Reply #6: When I used to sell mineral specimens to collectors, [View All]

[MineralMan]

I began to find myself in a strange situation. I kept getting emails from people asking for minerals for use in "healing." Now, I had the minerals in my stock, but could I sell them to these people? My decision was not to sell them if a person told me they were going to use the specimen in some "metaphysical" way. I arrived at that decision when a woman wrote to me about a botryoidal malachite specimen that was a long domed cylinder. She told me she had uterine cancer and was going to use it in her "healing." I thought about how it might be used, wrote to her, advising her to seek professional medical advice, and refused to sell her the specimen. From that time on, any mention of a metaphysical use for one of my specimens became grounds for refusing to sell it to that person.

My ethics simply wouldn't allow it.