Also, we still have nice specimens in the Junior-size of many of the minerals we've featured in the last couple of years. If you wish, you may choose any twelve of these past minerals and we'll send them to you along with their write-ups for just $77: (Minerals with an * denote a new find) barite from Rancho Palo Verde, Cal; malachite from Zaire; eudialyte from Quebec, Canada; actinolite from Wrightwood, Cal; hematite "Iron Roses" from Brazil; pyromorphite* from China; cobaltoan dolomite from Zaire; conichalcite from Mexico; heulandite* from Challis, Idaho; "Raspberry" grossular garnet from Mexico; aurichalcite from Nevada; colemanite from Boron, Cal; diamond from Zaire; magnetite* from Bolivia; fluorapatite from near Lake Baikal, Russia; scepter quartz* from Mexico; and rhodonite from Brazil. If you would like more than 12, any additional specimens would be $6 more.

We also received as part of our tourmaline lot a few nice Junior-size doubly-terminated tourmalines about 1" by 1", showing the hemimorphic nature of tourmaline, with different crystals forms on both terminations. We have a few for $10 each. We also received a few pieces of clusters of smoky quartz crystals up to 1½" and black tourmaline crystals up to ¾" for $8, and a few extra quality pieces for $24.

STILL AVAILABLE LODESTONE as chunk-size pieces from about 2" by 1½" to 2" by 2" for $3.50 or 2 for $6, or if you need a quantity for friends, relatives, or students, we have flats with 35 pieces for $70; GRAPHITE specimens, from a classic locality, the Plumbago Mine, Seathwaite, Lake District, England. We have small chunks of pure graphite up to 1½" by 2" for $7; a few medium-size pieces up to 2½" by 2½" for $12; NATIVE ANTIMONY as small pieces mounted in 1" by 1" plastic thumbnail cases for $5, small pieces up to about 1¾" by 1½" for $8; ANTHRACITE COAL as dirty chunks of carbon, medium to about 2" by 2" for $4 and larger chunks to 3" by 4" are $6. Brown chunks of lava from La Reunion Island, up to 2" by 1½" for $4

As always, U.S. shipping is included, your satisfaction is guaranteed, and anything ordered will be shipped with your next monthly mineral specimen, and we’ll send the corresponding write-up on minerals we’ve featured so you can read up on it. Call us at 1-800-941-5594 to order or E-mail us at Richard@Mineralofthemonthclub.org. Thanks!