How do you navigate an industry full of crystal fakes and mineral scammers? Can social media create a new generation of mineral lovers? What really goes in to pricing a specimen? Are physical mineral shops a relic of a bygone era?
Shanice, founder of NXT GEN Mineral Collectors, sits down with Luke Timberlake to get his answer to these questions, and many more.
In this interview we will deep-dive into Luke's personal journey to mineral collecting and selling, what success in the mineral industry means in the digital age, and how you can build a scam-proof collection.
About Luke Timberlake
Luke, alongside his wife Dannielle, run the high-street mineral shop Saltshack. Saltshack is a successful mineral dealing business, and has a social media following of hundreds of thousands of people. Through Salkshack Luke produces a large portfolio of educational content on geology, mineralogy and collecting. Luke is a father, mineral dealer, educator and writer; and is co-author of the recently published book The Mineral Manual.
