| Minerals for collectors. Aesthetic specimens of rare and common minerals from around the world. Featuring minerals from India, Mexico, Eastern Europe and Russia, the Midwestern United States and other locations from the United States and worldwide. See the mineral pages below to take you to the galleries of specimens. |
11/25/05. One new update as promised. All minerals from Romania. Click Here to go to the new minerals web page. These are good cabinet examples of Romanian minerals not commonly available anymore. Also, Click Here to see the earlier update, minerals from Dalnegorsk, Russia and Tsumeb, Namibia, plus other locations. Enjoy the tour, and please let me know your comments. |
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Updates
| 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. I haven't been successful at posting updates lately - too many irons in the fire I think - but I do have a lot of additional minerals for sale and I welcome inquiries. 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. This year in addition to running the Swap Area at the Houston Show in September (21-23) I am in charge of publicity which will tax my available time even more. I usually do the club show postcard, and last year did the show poster also. Copies of the postcard are free for the asking while supplies last, and copies of our poster (gorgeous Afghanistan elbaites) are $10.00 plus postage. They should be available for order from our club website, www.hgms.org shortly, or you can contact me directly.
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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 |
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