Our Story
Our father, Christian Gobin, Star of Congo mine, Lubumbashi 1994.
In 1974, Christian GOBIN, our late father, a mineral collector from Morocco, formed GOBIN MINERAUX. His passion for mineralogy led him to travel extensively to Morocco, Namibia, South Africa, Pakistan, Colombia, Peru, Zaïre and China. During his illness, we, his children, continued the business and formed GOBIN Company in 1996.
We, too, specialise in fine minerals from all over the world, Africa, especially from the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre), but also Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Morocco and everywhere it "smells" good for new mineral finds!!
One of the most outstanding pocket we found were the famous carrollites from the Kambove area in Congo, mined in 2001 and displayed in Tucson 2001-2002 and Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines show in 2001. Our specimens were featured in such magazines as the Mineralogical Record and Le Règne Minéral and sold to many international museums and collectors. The GOBIN name has always been associated with fine minerals discoveries. We will continue to do our best to provide outstanding service. We hope you will enjoy visiting our website. Please do not hesitate to register if you like regular updates on our latest fine mineral findings in Africa. Thanks Dad for sharing your passion of mineralogy with us. Your legacy lives on.
Brice & Christophe Gobin In Congo
A BIT OF HISTORY
We are travelling all year long to collect fine minerals Directly in the source of production. We are travelling in Pakistan & Afghanistan, well kown destinations for worldclass fine mineral specimens such as aquamarine, tourmalines, garnets, apatites and many superb rocks !!! We have been travelling for years in Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia for gems and for classic minerals such as Cobaltoan calcites, cuprites, botroydal & stalactite malachites, chrysocollas, dioptases, Carrollites and more fine mineral specimens... Born in Casablanca, Morocco was a logical destination for hunting minerals. Worldclass fine Azurites, erythrites, vanadnites, accanthites, argentites, were discovered in the past from this superb country.
More recently we went back, years after our late father, to China and to Namibia... Fantastic rocks were found there... Amethyst sceptres, dioptases, fluorites, bournonites, calcites, Beryls... And lots of more fine mineral specimens.... We, my brother and I, hope you will enjoy visiting our website.
Best regards... Brice & Christophe Gobin.
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