This section contains premier mineral specimens from various collections and acquisitions.

Latest Issues.

The Mineralogical Record magazine is a bimonthly publication, written by and for mineral enthusiasts, worldwide. Its first issue was published in early 1970. The original goals professed in the first issue were to serve the needs of mineral collectors by supplying timely, pertinent information about minerals, mineral localities, and all related topics including new mineral data, book reviews, show news, reports on well known mineral localities on a worldwide basis, data on newly discovered as well as old, well known localities, biographical sketches of personalities within the science and hobby, and so forth. Each year the Mineralogical Record magazine has increased its size and has become known, worldwide, as one of the top specialty magazines in its field (this is actually a modest statement -- we believe it is #1 in popularity, worldwide!). Through the years, the magazine’s staff has persevered in their original goals, always providing a bigger and better magazine, always striving for higher quality articles. A phenomenal increase has been seen, in the past 25 years, in the number of special issues devoted to important mineral localities or other important, related topics (one issue is dedicated to the history of mineral collecting, another covers historical mineral books, and several issues are devoted to the presentation of color photographs of major mineral specimens on exhibit in famous mineral museums). Indeed, the Mineralogical Record magazine has become a legend in its own time, and the back issues are in high demand as sources of information on important mineral finds, localities, etc.

A selection of the latest acquisitons.