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Jim
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Posted: Feb 28, 2010 12:05 Post subject: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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HI everyone,
Gail has a great thread on Mindat related to "favorites of the day", as certain specimens might appeal more than others to a collector on any given day.
To keep this thread different and topical, I would be interested to hear about your favorite finds from the past Tucson Show!
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Paul Bordovsky
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Posted: Feb 28, 2010 13:21 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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I almost hesitate to post this chinese rhodo here on Jim's topic, since it is not as pristine
as his preference, but it adds some color to my case......and it is from Tucson 2010.
I didn't setup my usual shooting arrangement, just took the pics next to the window. About 56mm across the front, and 37mm deep.
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Jim
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Posted: Feb 28, 2010 13:40 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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Hi Paul,
Thanks for posting the lovely pics.
Let me clarify that I'm not one of these people who believes that they "own" or "control" a particular thread. I just like to throw out a topic and let the community take it from there if there's any interest to comment.
I personally love super pristine specimens, but I appreciate it all. The color of your rhodo is sweet! Did you score anything else at Tucson?
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Feb 28, 2010 14:01 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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Good idea Jim, I separate this topic of the other thread: 'What are your favorite specimens?' -> https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?t=696 , because I believe it is enough interesting to run alone ;-)
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Gail
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Posted: Feb 28, 2010 14:42 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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A fabulous aquamarine from the Northern areas of Pakistan, very high altitude. Recently renamed the area Gilgit-Baltistan. Haramosh mountains. Doubly terminated, really superb addition to our collection.
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without the flashlight it is still a stunner! |
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Jesse Fisher
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Posted: Feb 28, 2010 14:53 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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In general, as a collector I found the the Tucson show this year to be rather frustrating. It seems that with each passing year, more and more of the things we would like to add to the collection are becoming out of reach financially. Still, each year I seem to come away with some things that I'm happy with, so I can't complain too much.
Among this year's finds:
A nice (and unrepaired) amazonite and cleavelandite cluster, acquired from Joe Dorris. I've found that if one is willing to fore-go the addition of a smoky quartz crystal, the prices of these can be more reasonable. Being a feldspar collector, I found this combination of interest.
The Bulgarian sulfides currently on the market are, perhaps, some of the best examples of minerals such as galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, etc., that I can remember. Perhaps because they don't have the color to qualify as "eye candy" they remain what I think are true bargains. This one, a perfect, untwinned sphalerite crystal with epitaxic chalcopyrite on quartz came from Ross Lillie.
I also found a couple of old English fluorites, including a nice twinned crystal from the Boltsburn Mine, from Dan and Diana Weinrich.
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Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, and Quartz, Mogila Mine, Rhodope Mts., Bulgaria. 6 cm across. |
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Amazonite & Cleavelandite, Florissant, Colorado. 711 cm across. |
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Posted: Feb 28, 2010 15:19 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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Gail, The aqua is stunning -- I hope you'll bring to show at the next MAD meeting. That it's d/t is superb!
Jesse, you and Joan always find cool stuff. Out of curiosity, what items were noteworthy that you saw but that "got away"?
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Jesse Fisher
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Posted: Feb 28, 2010 15:39 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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Two specimens that caught my attention were a really superb spinel-twinned spinel on marble matrix from Vietnam, that Dudley Baluwet had. Specimen size was around 7 cm. I understand that the guys from the Natural History Museum, London took this one home with them.
The other was one of several spectacular Afghani bicolor tourmalines with quartz and albite that Collector's Edge had. This was my favorite. Probably about 12 cm tall. Prices on all were in the low six figures. No big tourmalines for me this year!
