Does anyone collect Minerals?

ElyJ83

I started another hobby... Minerals! I am trying to find nice small cabinet specimens to display in a cabinet at my house... Does anyone recommend a online site to purchase them from? Or any on line forums devoted to collecting Minerals?



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Geotovore

I don't collect them, but they do look interesting. I have a buddy at work who gets Coin World, and last month had some advertisement on them, if I recall.



Apparently I have that issue. The Arkenstone can be found at irocks.com.

metalmeister

From about 9 years old on. I have wood boxes in the garage labeled "Rocks" . My wife thinks I am nuts.
Every so often I pull a box out and carefully pull out my neat rocks to look at and admire. Where ever I travel
in the desert or mountians I am always looking for my next prize.

ElyJ83

<< <i>I don't collect them, but they do look interesting. I have a buddy at work who gets Coin World, and last month had some advertisement on them, if I recall.



Apparently I have that issue. The Arkenstone can be found at irocks.com. >>




irocks have been a very good site to look at.. thanks

Barndog

I've seen various minerals offered in Stack's auctions

BBN

I used to collect fossils and minerals and have a box full at my mom and dad's house I never took with me and they've never tossed. When I was a kid we used to hit the bluffs and cliffs around here and chisel out fossils from the cliffs.

My wife's two granfathers worked at a fluorspar mine for decades in Hardin Co, IL. They both have a ton of suvenirs from their career. One of my wife's grandfathers has a full stump of petrified wood. They've also collected those hollow rocks with crystals on the inside in their finds through the years. Geodes I think? They both also have some of the funkiest fluorite crytals I've ever seen.

fastrudy

astro gallery

collection boxes

percyb

Thanks for your post. I'm reminded now that I have boxes of minerals, rocks, and fossils in my cabinet. I give this hobby attention during the summer and fall seasons...unless I travel south for the winter.

BBN

Oh, and where does my wife's grandfather store his petrified stump? Outside on the front steps!!! I wonder how much he could get for that thing.

Res

my wife "collects" diamonds. Does that count

AUandAG

Smitty just started a new collection with his first piece! Look him up!!

bob

TexasNationals

I have always wanted a large piece of fulgurite like this one!! If anyone knows where a piece bigger than 6 inches for sale is I would owe you! LIke the one in the picture, tooooooo coooolllll!

PinkFloyd

Rocks, to some extent...I keep an eye out for geodes, agates, petrified wood, some types of obsidian etc...

drwstr123

I recommend the House of Onyx.
Dealt with them over many years. It's where I bought my coprolite.
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