Aragonite crystals from
Monday, November 21, 2005
Aragonite from Molina de
Aragón,
Many years ago there was a company called Mineral of the Month club. Now there is a new incarnation of this business that you can locate by Goggling Mineral of the Month. At any rate, we have just bought out the inventory of the original Mineral of the Month Club that was run by Russ and Alexandra Filer. Alexandra was the first woman graduated as a mining engineer. She is quite literary and did all the write ups for the specimens they supplied their customers in the Mineral of the month club. We got about 150 flats of interesting minerals, some of which have not been seen on the market for years and from localities no longer producing. We did not get a lot of any one item, but we will try and tell you something about one of the items some of which are shown above.
These crystals used to be common as dirt. Well, not that
common, but there used to thousands of them. What happened to them. They were
so common that most collectors did not even want to put one in their
collections. Sort of like a piece of Brazilian Amethyst today. Like the
thousands of boxes of adamites and other specimens from Mapimi and the tons of
galena and sphalerite specimens from the
In case you wanted to know what happened to all those tens of thousands of specimens that have disappeared. They have been thrown away. First they sat around on a shelf for years and got dirty, then the kids played with them and broke them and when they were broken and dirty, they were thrown out in the trash. Very much the same thing that happens to most of the stuff we buy.