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Mineral Mondays #88 - Chasing The Amethyst

The older I get the more important and truer the word perseverance becomes. As has been the case while searching for amethyst crystals in California. Located near

A Run, A Walk, Two Rocks And Some Food In Tokyo

I went downtown yesterday to see the new Mineral Museum my friends are opening in Ginza. Along the way I stopped off in Shibuya for a light breakfast at Starbucks.

Mineral Mondays #87 California Sapphires

A couple of weeks ago I re-re-discovered an important corundum deposit in California. The deposit has been talked about for 100 years, but due to it's size and remote

Falling Off The Edge Of The World - Three Tune Tuesday

I climbed a mountain today looking for sapphires & rubies, aka corundum. It almost killed me as I didn't bring enough water, the temperature reached about 78deg

Gems & Gold At Mineral City In Tucson

I went to Tucson last weekend to buy some gems and minerals, meet up with Japanese dealer friends and see what incredible mineral specimens had been discovered since

Smoky & The Bandit And The Banded Fluorite? Entry For Reflection Hunters #205

Yesterday I was heading home from the Tucson Gem and Mineral shows, but I didn't quite feel like I had enough mineral hunting. So I fired up Mindat.org to see if

Mineral Mondays #86 See Ya In Tucson The Largest Gem & Mineral Show In The World

Far away from Tokyo, in a foreign land lies Tucson(Two-sawn), a city in Southern Arizona. It was made famous by the many silver and mineral mines in the surrounding

The Art Of The Stone - Mineral Mondays #85

A trend lately in Japan is accenting your office space or home with minerals and crystals, in part thanks to a Men's magazine, Brutus. They're nature's aesthetic

Pink Topaz & The Excavator - My Entry For SMASh Round 331

I have to admit, I have a hard time finding shadow photos worth sharing, but I got one I liked recently. I'll get to it later in this post. First the story behind

Rock Lizard

I was up in the northern Nevada desert the other weekend hunting for copper minerals like malachite, azurite & chrysocolla. Hiking around various mines there

Franken Finger, The Conclusion

Be warned, the photos below will show my finger in all it's mutant glory. With that said, here's what happened with my pinky finger up until today. I left off with

Happy New Year! 2024 This Is Fine

What a way to ring in the new year in Japan. If you hadn't heard Japan's West Coast suffered a large, 7.6 magnitude earthquake yesterday followed by a tsunami.

Mineral Mondays #84 - Mineral Photography

The more minerals my wife & I take pictures of the more I realize what an art form it is. This Coyamito agate kind of looks like a strawberry. Coyamito Agate

Escaping Civilization P.2 - Clowns, Quartz & Casinos In Tonopah, Nevada

Concluding my trip up to Nevada, I stayed in a small town called Tonopah, Nevada. Tonopah is an old mining town that was settled and prospered from the late 1800's

Mineral Mondays #83 - Bullseye Chalcedony

As I was out escaping civilization the other weekend I was able to stop by a locality that I've long wanted to go to, Gemfield. Gemfield is located 30 minutes south

Escaping Civilization P.1

It's been pretty hot in California, as I'm sure it is where you are too, I mean, it is summer. So I thought it would be a great time to head into the Nevada desert

Mineral Mondays #82 - No Rocks For You!

Yes, it's a Tuesday, but I have a good excuse. Yesterday I was invited to look at an incredible mineral & artifact collection that took me all evening to comb

Alien nugget Identified - agate

Alien poop identified -agate. Although not sure which kind of agate… bahaha . Found this at agate beach goosberry falls state park minnesota this passed weekend.

Mineral Mondays #80 Big Fluorite & The West Coast Gem & Mineral Show

This past weekend was the West Coast Gem and Mineral Show in Santa Ana, California. It's a good sized show for all types of mineral collectors and dealers. One of

Mineral Mondays #79 - A Rock Wedding

In another life, when I attended Dale Carnegie Sales Training, we learned one of the most important things you can do is to be a resource to your customer, in fact