Many of you reading this are new members and new to collecting on club field trips. Here is a field guide to mineral collectors and how to spot the people that know what they are doing and those that do not. I apologize in advance that, for the purposes of this guide, all gender references will be male. Perhaps in the future we will have a female equivalent.
All characters are fictitious.
Any resemblance to real persons is coincidental. This collector is often new to field collecting and has not been humbled by collecting next to real collectors. This is a real collector. It is this guy. He searches out old locations or breaks ground at a new location, a true prospector.