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.

October 7, 2026. New Arrivals Page 2 Has been updated with a suite mixed world wide minerals. More fine specimens from the late Barney Ritter's collection are presented. Barney had some interesting likes in minerals etc. so this update features some of the more esoteric pieces from his collection....several polished slices of various rock/mineral, even a serpentine necklace from India.

September 22, 2026. New Arrivals Page 1 has been updated with a suite of mixed minerals. Emphasis in this update is on color....lots of it in this batch. Back in May 2020 I collected some cute amethyst specimens from a previously unknown mine called the Shamrock mine, in Nevada. The small, light purple crystals occur in open vesicles in a altered rhyolite. I put the larger pieces on an update back then. In this update I put about a dozen of these in miniature to small cabinet specimens. I priced them, I think, somewhat low, keeping in mind the high cost of postage these days. They make nice location specimens from a really obscure location.

I had these amethysts on the last update and they all sold within an hour, so I put this batch on in case anyone missed out on these in that update.

There are several minerals from previous updates that remain unsold, so I re photographed them and lowered the prices substantially and put them in this update. In addition the update has some really pretty and colorful minerals including a nice Guerrero small cabinet amethyst.

September 10, 2026. New Arrivals Page 4. Has been updated with a suite of mixed world wide minerals. Back in May 2020 I collected some cute amethyst specimens from a previously unknown mine called the Shamrock mine, in Nevada. The small, light purple crystals occur in open vesicles in a altered rhyolite. I put the larger pieces on an update back then. In this update I put about a dozen of these in miniature to small cabinet specimens. I priced them, I think, somewhat low, keeping in mind the high cost of postage these days. They make nice location specimens from a really obscure location. In addition the update has some really pretty and colorful minerals, including a yellow fluorite from Cave-in- Rock, Illinois, A nice somewhat rare stibnite from Kyrgyzstan, a fine mimetite from Pingtouling, as well as other neat things.

August 16, 2026. New Arrivals Page 3. Has been updated with a suite of mixed world wide minerals. Emphasis on color in this one.

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.