Palaminerals.com is the home to one of the country’s finest selections of outstanding mineral specimens. We have literally thousands of pieces in our inventory and every year make several overseas trips to bring back more. Below are some of the highlights:

• Mogok minerals – We visit Burma several times each year to bring you the finest in mineral specimens from the famed Mogok Stone Tract, home of the pigeon’s blood ruby. This includes ruby, sapphire, spinel, peridot, topaz, tourmaline and others
• Himalaya Mine tourmaline – Pala International, our parent company, operated this mine for over 20 years. Thus we have an outstanding inventory of tourmalines from this storied deposit
• Tanzanite crystals from Tanzania

 
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Mineral and mining articles, including

• Pala District Pegmatite Opens Wide – New discoveries at the 49er pocket; also see Part 2
• The Queen Reigns Again – True adventure story of Pala International mining the Tourmaline Queen Mine during the early 1970s
• Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2009 – Reports by Bill Larson and Will Larson on one of his favorite mineral shows. Fully illustrated
• On Kunz and Kunzite – An excellent historical look at the discovery and naming of kunzite, by Lawrence Conklin
• Pegmatites of Laghman, Nuristan, Afghanistan – A Mineralogical Record reprint, by Pierre Bariand and J.F. Poullen
• Pakistan’s Gemstones – An Overview – Includes photos of many specimens
• Future mineral articles will be posted on Palaminerals.com