Price Elasticity, Veblen Goods, and The Modern Mineral Specimen Marketplace, or “Am I Going to Have to Stop Collecting Minerals?” – Philip M. Persson P.O. Box 17748 Golden, Colorado, 80402 Persson Rare Minerals LLC [email protected] “Nowadays, there are a lot of people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” -Oscar […]
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Welcome to Persson Rare Minerals online. This website is a “work in progress”, so please bear with us over the coming weeks and months as we get Persson Rare Minerals into the 21st Century and bring you lots of great new minerals for sale! Thanks, Phil Persson Owner, Persson Rare Minerals LLC
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Persson Rare Minerals is excited to be “hitting the road” started in the spring of 2021. Semi-annual road trips will cover the West Coast, the Midwest and southern, and East Coast of the United States. Typically these are ~3 week trips that involve visiting collectors and museums and showing them great minerals for sale or […]
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Persson Rare Minerals is not only a mineral dealership, it’s a loose consortium of scientists, collectors and mineral enthusiasts who work together to promote and enable mineralogical and geological research and the advancement of knowledge in these fields. Phil Persson has been part of numerous research projects on unusual mineral localities and occurrences in Colorado […]
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