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crocoite
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Posted: Jan 23, 2013 02:27 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Hi Robyn. Nowhere near a beach I'm afraid. Ballarat is nearly 100km from the sea! The nugget was found close to Ballarat, a noted and famous gold region.
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Steve
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bob kerr
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Posted: Jan 23, 2013 09:28 Post subject: Re: Tucson 2013: a survival kit for the beginner (valere) |
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John S. White wrote: | Question for Rockaholics:
Are the Pueblo Gem & Mineral Show and the International Fine Mineral Building one and the same? If so, why two different names? The second name is unfortunately too similar to the Fine Minerals International facility, which I am sure is not the one you are referring to. Additionally, the IFMB is not listed in the 2013 Tucson Show Guide. Very confusing. |
John - not sure if anyone responded to you but I think what's going on here is that there is an "out-building" at the Riverpark Inn where mineral dealers are concentrated and they call it the IFMB. the majority of the riverpark inn is lots of other "stuff".
So, for ultimate confusion: the Pueblo Gem and Mineral Show is housed at the Riverpark Inn which used to be the Pueblo Inn and also contains the International Fine Mineral Building which is hidden out back of the Riverpark Inn.
There's a number of really good dealers in the IFMB and marcus budil had a special room in the main building. worth a visit.
Bob
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Rich Olsen
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Posted: Jan 24, 2013 15:11 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Hi All,
I am assisting Jim Houran with the planning and installation of what promises to be a great thumbnail exhibit for this years TGMS main show. It is based on the "Elegant World of Thumbnail Minerals" article in last years March-April (Vol43-#2) issue of The Mineralogical Record. We have arranged to have over 60 of the specimens pictured in this great article on display in the case . Along with the individual specimens, is a real prize, Mitch Gunnel's boxed"master set" of single crystals illustrated in the article(courtesy of Wayne andDona Leicht).
Include here is a"teaser" in the form of a couple of my specimens that will be included.
Be sure to come by and take a look.
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Rocksaholics
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Posted: Jan 25, 2013 20:29 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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John, The Pueblo Gem & Mineral Show is held at the Riverpark Inn in Tucson.
The show is spread out in Building A, Building B and Building C, besides in various tents, ball room and show rooms etc.
Building C is a separate area with its own courtyard and it was previously used only for sleeping rooms. Since 2010, we at Rocksaholics decided to establish this building as a venue for only fine minerals and The Pueblo Gem & Mineral Show welcomed us.
The first two years there were very few dealers who joined us and in 2013 The Pueblo Gem & Mineral Show has a waiting list for dealers of fine minerals.
Our group of dealers did not like the generic building "C" name and voted to change it to The International Fine Mineral Building. The show management obliged and today this venue is one of the most convenient and buyer friendly venues in Tucson for fine minerals.
We are honored that several well know & respected dealers have joined us and in 2013, we welcome The Arkenstone, Rocky Mountain Minerals, American Fine Mineral Consortium, to name a few.
Jordi has honored us with his visit in 2012 and we look forward to welcoming you in 2013.
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Jan 31, 2013 21:22 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - First note from Jordi |
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Tucson 01/31/2013
When in Tucson, the first feeling during the initial days is the feeling that you are really tired and overwhelmed. Why? the Show is so huge, the number of venues is so large and the availability of the hard drive of your brain is so limited that your brain collapses soon and you wants to come back with your mom ;-)
After this non funny initial feeling, the number of the offers, the magnificence of some specimens and in general the beauty of the mineral world makes you, slowly, starts to enjoy the Show, but the first days.... ! ;-(
Speaking about novelties: some new Wulfenites on Descloizite (not Mottramite) and colorful Duftites from Ojuela mine, a great find of very fine Jacobsites from N'Chwaning Mine, very few nice blue Celestines from (maybe) El Ayachi, Morocco, a HUGE number of specimens from Huanggang Mine in all kind of qualities, and as usual, a lot of small new finds here and there.
