Welcome to a slice of time in the world of mineral collecting.

John Veevaert was one of the pioneers of using the internet as a new avenue to sell minerals, with his main selling site, www.trinityminerals.com, as well as his auction venue (still a going concern), www.mineral-auctions.com.

Indeed, over the years, John added many additional domains to his complex of websites, revealing his many and varied interests in mineral books, rare minerals, Benitoite, and minerals from Tsumeb. (To name a few!)

(See the list of links in the green/blue just above this note).

John's untimely death caught us all by surprise. John's wife Ronna is following in his footsteps, continuing to operate the auction sites, and finding great agate specimens to offer from her own business.

Ronna has decided to keep John's older sites (including this one) online. In some cases (www.mineralbooks.com), she intends rejuvination. In others (such as this site), she hopes to keep the site up in pretty much the same state it was in when John's work was cut short.

Note: there were some broken links where it was obvious to us what they were intended to be, and the original laink target (page) was still there. We have fixed some of these cases.

While John's concept for mineralshows.com was indeed integral to his business as a mineral dealer, it's plain to see that this chronicle of major mineral shows covering the first decades of the 21rst century was a labor of love, of great rocks, but even more, of great people he met in the collecting/dealing world along the way.

     Richard Geiger
     June 2020