Cheryl & Richard Sittinger chat with mine geologist Dean Misantori
during our tour of the Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado, September
'97, when we featured Sweet Home rhodochrosite in our Mineral of the
Month Club
Hello, and thanks
for visiting
our Web site!
Our names are Richard & Cheryl Sittinger and if you love minerals and
learning about them, we'd like to invite you to join our Mineral of the Month
Club! We have three levels of membership (Junior, Deluxe, and Platinum) to suit your
needs.
Each month we send our Club members a wonderful mineral specimen,
properly labeled with name and locality information, and a fascinating
six to ten page write-up that explains everything
you want to know about its unique properties!
We have three levels of membership available-- with the only
difference being the size of the specimens.
Click
here
to see how the Club works.
Click
here to view a sample write-up
Click our "Join the Club" link at the
top of this page for Personal or Gift Memberships.
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Note to Club members wanting to renew: Click here for our new renewal
page: Club Member Renewal
Email us 
with any questions or call us toll free at 1-800-941-5594!
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Remember, you'll receive
only the minerals you wish-- you can pass on any mineral at any
time. Our goal is to provide you with wonderful specimens and highly
informative, detailed write-ups that will increase your love and
appreciation for our natural world!
INTRODUCING OUR NEW PLATINUM MEMBERSHIP!
We've been thinking for several years about offering a membership
with access to even bigger, better specimens than we normally send,
and are finally ready to introduce our Platinum Level! Since we
purchase over 600 of each monthly featured mineral for our Club
members, we are often able to obtain high quality specimens at
bargain prices, and then pass the savings along to our members. For
more details about this new membership, click this link:
Platinum Membership
E-mails from new members:
"I received my
[Platinum-level] piece yesterday. An outstanding sample, I am very
pleased. Thanks."
"I absolutely love being a member. My husband got me the membership as
an anniversary gift. The minerals are stunning and I am learning a lot." "I got my July mineral and
found it very interesting. You send a really comprehensive report on the
minerals; it's fantastic. Thanks."
"I am so excited. So far I am very impressed with your club. I have not
done anything yet, but it seems like we have such a personal
relationship, not at all what I expected. Thank you!"
"As I have said before, the relationship we have made with your
organization has been such a positive experience for our grandson.
Andrew has been with your group, as a Junior member, since he was four
and a half years old; he is still thrilled with his collection and with
his monthly additions. Just last week Andrew made a presentation to his
second grade class about his knowledge of rocks and minerals. Thank you
again for this opportunity to continue with you on e-mail. We look
forward to the consistent excellent connection."
Free Pocketsize DK Rocks &
Minerals Book for each new member! ($7 value)
Our privacy policy: We will never
under any circumstances give or sell Club member's addresses and other
personal information to anyone! We loathe this practice and will never
engage in it! STILL AVAILABLE FROM PREVIOUS
MONTHS: Hemimorphite
Wenshan, Yunnan Province, China November
2006 We featured Hemimorphite [Zn4Si2O7(OH)2H20] from the Wenshan
mine, Yunnan Province, China. These specimens are of a light to bright
sky-blue to turquoise-blue color, and form as botryoidal coatings on matrix,
totally different from the white crystals on brown matrix from Mexico that
we sent to Club members when we first featured hemimorphite in October 2000.
We still have some wonderful specimens available if you'd like to
include one with your membership-Just mention it in the "Special
Instructions" when you order online!
Still
Available! Our October 2005 Featured Mineral:Gypsum,
variety Selenite
Las Salinas de Paracas, Paracas
Pisco, Ica Dept.,
Peru
October
2005
We've been working for a couple of years now to obtain a large
lot of pretty golden gypsum, variety selenite [CaSO4•2H2O]from Peru, and
are happy to announce we finally have it! This year is shaping up as the
most colorful year of minerals we've ever featured! (The photo doesn't
capture the true golden color of the crystals.)
Still Available! Our September 2005 Featured
Mineral: Prehnite
Bendoukou, Sandaré District
Kayes
Region, Mali
September
2005
We have a good supply of these wonderful
prehnite specimens from this new find in Mali left over if you'd care to include
one in your membership. Just mention it in the "Special Instructions"
when you order online, or call us at 1-800-941-5594. Because these are
from an exciting new find, specimens are smaller than what we typically
send.
Would you like to order all 24 minerals we've
featured in 2006 and 2007? Click here to see photos of all 12 minerals from
2006: 2006 Minerals
or Order here:
All 24 minerals from 2006 and 2007 in Junior-size for $140--24
minerals for the price of 20! Price includes US shipping.
All 24 featured minerals from 2006 and 2007 in Deluxe size
for $440--24 minerals for the price of 20! Price includes US shipping.
All 24 featured minerals from 2006 and 2007 in Platinum size--Larger, better
specimens--24 for the price of 20--Email us for price:
All 24 Platinum-Size
Minerals from 2006 & 2007 Price includes US shipping.
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MAY 2008 MINERAL OF THE MONTH: ADAMITE
Adamite
Ojuela Mine
Mapimi
Durango, Mexico
Deluxe-size specimens are on matrix about 2.5" by 1.5" up to
3.5" by 2.5"
Junior-size specimens are on matrix about 1" by 1", glued
onto styrofoam bases for a nice display
Platinum-size specimens go from about 3" by 1.5" to 6" by
5". Click here to see a photo of a Platinum-level specimen:
Platinum Membership
MAY 2008 We're very excited to be featuring this colorful mineral
and its fascinating forms from this classic locality! The write-up has a
special section on the history and the mineral bounty of the 400-year old
Ojuela mine. It also delves into the unique geologic environment that allows
for the formation of so many unusual and colorful minerals!
----------------------------------------------------- Here are photos of the minerals we've featured
so far in 2008:
Barite--January 2008
Arsenopyrite--February 2008
Stellerite--March 2008
Silver--April 2008
Here are photos of the minerals we featured
in 2007:
Callaghanite--January 2007
Lazulite--February 2007
Amazonite--March 2007
Phenakite--April 2007 (Photo by Jeff Scovil)
Brookite on Quartz--May 2007
Epidote--June 2007
"Rainbow" Pyrite--July 2007
Hematite--August 2007
Actinolite--September 2007
Fluorite--October 2007
Thomsonite-Ca-- November 2007
Vanadinite-- December 2007 Would you like to order a
set of all 12 minerals we featured last year? If so, choose one:
All 12 Featured Minerals from 2007 in Deluxe-size $247.50 (12 for the price of 11)
All 12 Featured Minerals from 2007 in Junior-size $77 (12 for the price of 11)
I-------------------------------------------------------- NOW AVAILABLE: ALL 12 FEATURED
MINERALS FROM 2006! CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS:
All 12 Minerals from 2006
Would you like to order all 12 minerals we've
featured in 2006? They are: hanksite, amber, pyrite, cavansite,
fluorapatite, fluorapophyllite, halite, cornetite, wavellite, crocoite,
hemimorphite, and ruby. Click
here to see photos of all 12:
2006 Minerals
or Order here:
All 12 featured minerals from 2006 in Deluxe size
for $247.50--12 minerals for the price of 11!
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All 12 featured minerals from 2006 in Junior
size for $77--12 minerals for the price of 11!
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All 12 featured minerals from 2006 in Platinum size--Larger, better
specimens--12 for the price of 11--Email us for price:
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