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Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 03.22.2022 | Filed under: Latest, Mineral Shows

Rochester Mineralogical Symposium (Online) Friday April 8 – Sunday April 10, 2022 If you haven’t yet registered for the Rochester Mineralogical Symposium 2022, it is entirely online and coming soon! We have a great lineup this year, from Friday evening to Sunday midday (EDT), and I hope you’ll join us. The RMS is meant for […]

Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 03.16.2022 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates

I’ve added excellent new specimens from the John S. White collection. The theme of this update began as quartz with inclusions, but there are specimens exhibiting other phenomena as well – phantoms, zoning, selective deposition.

Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 02.10.2022 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates

I’ve posted great new U.S. specimens from the Pete Richards Collection. These include copper from the Keweenaw Peninsula, a world-class awaruite, personally-collected NY hematite specimens and more

Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 01.09.2022 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates

I’ve added beautiful copper specimens from Cap D’Or, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 01.09.2022 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates

Excellent new laumontite specimens are from two finds: one at Stronach Brook in the summer of 2021 and another at Harbourville in 2020.

Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 01.09.2022 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates

New “chocolate laumontites” from a single pocket at Long Beach, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada. To my knowledge, this pocket was unique – I’ve never seen or heard of laumontite like these specimens.

Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 10.20.2021 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates

I’ve posted a great selection of U.S. specimens from many different collections in the new US Update. There are specimens from the collections of Rock Currier, Robert Bartsch, John S. White, Pete Richards, Steve Szilard and from my collection too.

Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 09.10.2021 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates

I’ve posted excellent new specimens from the John S. White quartz collection, representing many different phenomena of quartz crystallization, also from a great diversity of localities and mineral environments.

Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 08.05.2021 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates

I’ve added great specimens from the Pete Richards collection, from localities around the world, including Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Spain, Greece, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico and more.

Posted by: Raymond McDougall on 07.15.2021 | Filed under: Latest, Recent Mineral Updates

I’ve added more gorgeous specimens in this latest update from the John S. White quartz collection.