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Blogs & Articles: A complete library of User' uploaded posts about their collecting, collections, finds, acquisitions and anything else mineralogical they want to share.

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  • 28 Sep, 2024
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    Tsumeb Mine Stratification and Minerals */ Tsumeb Mine Stratification and Faulting First...
  • 12 Feb, 2024
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    e-Rocks Listing Process Update Effective February 14th, 2024, e-Rocks will be implementing an update to the relisting process for auction items that do not sell in an auction. e-Rocks' listing rules and format has remained...
  • 27 Sep, 2023
    Joy Desor
    Thanks to your support, we have finally arrived at our new facility with our laboratory inventory. Many thanks to Christian Bracke for your organization and support in planning the move through the Friedrich Friedrich...
  • 08 Sep, 2023
    Joy Desor
    Recently the silver arsenate mineral theuerdankite has been IMA approved (Copyright M. Groß, Lengede) It occurs in dark mm-sized crystals with native silver and iodargyrite and was found at the Theuerdank mine, St....
  • 08 Sep, 2023
    Joy Desor
    For the relocation of our company, that has contributed to Mineralogy and Crystallography by the description of numerous new minerals in the past, we appreciate any donation that helps us to build up the new lab. http://...
  • 15 Jun, 2023
    Mark Wrigley
    # Extinct Minerals with Place of Discovery Mineral evolution is a recent hypothesis that provides historical context to mineralogy. It postulates that mineralogy on planets and moons becomes increasingly complex as a result...
  • 15 Nov, 2022
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
        We have opened a new Mobile browser version for e-Rocks - we hope you will like it. The first thing to say is that if you don't like it you can turn it off and on by the "View Desktop Site" option posted on every page....
  • 27 Dec, 2021
    Pedro Alves
    Madeiraite was named after the Madeira island. It's the type-locality mineral for the Automous Region of Madeira. The species was found by Pedro Alves in two gabbro outcrops near Porto da Cruz, Machico, northeast Madeira...
  • 30 Jun, 2021
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    Hi Everyone   As you will know the Import of Goods to EU Countries and VAT Sales between EU Countries changes at 00:01 on July 1st 2021. This will affect buying on e-Rocks in 2 areas. 1/ Buying from a VAT Registered EU...
  • 22 Mar, 2021
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    A shout-out to mobile and tablet users on e-Rocks! A while back we created the e-Rocks Mineral Database App to provide phone users a quick and easy mineral database. The app is fast and contains tons of useful information on...
  • 10 Feb, 2021
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    We now have new servers with much more processing, storage, security and up-to-date software. As we said previously hopefully you will not notice anything different - a few page caches may need to rebuild etc. Please let us...
  • 09 Feb, 2021
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    This week we have some big things to do on the e-Rocks service. We last went through this in September 2015 when we had much less traffic and data to store. If things are going well 5 years is quite a long life-span for a...

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