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Posted: Feb 19, 2008 14:33 Post subject: Tucson Show 2008 - (18) |
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Barcelona 02/19/2008
The last batch of photos, this time not related with "American Treasures" but with other great specimens exhibited on the Show.
More to come...
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At Lavra do Sapo in 2007 was mined the best Fluorapatite pocket (caldeirão ) never found in Brazil. A lot of specimens, great size, shape, color, luster, and a lot of unusual forms. The happy dealers who bought this pocket, Luis Menezes and Frank Melanson, offered in a show case the "really best" of this find. |
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"The tree" from the same fantastic find. |
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Really huge Geocronite! Between all the American Treasures this enormous Italian Geocronite looks humble compared to all these beauties, but for me it is the ugly hidden treasure of this year. Yes, it is repaired, yes, it is not colorful, but a rare specie in such a huge size and sharp crystal form... |
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Feb 21, 2008 08:50 Post subject: Tucson Show 2008 - (19 and final) |
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Barcelona 2/21/2008
This will be my last post concerning Tucson 2008. As a conclusion I agree absolutely that this was the Show where more great specimens was joined together than in all Tucson's history (and probably at all mineralogy's history), the number and quality of outstanding specimens was enormous, not only in the display cases at the Main Show but also in the different shows, offered by dealers.
At this point several different possibilities comes to mind:
Is it that there is, just now, a kind of bonanza where great specimens come out in large numbers?
Is it that the top specimens are not sold as easily as before?
Is it that there are too many and in consequence the dealers exhibit them publically?
The recycling of several great collections has brought to the market a very large amount of great specimens that they need a little bit more time to be digested?
I heard a lot of discussion about these facts as well about the extremely high price that the 'top' (and other not really 'top') specimens have.
I suggest to use this link to visit a thread on our Forum named "Tucson 2008, questionable prices?" were this topic is now being strongly debated with a lot of different opinions:
https://www.fabreminerals.com/forum/Message-Board/viewtopic.php?t=182
Tucson is Tucson and I think that nothing will change this fact, even if the prices might look too high, even if the novelties are not too common (Chinese Calcites, Wulfenites from Ojuela, Shattuckites from Kaokoveld, Fluorites from Clay Center, Celestines from Torà, Milpillas Azurites and Plancheites and few others), and also even if the city seems to becomes crazy during the Show, Tucson will remain as the 'Mecca' of the world's mineralogy and next year all of us, poor addicts, we will be back there to get our mineral doses.
See you in Tucson 2009!
PS: Joan Rosell proved to have an excelent eye. His favorite specimen, a cute Eudidymite mentioned on his previous post:
https://www.fabreminerals.com/forum/Message-Board/viewtopic.php?p=711#711
was adquired later by the famous Smithsonian Museum from Washington DC.
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Posted: Mar 15, 2008 05:24 Post subject: Tucson Show 2008 - (20-addenda) |
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I copied here a topic published by Pete Modreski on an other place of this forum:
https://www.fabreminerals.com/forum/Message-Board/viewtopic.php?p=902#902
because it supply a lot of images and infos of the last edition of Tucson 2008.
I think that is a great complement to our previous infos. Thanks Pete!
I've been meaning to share with all of you links to digital pictures I took in Tucson. Below are links to three separate "aol picture albums", which I think should work for anyone; just paste in each of these (rather long) url links into your internet browser, and the "aol pictures view share" page should open up. (Make sure you get the whole url line into your browser url as one intact line of characters.) There, you do not need to register or log in or anything, just click on "View album as guest". You will have a choice to manually "view" all the pictures, or to click on "slide show" which will scroll through them all at a default speed of 5 seconds per slide.
The first of the three albums is of the Tucson mineral show and minerals. The second, for those interested in a little diversification, is an album of southwest U.S. scenery and nature, taken in the mountains around Tucson and on my driving trip from Denver to there and back. The third, very short album (just four pictures) is of Jordi Fabre himself and his room at the Inn Suites motel in Tucson (there is just one picture of Jordi included in the first album, too). Please let me know if any of this does not work.
Best wishes to all,
Pete Modreski
My Tucson Show slideshow:
https://pictures.aol.com/ap/viewShare.do?shareInfo=esv4e%2b9w77lUeivWfnm7tdZgUpZnIMVQRL9HkbMLqP9WGd%2bBXiXp6w%3d%3d
Scenery show to Tucson and back:
https://pictures.aol.com/ap/viewShare.do?shareInfo=esv4e%2b9w77lUeivWfnm7tWDwZ0FOh55crPguh7ZU2elWGd%2bBXiXp6w%3d%3d
Here's Jordi ! :
https://pictures.aol.com/ap/viewShare.do?shareInfo=esv4e%2b9w77lUeivWfnm7tbfagkbOC7Z9ACDOksaolSdWGd%2bBXiXp6w%3d%3d
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