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Don Lum · Joined: 03 Sep 2012 Posts: 2919 Location: Arkansas

Matt, thanks for the excellent pictures and report.

Jordi Fabre · Posted: Feb 10, 2013 01:33 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013

Mike Wood · Joined: 16 Dec 2010 Posts: 456 Location: Northern England

Jordi, many thanks for putting my mind at ease about the fluorites. If they had been phenakites they would have been mind-blowing ! Still, they are very interesting and beautiful fluorites.
Thanks again Matt for putting up the photo's so those who can't be there can drool over the specimens without getting them wet : )

Mike

Joseph DOliveira · Joined: 29 Jan 2012 Posts: 311 Location: Hanmer, Ontario

Thank you very much for all the great Tucson Show posts and mineral specimens. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend this year and I am suffering severe withdrawal symptoms. Your efforts are appreciated here in Canada.

Philip Simmons · Posted: Feb 10, 2013 12:55 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013

Hi all,

Since Matt posted a pic of the blue halite in Kevin's collection, I thought it would be nice for people to see the great color in the form of a Jeff Scovil photo. It's from the Intrepid Potash East mine and is 8.1 cm.

Matt_Zukowski · Site Admin Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 737 Location: Alaska

Thanks everyone for your encouragement

Paul Bordovsky · Joined: 07 Nov 2008 Posts: 46

Thanks Matt, for the report and all the pics. I hope you have more to post.

I was in Tucson from Wednesday thru Saturday morning. Weather was fantastic before the cold front came in bringing cooler temps, rain, and some snow at higher elevations. Still, Saturday was a nice morning, if a little cool.

Wendy's Minerals at the Inn Suites had a fine assortment of Chinese minerals, including some great pink fluorites on matrix from Inner Mongolia. Nice contrast of the pink fluorites with the green crystals, and black matrix.....sorry I don't remember what the green crystals were.

She also had some pink fluorite octahedrons from a pocket found near the end of 2012......said that it was a small pocket and all the crystals were found on the bottom of the pocket as floaters. Here are a couple shots of a specimen that I took when I got home.

The specimen was lit from the side with window light. About 83 mm in height from the top of the acrylic block, the octahedron has pink phantoms, and a dark phantom in the center due to metallic inclusions along a growth plane.

Jean Sendero · Posted: Feb 11, 2013 20:17 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013

Pretty miserable day in Tucson today. Lucky me, I had to work. It is 38 degrees (3C) and raining with a forecasted evening low of 30 degrees (-1C). I posted a few pics of the Catalina's, view from my desk. During the rain and after. On Friday late afternoon and Saturday I spend some time at the Westward but with only a Blackberry. So a few poor quality pics of the 3 specimens that really stopped me. Of course Mexican specimens.

But I got seriously distracted by the recently acquired collection of french fluorite and more that Kristalle had in their cases.

On Sunday, I saw a few nice things back at the Tucson City Hotel. Got to Jordi room, Fabre Minerals and found a nice array of minerals in the duftite-Conichalcite serie from Mapimi. Also in Xtal - Dennis Beals Minerals some new interesting bluish grey quartz from Sta Eulalia with a nice druze of siderite ps after calcite. Lovely little pieces. I will try to get photos later on Wednesday, if any are left.

Matt_Zukowski · Site Admin Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 737 Location: Alaska

Today I went back to the Westward Look and then down to the Inn Suites.

When I got to the WL around 2-3pm, I'd say half of the dealers were already packing up. I believe the weather lowered the traffic at the show and so the dealers decided to pack it in early. But I did get some picts as shown below.

First is Dave Bunk's room.

Matt_Zukowski · Site Admin Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 737 Location: Alaska

Next is Wendel Mineral's room. There I met a good fellow from Germany who was helping out watching the room. He had a couple of good stories to tell including visiting the Green Monster Mine (Prince of Wales Isld, Alaska) in the 70s.

Matt_Zukowski · Site Admin Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 737 Location: Alaska

After leaving Wendel's room, the WL show was pretty much finished so I decided to go down to the Inn Suites. As I left the WL, the clouds had cleared somewhat, and I could see snow about half way down the slopes.

The temperature seemed to fall more by the time I got down to the Inn Suites, and almost all the doors to the rooms were closed, although I could see people still looking at Minerals in rooms with open curtains. I went to Jordi's room to yak it up - the only pictures I took were of an excellent Elmwood fluorite with Carthage corners.

Pierre Joubert · Joined: 09 Mar 2012 Posts: 1605 Location: Western Cape

Thank you Matt, Jean and others for an interesting report. Wow, I can live well for a while on the price of some of those specimens! I feel sorry for Joseph, stuck in the snow.

Jim · Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 185 Location: Dallas

Thanks for the great mineral photos! So fun to see what's been available.

Cheers!

keldjarn · Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Posts: 157

There are many of us who are grateful for the mineralk photos and information about what was offered in Tucson this year. We are looking forward to the last photos from the Main Show. Thanks for your efforts !

Knut