This is Origin Minerals, your home for curated specimens, fossils, and earth oddities. Each and every item offered is hand selected and mindfully chosen for quality, aesthetics, and general awesomeness. I hope to have something for every collector. Please reach out with any questions. And welcome!

"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness." – Bryant H. McGill 

When you shop with a small mineral dealer you get the special pieces, even if it's common material, because those hand picked minerals are chosen one by one with a curator's passion and hard work. You support a business that cares about accurate information and passing that on to you. You get the stories of the pieces, their locations, provenance and maybe a little mine history, too, along with any old collection tags a piece might have (oh, and yes, you get pieces out of old collections - and pieces from the corners of dusty storage units that haven't seen the light of day in years). You also get to purchase from someone who is interested in learning right alongside you because part of the beauty of this fascinating hobby/obsession is that there is always more to learn, right? Here, you get a business owner that cares about your satisfaction. And last but not least you get to support a real someone who is genuinely grateful for every purchase made and does a little jig on the way to the mailbox with your order. Thanks for being here! I know this all sounds like a sales pitch and well I guess it is that, but this is stuff that matters to me, and since you are here, I am glad it matters to you, too!