Mineral and Rock Collection
A collection of beautiful mineral and rock specimens that were privately collected
Contents: About the Collection | About the Collector | Tech
About the Collection
This digital collection was created by Irene Lewis. The minerals and rocks in this collection are from Travis Jackson’s personal collection, which he started accumulating around 2015. He acquired many of his specimens when he started working for the Mobile Minning Experience, a business under the Geologic Times Corporation. This business provides fun and educational opportunities for children to learn about minerals and rocks. The collection displays but a small portion of Travis Jackson’s personal collection that includes more than 20,000 specimens, with around 500 different types of different minerals and rocks in their polished and natural forms.
About the Collector
Travis Jackson is interested in learning about and collecting various kinds of minerals and rocks. As a kid, Travis always picked up interesting rocks he saw wherever he went, begging his parents to fill a bag of tumbled stones at fairs. Travis enjoys working at the Mobile Minning Experience as it provides him the wonderful opportunity to learn and collect more minerals and rocks for his ever growing collection. He hopes to someday organize and display the rest of his collection in order to show off the many kinds of minerals and rocks with their different forms, natural and polished.
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source tool for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-STATIC methodology.
This site is built using CollectionBuilder-gh which utilizes the static website generator Jekyll and GitHub Pages to build and host digital collections and exhibits.