Like food, minerals have raw origins. The process of acquiring them is seldom easy. For many, this connection to nature is exhilarating, fun, rewarding, frustrating and sometimes even profitable(or not). Successful extraction is a combination of experience, luck, legal property access and sometimes financial resources.

As a paying collector, having a perspective on the field collecting process is essential in understanding a "farm to plate" analog with minerals. This knowledge is essential in understanding the "value" of mineral specimens.

The future content of this area will discuss and demonstrate the physical field collection of mineral specimens and areas where one can collect them.

You can then use this virtual information to participate in various ways regardless of location access or physical limitations. 

More to come,