VERY IMPORTANT! I believe is not so well announced, so please note that the Former Quality Inn in Benson is not more operating this year and that the dealers from there are now located in the second floor of the TCC-Inn Suites (that in fact concentrates the major part of dealers of minerals) and the Pueblo Gem Show - Riverpark Inn. Theoretically, several dealers should be also in the Executive Inn but, at least yesterday and today, I don't saw they.
BTW, for my astonishment the parking lot of the Executive Inn is totally occupied with tents selling mostly fossils, which is really funny because the people now has not room to park his car front the Hotel! ;-)
More to come...
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Jan 31, 2013 23:45 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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I got in yesterday afternoon after taking the red eye from Anchorage. When i got to the Inn Suites, the hotel seemed only maybe 30% open. The atmosphere seemed relaxed, even if the dirt parking lot had a lot of cars. Many dealers were just moving in. Luis Burillo was doing a brisk business, and there I found nice clean Rio Marina pyrites; a number of Panasquiera apatities including a blue one I couldn't resist; lusterous bournonite from Viboras Mine, Machacamarca, Bolivia; and partially gemmy cassiterite from the Viloco mine in Bolivia. Stone Age Gifts and Green Mountain minerals (where I saw an amazingly gemmy Madagascar tourmaline) were also open, with stuff fun to look at. I saw Mario Pauwels all over the place and Marco Amabili at Luis Burillo's room. There were other rooms open, but I was in kind of a fog, so I can't recount them here.
Today, I didn't get to the Inn Suites until maybe 3pm. The place was busy! It seemed like the majority of dealers were open. The parking lot was full. They closed the egress and parking behind the hotel and so now, with all the dealers coming over from the Quality Inn, I expect traffic and parking at the Inn Suites is going to be even more CRAZY this year. We shall see. I bumped into a number of great people including Jordi, Jesse Fisher, and Trevor from Australia (whose last name escapes me; sorry Trevor). I saw Asia at the Spirifer room where she showed me some nice vanadinites with good color and transparency. Ross Lillie of North Star Minerals was open and i had a nice chat with him and was able to view a nice assortment of eastern European sulfides, as usual. I had a long chat with Jared Freiburg of Saga minerals who is always a fountain of information about midwest geology and minerals. He showed me some great Illinois fluorite and Linwood Barytes and calcites, among other things.
I hope people find this recount useful. Attached are some random pictures.
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Don Lum
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Posted: Feb 01, 2013 00:09 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Thank you for your report and pictures.
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Jean Sendero
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Posted: Feb 01, 2013 21:09 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Well, as you all know, it is this time of the year when you will be adding new mineral specimens to your collections. In a similar way than last year, I will only report on what matters in the world of minerals, Mexican Minerals. I know, there a lot of other countries that produce minerals but for me, it does not matter. Mexico is the gig to have.
I will only write about minerals leaving the social scene to report on to others that do it very well. So, since Thursday morning I have been walking around west of I-10 and at the Tucson City Hotel.
So what did I see that was new or relatively new or uncommon, as mentioned by Jordi previously, some deep yellow orange blocky wulfenite on descloizite and or mottramite from Mina Ojuela Mapimi. Maybe both minerals are forming the matrix, the jury is out on this at the moment. Peter Megaw did mention that these were coming. The specimens are actually from a mid November find at Mapimi. Small find with few undamaged specimens trickling out.
We saw some kibbles at Denver but in Tucson, real specimens of sulfosalts (pyrargyrite maybe stephanite) from Oaxaca, some canary yellow elongated rhombohedra of calcite from Sta Eulalia, some pale amethyst on calcite from Las Vigas an uncommon association, and amethyst from Durango.
At the TCH, I visited the dealers that were open on Thursday (maybe 30-40%) and today Friday (85%). As you walk in the lobby, at the booth of Arkenstone, you will fine the pale amethyst on calcite but as well plenty of cuproadamite from Mapimi, a few large mottramite and regular Las Vigas amethyst.
As you get the rooms, Xtal – Dennis Beals Minerals will greet you with a red room. No joke. Dennis has been mining the raspberry grossular from Sierra de Cruces in Coahuila. This you, the harvest is simply the best that I have seen in years. Esthetic specimens, great red color and more importantly, less broken crystals. After 3 years of cleaning these puppies, Dennis pinned down the technique to limit the damage to a minimum. They are good.
