I have cleaned up another 19 specimens of material from the Benitoite mine since Tucson and here they are...

Benitoite, Neptunite & Joaquinite

Benitoite, Neptunite & Joaquinite

Benitoite

Nepptunite & Joaquinite

I have assembled a group of 13 specimens from Russia and Kazakhstan - a former Soviet state.

Ilvaite

Crocoite

Fluorite Kazakhstan

Quartz Gwindel

I have assembled an interesting group of specimens from mostly classic European localities such as Cornwall, Saxony, Switzerland and several other notable localities.

Rhodochrosite Germany

Sphene Switzerland

Stephanite Germany

Whewellite Germany

Italian dealer Giorgio Spiga (Bestminerals.com) has asked to post some exceptional mineral specimens from his inventory.  All of these are quite striking.

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!
 
 

Cavansite India

Wulfenite California

Rhodochrosite South Africa

I have updated the site with about 70 new specimens - all material recently obtained and some of it was presented as new finds at the 2008 Tucson Show. First up is a hoard of some oddly crystallized fluorite from the Erongo Mountains in Namibia.  At first glance they appear to be monoclinic in form but in fact are exaggerated spinel law twins.  The internal color zoning clearly shows how complex the crystal forms are on these.
 
 

Next are a group of gold specimens from verying localities.  I have two specimens which have embedded YouTube videos.  In particular there is a large Diltz mine specimen of just under 5 troy ounces.  This is very large for this mine and the fact that it is crystallized is equally impressive.  Specimens from Nevada, California and Venezuela comprise this group.
 

At Tucson Scott Werschky had an eye opening array of new shattuckite specimens from Kandesei, Koakoveld
Kunene, Namibia.  The color and quality of the shattuckite is second to none.  Most of the specimens have an attractive malachite association and a couple even have some dipotase crystals.
 

Last and far from least is a group of 27 specimens from various global localities. Copper, tourmalines, hamberigites, ilmenite, beryl and much more are here.
 
 

Ilmenite Pakistan

Tourmaline Afghanistan

Chalcophyllite Cornwall

Cuprosklodowskite Dem. Rep. of the Congo

I have photographed the remaining Rogerley Mine fluorite specimens I obtained from Jesse Fisher after the Tucson Show was finished.  There are a few specimens from the Jewel Box pocket which produced the best crystals yet found from this mine.  All are specimens found during the 2007 collecting season.  I have also placed 31 specimens obtained at the Tucson show that are all a bit above average.  Of interest to rare species collectors are some examples of the rare manganese beryllium phosphate - vayrynenite.  I have three specimens of gem quality crystals from Pakistan.  There are also numerous other specimens from Pakistan and Afghanistan.
 
 

It is Tucson time again.  Click the image below to see what is new at Tucson. When you get there click What's New at the Show. This site will be updated very frequently over the next 3 weeks.

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. 

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.