Best Minerals navigation and Wulfenite forum

Best minerals has a new navigation tool located at the top of the Best Minerals-General forum. It lists in alphabetical order all of the minerals where the first draft of their articles have been more or less completed. Some few of them still have a little construction work to be done on them. Each mineral is linked to the article. Just click on the mineral of interest to you and you will be taken to that article.

The first draft of the article on wulfenite is under active construction, and if you have any knowledge of wulfenites or their localities and or stories about them, now would be the time to add your comments to the wulfenite forum.

Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/07/2009 11:56PM by Rob Woodside.

I hope my addition to this subject will be as worthy of some of the others. I have only been collecting since January of 2008 and have only collected at one Wulfenite location. The Loudville Lead Mines in Southampton MA, Hampshire County, a New England classic dating back to the mid 1700's. This location is presently in the care of the New England Forestry Foundation. I have four different Wulfenite habits from this location of which a couple are very special to me, ok I’ll be honest, they are all special to me. This is the first Wulfenite specimen that I collected from this location in 2008. Clean, well formed .5mm to 2mm Wulfenite tabs, with Pyromorphite on Quartz. You can imagine my excitement as a new collector to find this specimen. This is a link to the Location [www.mindat.org]

Andrew,
I don't think I would want to use those images for best minerals, but if you would care to upload them to the mindat gallery, they might find a home there. I would like to encourage you to continue with you interest in minerals however. For best minerals we have a sliding scale of quality for the things we picture there. The quality requirements for common minerals like wulfenite are a lot higher than they are for very rare things. For wulfenite specimens, there are a lot of localities that produce really fine examples of large specimens so the quality requirements, at least for me for micro wulfenites are really very high (though some are included). I can only hope that if you revisit this thread 20 years from now, and are still collecting minerals that you may agree with what I am saying here. In general it takes abut ten years to learn your way around the block about mineral and then another ten years to get good at it. I think this is about the same as it takes in any vocation or avocation. It takes time to acquire knowledge and wisdom. Keep on trucking.

Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.