Don Olson of Olson Minerals has a beautiful specimen of paradamite with Legrandite. Many other Mexican minerals were represented originating from purchased collection. Tomasz Praszkier at Spirifer Minerals has ½ shelves full of San Francisco wulfenite with mimetite. Simply beautiful.
Outside, at the front at his usual spot, Jesus Valenzuela, has again this year a wide assortment of azurite but as well some killer brochantite and some interesting pieces with Baryte rosettes.
This seems to cover it for Mexico at the TCH. If there is more, let me know
Crossing the I-10, we will make our way to the Days Inn. At the Days Inn, surprise, surprises with Alfonso Arriaga of Crystals from Heaven. Alfonso has at least 4 flats of Oaxaca sulfosalts ranging from thumbnail with matrix to small cab on matrix. The better thumbnails to Toenails are loose crystals (to 1.5 cm) and group of crystals (to 4 cm) without matrix. Adding to this he has a few specimens of canary yellow canary yellow elongated rhombohedra of calcite from Mina El Potosi at Sta Eulalia. This is not all, he has a few Bishop hat calcite twins on matrix from Mina Hercules, Coahuila, and datolite groups with crystals to 3-4 cm exhibiting a great luster from Charcas. An abundance of bluish grey Smithsonite with goethite from Sta Eulalia can be bought. The Smithsonite has an incredible luster. Further, the room contained blue Hemimorphite rhodocrosite and more all from Sta Eulalia.
The next door gas station hosted a couple of Mexican dealers, of which Jose Angel, had some amethyst with good luster and crystals to 1 cm from Rancho Villa Real, Mina La Morada, Durango.
Further south, you get to the Motel 6, not an official venue but with some dealers. Jesus Salinas was there and had brought with him some of the wulfenite on mottramite/descloizite with him, some great vanadinite from the Cock’s Orebody, Mina San Antonio Sta Eulalia, much better than what was at the show last year, some super gemmy nifontovite from Charcas as thumbnails and toenails, and more.
This is about it, let’s look at photo’s from the TCH. Later from the west side of the I-10
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Feb 01, 2013 21:26 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Jean Sendero wrote: | ...some deep yellow orange blocky wulfenite on descloizite and or mottramite from Mina Ojuela Mapimi. Maybe both minerals are forming the matrix, the jury is out on this at the moment... |
The jury already decided Jean ;-) I knew yesterday afternoon that they were analyzed and they are Descloizites instead of Mottramites, that's why I wrote "Descloizite (not Mottramite)" on my comment.
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Jean Sendero
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Posted: Feb 02, 2013 01:41 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Jordi,
we maybe speaking of different "types" of specimens. One is dark and looks like descloizite and the other is light which may be mottramite. I will have my jury finish it's deliberations by the end of next week or earlier. Some pics below.
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keldjarn
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Posted: Feb 02, 2013 03:55 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Matt and Jean.
Thank you for your reports and pictures, They are very much appreciated. Sadly I was unable to visit Tucson this year and miss the action. Keep the reports and pictures coming !
Knut
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Feb 02, 2013 22:29 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Thanks for the encouragement Knut.
Yesterday I didn't get to the show until 5pm. I spent most of my time in Tomasz and Asia's room and there I had a beer and looked at vanadinite, Rogerley fluorite, and other things. Picts below. Jesse Fisher and Ian Jones came by and then Dudley Blauwet showed up and gave us an update of the craziness in Pakistan/Afghanistan. More people showed up and it was an interesting conversation.
Today Fine Minerals International opened up and i spent most of my day there. I saw many people and many wonderful minerals. Daniel extended his house toward the Inn Suites and now has an incredible space. He also has new cabinets that are very nice. I didn't do a good job of documenting what he had but the few picts i took are shown below.
After leaving Daniel's house I wandered around the Inn Suites and ended up at Tomasz and Asia's room where i learned that Krupnick is a fun but dangerous beverage.
