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This extensive species mineral collection offered for sale belongs to an Australian mineral collector who has been collecting minerals in excess of forty years. His main interest has been in trying to collect old, rare and well formed crystal specimens. He has obtained over those many years some really good single crystal specimens and crystals on matrix, these are distributed throughout the collection.
Of course, being a serious species collector there are specimens in the collection which are not pretty, but as an Educational tool to an institution in need of an intellectual compilation of a vast cross section of the mineral kingdom, such as [mineralogy, geology, earth science, etc] they are invaluable to any serious mineral collection or avid mineral collector.
The collection contains specimens from all over the world, much of the collection has been gathered from Australian mines such as Broken Hill New South Wales and mines from Tasmania and others. Many of the specimens are rare or have become rare and come from well known mines worked out a long time ago. The same can be said for other minerals in the collection such as those from the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Swedish-Norse, European localities and others.
Much of the collection has been photographed, but the photographs do not do justice to the quality of the specimens. if you are interested in having a deeper look at this collection, may we suggest that you have a look at the collection gallery. Further enquires may be made by contacting the collection holder at sales@austminsale.com.au.