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keldjarn
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Posted: Mar 26, 2012 01:14 Post subject: Re: Prices again |
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Louis Friend wrote: |
I will visit Tucson one day but not for a few years. My wife and children have other ideas about what to see in America, and a mineral show is not one of them. They appreciate my interest in mineralogy but Disney Land and the Grand Canyon are higher up on the list of things to do.
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Dear Louis,
I have visited the USA and the Tucson-shows a number of times with my family including small children. and they have loved it. But minerals have to be only a small part of it. You can visit the shows a couple of days early during the shows and go looking for minerals while the family is recovering from the jet-lag- Then you can make it a "tourist-week" going by car to i.e. San Diego and Disney-land. You can continue past LA and up the old highway 1 towards San Fransisco watching sea-lions and beautiful scenery. If the weather permits, it is possible to continue back east including a visit to the Grand Canyon before returning south to Tucson and the Main Show. I am sure also your family will enjoy such a trip ! My children have enjoyed it so much they even want to go back to Tucson with me now in their 20`ies.
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Riccardo Modanesi
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Posted: Mar 26, 2012 08:14 Post subject: Re: Prices again |
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Hi to everybody!
Let me have an opinion too: good specimens are available on every price, even affordable! I always attend to the Munich mineral show and I saw every kind of specimen on every kind of price! Then, of course every stone has its quality and therefore its price, but I found for example small diamonds (you read well, DIAMONDS!!!) sold for some 10 or 20 €!
Greetings from Italy by Riccardo. _________________ Hi! I'm a collector of minerals since 1973 and a gemmologist. On Summer I always visit mines and quarries all over Europe looking for minerals! Ok, there is time to tell you much much more! Greetings from Italy by Riccardo. |
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Louis Friend
Joined: 26 Jan 2012
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Location: Adelaide
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Posted: Mar 26, 2012 23:22 Post subject: Re: Prices again |
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keldjarn wrote: | Louis Friend wrote: |
I will visit Tucson one day but not for a few years. My wife and children have other ideas about what to see in America, and a mineral show is not one of them. They appreciate my interest in mineralogy but Disney Land and the Grand Canyon are higher up on the list of things to do.
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Dear Louis,
I have visited the USA and the Tucson-shows a number of times with my family including small children. and they have loved it. But minerals have to be only a small part of it. You can visit the shows a couple of days early during the shows and go looking for minerals while the family is recovering from the jet-lag- Then you can make it a "tourist-week" going by car to i.e. San Diego and Disney-land. You can continue past LA and up the old highway 1 towards San Fransisco watching sea-lions and beautiful scenery. If the weather permits, it is possible to continue back east including a visit to the Grand Canyon before returning south to Tucson and the Main Show. I am sure also your family will enjoy such a trip ! My children have enjoyed it so much they even want to go back to Tucson with me now in their 20`ies.
Knut |
Dear keldjarn:
Many thanks for your enthusiastic comments about Tucson. I have reviewed at length the current and past reports from several prominent FMF contributors and also from some subscribers to the Vug and if I had to choose between the Munich Show and Tucson Show, I would take Munich. This is no way implies Munich is “better” than Tucson, it is just that there are many other things I would like to do in America - visit friends, catch up with old College buddies and “hang out” with relatives. Munich would also provide me with the opportunity to visit either Bulgaria or Morocco or both and I could then connect directly with miners/mine managers and perhaps buy some “killer specimens” at very affordable prices.
Kind Regards
Louis _________________ "The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible." Dirac |
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