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Articles

Articles about rockhounding. Collecting rocks, displaying rocks, exchanging rocks and buying rocks. We specialize in Southern African minerals and rocks but we endeavor to carry interesting articles for people everywhere. Do send us an e-mail with anything interesting that you have written about rocks in your area and we might publish it here.

Collecting rocks and minerals

Preparing for a field trip

Collecting rocks ABC

Collecting rocks and minerals ABC (Part 2)

How to identify a mineral

Seven keys to mineral identification

How to open a geode

Collecting minerals by Gerdus Bronn

Displaying rocks and minerals

Sharing your collection

Gemology - Lapidary

Good sculpture starts with good stone

Series on minerals

Sedimentary rocks : Calcite

Barium and Strontium minerals

Cuprosklodowskite

Sturmanite

Platinum

More on platinum

Tourmaline

Diamonds

Sapphire and pearl

Emerald

Gold

Fluorite and luminescence

Spodumene, beryl and chrysoberyl

Gypsum

Brucite

Copper at Messina and apatite at Phalaborwa

Zircon and other accessory minerals

Fluorite

General articles

South African overview: Water, the most important mineral

The appreciation of stones

How to grow your own crystals

The discovery of diamonds in South Africa

A few good quotes from the SA Lapidary magazine Issue April 2003

What is happening in the mineral world in Southern Africa - News

The Kalahari Manganese fields (1)

The Kalahari Manganese fields (2)

The Kalahari Manganese fields (3)

Selling rocks

Getting the right response from your website

Internet Auctions

Success is a process

Selling on auctions

Namibia- Why are minerals so expensive?

Driving traffic to your site without spending thousands

The Opener. The first page on your website, continued

Make your site fast

Build trust and likeability in your website

Our recent trip to Namibia. Why are prices so high?

What is the right product to sell on the web

The first sentence on your website

The anatomy of a website

Refunds : How to handle them

What is happening at our store

A great free tool that every webdesigner should install

What do you look for in a Web Host?

My rockhounding trips into Africa

My recent visit to the copper mineral producing sites in the DRC, Africa (August 2002)

Our recent visit to the Namibian mineral producing sites (June 2002)

Tigers eye. My visit to Griekwastad and the site where they mine the cactus quartz (October 2002)

Tucson 2003 through the eyes of Gerdus (January 2003)

My May 2003 trip to Namibia

My July 2003 trip to Zambia

Our recent trip to India (March 2004)

Zambia October 2004

What is happening at Kuruman? (May 2005)

Ste Marie aux Mines 2005, show report (June 2005)

What is happening at Kuruman? (August 2005)

My trip to Zambia August 2005

My trip to Namibia September 2005

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