

Alan Fertel
Leesport, Pa.
Collecting since 1965
My interest in minerals began in early childhood with regular trips to the American Museum of Natural History. In response to a letter to the curator David Seamen, I received an assortment of minerals and my collecting began then. Now, much later in life, I have the time to study mineralogy and geology. My main focus of collecting are minerals from Tsumeb Mine and Mexico. I enjoy collecting and learning about my specimens and locales.