Hello!

I starting collecting minerals in 1976, in eastern Pennsylvania. The French Creek Mines, an apartment complex since 1989, was my first serious collecting experience. It remains one of my favorite localities and a focus of my personal collection.

I also collect gypsum associated with other minerals, and pegmatite minerals (especially from southern California). If you have material available, please send me a message.

Dragon Minerals is my modest effort to sell affordable specimens. Please visit if you can.

When avoiding the mineral world, I am a lecturer in organic chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where I teach the subject to (probably) more aspiring physicians (i.e., pre-meds) than anybody else in the United States (and possibly the world).