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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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  • 16 Nov, 2017
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    When we were at Bakewell Show last month, we bumped into someone we had not met before, Barry Taylor who also lives very close to us. Barry is a collector at heart, but also runs an attraction called "Geology World" from his...
  • 13 Nov, 2017
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    Posted on behalf of the Russell Society; here is a heads up for the upcoming offer for sale of the Norman Cogger Mineral Collection. Norman Cogger Norman lived in Tonbridge, Kent and was a member of the Russell...
  • 12 Nov, 2017
    Margaret Wilson
    Reiner and I retired to Cobalt, Ontario, Canada a little over a year ago. When we aren't out exploring the old mine sites in and around the area, we devote our time in support of the Cobalt Historical Society. The group...
  • 12 Nov, 2017
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
      In the depths of Peter Uerpmann's collection we came across a block of massive crystalline halite - rock salt. The locality is given as Asse II, probably picked up during his time as a worker in the German Nuclear...
  • 10 Nov, 2017
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
      As it is my birthday today I thought this little bit of mineral related trivia would brighten up the day. Early last year I was listing an aragonite (and gypsum) specimen from Tomnadashan Mine, Wester Tullich, Loch...
  • 09 Nov, 2017
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    Within Peter Uerpmann's collection of European minerals we came across quite a large comparatively heavy specimen (110g) of slaggy matrix filled with bright metallic octahedrons of silver to 1mm stacked in pagoda-like...
  • 08 Nov, 2017
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    We already recently reported on the number of new minerals being added to e-Rocks in October, an impressive average of 161 items per day went up in the last 2 months. We thought it might interesting to share some of the...
  • 07 Nov, 2017
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    10 years ago in 2007 we were visited by Somerset based collector Colin Palk. Colin's specific interests were minerals from Scotland, aided and abetted by his regional work in Scotland for the BBC. Subsequently Colin moved...
  • 07 Nov, 2017
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    The other day I was checking through some minerals from last year's fluorite find at Shannapheasteen in the Irish Republic. Within the base of some quartz crystals were some small 2mm clear to white flat crystals. These were...
  • 04 Nov, 2017
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    I was working on a new mineral the other day and spotted an interesting question raised shared by various sources. Tredouxite (IMA approved pending publication) is named for professor Marian Tredoux in the Department of...
  • 04 Nov, 2017
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    Organised by the Sussex Mineral & Lapidary Society www.smls.org.uk Saturday 18th November 10.00am - 4.30pm Clair Hall, Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath, RH16 3DN Over 40 dealers with minerals, gems, fossils, meteorites,...
  • 02 Nov, 2017
    Mark Wrigley (Admin)
    Post Munich and another 3 new minerals are photographed and listed into our database. This latest group are all offered by Italian specialist Marzio Mamberti of New Brand Minerals and with excellent background information....

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