Announcements

  • September 27, 2017 - New Auction Specimens

    We have a terrific new lot of 150 specimens up for auction this week.  Some of the highlights include:

    1. a superb cabinet barrerite from Alaska
    2. excellent Red Cloud wulfenite
    3. several showy fluorite specimens, and one good celestine, from Illinois
    4. neat barite/calcite combination from Ohio
    5. showy yellow mimetite from Mexico
    6. a suite of attractive minerals from both Romania and Russia
    7. a suite of neat thumbnail specimens

    To view these, click on the auction link from our home page.  The auction will close Tuesday, October 3, 2017, at 7 p.m. eastern standard time.

  • September 27, 2017 - New Update

    We have added another 65 great specimens to the website.  Look for more in the coming days.

  • September 26, 2017 - New Update, Auction Closing

    We continue to add new specimens to the website.  More to come in the next few days.  Some very interesting and choice things are currently on offer.  To go directly to these new updates click here:  New Updates

     

    This is also a reminder that the auction will close this evening at 7 p.m. eastern standard time.  There are 168 great specimens for the auction this week.  Some of the highlights this week include:
    1. many excellent thumbnail and small miniature specimens
    2. superb rhodochrosite from Peru
    3. beautiful cabinet pyromorphite/malachite from Australia
    4. fine matrix cumengeite from Mexico
    5. showy large dioptase from Congo; azurite from Morocco
    6. showy hand sized amethyst from Georgia
    7. excellent rare species
    Plus many others.  Click on the auction link on our home page to see these.
  • September 23, 2017 - New Update

    We have added 36 great new specimens to the website.  Look for almost daily updates during the coming week.

  • September 20, 2017 - New Special Sale Items

    We have moved 34 new specimens in to the Special Sale Section, all good specimens listed at 50% off the original price.  You can check these out by clicking on the "On Sale Now" link on the home page.

  • September 20, 2017 - New Auction Specimens

    We have added 168 new specimens for the auction this week.  Some of the highlights include:

    1. many excellent thumbnail and small miniature specimens
    2. superb rhodochrosite from Peru
    3. beautiful cabinet pyromorphite/malachite from Australia
    4. fine matrix cumengeite from Mexico
    5. showy large dioptase from Congo; azurite from Morocco
    6. showy hand sized amethyst from Georgia
    7. excellent rare species

    Plus many others.  To view these click on the auction link on our home page.

  • September 19, 2017 - Auction Closing, Special Sale

    We have now returned from a successful Denver Show.  It was great to see everyone there!  We have a lot of new material to add to the site, from new two collection acquisitions.  We will begin getting these to the site within the next week.  In the meantime, there are 80 new specimens in the Special Sale Section.  Be sure to check these out.  Items are discounted up to 70% off the original list prices. You can view these by clicking on the Special Sale link on the home page.  Look for more special sale offerings later in the week as well.

    This is also a reminder that the auction will close this evening at 7 p.m. eastern standard time.  There are 150 great specimens for the auction this week.  Some of the highlights this week include: 

    1. many good midwest U.S. calcite specimens from unusual localities
    2. several showy Tsumeb smithsonite specimens
    3. an outsanding and showy large cabinet erythrite from Mexico
    4. pretty rhodochrosite from Colorado
    5. rare and fine metatorbernite from Cornwall
    6. large showy kidney ore hematite from England
    7. a wonderful barite on calcite, very large and choice, from Ohio

     Plus many others.  Click on the auction link on our home page to see these.  

  • September 17, 2017 - New Special Sale Items

    Over 80 specimens are now on offer, for a short time, at discounts up to 70% off the listed prices.  To view these specimens click on the "On Sale Now" link on the home page of our website.

  • September 14, 2017 - New Auction, Denver Show

    See us this weekend at the Denver Gem and Mineral Show - Merchandise Mart, J Aisle only.  We hope to meet many of you there!  We have some very nice things to offer this year.

    We have added 150 great specimens for the auction this week.  Some of the highlights this week include: 

    1. many good midwest U.S. calcite specimens from unusual localities
    2. several showy Tsumeb smithsonite specimens
    3. an outsanding and showy large cabinet erythrite from Mexico
    4. pretty rhodochrosite from Colorado
    5. rare and fine metatorbernite from Cornwall
    6. large showy kidney ore hematite from England
    7. a wonderful barite on calcite, very large and choice, from Ohio

     Plus many others.  Click on the auction link on our home page to see these.  

  • September 12, 2017 - New Updates and Auction Closing

    We have added 60 new specimens to the website.  This update includes a neat suite of rutile paramorph after brookite specimens from Arkansas.  Also included is a suite of nice thumbnail specimens.  To view these updates click on the "latest additions" link on our home page.

     

    This is a reminder that the auction will close this Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. eastern standard time.  There are currently 158 great specimens available.  Some of the highlights this week include:

     

    1. gorgeous Red Cloud Mine wulfenite
    2. very fine large well crystallized cerussite from Arizona
    3. superb cabinet Defiance Mine, Arizona wulfenite
    4. excellent Knight Mine, Illinois calcite/fluorite combination piece; rarely seen available today
    5. rare cuprite from Hungary

     Plus many others.  Click on the auction link on our home page to see these.