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Elbaite with quartz and cleavelandite, Paprok, Afghanistan. |
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Joan Kureczka
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Posted: Feb 28, 2010 16:31 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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One of the other things we got was my purchase. I'd been looking for a good bluish Russian aqua from Transbaikal to go with the greenish banded historic specimen we acquired in the early years of our collecting. This year I was successful in getting what I wanted for a very good price. This is the same aqua that Jordi showed in his show report, saying it was in the Mineral Almanac case. We loaned it to Michael Leybov for the case after purchasing it earlier in the show, as a consolation for not loaning our Transbaikal matrix tourmalines that were needed for our own TGMS display. This aqua is actually from a new find from September 2009; I am told there were about 7 significant crystals and lots of tiny ones.
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Posted: Feb 28, 2010 17:50 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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I agree with Jesse that some of the top specimens carry astronomical price tags. But it is always possible to find exceptional specimens of a wide range of collectible minerals during the Tucson shows also at acceptable prices. Here are a couple of specimens I took back home to Norway.
The first is a very rich group of deep pink Topaz crystals on a large quartz crystals from Brumado. The other is an exceptional rich 7 cm specimen with colourless to pink crystals of Marshite from the Rubtsovskiy mine. The last one is an 8 cm specimen that conists of flashy red, hexagonal crystals of Hibonite with sharp crystals to near 1 cm in cavities from a new find in Argentina.
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John S. White
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Posted: Mar 01, 2010 05:08 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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I loved the pink topazes on quartz. As I recall the dealer has several of them and they were among the neatest things that I saw in Tucson this year.
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Posted: Mar 01, 2010 05:35 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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Here are two of my happiest acquisitions from Tucson 2010, both for my quartz collection. The group of crystals is from Jinkouhe, Leshan, Sichuan, China, and it measures 9 cm across. The frosted-appearing quartz is from the Idarado mine, Ouray, Colorado. It is 13.5 cm long, doubly terminated, all of the tiips of the satellite crystals are intact, and there is a "reverse scepter" on the near end which is not frosted. Peter Megaw spotted this one for me. We should all be so lucky as to have Peter flagging specimens for us. Both are a bit tricky to photograph and I apologize for the fact that my photos are not better.
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Posted: Mar 01, 2010 09:01 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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John S. White wrote: | Here are two of my happiest acquisitions from Tucson 2010, both for my quartz collection. The group of crystals is from Jinkouhe, Leshan, Sichuan, China, and it measures 9 cm across. The frosted-appearing quartz is from the Idarado mine, Ouray, Colorado. It is 13.5 cm long, doubly terminated, all of the tiips of the satellite crystals are intact, and there is a "reverse scepter" on the near end which is not frosted. Peter Megaw spotted this one for me. We should all be so lucky as to have Peter flagging specimens for us. Both are a bit tricky to photograph and I apologize for the fact that my phots are not better. |
Thanks for posting, John
I'm also a quartz lover, so I found those pieces to be really cool.
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Posted: Mar 01, 2010 11:12 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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Two more goodies for my quartz collection from the recent Tucson Show. The faden is, for me at least, a rare matrix piece from Waziristan, Pakistan. The faden stands 5 cm above the base. The other was a real nice surprise, a large smoky quartz with a crown of pale rose quartz above it on microcline. It is from Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and measures just over 8 cm in the longest dimension.
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Gail
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Posted: Mar 01, 2010 18:07 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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Fabulous photos of your minerals everyone!
Here is a little beauty that I quite enjoy, newly in our collection from Dan and Diana Weinrich's Tucson stock...
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Posted: Mar 01, 2010 22:42 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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Excellent specimens everyone! This is a botryoidal fluorite on quartz from Jamner, India. 9.5 cm high x 9.5 cm wide x 7 cm deep. I really like this glandular piece.
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Posted: Mar 01, 2010 22:59 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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Greg! I have your "egg" twin! I love it too!
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Posted: Mar 01, 2010 23:04 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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Gail,
I'd love to see it!
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Posted: Mar 01, 2010 23:47 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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I like the "egg" fluorite too.
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Posted: Mar 02, 2010 05:24 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite finds from the 2010 Tucson Show? |
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For some reason these "egg" or "glandular" fluorites were remarkably abundant at this year's show. I probably should have purchased one.
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