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As the specimen mentioned for you is the number 37, you can read on that list that it is an Anatase from Plan du Lac and from the Pascal Guignet-Bologne collection.
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Posted: Jul 03, 2011 11:26 Post subject: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011 Show - 7
Barcelona 07/03/2011
Several pics of the Show
More to come...
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Not crisis for Ste. Marie. Long queues for the entry
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And finally the people can come in
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A reward: one of the bars of the Show. As you can figure, highly solicited
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The highlight of Ste. Marie: to be a show in the middle of the Val d'Argent, a natural paradise
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Getting crowdy
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A village dedicated during a week to a Mineral Show!
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An official visit of the region's authorities. They visited the Show guided by Michel Schwab, organizator of the Show
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The banner of the owners of the property where is located a very rich deposit of Pyromorphite in Asprières, St. Martin de Bouillac, Aveyron, France. Is an old mining area that I'm sure will give us very agreeable surprises on the future.
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Well, sorry to do clown. As I'm not exhibiting, one of the advantages is that as you can see, I'm much, much, more relaxed (probably too much... ;-)
All photos from Jordi Deusedes, except this one, did from "The Slovakia Team" ;-)
Posted: Jul 04, 2011 16:05 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011 Show
Of course there were mineral specimens, too, at SMaM! :) And we have already seen some very good ones in this thread.
I can't resist posting the following two...
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Franklinite Franklin, New Jersey, USA Large! (for the species) Says it all...
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Demantoid, Celestine Created in a workshop in Madagascar... ~15cm M.Jentsch was displaying this contraption (Demantoid xx glued onto a Celestine geode) as a warning, not trying to sell it.
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Posted: Jul 05, 2011 07:08 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2011 Show
Montanpark wrote:
just finished the first part of my ´alternative´show report on mindat as usual
Thanks Roger!
BTW the (relative) mystery of the precise locality of the new Spanish Fluorites (former Prado, Caravia) is already solved. They came from Llamas Quarry, Duyos, Caravia, Asturias, Spain.
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Posted: Jul 09, 2011 07:59 Post subject: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2011 - and 8
Barcelona 07/09/2011
With this video I close my interventions in this thread. My vision of this ediition of the Show were reflected here -> https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=18270#18270 and my intention is finish my reports sharing, with the help of this video, the wonderful atmosphere that has been nearly 50 years the "différence" between Ste Marie and other shows. Unfortunately, seems that it will be lost in the near future...
Thanks to all who have posted contributions, I encourage everybody whom attended the Show to add still more posts!
See you in Ste Marie next year (yet ;-) Until then...
Posted: Jul 09, 2011 15:55 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2011
Thanks for your report Roger - I'm still grinning ear to ear!
I could attend only Saturday and Sunday, so I missed many of you, and all the parties.
And thanks to Jordi and everyone else for your views and souvenir shots, too!
Here are a remaining few from me... First, hands-on crystallography for the young generation; and then you'll have to imagine the music. Sainte Marie, for me, is associated with all the sounds - the patter of many feet, the murmur of negotiating bargains, the musical intermezzos, and those incessantly clicking magnets... all part of the atmosphere, too.
And finally, a teaser of one item I brought home from the show. If you also bought one, I recommend that you apply to it, first, a magnet, and then when you're suitably impressed, a microscope to reveal the explanation.
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Zome! Build your own crystal.
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Please touch... goniometry made simple.
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Fluorite or calcite, or garnet, or quartz? The answer is in the cards!
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Posted: Jul 12, 2011 09:52 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2011
Unfortunately, we were not able to attend Ste Marie this year for the usual reasons - lack of time and (perhaps more important) money. We did manage to spend some by proxy, however, as a friend picked up three lovely fluorites from the recent find in Asturias for us from Jose Ramon Garcia. They arrived in the post yesterday, and as soon as our cold San Francisco summer fog lifts, I think we must take them onto the veranda, along with a bottle of Gewurtztraminer and pretend that we are at the show.
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Fluorite Llamas Quarry, Duyos, Caravia, Asturias, Spain 7x5x3 cm
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Fluorite Llamas Quarry, Duyos, Caravia, Asturias, Spain 5x5x4 cm
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Fluorite with Baryte Llamas Quarry, Duyos, Caravia, Asturias, Spain 13x6x5 cm
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Posted: Nov 01, 2011 11:34 Post subject: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2012 - BOMBSHELL!!!!!
Bombshell!. Although the rumor was spreading during the Fair at Munich, only now it can it be confirmed that, although it was expected that the change would occur slowly, special circumstances have forced the Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show to move to Colmar in 2012.
Michel Schwab will soon publish a more complete official explanation that we will try to reproduce here, but it is now confirmed that Ste. Marie 2012 will be in Colmar.
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