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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
and will be largely incommunicato approximately from July 14, 2008 until August
15, 2008. We should return with some interesting self-collected Colorado,Wyoming, and Montana specimens.
In August, 2008, we should also be resuming sales 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 are not able to take credit cards
at this time, but do take checks or just about any other reasonable method of
payment; and when specimens are ours (weh code prefix), we might even swap for corundums. |
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Our first offerings feature
a couple of incredible Kashmir sapphires (plus some cheaper ones), a few
huge Brazilian emerald specimens, and some outstanding Burmese painites
(some encrusted with rubies). There are also several very fine
American corundums, including doubly terminated Gem Mountain, Montana
sapphires and Jacobs Mine, North Carolina ruby crystals, which are rarer
than hens' teeth! There are also some very fine Indian
zeolites. There are some others, and there will be a lot more to
come after returning in August, 2008. So, please pardon our
appearance, c'mon in, and take a look. Do not be afraid to buy
something to get us going! |
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HUGE
KASHMIR SAPPHIRE |
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This twinned crystal (the one on the left in
the photos of the pair) is, quite simply, by far the
finest specimen of sapphire gem rough that I have
seen from Kashmir. It weighs
approximately 120 carats, and it contains a facetable zone
that has been estimated to produce a clean, medium
blue 6 to 7 carat stone. Much of the rest
should be heat treatable to produce numerous smaller
stones. However, we would prefer
that this specimen remains as one of the finest
crystals in existence from what is likely the
World's most romantic sapphire locality. For further
information, contact me at
wheierman@corunduminium.com
or Ed Cleveland at
info@kashmirblue.com
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inquiries only, please. |
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NORTH CAROLINA
(Jacobs Mine, Cowee Valley) |
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This one has all the attributes of the finest Jacobs
Mine crystals, except that it is not three feet
across. It's only 1.03 carats, but what a
lovely gem it is; with elevated
triangles on both terminal faces! If this one
does not sell quickly, I may buy it for our
collection. Let sunlight pass through
it, and see the transmitted light red and fluorescent blue of a fine Burmese ruby; but this
one is American! It is natural and
untreated. $300.00; domestic
shipment by insured mail included in price. |
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GEM MOUNTAIN, MONTANA (
ROCK CREEK ) |
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This little .56 carat doubly terminated sapphire
crystal came from the Gem Mountain property along
Rock Creek between Hamilton and Philipsburg.
It is a superb white gem with a gold spot in
the center, making it as unusual in color as it is
in habit. It would do well in any micro
collection! It is natural and unterated. $55.00; domestic shipment by
insured mail included in price. |
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GOLD!! |
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If
things go well, we will have a selection of gold specimens, including
nuggets from our own claims in Montana, in the fall of 2008. |
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PAINITE [ KYAUK PYA TART,
BURMA ]
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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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