Burning Mine Designs main purpose is to help get crystals and gemstones from the earth to your hands i travel twice a year to the largest wholesale gemshows in the US where gem miners, dealers and artist gather from all around the world to buy sell and trade for a month, during so i buy gemstones that i believe others will fing interesting, i have things for long time collectors to your new in the mineral hobby novice, all it takes is one small rock to peak somebodys intrest sending them on an endless path of learning new information, looking into the face of a gem brings out so many questions of how the earth and the minersls in it were made