View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
nimfiara
Joined: 11 Jan 2011
Posts: 50
Location: Cadiz
|
Posted: Feb 24, 2011 15:00 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
Ufffff, give me a moment, I need to recover of the attack that has given me heart to see those pieces.
O_O
_________________ so hammering as well, so .. so hammered that I saw ..... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 26, 2011 04:10 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
On Sunday at TGMS, I decided to get snappy and took a bunch of pictures. First up is a set of picts of the photography rig used by Joaquim Callen who photographs for Mineral Up Magazine. I think someone else took pictures of this rig in Jordi's room. Anyways, i wanted to take a bunch of pictures 'cause I think this rig may be an inspiration for others. He is a really nice guy - despite the language barrier, he was very gracious, and even invited me to look through his camera as he framed the picture. Shown here he is photographing a HUGE tourmaline from Paprok at the Fine Mineral Int'l booth.
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31618 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31601 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31676 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31597 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31599 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31670 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31610 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31610 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31597 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31617 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31604 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31602 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 26, 2011 04:20 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
Three picture of a cabinet with Southern IL galena and fluorite.
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31595 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31623 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31610 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 26, 2011 04:27 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
Dan Weinrich with some wonderful thumbnails from his lovely wife.
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31630 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31612 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 26, 2011 04:31 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
Luis Burillo had many of these glassy limpid gypsum on alabaster specimens.
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31582 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 26, 2011 04:35 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
...
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31624 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31649 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 26, 2011 04:46 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
Bisbee specimens
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31591 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31651 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31564 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31626 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 26, 2011 04:58 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
Peter Megaw's Mina Milpillas specimens
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31634 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31600 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31565 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31547 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31559 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 26, 2011 05:08 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
Minerals from the Chinese locality producing the nice ilvaites.
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31534 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31528 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31532 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31565 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 26, 2011 05:26 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
This case was really quite amazing. Jessica Simonoff (who I'd like to say never fails to impress) and Jolyon Ralph (who I had a nice chat with at Jordi's party) set out to find a bunch of nice specimens for less than $10 each. They really did a great job! Patience plus industry equals results.
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31517 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31500 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31592 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31557 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31503 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31572 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31516 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 26, 2011 05:39 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
Here are just some pictures of what it looks like on the floor of the TGMS on Sunday.
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31470 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31477 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31531 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31494 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31521 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 26, 2011 05:57 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
California spodumene and "the rabbit ears."
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31476 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31487 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31486 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31473 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31459 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 27, 2011 03:10 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
The SF Xtal Gazers fine cabinet.
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31348 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31413 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31369 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31321 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31374 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31345 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31388 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31349 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
chris
Site Admin
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
Posts: 538
Location: Grenoble
|
Posted: Feb 27, 2011 03:23 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
Hi Matt,
Thanks for posting all your pictures. I really like the fluorite / galenas from Illinois. Remember the owner(s) of those specimens ? I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of them was Ross Lilly.
Christophe
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 27, 2011 03:31 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
More cases of wonderful CA minerals.
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31359 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31344 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31393 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31372 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31357 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31390 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31324 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31370 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31334 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31367 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31380 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31437 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 27, 2011 03:37 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
more
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31281 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31350 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 27, 2011 03:39 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
Thanks Chris for the encouragement. I do not know who the owners were. Sorry.
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 27, 2011 03:48 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
A couple of pieces from Wayne Thompson and Rob Lavinsky that caught my interest.
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31327 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31298 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31241 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31242 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 27, 2011 04:04 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
The next set of picts comes from an intriguing case showing a collection assembled in the 18th & 19th centuries. It is great being able to see what people were able to amass back then.
A case like this causes me to reflect on where we are in mineral collecting history. Sometimes I think we are in a golden age of mineral specimen production. The internet has allowed people all over the world to see the value of mineral specimens. Although this has raised prices at the source (and probably decreased the competitive advantages of Indiana Jones types), it creates a pull that makes more people spend more time on collecting and preserving mineral specimens. This incents small artisanal specimen producers. At the same time, I wonder if there is more contract mineral collection at large mines, since the rise of the price of mineral specimens makes such sidelines at major mines worth the small production disruptions they may cause. Mineral specimen price inflation may be a double edged sword in that I want more for my mineral dollar but at the same time high prices attract more efforts at bringing mineral specimens to market. What do you think?
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
Matt_Zukowski
Site Admin
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 707
Location: Alaska
|
Posted: Feb 27, 2011 04:27 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
|
|
Now...the picts.
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31224 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31228 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31228 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31182 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31286 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31267 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31170 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31256 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31244 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31204 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31173 Time(s) |
|
Description: |
|
Viewed: |
31196 Time(s) |
|
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
|