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05/28/2025

A gigantic avalanche of ice, mud and debris has buried a large part of the village of Blatten after a major glacier collapsed.

TIMA Show 2025It's our first time doing the TIMA show and a few things were admittedly lost in translation. We leisurel...
05/23/2025

TIMA Show 2025

It's our first time doing the TIMA show and a few things were admittedly lost in translation. We leisurely wandered over to the venue to set up our small booth on what we thought was setup. We arrived to find the show in full swing for the unadvertised dealer day! That made for a bit of a scramble and prevented our getting around to see too much. The best part was seeing the people that we knew personally, or through stories. We've loved our first week in Japan, and it is a lot to take in; so a show, even in Japan, brings a welcome sense of familiarity, of home.

Corey Neumeier photos

We're TIMA-bound!For the first time in many years Lithographie and Dave Bunk Minerals will have a booth at the Tokyo In...
04/29/2025

We're TIMA-bound!

For the first time in many years Lithographie and Dave Bunk Minerals will have a booth at the Tokyo International Mineral Association's mineral fair and will be posting show reports.

Lithographie, Booth #170
Friday 23 May 2025 - Monday 26 May 2025
38th Tokyo international Mineral Fair
Shinjuku Daiichi-Seimei Bldg., 1F 2-7-1, Nishi Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 1630701, JAPAN

Meet our team of young men are on a first time journey to Japan, spending a month in the country. They are all university students on summer break and very excited both to be in Japan and at the TIMA Mineral Fair!

More than one year in the making, The Smale Collection 3 is on its way to the bindery in Canada. Special thanks to Jeff...
03/14/2025

More than one year in the making, The Smale Collection 3 is on its way to the bindery in Canada. Special thanks to Jeff Scovil, Dave Bunk, Corey Neumeier, Mike Jensen, Connor Pallis, Rob Lavinsky, and Michael Bainbridge for helping us get this beautiful volume to press!

Making progress …
03/13/2025

Making progress …

03/05/2025

The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse.

Congratulations to Michael Bainbridge, who was awarded the Carnegie Medal for his decades-long commitment to mineral cur...
02/16/2025

Congratulations to Michael Bainbridge, who was awarded the Carnegie Medal for his decades-long commitment to mineral curation, photography, writing, and advocacy.

Not mentioned but equally appreciated by Lithographie is his largely behind-the scenes role in advancing color technology in mineralogical reproductions, a fancy way of saying he makes our images look great!!

We’re proud of you, Michael!!

In 2013, a special gold exhibit at the Munich Mineral Show featured some truly extraordinary gold specimens reported to ...
02/03/2025

In 2013, a special gold exhibit at the Munich Mineral Show featured some truly extraordinary gold specimens reported to be from the Lena Goldfields in Siberia. The Lena Goldfields are large placer deposits located in the Bodaibo region, approximately 150 km northeast of Lake Baikal along the eastern margin of the Siberian Craton. The Bodaibo region contains the largest placer gold reserves in the world. Prospectors first discovered gold in the area in the 1840s, and by 1860, it was recognized as a world-class deposit. The region is known for its remarkably large nuggets, such as the “Giant of Bodaibo,” found in 1957, which weighed 12.3 kg. Many of the large nuggets exhibit remnants or shapes of octahedral gold crystals.

The specimens on display in 2013 stunned the world — they were unlike anything found elsewhere. There are two distinct varieties: cubic specimens that display striations and resemble pyrite pseudomorphs, and hoppered octahedral crystals that are as large as 2.5 cm on each side. The specimens were (and remain) so exceptional that their display in Munich and subsequent mineral shows has generated considerable skepticism regarding their authenticity. They simply seem too good to be true.

That said, a dozen scholarly studies have failed to prove that they are man-made, and the body of evidence indicates that these are indeed mineralogical unicorns (some of which may be pressed unnaturally into matrix). At least one of the octahedrons has been confirmed as a single crystal (as determined by neutron scattering), with a U/Th helium date of approximately 430 million years. The cubic specimens are pseudomorphs after pyrite, and a January 2025 article in the “Journal of Crystals” presents a plausible mechanism for the replacement of pyrite through successive episodes of dissolution and precipitation of nanoparticles of gold.

Despite the substantial amount of analytical work supporting the authenticity of these remarkable specimens, skepticism persists. In some mineral forums, several participants claim that these unicorns are the work of a skilled craftsman in a secretive St. Petersburg workshop. However, there is no physical evidence that such a magical place exists. The finest examples do, however, appear to have been assembled as a single suite, the last of which are available in Marcus Budil’s booth in the Mineral Galleries on Lester.

— Terry C. Wallace Jr.

The Tucson show is officially on! Stan Esbenshade (Midwest Minerals) and a few friends opened their doors to hordes of ...
02/01/2025

The Tucson show is officially on! Stan Esbenshade (Midwest Minerals) and a few friends opened their doors to hordes of sharp-elbowed wholesale buyers on Wednesday (Jan 29). Later in the afternoon Spirifir Minerals’ more elevated venue opened to a less gladiatorial crowd that had so closely packed the space, we were unable, even in skinnier days, to shimmy through and behold whatever wonders await.

A hint of enochlophobia pushed us instead to wander Barlow’s low-key “Rock Yard,” then to a passing pleasant several hours in Mineral City B building, where about half the rooms were open and totally set up. We ran into several old friends and plenty more who did not know us; so we still have room to grow!

First day impressions:

We're closing in on the Agate monograph - shooting for an April release.
01/22/2025

We're closing in on the Agate monograph - shooting for an April release.

01/02/2025

A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a 'dinosaur highway' and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years, researchers said Thursday.

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