Crystal Spring Minerals was born in February 2001 when we came up with the idea of trading local minerals in South Africa. The Orange river, or Gordonia pegmatite belt holds a wide variety of interesting minerals but in very small quantities. This means that large scale mining enterprises are very limited and mostly not economically viable. The pegmatite’s contain mainly rare metal minerals like; tantalite, beryl and native bismuth. Quartz is ever present with accompanying feldspar, scroll and muscovite. Most of these pegmatite ridges are massive and don't bare crystals. The crystals that did form are rarely of outstanding quality and are mostly pale, milky white quartz crystals.

With the experience that we gained the last couple of years we can provide a handful of mineral products of outstanding quality that is sought after in the specimen trade as well as in bulk rough material trading. Though we are still a small business we strive to be the best, most reliable trader in the products that we sell.

After starting to trade on eBay, we decided to open our own website. Our firs attempt was a disaster to say the least, but as all things in life taught us some valuable lessons and gave us the needed knowledge and expertise to produce this state of the art , web window to our business. We are still selling our treasures on eBay today and have thousands of happy customers that keep coming back year after year. Our flawless feedback score confirms this. There are links to our eBay store all over the site so feel free to have a look at what we offer on auction as well.

Introduction:

As most businesses Crystal Spring Minerals comes from humble beginnings. As a husband and wife team, Jaco and Tania built up the business to the point they were just not able to get around every thing that had to be done any more. Today we are a whole team of dedicated people working together to bring our customers the best experience and support in pursuing their affection with the mineral world.

A short description of what our key personnel do:
• Jaco & Tania
Handles all purchases, cleaning, classification, pricing,…….. well,……basically bit of every thing that needs to be done around here.
• Marianka
Manages all eBay sales and correspondence.
• Andrew
Manages all website sales and correspondence.

                   Jaco                                       Andrew                                 Marianka                                     Tania