We focus on ODP Leg 178 Site 1096, which was drilled on the crest of Drift 7 (67°34.0086´S, 76°57.7936´W). The section was cored down to ~120 meters below seafloor (mbsf) via advanced hydraulic piston coring (APC) and extended down to 608 mbsf by extended core barrel (XCB) coring. The base of the section has been dated at ~4.7 Ma, based on magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy. Subsamples were collected at a frequency of two per section in Hole 1096A and one per section in Holes 1096B and 1096C, giving us a temporal sampling interval of ~4.7 k.y. in the APC cores (linear sedimentation rate [LSR] = 8 cm/k.y.) and 8.3 k.y. in the XCB cores (LSR = 18 cm/k.y.). Our purpose here is to present the results of mineralogical investigations, providing ground truth for high-resolution paleomagnetic and environmental proxies derived from U-channel samples.