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Jordi Fabre
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 Posted: Feb 10, 2011 08:50 Post subject: Tucson Show 2011 - 7 |
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Tucson 02/09/2011
Now is the time of the Main Show. Everybody arrive for this giant social event and the show becomes really crowdy. Curators, collectors, friends...for a few days Tucson will be the center of the mineralogical universe.
Jordi
2010 European correspondent of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show™ 
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Mike Rumsey (NHM London) Jamie Newman (New York Museum), Gneissware and friends, Tony Kampf, Alyssa Morgan and Stuart Mills (Los Angeles Museum)....
Everybody is in Tucson! ;-) |
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| Alyssa Morgan (Los Angeles Museum), Alan Hart (NHM London), Jamie Newman, George Harlow, Renata Schumacher.... |
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Elise
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| Posted: Feb 10, 2011 12:24 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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More news from The Room with a View: for those still in Tucson, you won't want to miss Jeff Scovil and Mark Mauthner's Mineral Photography Seminar today at 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm in the Turquoise Ballroom. They will each be presenting on different aspects of mineral and gem photography, including specialized lighting techniques.
I've spent the better part of the last two weeks watching some of the most extraordinary specimens of this year's show come through these doors to be imaged, including magnificent large tanzanite crystals adorned with perfect prismatic prehnite crystals; these latter were single crystals very unlike the more commonly seen botryoidal type, a very aesthetic combination of color and form. Many of these mineral specimens combine several crystals requiring very different lighting requirements, such as when one member of a cluster is transparent and pleochroic while its companion is opaque (see new portrait below).
Best Wishes,
Elise
(Lectures and seminars are held Thursday through Sunday of the Show week in the Crystal Ballroom and Turquoise Ballroom at the Tucson Convention Center. They are open to the public and free of charge).
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| Elbaite Tourmaline with smokey quartz from the Tourmaline Queen Mine, Pala, California, 13.2 cm high. Collection of Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka (Photo: Jeff Scovil). |
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| Another work day.....setting up an opal shot. |
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GneissWare
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 00:37 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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With the TGMS ("Main") show starting at the convention center, I have been busy chasing after deals, arranging sales and purchases, and now have a few minutes to post. First off, are a few things not mineral related....
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Queen Donuts!
If you haven't had donuts, this is the place to try. It has a five star rating and it is good. Nothing like a bit of dough and sugar fried in oil to get the day started. |
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| And last, one of the things I have always heard about in Tucson are the javelina, but in 30 years here have never seen before. This one, and 6 of its friends, were outside my window Wednesday morning...watching me eat donuts. |
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GneissWare
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 00:48 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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And now on to the TGMS show...
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| The talk of the show is the Emperor of China Rhodochrosite from Wudong Mine. This specimen is nearly a meter high, and made its was to Collector's Edge through Graham Sutton (who is lurking behind the specimen). |
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| Although smaller, the Empress of China is no less impressive. Rob of Collector's Edge is the lab wizard who performs the cleaning and preparation miracles. |
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| Another impressive piece at Collector's Edge is this huge Montana Baryte specimen of 25+ cm across. |
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GneissWare
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 01:00 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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The theme of the show is Minerals of California.
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| John Seibel is one of my friends, and a great field collector. This is a Rutile specimen from the Champion Mine in Mono County. The largest Rutile is about 4-5 cm across. |
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| A Fresnoite crystal on Analcime from near the Benitoite locality, also in Seibel's collection. This is one of the best I've seen. |
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| A killer specimen from the Tourmaline Queen Mine in San Diego Country. It's huge, and has spectacular color. |
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| Another view of the Tourmaline Queen Mine specimen. |
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GneissWare
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 01:11 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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More California cases.....
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| An Axinite from Riverside County from the Smithsonian. |
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| Colemanite from the Thompson Mine in Death Valley. California is known for its suites of Borate minerals, but these were not well represented at the show. A Smithsonian piece. |
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| California has numerous Garnet localities. This Smithsonian specimen is an Andradite from Calaveras County. |
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| A rare Linarite and Calendonite from the Blue Bell Mine in San Bernardino County. These were produced in the early 1900s and are very hard to find in this quality...I know. It took me years to find one for my collection! |
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GneissWare
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 01:16 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Bill Moller was a wonderful man, field collector and he and his wife, Elizabeth, assembled a fabulous mineral collection together. Bill passed on a few years ago, and this tribute case shows some of his California specimens: a Benitoite, a Neptunite and a Mesa Grande Elbaite.
