Description
Slovenian Museum of Natural History keeps one of the bigest mineral collection in this part of a Europe from more then 200 years ago. It was collected by Sigismondo Zois (1747 – 1819). This mineral collection was the founding collection of a first museum in Slovenia, which was established in 1821. The collection is famous because of typical mineral specimens from mines and some gem quality minerals.
Dr. Miha Jeršek is a geologist and works at the Slovenian Museum of Natural History. He studied geology at the Department of Geology of the University of Ljubljana. During his studies, in his thesis, he discovered diasporescence – a new optical phenomenon in the world of gemstones, which is unique only to rubies from North Macedonia.
