Worldwide Update - March 20, 2013

We've acquired a couple of collections in recent months and have now made the first group of minerals from these available through our main site.

These specimens come from various locations around the world and include the following highlights:

Native Silver
Houghton Mine, Michigan, USA

Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla
Robinson Mine, White Pine County, Nevada

Calcite
Meikle Mine
Elko County, Nevada

Additional pieces come from Australia, China, Peru, Russia, Tsumeb, the United Kingdom and other localities in the United States. In total there are 18 specimens and all of them can be seen on our "New Minerals" page.

We will be posting more in the near future.  In the meantime, enjoy!

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Video - Introduction to Mineral Cleaning and Preparation

We've just launched a channel on YouTube to showcase minerals and more.  The "more" includes our first video offering, which is Jon Voelter's presentation at the 2012 Dallas Mineral Collecting Symposium.  

Over the course of his speech Jon touches on numerous topics including trimming, air abrasion, chemical techniques, stabilization, repair, reconstruction, restoration and dealing with fakes.

Thanks to Rob Lavinsky at the Arkenstone for permission in using this video.

What is the Ore Bucket?

We here at Voelter Minerals used to have a section on our main web site called "what's happening" that was intended to be a "blog" of sorts but never really took off.  It was mostly just static pages of pictures of prior events we were a part of, such as the 2012 mineral and fossil show in Tucson, Arizona.

Now, with the 2013 version of that same show fast approaching, we've decided to launch a real blog that will contain stories and pictures from shows like Tucson, Denver, Houston, Munich or wherever else our travels take us.

And minerals, of course!  We specialize in fine minerals so there will be plenty of information regarding minerals, mineral collecting and more as we go along.  Lots of pictures and maybe even some video as well.

So that is the primary purpose of this blog.  We want this to be a fun and interactive place for all involved and we invite you to share your thoughts along the way.