Hello, and thanks for visiting our Web site!

Welcome to the NEW Mineral of the Month Club web site! We want to introduce ourselves, at first, with this picture. Richard and Cheryl Sittinger are in the middle. They have been the owners of the Club for over 16 years and have provided the incredible services members receive.

We are the other two couples -- on the right side - Dimitrios and Mary Spanos; and on the left side, Robert and Cheryl Sardello. We are the new owners of the Mineral of the Month Club.

First and foremost, we pledge to continue the fine service you are used to, and also promise some new and exciting developments. Richard and Cheryl Sittinger will continue to be advisers, and Richard has agreed to be the official historian for the Mineral of the Month Club. We look forward to working with them and are extremely honored that Richard and Cheryl would entrust this work to us. We hope you like the new site, will follow its ongoing changes, and that you will continue with the Club if you are a member and join if you are not yet a member.

Engagement with the world of minerals is first of all great fun. The mysterious beauty of what Earth offers is boundless, endless. Engagement with minerals is also educational in a way that is at every moment connected with reality -- with what you can see all around you. The chemistry, the crystallography, the geology --- members learn and get excited about all those subjects that may be or may have been pure abstractions in the academic world. And, geography, too, for our mineral specimens literally come from all over the world. The 10 page write-ups that come each month with every mineral enhance your experience of the minerals. Yes, they are for collectors, but not simply to put on a shelf. The minerals can become our teachers in many, many ways. And, almost certainly, over the years, the mineral specimens will increase in value. Come, join us!