Wayne A. Thompson: a half-century of collecting and dealing in minerals.(Biography)

Arizona collector/dealer Wayne Thompson is not someone you're likely to forget after meeting. Thin, energetic and wiry, with strawberry-blonde hair pulled back in a pony tail, he is bursting with enthusiasm for minerals. Wayne has been an active part of the mineral world for nearly half a century, and has endless fascinating stories to tell, once you get him going. He is one of the most successful field collectors of all time, and as a dealer he has handled a remarkable number of the world's finest mineral specimens.

INTRODUCTION

Wayne Thompson has been one of…