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Here is the Goody room.
Goody room for one very good reason
is that, as you will see here, we
keep the best specimens that are not on display.
So this we will not allow for any researcher
to do any kind of destructive analysis on those.
So if they are here, that means that either they were not
good enough to be on display but still very valuable,
and we have something better already on display.
Or it's just duplicate of things we have on display.
And obviously, we can't display everything.
Or they're just slightly not as good as what we had on display.
And sometimes we just don't have enough space with everything
out there.
So I may have to keep some good stuff for the visitors,
as well.
And if I open these drawers, you will
see that we more beautiful specimens.
Not only out there in the shelves.
But we probably have about 4,500 specimens in this room.
Mostly minerals.
I'll show you some gems, as well.
And these three or four drawers down there
is actually drawers where we keep specimens
from one specific collector.
His name is Mr. Savinar.
And he had really an amazing collection of gemmy crystals,
meaning that they are nice color.
They're transparent enough and basically they
could be cut-- gemstone could be cut out of them.
For example, you have this spectacular spodumene here.
And this part is actually kunzite,
which just means that it's a pinkish spodumene.
And as you can see, it's absolutely gorgeous.
There's almost no impurity inside them.
So you could have really cut a lot of gemstone out of that.
And still in the Savinar collection
more fabulous specimen like this beautiful tourmaline elbaite.
And again, it could be preserved in the other reference
collection over there with it's label.
And it has a number here.
And this one is from Afghanistan.
Again, you will see the color's absolutely gorgeous.
And that's how we grow the connection.
You know, like, most of our collection
is acquired through donations by collectors.
And again, Savinar was an avid collector of gemmy crystals.
Some people collect by localities.
Some people collect by mineral specimen.
This is an aquamarine from Brazil.
And I love it because it has a gorgeous color.
It's perfectly pure.
So if you look through it, actually, you can see anything.
There is no impurity.
No fracture.
And the surface is completely etched out.
That's what gives this really impressive pattern.
Again, it has not been cut.
Everything is natural here on this beryl.
And what I'm picking up right now is a morganite,
all beryls, and this one is from Namibia, which is exceptional
because there was only one morganite found in Namibia
And the color of this morganite is highly unusual.
Usually, they're kind of pinkish.
And this one is peachy.
So we have still some etch.
It has not been cleaned perfectly.
But that actually gives it some charm, I think.
The other side is better cleaned.
So you still have a bit of clay.
The white stuff is most likely clay from the rock.
So all of those are actually really perfectly displayable
specimens or this nice rhodochrosite from South Africa
here.
Beautiful imperial topaz from Brazil, as well.
It is beautiful.
Beautiful.
So that donation came actually over the years.
Savinar was a really strong supporter of the museum.
So that means that over the years
he was giving a few pieces at a time to us.
This is actually a gold nugget.
I will show more gold.
We are really good in gold in our museum.
This is only a small nugget.
In our exhibit, we have many more and much bigger
than this one.
And this was from Russia.
Lena River, Siberia Russia.
And again, in this case, see donation Savinar Trust
donation.
And there's this beautiful wulfenite as well.
I mean, look at the big crystals.
It's just really crazy.
And this one comes from Mexico.
But look at the thick, thick, very thick crystals.
For wulfenite that's actually unbelievable.
So once you donate something to the museum again,
you will be forever acknowledged for this.
Either when the specimens are back in your office space,
in the reference collection, or on display,
the name of the donor is mentioned.
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