This is an educational website designed to guide you in your path toward mineral connoisseurship.

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This is the Irv Brown mineral story…

Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Picasso

”Building a fine mineral collection

is like directing an award-winning

film. The lighting needs to be

perfect, the cast has to have chemistry,

the individual pieces have to tell a

story, and the cinematography needs

to take your breath away… ”

                             Irv Brown

INVESTMENT QUALITY MINERALS

Click below for Desirable Species

The Collector’s Doctrine

Click below for Mineral acquisition philosophy

”11s” 

Click below for Natural Masterpieces

”Great art picks up where nature ends.” 

-Marc Chagall-

Remember the stone in your pocket during childhood? 

Fine minerals give the same joy with added value in your portfolio…

The foundation to building an investment quality mineral collection… 

the 5 markers of desirability