Selected Minerals from Around the World
Collector minerals with a strong locality focus – selected by a geologist and mineral collector. Discover distinctive specimens from classic mineral localities as well as from my own travels and field trips.
Collector minerals with a strong locality focus – selected by a geologist and mineral collector. Discover distinctive specimens from classic mineral localities as well as from my own travels and field trips.
Localities, geology, travel, and the stories behind exceptional minerals.
Colombia is world-famous for its exceptional emeralds. On two trips, I visited some of the country’s most important deposits and gained first-hand insights into the geology, mining, and life in the emerald regions.
Parisite is one of the rarest minerals from Colombia’s emerald region and is closely associated with the hydrothermal processes of Muzo.
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The pyrite occurrences of the Extertal show how mineralogically diverse regional German localities can be.