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| May 21st
The West Coast Show was held in Costa Mesa this past weekend. I have prepared a report and specimens for your perusal here: West Coast Show |
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Inesite - South Africa |
Specimens from the show. - A group of about 20 specimens from around the world including kammererite, gold, chalcocite, woodhouseite and more! |
Benitoite - California |
New Benitoite Specimens - I cleaned these up prior to the West Coast Show. A couple of real smokers in this lot! |
Muscovite
Montebrasite |
Brazilian Minerals - Brazilian dealer Luiz Menezes had a new find of muscovite and montegrasite from Minas Gerais. |
Calcite & Goethite |
Mixed minerals from Mexico - You'll find four specimens from various places in Mexico on this page including a specimen from the new calcite find. |
Austinite |
Austinte from Mexico - Top Gem Minerals had some exceptional specimens of austinite available. These are very rich and the pick of the find. Several have associations with adamite. |
Red Beryl - Utah
Rhodochrosite Colorado |
Two Red Minerals - I found several nice rhodochrosite specimens and, drum roll please, red beryls! |
Rosasite |
New Find! Rosasite from Mexico - Top Gem Minerals had a new find of rosasite from the Ojuela Mine in Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. |
| April
6th
More Specimens from the 2009 Tucson Show This
is a group of TN specimens I picked up during the Tucson Show. There
are 19 specimens of gold from around the world including several from a
rare locality in New Foundlnad Canada. There are also five specimens of
cubanite also from Canada and then 13 random pieces from various global
localities.
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| March
13th
More Specimens from the 2009 Tucson Show I am continuing to list specimens obtained at the Tucson show and also some older specimens that were not priced correctly in this current economic environment. Here's three groups - one from Australia, Mt. Malosa and miscellaneous items. A lot more to come!
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| March
4th
Specimens from the Tucson Show I am starting to cycle through specimens obtained at the Tucson show and also some older specimens that were not priced correctly in this current economic environment. Here's the first group. Many more to come!
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| Tucson
2009
Reports and Specimens from the 2009 Tucson Show
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| January
8th
More Hemimorphite from China I received many requests for the first 4 specimens of hemimorphite I posted last month. I was pleased to find that the rest of the inital group I selected from was still available. So, here are what will be the last 19 I will have of this new brilliant blue find from the Wenshan mine in Yunnan, China.
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| December
18th
Minerals from China I recently obtained a small lot of striking specimens from China. They include some of the richest royal blue hemimorphite I have ever seen from the Wenshan Mine and also a 15 piece lot of rhodochrosite from the Wudong mine. At first glance these appear to be specimens from the Sweet Home mine but they aren't. The rhodo from this locality is just about universally encased in a thin layer of silica (quartz) that has to be removed chemically. The result is some of the best specimens I have ever seen from this locality and now that it is closed there will be fewer anf fewer of these available in the coming years.
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| November
12th
Minerals from the Munich Show I
have prepared several reports on what was happening at the 2008 Munich
Show. There are loads of updated minerals. See the Specials
page at the Denver Show .
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| September
20th
Minerals from the Denver Show I
have prepared three reports on what was happening at Denver. There are
loads of updated minerals. See the Specials
page at the Denver Show
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| August
15th
Minerals from the East Coast Show I
have prepared a report on what was new at the East Coast Show and also
posted scores of new minerals. Click here
to visit the East Coast Show from West Springfield, Massachusetts!
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| July
5th
Minerals from the Benitoite Gem Mine! I have cleaned up another 19 specimens of material from the Benitoite mine since Tucson and here they are...
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| June
25th
Minerals from Russia I have assembled a group of 13 specimens from Russia and Kazakhstan - a former Soviet state.
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| June
23rd
Minerals from Europe I have assembled an interesting group of specimens from mostly classic European localities such as Cornwall, Saxony, Switzerland and several other notable localities.
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| June
1st
Minerals from Giorgio Spiga Italian dealer Giorgio Spiga (Bestminerals.com) has asked to post some exceptional mineral specimens from his inventory. All of these are quite striking.
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| May
21st
Costa Mesa (West Coast Show) New Minerals I recently visited the West Coast Show in Costa Mesa, California. This is Marty Zinn Expositions Show. Not a great new to report but I have prepared a short report on what was there and have updated the site with about 50 new specimens. The
first group of specimens are from the recent find of prismatic crystals
of wulfenite from the Ojuela Mine in Mexico. These were first seen at the
2008 Tucson Show. The prices seem to have moderated considerably with Don
& Gloria Olson and Mineral Search having good specimens available at
reasonable pricing levels.
Next
are a group of uvite specimens from Brazil. Luiz Menezes had some distinctly
pleochroic specimens available with magnesite and one specimen of uvite
with dolomite.
Brazilian dealer Luis
Menezes also had some very fine crystals of Montebrasite from the Telirio
mine in Minas Gerais. The montebrasite specimens were predominantly available
as single crystals with vitreous luster and uniform pale yellow color.
Montebrasite is closely related to amblygonite differing only in the replacement
of aluminum (mont.) versus sodium (amblyg.).
I found several interesting
Mexican minerals at the show.
Last
and far from least is a group of 17 specimens from various global localities
obtained at the show. Lots of interesting things in this group!
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| December
3rd, 2007
It's been over 10 years since I went online! It has been just about 10.5 years since I went online and I have jotted down the detailed history of the Trinity Mineral Company website evolution in this brief blog. You won't find any minerals to buy here but you will get a better understanding of how things all came to be for me and several other people I am sure you're familiar with. |
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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!
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