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EARTH TREASURES |
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SPECIMENS
FOR SALE |
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Please note that I will be
traveling in the field approximately from May 10 until June 8, 2011, and
again from July 10 until August 15, 2011. We post additional items
on Ebay, using the ID "corundumaniac". |
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Specimens for sale
are organized according to price ("Shelf" specimens are up to $99.00,
"Showcase" specimens are from $100.00 to $999.00, and "Vault" specimens
are $1,000.00 and above). These pages will be numbered
chronologically, based upon posting date, so that you can easily find
any new ones. We will always keep a few teasers on this page as
well.
Please email me at
wheierman@corunduminium.com
(best to copy to williamh@wcjc.edu
) if you are interested in something, and I shall
reply at my earliest convenience. If it's here, you may refer to it by the
code in the upper right of the description.
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OUR SELLING PHILOSOPHY |
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As a collector for more than
twenty years, I met many wonderful people (miners, collectors, dealers) with
rocks for sale. I asked one of them, who lives in Pakistan, if he would
want us to represent him in America. What followed was a great consignment
deal, and the seeds for "Earth Treasures" were sown! |
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Wondering if there would be
enough stones to make a business, I asked several other foreign colleagues the
same question. To my surprise, our problem is not inventory - it is
cataloguing and publishing all the specimens and finding enough collectors who would love to own some. |
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Though this is not a new way of
doing the mineral business, it may be unusual as I do not make as much
as one who ties up his capital by buying for resale. Fortunately, it is
not my main job (by day, I teach Math at Wharton County Junior College
near Houston, Texas). I have no visions of getting rich (see day
job), but do hope to make enough money money to maintain this website,
continue the research, and refine the collections while helping others
acquire some of the Earth's great treasures for their own! |
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We prefer to do business the
good, old-fashioned way; but if paying by check or money order we
may require clearance of funds prior to shipment. We can take
PayPal payments, but are not set up for credit cards.
We might swap for corundums. |
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Our offerings feature some
interesting lapidary materials (Shelf #1) and fossils (Shelf #1, Safe
#1). There are also many corundums from World-wide
localities (Shelf #1, Safe #1). It's a work in progress, so please pardon our
appearance, c'mon in, and take a look. Do not be afraid to buy
something to support the Corundum Project! |
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Painite has been listed in the Guinnes" Book of World Records as the
World's rarest gemstone mineral. For about 20 years, only two
specimens had been identified. Recently a find of painite in
situ generated enough specimens that it began to appear on the
market (although at exacerbated prices). For more about this
rarity, you should see two seminal Internet articles by George Rossman (
http://minerals.caltech.edu/files/Visible/painite/Index.htm )
and Vincent Pardieu (
http://www.aigsthailand.com/(A(KK_21TCYyAEkAAAAZmQ4YTJmYmEtMTQyNS00YzlkLWExNDItMjcwM2EzM2RhNTQ4sK
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