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[Jordi Fabre]

[Riccardo Modanesi]

hi Jordi!
I'm so sad you will be no longer a mineral trader! Ok, this is your choice and we all have to accept it. Neveftheless I am so sad I'm losing a reference point for Spanish minerals and a reference point in Barcelona!
Greetings from Italy by Riccardo.

[James Catmur]

I wrote this on Mindat:

In 1992, while living in Madrid, I met a Spanish mineral dealer called Jordi Fabre and I started to help him with his sales to non-Spanish clients. In 1995/96 I created a web business for him (I think he was the first mineral dealer to sell over the Internet). That business grew, and now many minerals from many dealers are sold over the Interweb.

Yesterday his business offered its last Interweb specimens and will shut down on 30/9/23.

I think we created the world's first Interweb mineral dealer and now that ends. Both Jordi and I have been involved in interweb mineral sales from 1996-2023. I will miss it all, and I am sad as it is the end of a great journey.

[bob kerr]

Greetings Jordi and I wish you the best of luck in your new "lifestyle".

I just loved your ultra poetic line:

"Inanimate beings that, paradoxically, fill me with life."

VERY appropriate for all of us.

Thanks for all you've done.

bob kerr

[Tony L. Potucek]

Jordi,
Of course, I have mixed emotions regarding your retirement as a mineral dealer. I am happy for you and have a number of fine specimens I acquired from you, which I treasure. I am sad to see you end your run under mixed circumstances.

I will continue to support your forum and I would like to post some of my past Powerpoint presentations given at various symposiums, if you want them. I thank you for your friendship, your professional ethics and decorum, and your vision regarding providing an internet venue to sell quality minerals. Marcie and I cherish our time we spent with you over the years, albeit not enough in our estimation.

Respectfully, Tony L Potucek

[Jesse Fisher]

It has been said that the only constant in life is change. After being involved with mineral collecting for around 40 years now, this is becoming all too evident. In recent years many of the dealers and other collectors I have had relationships with have moved on from the business/hobby. I always looked forward to seeing Jordi at the major shows, and without his input our collection of Spanish fluorites would be greatly impoverished. I wish him the best of luck in what ever comes next!

Cheers,
Jesse Fisher

[Jordi Fabre]

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[Roger Warin]

Hello James,
It takes a lot of philosophy when the years add up.
For you, poor health does not make optimism easier.
But I believe that you have been a link in a chain and that it will not break.
Your action carried out with Jordi will not stop. On the contrary, thanks to you two, an extraordinary forum has been created. It will last because it is necessary for many collectors.
For me this forum surpasses any artificial intelligence because there is always an aficionado to resolve my questions.
I am thinking, for example, of Peter Megaw's answer on the origin of one of my colemanites.
ChatJPT was unable to correctly answer the first question I asked him:
“what were the first molecules that appeared in the nebula”.
I'm not even quoting Bing, whose answer was helium hydride.
An important step for the emergence of life!
The question was simple though.
James, Jordi, your union will never be forgotten or lost. Thank you, I had already told Jordi but I didn't know James' role.
Let me encourage you James. Your experience will remain useful to us for a long time.

[James Catmur]

Small but so elegant - a great memory

[Carles Millan]

Jordi Fabre has always been a very reliable and knowledgeable mineral dealer and a great person and friend. His early retirement is bad news for the entire mineral collecting world.

I've purchased 49 specimens from him in the last 23 years, many of high quality at a reasonable price. Here are just several of them.