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  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 13, 2024 12:03   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
OK - some final thoughts about the 2024 Tucson shows:

- There was really very little that was new for this year - some small finds of interest and some new/better specimens of older finds but nothi ...
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 13, 2024 11:29   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
And, finally, last but CERTAINLY not least was the case entered by Tom Campbell that won both the Desautels Trophy for "The Best Case of Rocks" and also the Lidstrom Trophy for "Best Ov ...
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 13, 2024 11:20   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
The case entitled "Some Favorites from the Irving Collection" was truly first rate and contained two specimens that really caught my eye - the pyrite on quartz cluster from the Spruce Claim ...
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 13, 2024 11:07   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
Number 8 in the series of "Barite World Tour" cases entered annually by Bill and Diana Dameron covers Latin America - mainly Mexico and Peru as most other nations in Latin America are devoid ...
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 13, 2024 11:00   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
The Sherman Dugan Museum of Geology at San Juan College entered an interesting case showing some historical uses of toxic minerals. How did we survive childhood?
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 13, 2024 10:53   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
Noted field collector Steve Scott entered a nice display case of Southern Nevada Pegmatites - all self-collected. He's been field collecting for 38 years!! He also spends hours under water on the wes ...
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 11, 2024 13:36   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
In one of the competitive exhibits was a non-descript specimen labeled as "Shattuckite - Milpillas" - it was a light blue vug with something very dark inside - but when you took a photo with ...
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 11, 2024 13:04   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
I really love thumbnail sized specimens - 1 inch max "as mounted" (and also the toenail size that is used in the TGMS - 1.5inch max "as mounted") and the TN display entered by the ...
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 11, 2024 12:40   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
Rocko Rosenblat entered a case of recently mined gem Sphalerite, calcite and anhydrite from the Empire State Zinc Mine in Balmat, NY. His room at Min City was almost sold out of these gemmy sphalerit ...
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 11, 2024 12:34   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
Peter Megaw entered a single specimen of Nifontovite from Charcas, MX which may be the best of this species in the World.
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 11, 2024 12:28   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
The Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh entered what is (regrettably) an important case showing some of the recent fakes and frauds imposed onto the mineral world. I guess I'm not a purist and think that t ...
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 11, 2024 12:20   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
The group who owns the Tenpercenter Claim in the Pikes Peak batholith entered a terrific case of rich blue amazonites and deep smokey quartzes. These seem to get better every year!
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 11, 2024 12:05   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
What a team!! In a collaborative effort, Walt Donovan, Gene Meieran, William Johnson, Daniel Trinchillo, Irv Brown and Scott Rudolf entered a world class case of gem pegmatites minerals - and I do me ...
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 11, 2024 11:52   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
In support of their upcoming Mineral Show in Nanjing, China, The Mineral Center of Jiangsu Province entered a case of truly world class Chinese Specimens.
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 11, 2024 11:23   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
The European dealership of Siber+Siber entered a terrific display of Alpine smokey quartzes.
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 11, 2024 11:18   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
Gulan Mustafa brought his incredible specimens from the Westward Look Show (see earlier posts) and had a beautiful and crowded booth at the TGMS Show.
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 11, 2024 11:13   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
The other main eye catcher of the display cases were the 4 "trophies" entered by Muhammad Ejaz. I have posted some photos here previously but at the main show he had 4 dedicated cases to 4 ...
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 11, 2024 10:51   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
OK - it's time to move on to the TGMS Show - aka The Main Show. Lots of changes with respect to the mineral dealer list. The large majority of the dealers who set up there maybe 2-3 years ago are no ...
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 09, 2024 11:57   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
The Brazarte dealership in the D building were offering gemmy, lustrous and vivid blue colored fluorite from Espirito Santo, Brazil.
  Topic: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
bob kerr

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PostForum: News about Shows   Posted: Feb 09, 2024 11:13   Subject: Re: Tucson 2024 - It's started!
Just south of "The White House" is the Granada Mineral Gallery. Some excellent specimens are available here.

Note in photo IMG 1276 - a closeup of an excellent tourmaline and quartz - th ...
 
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