Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Stephen Hui Geological Museum

The Stephen Hui Geological Museum is a museum at The University of Hong Kong. It is located on the ground and first floors of the James Hsioung Lee Building, in the HKU Main Campus. The museum is part of the Department of Earth Sciences, the only earth sciences department in Hong Kong.


The Stephen Hui Geological Museum was opened on January 16, 2009 as the first and only geological museum in Hong Kong.

The Musuem features ores, minerals and rocks from mines all over the world, including mines from Hong Kong.
Interesting rocks mined from Hong Kong includes:
Galena, Quartz, leaf fossils, etc.

 Ores mined from Hong Kong:


Quartz and Feldspar

Wolfram


Galena, a natural form of lead mined in Northeastern Hong Kong