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GneissWare
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Location: California
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 Posted: Nov 03, 2010 09:35 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 |
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Ploum:
Your show gallery is fabulous! Thanks for showing so many good minerals.
Bob
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Jesse Fisher
Joined: 18 Mar 2009
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Nov 03, 2010 10:50 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 |
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A few more random photos. Although I think that the TGMS still takes the prize for the best exhibits, I can not overstate just how great the Munich show has become. It is like the best of the overall Tucson show distilled into four days and in one venue. Every serious mineral collector should try to attend.
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| The pavilion featuring a collection of "high-end" dealers. We refer to the white circular thing hovering above "The Money Funnel" for what should be obvious reasons. |
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| Bryan Swoboda shooting Gerhard Wagner and Jurgen Margraf for his upcoming "What's Hot in Munich" video. |
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| Fluorite fanatic Robert Brandstetter peering over some minerals at his sales booth. |
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| A large and unusually dark-colored Pakistani topaz. I think this one has had some assistance with that. |
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| A very large fluorite on quartz from last summer's find at the La Viesca Mine, Asturias, Spain. |
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| Some new matrix chrysoberyl specimens from Madagascar, in Laurent Thomas' booth. |
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| Mindat Master Jolyon Ralph about to tuck into some cake at the Mindat 10th Anniversary party - or maybe he was threatening the photographer with it? |
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| The "Wellness with Stones" pavilion. If I place some stones on my checkbook and play soothing music, will it become well again? |
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| A wonderful exhibit of fluorite from the Strzegom granite quarries in Poland, put in by Spirifer/Tom Praszkier. |
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| The biergarten in Halle B5. When pounding the pavement has reduced your feet to bloody, aching appendages, this are a wonderful place to sit and recover! I wish every show had a place like this. |
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| A few friends "in recovery" at the biergarten. The process seems to be coming along nicely. |
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| And finally, Jordi and John Veevaert wave "good bye" at the end of the show. |
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Jordi Fabre
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Location: Barcelona
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| Posted: Nov 03, 2010 10:50 Post subject: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 - 10 |
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Barcelona 11/03/2010
More arrivals: Jolyon Ralph from Mindat have already published his own column -> https://www.mindat.org/article.php/1036/Munich+Mineral+Show+2010 and I added two shots of the famous (but not so colorful ;-) Alabandites from Uchucchacua Mine, Peru, as well as several assorted photos from John S. White.
More to come...
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Alabandite from Uchucchacua Mine, Peru. Level 300, 895 meters deep
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Alabandite with Rhodochrosite from Uchucchacua Mine, Peru. Level 300, 895 meters deep
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| A dealer from Ukraina, well known for its excellent Heliodors from Wolodarsk-Wolynskii |
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| Roy Kristiansen (from Norway and naming the Kristiansenite) and Renato Pagano from Italy |
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| The wine was on the Mineral up magazine stand |
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| Joaquim Callén and his wife Eloïsa from Mineral up |
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Gerhard Niklasch
Joined: 27 Mar 2009
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Location: Munich
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| Posted: Nov 04, 2010 17:54 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 |
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Glad to see so many additional wonderful pictures!
Two thoughts to add a sense of scale...
On the one hand, if you were to take all the gold that has ever been mined on this planet in the entire human history and piled it up, it would fill only one corner of one of these huge halls.
Well, it would also make a massive dent in the floor by its weight. Perhaps we should spread it out then, over the entire floor area of a hall. You could be wading in it... it would be less than waist deep.
On the other hand, despite the huge amount of minerals and other collectibles that had been brought together, and despite the large crowds admiring them: Just step outside on a clear day and you can see the Alps, 40 miles to the south as the crow flies, and you realize that they're vastly, hugely, unimaginably bigger, and they're just one of the large mountain ranges on Earth...
---So, what has everyone brought home from the show? Apart from pictures, pleasant memories, and sore feet?
I'll start with a truly tiny one (a lucky discovery at the far edge of a table, and a good bargain too). From the Grube Clara at Oberwolfach:
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Clear almost colorless Raspite on corroded Chalcopyrite (rimmed with tiny needles of Rhabdophane), on a matrix of Fluorite (top right), Quartz (bottom left) and some yellow Baryte (outside the frame). This is one of two Raspite associations at Clara mine mentioned in Kurt Walenta's book about the minerals of the Black Forest.
The crystal stands about .3mm tall in the b[010] direction, marked by the striations, and is .32mm wide in the c[001] direction, across the striations. The field of view is 1.5x1.9mm. The black roof is an artifact of refraction and internal reflection.
