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| New Website for the Whimsy Mining Company |
| Whimsy Mining Company is your miner direct source for faceted benitoite gemstones, benitoite specimens, benitoite crystals, and neptunite specimens. |
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| LATEST UPDATE: July 9, 2009 |
#1:
Those waiting for hard copy catalogs will have to wait until our August update.
#2: New in stock: Specimens--close to 200 new ones--we still have to post most of them.
We're streamlining the effort with a classification table for the as yet unposted. You'll see
it on the specimens page.
#3: Low cost specimens: Maybe 300 new ones!!! And though we've just started cleaning
and processing this huge batch I can tell you we've got some really superb ones. We're
going to use a classification table for the unphotoed and unposted here too. We're hoping
this table method will free us up to serve you better.
#4: Free floating crystals: More than you can shake a stick at! Hundreds of every type:
gem grade, clusters, twins, oddballs, weirdos, ghost faced, bent, tabular, platy,
river-worn,.... it's a crystallographers best nightmare! We even found a small Star of
David!!!! But it sold the first day posted---sorry--we're going to devote our next mining
expedition to hunting down atleast half a dozen of them or we'll just stay in camp til' we
do.
#5: Faceted benitoite gemstones: Inventory is low but we just received a small
consignment of 6 new stones faceted by the renowned benitoite lapidarist Scott Forrest.
Be advised: they will not last long. We do have about two dozen new fancy cuts and have
even managed to post them! Some real beauties here.
#6: Cabochons: About 40 new ones--most quite spectacular!
Those waiting for hard copy catalogs will have to wait until our August update.
#2: New in stock: Specimens--close to 200 new ones--we still have to post most of them.
We're streamlining the effort with a classification table for the as yet unposted. You'll see
it on the specimens page.
#3: Low cost specimens: Maybe 300 new ones!!! And though we've just started cleaning
and processing this huge batch I can tell you we've got some really superb ones. We're
going to use a classification table for the unphotoed and unposted here too. We're hoping
this table method will free us up to serve you better.
#4: Free floating crystals: More than you can shake a stick at! Hundreds of every type:
gem grade, clusters, twins, oddballs, weirdos, ghost faced, bent, tabular, platy,
river-worn,.... it's a crystallographers best nightmare! We even found a small Star of
David!!!! But it sold the first day posted---sorry--we're going to devote our next mining
expedition to hunting down atleast half a dozen of them or we'll just stay in camp til' we
do.
#5: Faceted benitoite gemstones: Inventory is low but we just received a small
consignment of 6 new stones faceted by the renowned benitoite lapidarist Scott Forrest.
Be advised: they will not last long. We do have about two dozen new fancy cuts and have
even managed to post them! Some real beauties here.
#6: Cabochons: About 40 new ones--most quite spectacular!
| Two Rockhounds on the River. My dog Shadow has seen me hauling rocks so often that she's taken to doing the same. Now if I could just get her to concentrate on good benitoite specimens. I don't pan too often; screens work better in daytime. This picture taken about midway on Little Whimsy Placer Claim. The Benitoite Gem Mine is about 3/4 mile further upstream. |
| Whimsy Mining Company has been in business since 1988, when I acquired the Little Whimsy Placer Claim located below the famous Benitoite Gem Mine. In those 18 years, I've built up a fair inventory of benitoite specimens and benitoite crystals. I try to keep faceted benitoite gemstones in stock but they do sell quickly. Benitoite cabochons are usually in stock. If you see items you'd like to purchase, you may order them on line, by phone, or via snail mail (see contact info). Just a small fraction of my inventory is posted on this website. And I can see it's going to take many more months before I'm able to photo, price, describe, and post a larger amount of said inventory. This is a bit of a problem for my lower cost specimens and gemstones, which make up the majority of my stock. So please feel free to e-mail , call, or write me concerning what you'd like to have. When it comes to lower cost items($10 to $100) I will probably be able to closely match what you're looking for at my miner direct prices! Your satisfaction is guaranteed as I depend on return business from customers and do my best to keep them happy. Kemp Minor Woods---Proprietor Whimsy Mining Company |
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