Welcome to Palaminerals.com

Read about the features on Pala’s new website. [more…]

August’s Featured Specimen

This month we feature two new specimens the Larsons picked up while at the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines show last month. [more…]

East Coast Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show: August 13–15

This year’s East Coast Show presents Bill Larson as its featured exhibitor. Bill also will speak on “Mining, Minerals & Gems from The Legendary Valley of Rubies, Mogok, Burma.” [more…]

Pala at Colorado Mineral & Fossil Show: Sept 15–19, 2010

We look forward to seeing our many friends at this show. [more…]

Father-and-Son Cover Stars: Jon and Max Sigerman profiled in Marin Independent

The article tells how Max got bitten by the bug Culicidae cobbingia—and why his father went along with it. [more…]

William Pinch, Collector

Will Larson looks at an online gallery from a splendid collection assembled over the course of fifty years. [more…]

Lengthy Landslide: Untersulzbach Goes Unter

Famed epidote locality, the Austrian Knappenwand Mine, is closed for a season. [more…]

News Briefs

•What’s Hot In Tucson 2010

•California to drop state rock?

•“Bahia” Emerald ruling postponed—again [more…]

Recycle Bin

•A Collection in Living Color
•Hard Science and Hard Choices, to Stop a Deep Water Disaster [more…]