The Oculus Mineral Gallery

Welcome to The Oculus Mineral Gallery!

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Striving to bring you unique specimens from classic locales to newly discovered deposits. I specialize in Appalachian mineral deposits from North Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia. See newly discovered mineral specimens from prospects, mines and deposits from around the U.S.! I present to you my photography of the unusual and obscure Black Topaz from the SK Star Claims in Juab Co., Utah, discovered by Shaun Rasmussen and Krisann Morrill.  More of this material can be observed in The Mineralogical Record, Nov.-Dec., 2020 issue Vol. 51 #6 as well as the Micro World section of Gems & Gemology, summer 2019, Vol. 55 #2.

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