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[chris]

Hi Tobias,

[Tobi]

Hi Chris, not to count the home country wasn't my idea (see beginning of this thread) and i'm also against that procedure.

[Jason]

It's next to impossible for anyplace to beat out Tsumeb, so namibia is my choice.

[Greg Toomey]

1. Pakistan
2. Afghanistan
3. Brazil
4. China
5. USA ( Arizona, California, Colorado, Tennessee )
6. Nambia
7. Morocco
8. Mexico
9. Germany
10. France

I don't collect countries, but the minerals I am attracted to seem to come from these places. My collection's origins seem to be heavily represented by these countries and states.

Greg

[Jordi Fabre]

[Andreas Gerstenberg]

Hi,

1.) Germany (surprise, surprise...)
2.) Great Britain
3.) Czech Rep
4.) Russia
5.) USA

Cheers
Andreas

[James Catmur]

Back from my summar vacation so let me add some thoughts. I used to collect anything I liked regardless of the country they were from but have now decided to collect only minerals from

Spain
England
Portugal
Scotland
Wales

No real order there but items from the first two are easier to obtain than material from the last two countries. Everything from any other country is now slowly being exchanged or removed from my collection

James

[DanovskiM]

1. Mexico
2. Namibia
3. Morocco
4. Russia
5. France
6. Brazil
7. Spain
8. China
9. USA
10. Bulgaria

Greetings
Martin

[Roger Warin]

When you have decades of collections, interest in a region changes over time. This is because mineralogy is a function of the economic or geopolitical activity of the moment.
When I was young, the Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) was generous to us Belgians.
Then there was also Switzerland, France, Germany, Morocco and the legendary Brazil and Madagascar.
Then came the USA (Pala, Elmwood).
Asia appeared thanks to the war in Afghanistan.
Then Pakistan, India and finally China, extraordinary.
More recently, Central Africa.
There are two important drivers of discovery: industry and gemstone hunting.
In fact, the collection brings together the various eras that punctuate history.

[Forrestblyth]

England.,,,,, Its about the only thing left we do well lol

[John Hodgson]

Hello everyone,
I don't really have a favorite country to collect from. However, most of my most treasured minerals are from the USA. Next would be China (calcite & fluorite) and then Mexico (azurite). I don't have any tanzanite or spectacular crocoite, but I do very much appreciate these minerals.
1. USA 2. China 3. Mexico 4. Tanzania 5. Australia

[Forrestblyth]

My Pall Donald has a very keen eye on minerals from
Ukraine
Greenland
Canada
Panama