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[ploum]

Hi Jordi thanks and i have others photos....

A serie with austria minerals

300-305

[ploum]

306-310

[ploum]

311-315

[jaysminerals]

Hi Jordi

Was a pleasure to see you at the booth and talk to you. I was the guy with the pyromorphite. Maybe you remember.

[ploum]

316-320

[ploum]

321-326

The End for Austria ;)

[ploum]

Some balls :)

[ploum]

You could find picture on my website (i begin in next days with better definition)
https://www.alpinismeetmineraux.fr/mineralogie/bourses/munich2013/munich01.htm
(link normalized by FMF)

[Roger Warin]

Some minerals.
Roger.

[bob kerr]

[Jordi Fabre]

[Roger Warin]

Hi,
The visit of this exhibition was impressive. Many large nuggets and extremely aesthetic gold specimens were presented. But apart from gold, there was not much explanation. Even the mass of metal was rarely given. Many protected showcases surrounding real safes containing rare historical specimens, including the “La Trobe” Nugget, 717 g, Mt McIvor, Victoria, Australia.
This nugget was raised on 1 May 1853 in the presence of Charles La Trobe, Governor of Victoria and named in his honor.
The largest nugget was “Ausrox” Nugget. It was found by metal detector early 2010, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia. Its mass is 23.26 kg or 748 Troy ounces.
But what I don’t know is the number of samples, they were so numerous.
Roger.

[Don Lum]

Hello Ploum,

Thank you for the "gold fix." I am enjoying the many fine pictures of the gold specimens.

Thanks for your time and effort.

Don

[Peter Van Hout]

@ Roger, I was told that there was a mayor problem with the printing of the original specimen labels. For that reason the organiser had to made friday morning on opening day new labels. What explains maybe why some labels where missing and why not all labels were up to date with history, weight or sizes.

For myself the gold exhibition was truly fabulous. Some of my favorite cases, Harvard Museum, Paris Museum, Mario Pauwels, Wherskhy, the german anonimous leafgold case, and the leafgolds in the vault cases. For some reason I was not impressed with some larger nuggets that I saw, for example that case with three large shapeless nuggets and the vault with the ausrox nugget; very big but also very ugly.


About the specimens who where for sale at the show then. I think that it is an illusion to build a decent, and I am not even saying a great collection without spending a fortune for each specimen. A small 35 milimeter gold specimen who took my interest was priced 5900 euro ! And in the mineral pavilion at the booth of an American dealer I noticed a specimen that was priced 12000 euro, that same specimen is on his website for sale for 12000 $ so this dealer charges an additional 38% in Münich!
So finding nice things at moderate prices for lets say my collection is not easy, even in Münich with such a very large inventory. But when I go to Münich is not only for buying things but also for learning things, and I must say that again I learned a lot with the gold exhibition.

Peter Van Hout

[Gerhard Niklasch]

I was particularly interested in one special exhibition that was a bit hidden behind the Collectors' Showcases… because I'll probably never again see so many shiny brass devices from my illustrious ancestor's (R.Fuess) company together in one place!

The topic was given as "Golden moments of crystallography" or "Knowledge is gold", and the focus was on the determination of optical properties of crystals: index of refraction, angle between optical axes, etc. This is why we're going to see several goniometers doing double duty as refractometers.

The exhibits had been prepared and annotated by Dr Olaf Medenbach of Ruhr-Univ.Bochum, Germany.

Enjoy!

Gerhard