Truscon Minerals

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11/8/08 - Well the site still hasn't been updated since the last entry, but I'm still here and still trying to find time to update. My last year was full of traveling, including the Tucson Show and the Ste. Marie aux Mines show in France, but they didn't result in new specimens for the website since I have so much material I could put up already. The 2008 Houston show is history, and with a new show a full year away (we are switching dates to get out of Hurricane season, since Ike almost did us in) we have a short breather. I hope to use it to get some specimens photographed with my new DSLR camera, a Nikon D70s, and posted here. In anticipation of that, I'm offering a 20% discount on all specimens on the website, except consignment specimens, with a higher discount for larger purchases. Many of the specimens on my pages are priced in 2002 dollars, and you can get the additional discount before I decide to raise my prices.

8/23/07 - For new and old visitors to the site, the same conditions as in the previous note apply, only I moved this summer also, to a suburban part of Houston. The Club show is 4 weeks away and I'm in full panic mode, so don't expect to see any updates until October. One good thing though, the move brought to light many specimens I hadn't seen in a long time from my collection, which have now been removed and made available for the business. They await cataloguing and photography. Our show postcard is done, a great photo of a Sweet Home rhodochrosite and two Argentina rhodochrosites of stalactite form. I hope to post a copy here shortly.

3/11/07 - For those of you coming by after a while, or dropping in for the first time, I want to let you know this is a working site and all the minerals on it are for sale, unless they are marked sold. Last year I obtained a large number of specimens from the NJ traprock quarries, as well as additional nice specimens of fluorite from the Southern Illinois mines that have been closed for more than a decade. In addition, a local collector dispersed his collection of 50 years and I was able to obtain part of it, including specimens from Arkansas like Jeffrey Quarry quartz and McEarl Mine quartz. I also have good specimens from Indiana calcite localities, collected 40 years ago by a friend whose field collected specimens I have obtained. Any of these specimens can be imaged and emailed to you for examination. Thank you for your patronage.

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I've opened this shop in the interest of collectors who are looking for aesthetic mineral specimens from US and worldwide localities. My intent is to feature miniature and cabinet size specimens that are affordably priced, and good examples of their species and locality. Please look the site over and bookmark it. There are pages devoted to USA minerals, with special pages of Midwestern minerals, and minerals from Mexico, Russia and Eastern Europe, India and other worldwide localities. Check below the Mineral Pages heading for the latest update.

Thanks for stopping in to visit. I hope you enjoy what you see. If you have any specific needs, please contact me. All reasonable offers for specimens on the site will be considered

Steve Blyskal, Houston, Texas

Contact Information

Postal address: 20403 Coleridge Lane Richmond, TX 77407-6372
Electronic mail: General Information:
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Last modified: January 03, 2009

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