My goal is to search the earth for the ultimate natural experience.  And bring the finest of natural gems and minerals to you the collector.  I also wish to bring the beauty and amazement of the mineral world to future generations.

  I have been traveling and gem mining around the west since 2002.  I started by ground scoring tektites, agates, and serpentines.  Along my journeys I met one of the top gem mining geologists in the country.  I have worked on several mining projects, some using heavy mining equipment, some just digging by hand.  We have found several major scores in gem labradorite, variscite, tourmaline, beryl, and quartz. 

All of my mining has been done in the U.S.,  but I hope to explore and mine in other countries.  I am pretty much willing to go anywhere to find the finest gems and minerals in the world.
 
I sell rough and cut gemstones, crystals and specimens, and jewelry.  I carry a wide variety of different minerals including; tourmaline, gem labradorite/ oregon sunstone, variscite, quartz, benitoite, agate, jasper, chalcedony, opal, and much more

I have recently started faceting gemstones, and am now doing custom cutting.  I am still a novice so I don't do highgrade cutting, yet, but I can do basic cuts.

I can be contacted by phone at (920) 850-0959, by email i_carpadum@yahoo.com, and at www.myspace.com/vagabondmining