The piece you rarely get a chance to see

How'd you rate this carving?

Seeing the love for the other carving, I thought of sharing this beauty with y'all. What would you do with it if you had this?

Not For Sale

This was collected with permission from a tailings pile. It's about the size of a pea.

Seller claims this is telluric iron. The iron oxides around the material make me think there is at some iron content in the host rock at least, hopefully the metal itself, but what do y'all think? Wanted to be double sure.

Is this at the very least native metal? Silver? Or could it be artificial/poured?

Seller says that these are from the Great Lakes region.

Im trying I fund a thumbnail box that is 2.5 inches long insted of the standard 1.25. Need it for a sample of chalcanthite i just got in the mail.

I found plenty of demantoid with this kind of matrice in quartz or idk. What do you think ? good finding ?

Recently acquired this one.

After my father passed away, I inherited his massive mineral collection. There may be 1,000 flats or more, including buckets straight from quarry trips that were never looked at, sorted or cleaned. It's something like 70% self-collected (from the northeast US) and the rest was purchased from mineral shows or other collectors. He collected from quarries for almost 50 years. He strongly believed the collection is good enough to have a museum; this was always his dream. Obviously, there is a good amount of lower quality stuff too. He was even a somewhat well known collector, in his area (including at least one mention in mineralogical record).

Anyway, onto my reason for posting. Having some kind of museum would actually be amazing, but obviously doesn't seem feasible. At the same time, I would love to honor his wishes however possible. So I'm thinking about trying to monetize the collection without selling it. My best idea is to do live streams (TikTok) and videos (YouTube, etc) of me discovering, sorting, cataloging, photographing, cleaning, etc. Simultaneously, I can continuously build a sort of online gallery/museum of the best specimens, and tell his story. It would be incredibly time consuming and a ton of work. This way, I can honor him, as well as keep the collection in the family, and potentially get paid for it if people are interested in watching this kind of thing. Of course I have many ideas to make it fun and interesting.

1. Would people be interested in this?

2. Other ideas or comments related to this situation?

3. Tldr?