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Cheryl & Richard Sittinger chat with mine geologist Dean Misantori during our tour of the Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado,  September '97, when we featured Sweet Home rhodochrosite in our Mineral of the Month Club

Hello, and thanks 
for visiting our Web site!

Our names are Richard & Cheryl Sittinger and if you love minerals and learning about them, we'd like to invite you to join our Mineral of the Month Club! We have three levels of membership (Silver, Gold, and Platinum) to suit your needs. 

Each month we send our Club members a wonderful mineral specimen, properly labeled with name and locality information, and a fascinating eight to ten page write-up that explains everything you want to know about its unique properties!

We have three levels of membership available-- with the only difference being the size of the specimens.

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to see how the Club works.

Click here to view a sample write-up

Click our "Join the Club" link at the top of this page for Personal or Gift Memberships.

Remember, you'll receive only the minerals you wish-- you can pass on any mineral at any time. Our goal is to provide you with wonderful specimens and highly informative, detailed write-ups that will increase your love and appreciation for our natural world!

OUR NEW PLATINUM MEMBERSHIP!

We've been thinking for several years about offering a membership with access to even bigger, better specimens than we normally send, and are finally ready to introduce our Platinum Level! Since we purchase over 600 of each monthly featured mineral for our Club members, we are often able to obtain high quality specimens at bargain prices, and then pass the savings along to our members. For more details about this new membership, click this link:  Platinum Membership     

E-mails from new members:

"I received my [Platinum-level] piece yesterday. An outstanding sample, I am very pleased. Thanks."

"I absolutely love being a member. My husband got me the membership as an anniversary gift. The minerals are stunning and I am learning a lot."

"I got my July mineral and found it very interesting. You send a really comprehensive report on the minerals; it's fantastic. Thanks."

"I am so excited. So far I am very impressed with your club. I have not done anything yet, but it seems like we have such a personal relationship, not at all what I expected. Thank you!"

"As I have said before, the relationship we have made with your organization has been such a positive experience for our grandson. Andrew has been with your group, as a Silver member, since he was four and a half years old; he is still thrilled with his collection and with his monthly additions. Just last week Andrew made a presentation to his second grade class about his knowledge of rocks and minerals. Thank you again for this opportunity to continue with you on e-mail. We look forward to the consistent excellent connection."

Free Pocketsize DK Rocks & Minerals Book for each new member! ($7 value)

Our privacy policy: We will never under any circumstances give or sell Club member's addresses and other personal information to anyone! We loathe this practice and will never engage in it!

STILL AVAILABLE FROM PREVIOUS MONTHS:

Hemimorphite
Wenshan, Yunnan Province, China

November 2006 We featured  Hemimorphite [Zn4Si2O7(OH)2H20] from the Wenshan mine, Yunnan Province, China. These specimens are of a light to bright sky-blue to turquoise-blue color, and form as botryoidal coatings on matrix, totally different from the white crystals on brown matrix from Mexico that we sent to Club members when we first featured hemimorphite in October 2000. We still have some wonderful specimens available if you'd like to include one with your membership-Just mention it in the "Special Instructions" when you order online!

Still Available! Our October 2005 Featured Mineral:Gypsum, variety Selenite
 Las Salinas de Paracas, Paracas
Pisco, Ica Dept., Peru

October 2005
We've been working for a couple of years now to obtain a large lot of pretty golden gypsum, variety selenite [CaSO4•2H2O]from Peru, and are happy to announce we finally have it! This year is shaping up as the most colorful year of minerals we've ever featured! (The photo doesn't capture the true golden color of the crystals.)

Still Available! Our September 2005 Featured Mineral: Prehnite
Bendoukou, Sandaré District
Kayes Region, Mali

September 2005 We have a good supply of these wonderful prehnite specimens from this new find in Mali left over if you'd care to include one in your membership. Just mention it in the "Special Instructions" when you order online, or call us at 1-800-941-5594. Because these are from an exciting new find, specimens are smaller than what we typically send.

Would you like to order all 24 minerals we've featured in 2006 and 2007? Click here to see photos of all 12 minerals from 2006: 2006 Minerals or Order here:

All 24 minerals from 2006 and 2007 in Silver-size for $160--24 minerals for the price of 20! Price includes US shipping.

All 24 featured minerals from 2006 and 2007 in Gold-Level size for $530--24  minerals for the price of 20! Price includes US shipping.

All 24 featured minerals from 2006 and 2007 in Platinum size--Larger, better specimens--24 for the price of 20--Email us for price: All 24 Platinum-Size Minerals from 2006 & 2007  Price includes US shipping.

SEPTEMBER 2008 MINERAL OF THE MONTH: AGATE

Agate
Soledade District
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

September 2008  We're sending polished slices of exceptional agate from Brazil, which seems fitting after laying such a good foundation with August's write-up on chalcedony and jasper, and the fact we last featured agate (from Argentina) in November 1998. The write-up contains a special section on "Agate Genesis," explaining in detail the most common theories of how the beautiful banding occurs. This section also describes agate's other special features, such as eye patterns, escape tubes, fortification patterns, and the iris effect. The 10-page write-up is stuffed with fascinating facts about agate's unique properties!

To see photos of more of the lovely agate slices we are sending this month, click here: Agate Photos

Gold-level specimens are on the large side of what we typically send, about 6" across and 4.5" high and larger. 

Silver-level specimens are also larger than usual, consisting of a polished slice about 2.5" wide by 2" high and larger.

Platinum-level specimens-- Click here to see  photos of Platinum-level specimens: Platinum Membership

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Here are photos of the minerals we've featured so far in 2008:

Barite--January 2008

Arsenopyrite--February 2008

Stellerite--March 2008

Silver--April 2008

Adamite--May 2008. Gold-Level size specimen in photo about 3.25" by 2.5".

Zircon--June 2008. Gold-Level size specimen in photo: 1.5" by 1.25".

Stichtite in Serpentinite--July 2008. Gold-level size specimen in photo: 2" by 2".

Mookaite Jasper--August 2008. Gold-level size specimen in photo: 4" by 3".

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Here are photos of the minerals we featured in 2007:

Callaghanite--January 2007

Lazulite--February 2007

Amazonite--March 2007

Phenakite--April 2007 (Photo by Jeff Scovil)

Brookite on Quartz--May 2007

Epidote--June 2007

"Rainbow" Pyrite--July 2007

Hematite--August 2007

Actinolite--September 2007

Fluorite--October 2007 

Vanadinite-- December 2007

Would you like to order a set of all 12 minerals we featured last year? If so, choose one:

All 12 Featured Minerals from 2007 in Silver-size $88 (12 for the price of 11)

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NOW AVAILABLE: ALL 12 FEATURED MINERALS FROM 2006! CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS: All 12 Minerals from 2006

All 12 featured minerals from 2006 in Platinum size--Larger, better specimens--12 for the price of 11--Email us for price: Inquire about all 12 minerals from 2006 in Platinum-level size

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