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keldjarn
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Posted: Feb 08, 2013 07:45 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Hi Matt,
Thanks for your efforts ! I really enjoy the photos from the Westward Look show which I miss very much this year. It is really THE show the see the very best (and most expensive..).
I hope you will be posting more photos today and that you especially manage to take pictures of some of the best specimens from the Gilles Emringer collection offered by Crystal Classics/Kristalle before they are dispersed to eager buyers ( I hear the Smithsonian has been offered the first pick...)
Have fun..
Knut
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Mike Wood
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Posted: Feb 08, 2013 11:11 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Hello Matt,
thank you very much for the excellent photo's of minerals, they are very cool to look at for those of us who can't be there. Your efforts are very much appreciated ! By the way, it's probably just me but the photo's (0226 - 0229) of the pale yellow/brown fluorites from Huanggangliang Mine, remind me very much of phenakite...
Keep 'em coming Matt !
Regards, Mike
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Feb 10, 2013 00:32 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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The last two days I have been at the Westward Look. I did get just a few picts of the Gilles Emringer collection in Crystal Classics/Kristale's room and I had a chat with Robyn and she said they were going to post more picts of this important collection on their website.
Maybe its just me but I felt more excited about the specimens on display at the WL this year. Last year it seemed to me that there was not that much new stuff on display, even though I am sure there was. Perhaps it is just that this year there is more stuff that appeals to my *unique* tastes, such as they are. Just a general impression.
Anyway...on to the pictures.
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Magnetite Balmat I really like isometric minerals with interesting habits and complex growth and etch features. This small cluster was quite fun to look at. In Jeff Fast's case. I took a number of picts but this is the only one even close to acceptable. |
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Grossular Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos I have only previously seen pink Jeffrey xtals in a book. A noted Jeffrey expert told me that this is one of the several best pink garnets from this locality. In Green Mountain's room, and I am told it is already sold. |
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Feb 10, 2013 00:57 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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More picts from Rob's room and then, since it was getting late, I headed up to see Kevin Brown's display of generally equally sized specimens from across the USA. I didn't get to talk to Kevin because there were so many people and I didn't want to impose, but I did overhear Kevin telling someone that his goal with this suite is to get a specimen from every state. I'd say he has had quite some success. It was a very good exhibition - much fun. I have posted the few pictures I have that were not terribly blurry.
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Vanadinite ACF Mine, Mibladen Rob had some great vanadinites this year, all with flashy yellow and red zones, and good luster and transparency. |
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Halite Carlsbad, NM A big blue halite - excellent color saturation. |
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Feb 10, 2013 01:07 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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A few picts of the Gilles Emringer collection in Crystal Classics/Kristale's room. Sorry but this was the best I was able to do.
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Don Lum
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Posted: Feb 10, 2013 01:29 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Matt, thanks for the excellent pictures and report.
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Jordi Fabre
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Mike Wood
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Posted: Feb 10, 2013 04:53 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Jordi, many thanks for putting my mind at ease about the fluorites. If they had been phenakites they would have been mind-blowing ! Still, they are very interesting and beautiful fluorites.
Thanks again Matt for putting up the photo's so those who can't be there can drool over the specimens without getting them wet : )
Mike
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Joseph DOliveira
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Posted: Feb 10, 2013 12:16 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Thank you very much for all the great Tucson Show posts and mineral specimens. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend this year and I am suffering severe withdrawal symptoms. Your efforts are appreciated here in Canada.
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Philip Simmons
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Posted: Feb 10, 2013 12:55 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Hi all,
Since Matt posted a pic of the blue halite in Kevin's collection, I thought it would be nice for people to see the great color in the form of a Jeff Scovil photo. It's from the Intrepid Potash East mine and is 8.1 cm.
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Halite, Sylvite Intrepid Potash East mine, Carlsbad Potash District, Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA 8.1 cm |
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Feb 10, 2013 17:51 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Thanks everyone for your encouragement
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Paul Bordovsky
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Posted: Feb 10, 2013 23:03 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Thanks Matt, for the report and all the pics. I hope you have more to post.
I was in Tucson from Wednesday thru Saturday morning. Weather was fantastic before the cold front came in bringing cooler temps, rain, and some snow at higher elevations. Still, Saturday was a nice morning, if a little cool.
Wendy's Minerals at the Inn Suites had a fine assortment of Chinese minerals, including some great pink fluorites on matrix from Inner Mongolia. Nice contrast of the pink fluorites with the green crystals, and black matrix.....sorry I don't remember what the green crystals were.
