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 13, 2025. New Arrivals Page 2 Has been updated with a suite mixed world wide minerals. Some of these have been on previous updates and I re photographed them and lowered the prices a bit. Several are new to the site. Others are older pieces that were stashed away that I have been digging out while sorting through flats. This is a larger than normal update, but figured I would finish off the year with this update, and post the next update in 2026...happy New Year. In addition I have left the few linarites remaining from the Dispozitch mine on the bottom of this update. One linarite that had way too much matrix, I cleaned up of excess matrix making it a nice small cabinet piece, and reposted on the top of this update. 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. All fluorescent minerals have been moved to General Stock page 26, and are arranged in alphabetical order.

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 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.