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Fossil and Mineral Display
By Corey Lablans

A fossil and mineral distributor once told me, "your lighting should reflect the minerals you have on display." I'm not a museum and I don't have a lot of money to create a several thousand dollar lighting display, nor do I have the room. Keeping this in mind, I have tried to make the most of what I can. 

On Kijiji I came across someone selling two display cases. After buying them, I kept my eyes open for lighting and eventually came across these disc lights at Canadian Tire. The displays ended up costing approximately $70 to put together, buying everything new would have been around $200, not too bad.

Apophylite & Stilbite on Druzy Quartz (India), Hematite Coated Quartz (China), Calcite (China), Irradiated Smokey Quartz (Arkansas), Dog Tooth Calcite (Illinois), Calcite (Indiana) and Flourite (Namibia). 

Left: Quartz (China) Centre: Twin Feldspar Crystal (Bear Lake Diggings, Tory Hill, Ontario) Right: Dog Tooth Calcite (Iverhurion, Ontario)

Cephalopod Castin (Westbrook Quarry, Kingston, ON) Bryazoan (Amherst Island, ON), Two Ammonites (Madagascar), Horn Coral (Millhaven, ON), Fossilized Fish (Unkonw), Brachiopod (Amherst Island, ON), Fossilized Fern & Wood, and various Crinoids (Millhaven and Amherst Island).

Apatite (Ontario), Feldspar Crystals (Ontario), Titanite (Ontario), Hemimorphite (Mexico), Herkimer Diamonds (New York)

Silver (Ontario), Copper (Ontario), Pyrite (Ontario & Nunavut), Molybdenite (Ontario) and Hexagonite (New York)

There are a few particular displays I would like to create once I get another display cabinet. One of them would be an entire Calcite Display such as the one at the Miller Museum; an Elements Display, still need Gold, Lithium, Lead and others; and finally an Apatite Display (Have apatite from four different locations, with various colour, just need more room to display them.)