In 2024 I left our house early heading to the west so I could cut through Budapest in the direction of SMAM saving me a little distance in my journey of 1145 km. Halfway through…

When I got to the French side of the Rhine and glided through the motorway my heart pounded like crazy – I was nervous, excited, curious about the experience that was about to c…

Eventhough I started to focus more on the hobby in 2017, in those 6 years until now I did not attend any of the big international mineral shows. Actually, up until 2023 I only a…

So at this time we’ve written 2020; the (first) year of the „virus”. It was a very weird and unusual time for a lot of reasons. First off, we barely had any mineral shows that c…

On the first weekend of October 2021 one of the biggest Hungarian mineral shows has been held at Budapest in the MOM Sport hall. Dozens of dealers gathered to exhibit their good…

Have you ever thought about the similarities between rocks and people?

There's quite a lot! Well, other than density, lustre, strike, talkativeness… Okey, so there is a world of differences and only some similarities but let’s try to explore a few of them from the relationship point of view:

A couple of months ago I started to make experiments how to remove different kind of stains from different mineral associations. I had nice results for most of the specimens I t…