Beautiful stilbites from old New Jersey quarry for sale!

These specimens are each about 5 inches long by 3 and a half inches wide ; about fist-size or better! Both are wonderful pieces...all have calcite crystals on the matrix. They are from a very old collection. There are 20 similar for sale... all are priced from only $30 to $70! contact silverfordinc@yahoo.com and chat with our supply manager, Krista.

Join Lancaster County's First Fossil and Mineral Club...

Started on December 27, 2013 is the new Lancaster County Fossil and Mineral Club... As founder and president I encourage anyone who wants, to become one of its first members...there are now 85. The Club is a non-profit organization. Meetings began in March 2014. Next meeting take place at at 7 pm at the Trinity Reformed Church of Christ, 450 West Main Street, Mountville  Pa. On Thursday, November 30, 2017. Next up Dot Thompson will be giving a presentation on "Opals"...Club  members will be treated to monthly meetings, field trips, speakers, mineral, fossil displays...  What will make our club unique will be that we will be actively engaged in our own  research.To date, we were successful in discovering what is probably the richest lenses of Kinzers shale in west York yielding hundreds of trilobites; Wannerias, Thompsonais... Also, the opening of the Dutchess Mine along the Pickering Creek in Chester County Pa. where, for-the-first-time-ever perfect graphite crystals in a matrix of blue quartz are being excavated specifically for study and mineral collectors! Membership fees are as follows: $30 per person... $40 per family / household... $15 per student. Donations are also accepted... Further information can be obtained by visiting our Facebook page, by e-mailing silverfordinc@yahoo.com Thank You.

Nice... flaky yellow mica with black tourmaline crystals for sale

We have it. Fist-size pieces of this unusual combination of minerals; flaky yellow mica, interspersed with black tourmaline crystals... Prices are from $10 up to $30 shipped

Wanneria! Wanneria! Wanneria!

Playing in the Cambrian bedding in various locations these past few years...logging over 700 hours now... It's quite possible  I have figured out the "orogenic" shifts in how this Kinzers rock is displayed, now, 515 million years later. Wannerias are being found... This one on a plate of three more mostly complete. The upper one is a beautiful deep-red 3 1/2 incher just found in East Petersburg Pa. Middle one is 3-incher...contact silverfordinc@yahoo.com

Tuzoia! Tuzoia! Tuzoia!

It's official! Right here is the very first  tuzoia ever found in the 515-million-years old Kinzers formation in York County, Pa. !It is the first of this species ever found in Pa! This specimen was scoped and referenced by Professor Roger Thomas of Franklin and Marshall College on Tuesday, November 24th.This was a small marine arthropod; a phyllocarid, that lived in the shallow seas of the lower to middle Cambrian period of geologic time.
The species is tuzoia polleni.

Silver Mine Dogtooth Crystals for sale

I have a variety of both large and small examples here for sale... Sizes are half-a-hand size up to 7-inch specimens of orange, yellow, and brown crystals. Prices range from $15 each shipped to $35 shipped for larger specimens. Displayed here are large 5-inch yellow and large 7-inch brown crystals, each $35 shipped in USA. Simply contact silverfordinc@yahoo.com to order yours!

Pennsylvania Silver Ore:Amazing pieces for sale from 1700 Shawnee Indian Quarries!

Sample piece of silver!

Historical pieces of silver for sale from 1700s Indian Quarries!...from America's Oldest Silver Mine!

For more information contact silverfordinc@yahoo.com... Silver-ore pieces  are any size! Some only 1" long , some, fist-sized or better showing nice pockets of the ore!Silver content of this ore was up to 250 ounces per ton! Last assayed in the 1970s by Silverford Inc...and by Dr. Richard Haefner geologist during the same time period. Prices range from only $5 per piece to $50 per piece depending...Guided tours of the property done for donation only. Tours include visit to Indian quarries from the late 1600s, the French and Indian War quarry excavated by the British military... a tour of the upper openings of the mine from the 1870s... a complete review of the "Silverford" years from 1973 to 1989 when a millionaire bought the property and planned to quarry out the silver ore...It was an extraordinary time and I was a part of its first 4 years as a tour guide. During this time too the property was a setting for country-music stars who sang for about 600,000 fans in a far corner of the property where a stage was built. E-mail me at silverfordinc your the tour-for-a-tip day!

This is a 1947 report of a 5-year study made by Dr. Price and Dr, Foose of Lancaster Pa whereby it was determined by their studies that this ore was highly rich in silver... note the bottom paragraph...250 ounces of silver per ton!