Mini Miners Monthly

MINERAL COLLECTOR'S ACADEMY - ALL ARE INVITED!

Greetings, Mineral Collecting Enthusiasts,

Diamond Dan Publications is pleased to announce that we are offering, for a second time, our "Mineral Collector's Academy." This 24 session learning experience is for collectors from beginner to experienced, from 10 to 99 years of age (and older, if you are blessed by so many years!)

The classes will meet on Sunday evenings, 7 pm eastern standard time. They will be presented on ZOOM. (The specific dates are available on our website in a PDF document, as well as a syllabus of the classes included.)

Subjects covered include physical properties, building a mineral collection, mineral names, crystallography, important mineral scientists and collectors, fluorescent minerals, mineral oddities, mineral books and magazines, and much, much more.

The price and value of this 24-class experience is $500. HOWEVER, the first 15 to register will benefit from a 50% off special price of only $250.

Please go to DiamondDanPublications.com and at the top of the home page is a link to the course description, syllabus, schedule, and registration links.

We look forward to welcoming you to this informative, fun and useful Academy!

Best wishes to you all,
Darryl
aka Diamond Dan

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June Monthly Special: PDF of our new book, "Shades of Blue: Minerals of the World." Visit our website for more details. (There are a lot of minerals that are blue!) www.diamonddanpublications.net

This about says it all!

Wulfenite on mimetite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango state, Mexico. With one to download and color.

Red beryl on matrix, also called Bixbite. And one for you to download and color.

Can you find the diamond crystal in this conglomerate (sedimentary rock) from Brazil? Print it and color it!

Pink fluorite on smoky quartz.

In celebration of Fluorite: Found in a rainbow of colors! (And a black and white one for you to print and color.)

Newest Book from Diamond Dan Publications. All the fun can be found at www.diamonddanpublications.net.

Peridot is the green gem variety of olivine. In the United States, large quantities of gem-quality peridot can only be found near San Carlos, Gila County, Arizona. It is found on Peridot Meso on land that belongs to the Apache Ndeh Nation. Those who live in the San Carlos area are known as the San Carlos Nation. Since the land is owned by the Apache Ndeh people, Peridot Mesa is not open to public collecting. The peridot is removed from its basalt matrix using hand tools.