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GneissWare
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 01:25 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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About half the cases did not feature California minerals. Here are a few I like....
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| A complex and largely undamaged Japanese Stibnite |
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| Evan and Bob Jones' Red Cloud Wulfenite. The color is top quality on this large cabinet specimen, and the camera just cannot capture how impressive this piece is in person. |
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| A sharp Kesterite from Mt. Xuebaoding in China. |
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| One of the rare combos of Bertrandite, Apatite and Fluorite from Kazakhstan. |
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| A fine Stibnite from Guerrero Mexico. These are not very common. |
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GneissWare
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 01:32 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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And to wrap up my contribution to this thread, a few more California minerals...
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| White Queen Mine Beryls--an Aquamarine and Morganite both on the same specimen. The photo does not do justice to this piece. |
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| A large plate from the Little 3 Mine in San Diego County. Unlike many specimens from here, the Elbaites are in perfect condition with small Albites embedded in the terminations, and 2 large Aquamarines on the side. The only thing missing to make this the perfect specimen is a Spessartine garnet. A fabulous piece! |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 01:37 Post subject: Tucson Show 2011 - 8 |
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Tucson 02/11/2011
For the people already in Tucson and for they who will arrive tomorrow I strongly recomend a visit to the Arizona University Mineral Museum where this days runs a temporary exhibit of fabulous specimens from pegmatites, mostly Pakistan and Afghanistan. The exhibit deserves the trip, as well as the whole collection of minerals of Arizona University -> https://www.uamineralmuseum.org/
Jordi
2010 European correspondent of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show™
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| You will see marvels like this |
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Or like this...
Photos: Joaquim Callén |
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Gail
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 01:46 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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The Kesterite shown above is one out of our collection. It is my favourite.
Loving this show report, by the way!
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Lumaes
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 02:10 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Hi Gail
The Kesterite is indeed a lovely piece and you should be proud to own it. I too have a lovely one, well soon I hope depends a lot on EMS from China. When it arrives I will post a photo. All the best
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 07:40 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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...Loving this show report, by the way!
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Me too, please keep posting...
Very soon I will fly back to Spain, and for several days I don't will publish more posts, so please FMFers do your best and help Bob and Gail to show to the minerals fans the core of Tucson Show! ;-)
Jordi
PS: I have a lot of infos, photos, etectera to post and I will do it during February. In the meantime I'm sure that others FMFers will post such interesting news.
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One of the California Golds displayed in the TGMS
Photo: Joaquim Callén |
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Wilson Bonilla
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 08:30 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Good gold specimens. Congratulations !
Could you please show them more in detail pictures,i.e. one per one from the collection?
Thank you.
WILSON
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Jean Sendero
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 08:45 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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A few pics from the Main Show at the TCC. Again a small focus on the Mexican specimens to see. Not a dealer review as several were seen before at the Westward Look, but mainly the display cases.
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| A busy Peter Megaw during set-up on Wednesday. |
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| Lauren Megaw setting her Competition Case with Carl Francis on the side. |
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| Marshall Sussman having a chat with Jim and Imelda Klein when setting-up the META case. META stands for the Mineral Enthusiastic of the Tucson Area. A newly formed group of collectors from the Tucson Area. |
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| Jim and Imelda Klein hard at work with the META case. They did a great job, the case looks simply great. |
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| Jim and Imelda and myself after having filled-up our Taxco Exhibit case |
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| A group of people set-up a number of cases on calcite alone. Mexican calcite is very well represented with this case put up by Peter Megaw. |
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| One can always learn something looking at these. The nice pink calcite from Concepcion del Oro is too often termed "Cobalto Calcite" when in reality it is a Mangano Calcite from Mina Aranzazu. |
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| Other educational calcite cases included the description of Twins. Several Mexican examples are used to display twinning in calcite. Here at the back, one of these beautiful arrowhead calcite from Areponapuchic, Mpio. De Bocoyna, Chihuahua |
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| A classic from the 18th Level of the Chiminea J-Norte in the Mina Buena Tierra, West Camp, Santa Eulalia. |
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| Peter had another case for our enjoyment, A smoking case filled with specimens from the Milpillas mine. The azurite on malachite have such a nice contrast, the "bat" is simply astonishing, and the brochantite.....I only had my BB to take picture yesterday. Better close-up later with the better camera. |
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