Raspite is a monoclinic dimorph of Stolzite, but perhaps it is best thought of as a kind of Pb analogue of the wolframite series. |
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John S. White
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Joined: 04 Sep 2006
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Location: Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Posted: Nov 05, 2010 05:05 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 |
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I took many mineral photos at the Munich Show but they are not very good, especially when compared to those of Ploum which are excellent. I did, however, get some better photographs of people, some of which have already been posted. Here are a few more.
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| Christian Weise, publisher of Lapis |
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| Rainer Bode, publisher of Mineralienwelt |
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| Marie and Terry Huizing, Rocks & Minerals Magazine |
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| A fine group of mineral enthusiasts, including Tomasz Praszkier, Terry Huizing, Jolyon Ralph, Alfredo Petrov and I do not know who the person on the right is. |
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| Ludmila Cheshko, one of the publishers of the Russian journals Mineralogical Almanac and Mineral Observer |
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| The newest publication from Mineralogical Almanac, an excellent book abut the Belorechenskoye Baryte deposit jn the northern Caucasus. |
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| The always popular Bologne Show stand where they offer free wine and parmesan cheese. |
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| Alpine men's chorus near the Alpine Minerals exhibit. |
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| A remarkable display of fossil fish under glass and above water. People could actually walk on the glass! |
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| A mineral identification team at work. |
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| Children looking for fossils in shale provided by the show. |
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| Some of the many cases displaying personal collections. |
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| One of the most spectacular quartzes from Brazil, seen at the stand of Andreas Guhr. |
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Jesse Fisher
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| Posted: Nov 05, 2010 09:04 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 |
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John, The person on the left is Tomasz Praszkier of Spirifer Geological Society, in Poland. He was one of the people responsible for the excellent exhibit of fluorite from the Strzegom granite quarries.
Below is a photo of one (not in the exhibit) that I got from him at the show.
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| Fluorite, Stilbite, Microcline, and Albite, Wekom II Quarry, Strzegom (Streigau), Poland. 6.5 cm across. |
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GneissWare
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| Posted: Nov 05, 2010 10:36 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 |
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| Jesse Fisher wrote: | | Below is a photo of one (not in the exhibit) that I got from him at the show. |
Jesse...what a great specimen!
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John S. White
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| Posted: Nov 05, 2010 10:38 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 |
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Thanks Jesse, I have changed the caption.
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Jordi Fabre
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Location: Barcelona
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| Posted: Nov 06, 2010 18:33 Post subject: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 -11 |
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Barcelona 11/06/2010
Before posting my conclusions about Munich 2010, the promised photos of specimens or aspects of the Show not mentioned before for other Forum members.
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| Alien riding a Dinosaur! ;-) |
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| "Cristalliers" & "Strahlers" biographies |
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| One of the showcases of the "Brazilian Beauties" exhibit |
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| And one of the specimens of this Showcase, an Emerald from Brumado, Bahia. The lucky owner is Gene Meieran from USA |
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| Spessartine from Lavra Navegadora, Coselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais. The lucky owner is Mario Pauwels from Belgium |
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| Elbaite from Pederneira Mine, Minas Gerais. The lucky owner is Gerhard Wagner from Germany |
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| Quartz with Rutile inclusions from Novo Horizonte Bahia. The lucky owner is Marco Tironi from Italy |
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| Rose Quartz from Berilo Branco Mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais. The lucky owner is Bill Larson from USA |
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| "Drei Finger", a tricolor Elbaite from Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais. The lucky owner is Gerhard Wagner |
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Joan Kureczka
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| Posted: Nov 06, 2010 18:40 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 |
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Gene Meiran and Sally and Mike Bergman.
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Joan Kureczka
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| Posted: Nov 06, 2010 18:42 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 |
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Not only minerals are sold, even in the mineral halls. Sausages and other charcuterie from the Sud-Tirol.
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Joan Kureczka
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| Posted: Nov 06, 2010 18:44 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 |
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Ludmilla, Dona Leicht and Liz Hacker, celebrating Ludmilla's gift.
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Joan Kureczka
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| Posted: Nov 06, 2010 18:46 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 |
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Demonstration of the making of stone arrowheads and other tools.
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ploum
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Location: Near Annecy
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| Posted: Nov 07, 2010 05:43 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 |
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Munich is in Bavaria...
Location are not expensive in this region...
I show some photo for discover this Alps region.
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ploum
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| Posted: Nov 07, 2010 05:54 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2010 |
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