In July of 2008 I traveled to Greenland for what may be my last venture to this remote part of the world. I have traveled there yearly since 2001 and have felt genuinely lucky that each year was as productive and safe as it was.

Greenland Geo-Adventure Tour 2008

At the top of the mine, long black veins of compressed mica ran along the walls. We had found Nuevo Silica mine!

Finding the Nuevo Silica Mine

Chinese Fluorescent Minerals hunting trip in Xianghualing mine, HuNan province, China in 2007

Hunting trip in Xianghualing mine

Egypt is a huge Country, with a very interesting geology and a widely under-exploited mineralogical potential.

Egyptian Minerals

The Bear Lake Diggings consist of a series of weathered calcite vein dykes where the calcite has been eroded away by natural acids in the soil.

Collecting at the Bear Lake Diggings

When we made the visit to the El Entredicho mine was inactive reason why we acceded without no problem. to continue with the operation, sure it would bring, the appearance of new crystals of cinnabar, in addition to the impossibility to visit the mine freely.

\"El entredicho\" Mine - Almadenejos

Mineral collecting in Manhattan? It sounds like a contradiction in terms. Yet anybody who has seen the 700 mineral specimen collection of the New York Mineralogical Club knows that at one time Manhattan was a mineral collector\'s paradise.

Manhattan Mineral Collecting

This sunny Sunday of August 2002, I\'m going with my dad at the Poudrette Quarry in Mont St-Hilaire. Unfortunately this year is not very productive in good mineralogical finds , most of the exploitation is done in hornfell so except some minor smoky quartz in mm and altered dolomite, nothing really interesting and when blast are done in syenite area it is pure syenite not a pocket at all!

Outstanding giant quartz and sphalerite from Mont. St-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada

Since we began to prepare the trip that would lead us to Morocco, we always have been with the doubt that, perhaps, the moment was not most suitable...

Trip to Mibladen (Morocco)

To get to the mine first you have to be a member of the Asbestos mineral club, then you have a chance to get in this active chrysotile mine in one or two of the 6 trips organized by the club.

Collecting trip in Jeffrey mine in Asbestos Qc.

Bob from Scottsdale Arizona on a 2 day \"Geode Hunt\" with Geodeman.. Great geodes were found these 2 days.... May 2002 Des Moines River.....

Scenery From Some of Our Geode Hunts

Despite the fact that Austria has some outstanding wulfenite localities that rank within the best in the world, not many collectors outside of Europe know much about them. For example, did you know that the type locality of wulfenite is in Austria?

Collecting wulfenite in Austria

Opening a pocket full of Herkimer Diamonds is one of the greatest thrills any rock collector can experience. You are the first person to ever see the contents, and as you pull out and examine the perfect, sparkling, gemmy crystals.

4 Days digging at Treasure Mountain Diamond Mine