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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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