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| May 4, 2012
Gold - I recently picked up som TN sized specimens of fine crystallized gold from Round Mountain, Nevada. Two have the rarely seen herring bone habit. click button to see
the rare species
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| April 9, 2012
TSUMEB! - It has been a while but I have accumulated some new specimens for the tsumeb.com website. Both rare species as well as the more common ones. Of special note is an exceptional vanadinite specimen. I have also posted (for display only) an impressive specimen of feinglosite. click button to see
the rare species
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March 8, 2012
GOLD!!! - After the Tucson Show I was contacted by Scott Werschky of Miner's Lunchbox. Scott has become perhaps the largest source of high quality gold specimens on the planet! This past December there was a surprise sale of crystallized gold made to the employees of the Round Mountain mine by the company. The last time there was a sale of this sort was in March 2006 so everyone thought that the glory days of Round Mountain were over since the production was all headeing to the melter - a tragic story in its own right. Anyway, Scott secured almost all of it and what you see on these pages represents over 3/4s of the specimens that were sold by the company last December. There pieces that weigh up to 7.75 troy ounces in this group and many between 1 and two ounces. I have also included a few gold pieces from California in this update including one large piece that weighs in at 9.8 troy ounces! click button to see the new gold
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July 14, 2011
San Francisco Show - I went to the San Francisco show last weekend held in San Rafael which is in the northern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a small show relatively speaking but there were some good minerals to be seen there. I have generated a small show report on what I saw there. Of primary interest are a group of specimens released from the Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka collection. Jesse and Joan live in San Francisco and have been enthusiastic collectors for many years. Their prime focus is on pegmatitic minerals and English fluorite. Jesse is particularly interested in the pegmatites of Riverside and San Diego Counties. The first group is all Pegmatite minerals. The second group is a small selection of random things which I found at the show. click button to see the collection
specimens
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July 2, 2011
New Minerals at long last! - I have been out of commission for the past two and a half month months after shoulder surgery but am finally on the mend. Recently I obtained a small collection from Clemson Zoike. He lives in Siskiyou County here in northern California and has carved out a nice life for himself on a small creek that drains directly into the Klamath River. Clem mentioned to me that he was the son of Helmut Zoike. Helmut, it turns out, was one of the rocket scientists that the United States whisked out of Germany after the second World War along with Werner von Braun. I have his collection presented here and also a small group of rutile specimens he self collected in 1966 at the Champion mine in Inyo County, California. And there are a group of random specimens picked up elsewhere recently listed under miscelaneous minerals. Lastly, I have relisted a group of specimens from the 2011 Tucson Show in Zombie Rocks . Close to thirty specimens have been knocked down 25%. click button to see Zoike collection specimens
click button to see Zoike Rutile specimens
click button to see Random Minerals
click button to see Zombie Rocks specimens
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March 30, 2011 Last of the New Minerals from the 2011 Tucson Show For this last group of specimens I have some very interesting things that I obtained from Herb Obodda right at the close of the show. An exceptional specimen of thick wire silver from Kongsberg is the highlight of this new group but there quite a few other interesting things that you don't see all that often. There are also a group of copper pseudomorphs after aragonite from Corocoro, Bolivia. A small group of babingtonite specimens from China and a final group of random things I found at the Tucson show from various dealers including a group of three specimens from Butte, Montana with very good crystals of bornite and/or covellite. click any of the buttons below to see the specimens
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March 13, 2011 New Minerals from the 2011 Tucson Show I am finally back in the saddle after a few weeks off from the 2011 Tucson Show. I picked up an interesting group of specimens from Afghanistan and Pakistan from Francois Lietard at the main show. Francois is retiring from the mineral business much to everyone's dismay. Another event that helps us keep in mind that time does march on... This is the first update of new minerals I will be posting over the next few weeks from the Tucson Show. To see all of the other specimens that were posted during the show go here: Tucson Show Minerals click any of the buttons below to see the specimens
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September 12, 2010
New Tsumeb Minerals - During the East Coast Show I purchased a small collection of minerals from Tsumeb. None of the classic rarities but a fair number of good common species. It took a bit of effort to trim and clean some of these but here they are ! click button to see new Tsumeb specimens
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Mine run is available again ... for now... We are offering you the chance to clean your own specimens from the Benitoite Gem mine. Use these three links: |
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Mineralbooks.com Looking for missing issues to your collection of the Mineralogical Record? I recently came into a large supply of back issues of the Mineralogical Record and have finally put this page together to make them available. I have multiples of many of the issues though a number of them are represented by one or two copies only. Click the buttons by year to see available issues. I am using the data base system I use for minerals on the MineralShows.com, Tsumeb.comandTrinityMinerals.com websites to manage this inventory. The price of each
back issue is posted with the image of the cover and primary
contents. Shipping (priority mail) costs are $5 per issue for
domestic addresses and $8-10 (global priority) for foreign destinations
per issue.
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Thanks again for looking into Trinity Mineral Company as a source for additions to your mineral collection!
