphite...
Visitors will also be able to take home a small souvenir, thanks to the shop, which offers a wide selection of French and foreign minerals, rolled stones, fossils and shells, from beginners' pieces to museum pieces.