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Posted: Feb 04, 2013 23:01 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Today i went to the Riverpark Inn, and this show appears to be growing. Aisha and Arif of Rocksaholics had their usual assortment gemmy goodness. Arkenstone also had quite an assortment in two rooms. Sandra Gonzales of Rocky Mountain Gems & Minerals had a great selection of old well-documented Tsumeb material; picts below. I also met a very gracious Ghulam Mustafa of Fine Art Minerals, this his first year at Tucson, with an excellent selection of PAK and AFG material; picts below.
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Posted: Feb 04, 2013 23:13 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Posted: Feb 05, 2013 22:06 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Today I was at the Inn Suites again. My first stop was Dan & Diana Weinrich's room off the main lobby. There i saw a very lustrous Berbes fluorite that caught my eye, pict below. I had some nice chats in Jordi's room and there someone pointed me to a Chinese dealer with pink fluorites from the famous new inner mongolia locality. This dealer (Guilin De Tian), located at the SE corner of one of the inner buildings, had several different styles of fluorites from that locality - picts below.
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Posted: Feb 05, 2013 22:18 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Worth a separate post IMHO are the super gemmy fluorites with wild etching or growth features, also from Huanggangliang. When one of these first caught my eye, I thought it was a Jeffrey garnet, then it looked like an incredibly transparent sphalerite, and finally it became apparent that it was fluorite. These, I believe, are worth a look.
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Posted: Feb 05, 2013 23:50 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Matt_Zukowski wrote: | ...There i saw a very lustrous Berbes fluorite that caught my eye, pict below.... |
Sorry to tell you that this Fluorite is not from Berbes but from Jaimina mine (see: https://www.mindat.org/loc-7054.html )
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Posted: Feb 06, 2013 03:53 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Thanks Jordi.
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Feb 08, 2013 00:06 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Today I went to the Westward Look and I'd say more than half of the rooms were open, even though the show does not officially open up until tomorrow.
On a side note, I'd like to say that there is no rhyme or reason to my photo taking or photo posting. I seem to pull out the camera (phone) at random. I want to make it clear that i do not favor any dealer - frankly just about everyone has some rock and some story that is interesting to me. Just because I post a bunch of photos from one room and none from another does not mean that I endorse one dealer more than another.
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Fluorite China In Crystal Classics room was this fluorite that is neat in itself but making it extra special was that it had a fluid inclusion with a bubble. Sorry about the pict, but it was interesting and I wanted to mention it. |
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Fluorite Shangbao The next two picts are of a Shangbao Fluorite with great 3-dimensionality. |
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This piece was very clean, with just a hint of a contact on the magnesite on the back. I think this combo is very aesthetic, |
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Dolomite with magnesite Pomba Pit, Brumado, Brazil |
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Arsenopyrite Santo Domingo, Mexico A very clean mexican arsenopyrite in Pala's room. |
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Galena Neudorf, Harz Mountains, Germany Also in Pala's room. |
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Tourmaline I think this comes from Paprok. In Wayne Thompson's room. |
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Smithsonite Kelly Mine This is of of the coolest smithsonites I have seen in terms of the way light plays over the specimen. Perhaps the term is chatoyant. In any case, it just shimmers as the specimen is turned in light. In Tom Spann's room. |
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Hematite Tormiq, PAK Also in Tom Spann's room, a hematite rose that looks more like a rose than any I have seen. |
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A well-composed Los Lomentos Wulfenite. |
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Rubellite Jonas Mine, Minas Gerais Excellent color, luster, and gemmyness, if small. From the Perkins Sam collection. |
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Feb 08, 2013 00:44 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Galena Sweetwater A very lustrous galena from sweetwater. In Sunnywood's room. |
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Fluorite Shangbao A more purple shangbao fluorite. Also in Sunnywood's room. |
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Liddicoatite Antanetinilapa (Estatoby), Madagascar A big fat liddicoatite with good color and transparency considering the size and locality. In Watzl's room. |
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The stand they are using to light this liddicoatite is very cool. |
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A fun large feldspar in Scott Werschky's room. |
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Amazonite Smokey Hawk, Teller Co, CO A cool amazonite cluster. |
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