She also had some pink fluorite octahedrons from a pocket found near the end of 2012......said that it was a small pocket and all the crystals were found on the bottom of the pocket as floaters. Here are a couple shots of a specimen that I took when I got home.
The specimen was lit from the side with window light. About 83 mm in height from the top of the acrylic block, the octahedron has pink phantoms, and a dark phantom in the center due to metallic inclusions along a growth plane.
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Fluorite Huangganliang Mine, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia 68 x 65 x 83 mm |
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Fluorite Huangganliang Mine, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia 68 x 65 x 83 mm |
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Fluorite Huangganliang Mine, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia 68 x 65 x 83 mm |
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Jean Sendero
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Posted: Feb 11, 2013 20:17 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Pretty miserable day in Tucson today. Lucky me, I had to work. It is 38 degrees (3C) and raining with a forecasted evening low of 30 degrees (-1C). I posted a few pics of the Catalina's, view from my desk. During the rain and after. On Friday late afternoon and Saturday I spend some time at the Westward but with only a Blackberry. So a few poor quality pics of the 3 specimens that really stopped me. Of course Mexican specimens.
But I got seriously distracted by the recently acquired collection of french fluorite and more that Kristalle had in their cases.
On Sunday, I saw a few nice things back at the Tucson City Hotel. Got to Jordi room, Fabre Minerals and found a nice array of minerals in the duftite-Conichalcite serie from Mapimi. Also in Xtal - Dennis Beals Minerals some new interesting bluish grey quartz from Sta Eulalia with a nice druze of siderite ps after calcite. Lovely little pieces. I will try to get photos later on Wednesday, if any are left.
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Brochantite Mina Milpillas, Sonora, Mexico Crystals nearly 8 cm tall
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Mimetite and ???? Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico app. 25 cm across Kristalle Specimen
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Fluorite Mina de Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico app 10-12 cm across AusRox Specimen
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Feb 11, 2013 22:05 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Today I went back to the Westward Look and then down to the Inn Suites.
When I got to the WL around 2-3pm, I'd say half of the dealers were already packing up. I believe the weather lowered the traffic at the show and so the dealers decided to pack it in early. But I did get some picts as shown below.
First is Dave Bunk's room.
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Silver wires Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru |
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Chalcocite Telfer Mine, Rudall River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia Excellent |
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Pyrite Nanisivik One of my things is complex pyrites from Nanisivik. This is one of the pseudos and is in great shape with good luster. |
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Wulfenite Tsumeb Very gemmy and yummy. |
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Feb 11, 2013 22:32 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Next is Wendel Mineral's room. There I met a good fellow from Germany who was helping out watching the room. He had a couple of good stories to tell including visiting the Green Monster Mine (Prince of Wales Isld, Alaska) in the 70s.
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In the center of this case is a large Erongo aquamarine in fantastic shape. Closeups next. There was only one xtal with an issue that i saw while looking through the glass of the case. |
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Dolomite Eugui, Esteríbar, Navarre, Spain A large Eugui Dolomite with excellent luster on one side. Sorry about the picts, but I still wanted to show it because it popped out of the cabinet when I first saw it. |
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Feb 11, 2013 22:41 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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After leaving Wendel's room, the WL show was pretty much finished so I decided to go down to the Inn Suites. As I left the WL, the clouds had cleared somewhat, and I could see snow about half way down the slopes.
The temperature seemed to fall more by the time I got down to the Inn Suites, and almost all the doors to the rooms were closed, although I could see people still looking at Minerals in rooms with open curtains. I went to Jordi's room to yak it up - the only pictures I took were of an excellent Elmwood fluorite with Carthage corners.
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Pierre Joubert
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Posted: Feb 12, 2013 02:25 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Thank you Matt, Jean and others for an interesting report. Wow, I can live well for a while on the price of some of those specimens! I feel sorry for Joseph, stuck in the snow.
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Jim
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Posted: Feb 12, 2013 07:51 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Thanks for the great mineral photos! So fun to see what's been available.
Cheers!
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keldjarn
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Posted: Feb 12, 2013 11:03 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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There are many of us who are grateful for the mineralk photos and information about what was offered in Tucson this year. We are looking forward to the last photos from the Main Show. Thanks for your efforts !
Knut
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Feb 13, 2013 01:45 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Thanks again for the encouragement everyone. Today I spent some more time at the Inn Suites.
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