Crystal Mine

Crystal Mine
P.O. Box 18941
Reno, NV 89511
775-852-6046
Jack Crowley
jcrowley@crystal-mine.com

NEWS:

9-22-15 In order to make payment try: jcrowley@crystal-mine.com when you go to Paypal. Also, the search function is not working and so far I haven't figured out how to make it work. pages are alphabetical...see below.

December 5, 2025. New Arrivals Page 1, has been updated with an assortment of mixed minerals. Some of these have been on the site before, so I did a re-photo and lowered the price a bit. Others are older pieces that were stashed away that I have been digging out while sorting through flats. I have recently acquired part of the Barney Ritter collection...Barney is a long time collector living in the San Francisco Bay Area. His collection is highly varied, with good taste in minerals. I will be adding a few of his pieces to each update. Many of these are a bit more expensive than what I usually have on the site, as the quality is quite good.

November 20, 2025. New Arrivals Page 2 Has been updated with a suite of gorgeous brilliant luster linarites from a new find in Nevada. As I sold all the ones from the March 2025 find, I have added 15 more from this find, which has slightly better linarite than the first occurrence the collector collected in the fall of 2024. These are the best linarite Nevada has ever produced, and easily rival the ones from the Blanchard area in New Mexico. The mine is the Dispozitch mine, Silver Star district, Mineral county, Nevada. The photos are pretty and show the specimens fairly well, but in hand they are superior to the photos. This is a one time find, from a small and obscure mine, and the number of specimens is fairly limited...once these are gone, that is it for this location. A small number of these were available at Tucson, 2025, and were collected in the Fall of 2024. The collector went back again in 2025, and worked the vein to extinction, and these pieces, featured here, are even better than the ones collected in 2024. I don't normally brag a lot about a particular piece...but these are really nice! All fluorescent minerals have been moved to General Stock page 26, and are arranged in alphabetical order.

November 15, 2025. New Arrivals Page 3, Has been updated with a suite of mixed world wide minerals, a few of these have been on the site before, and I re-photographed them with my new DSLR camera, and lowered the price a bit on them. A really colorful update with some very nicely priced pieces. I have recently acquired part of the Barney Ritter collection...Barney is a long time collector living in the San Francisco Bay Area. His collection is highly varied, with good taste in minerals. I will be adding a few of his pieces to each future update. Many of these are a bit more expensive than what I usually have on the site, as the quality is quite good.

October 11, 2025. New Arrivals Page 4 has been updated with a suite of mixed minerals. A few self collected pieces from various localities. I have recently acquired part of the Barney Ritter collection...Barney is a long time collector living in the San Francisco Bay Area. His collection is highly varied, with good taste in minerals. I will be adding a few of his pieces to each future update. Many of these are a bit more expensive than what I usually have on the site, as the quality is quite good.

We have adjusted the site to contain more pages under General Stock. There are now 26 General Stock Pages. There are New Arrivals Pages 1, 2, 3, & 4, which are the same. In General Stock there is General Stock page 1, "A thru Ay", General Stock page 2 is "Azurite", General Stock page 3 is "B", General Stock page 4 is "C", General Stock page 5 is "D", General Stock page 6 is "E", General Stock page 7 is "F and G", General Stock Page 8 is "H, I, J, K", General Stock page 9 is "L and M", General Stock page 10 is "N and O", General Stock page 11 is "P through Py", General Stock page 12 is "Pyromorphite", General Stock page 13 is "Q", General Stock page 14 is "R", General Stock page 15 is "S", General Stock page 16 is "T", General Stock page 17 is "U and V", General Stock page 18 is "W", General Stock page 19 is "X, Y, and Z", General Stock page 20 is the "Nevada" page, General Stock page 21 is "Thumbnail" size specimens at 40% off original price, General Stock Page 22 is the first "Sale Page", General Stock page 23 is the 2nd "Sale Page". General Stock page 24 is the 3rd "Sale Page". General Stock Page 25 is now dedicated to self collected minerals for show, not for sale, just to let folks see some of what I have collected over the years. General Stock Page 26 is a now composed of fluorescent minerals, arranged in alphabetical order.

December 2000
We are a mineral dealership located in Reno, Nevada. We are ardent field collectors and have been dealing in and collecting minerals for many years.

I have been a mineral collector since I was taken underground at the Clayton Silver mine in Idaho at the ripe old age of 9, by my grandfather, who worked there as a foreman. My first look at the mine's working face of solid sparkling galena had me hooked on minerals from that moment on. Since then I went on to get my Masters' degree in Geology with a focus on economics and mineralogy. My favorite mineral is pyromorphite. I'm always on the lookout for pyromorphite specimens. I am particularly interested in Canadian specimens.