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Don Lum
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 Posted: Feb 20, 2014 17:54 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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| Josele wrote: | Let me add my congratulations for your report, a balanced mix of Tucson ambiance, interesting stuff and warm human relations.
This encourage me to plan a peregrination to Tucson-Mecca one of these years... |
Thank you, Josele. I sincerely hope you can travel to Tucson for the show. It was an eye-opener for me. It was everything I had anticipated and more. If I understand correctly there were 400 dealers at the Pueblo Gem and Mineral Show at The Riverpark Inn and 300 dealers at the Tucson City Center (formerly The Inn Suites) and these were only two of forty-two shows going on in the two to three weeks beginning the end of January. I don't know how many dealers there were at the TGMS the last weekend. I think the motto of the Tucson Show should be "If we don't have it, you don't need it."
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| Posted: Feb 20, 2014 18:06 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Feb 20, 2014 18:21 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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| Posted: Feb 20, 2014 18:35 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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Greg Lilly
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| Posted: Feb 20, 2014 19:41 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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Hello Don,
I'm enjoying your Tucson report, it's 5 years since I have been and it brings back many happy memories,
Thank you
Greg
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Feb 20, 2014 21:05 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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| Greg Lilly wrote: | Hello Don,
I'm enjoying your Tucson report, it's 5 years since I have been and it brings back many happy memories,
Thank you
Greg |
Hello Greg,
I'm glad you are enjoying my report. I hope you can make it back to Tucson next year.
Thanks for your comment.
Don
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| Posted: Feb 21, 2014 01:44 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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| Don Lum wrote: | | With great admiration and respect, I dedicate my 2014 Tucson Show Report to two remarkable women, Gail Spann and Aisha Jan. Both of these courageous and beautiful women have heightened my awareness and appreciation of the mineral world. |
Thank you Dr.Lum for the dedication of your fantastic 2014 Tucson Show Report to Gail and me. If I may, with your permission, I would further like to dedicate it to all the survivors of breast cancer, the world over.
Aisha Jan.
Rocksaholics LLC
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Pierre Joubert
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| Posted: Feb 21, 2014 03:48 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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Hi Don. You certainly did not dissapoint!!! Excellent report. Now I also know what Michael and his wife looks like. Thank you very much for a very entertaining report.
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Feb 21, 2014 11:22 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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| Rocksaholics wrote: | | Don Lum wrote: | | With great admiration and respect, I dedicate my 2014 Tucson Show Report to two remarkable women, Gail Spann and Aisha Jan. Both of these courageous and beautiful women have heightened my awareness and appreciation of the mineral world. |
Thank you Dr.Lum for the dedication of your fantastic 2014 Tucson Show Report to Gail and me. If I may, with your permission, I would further like to dedicate it to all the survivors of breast cancer, the world over.
Aisha Jan.
Rocksaholics LLC |
Dear Aisha,
I fully agree with you. I had that in mind when I started my 2014 Show report with the picture of Jim and Gail's placard and pink teddy bear. I hereby dedicate my 2014 Tucson Show Report to breast cancer survivors all over the world.
With warm regards to you and Arif,
Don
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| Posted: Feb 21, 2014 11:26 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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| Pierre Joubert wrote: | | Hi Don. You certainly did not dissapoint!!! Excellent report. Now I also know what Michael and his wife looks like. Thank you very much for a very entertaining report. |
Good to hear from you, Pierre. Michael and Laura are very nice people and we had a great visit. I made it a point to seek out and meet as many FMF members as I could find. My second goal was to try to capture the spirit of the Tucson Show and thirdly to look for minerals to add to my collection. Please tell Riana I said hello.
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| Posted: Feb 21, 2014 15:29 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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| Posted: Feb 21, 2014 16:38 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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Rocksaholics sponsored a series of lectures at the Pueblo Gem and Mineral Show. I missed the first two because I was not yet in Tucson. The first talk was Magmachem Exploration, "New Ideas on the Origin of Oil: A Herkimer Diamond Case History from New York." by Stanley Keith. The second talk was "Mindat and Its Uses" by Jolyon Ralph, Founder of Mindat. The first talk I heard was by Jeff Swanger, Owner and Operator of the Oceanview Mine on "Recent Workings at Chief Mountain." Dr David London Author of "Pegmatites" and Professor at the School of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Oklahoma spoke on " A Collector's guide to Pegmatites and their Minerals." Dr. Federico Pezzotta, Petrologist, Minerology Museum Curator, Museo Di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy spoke on "Color Zoning in Multicolored Gem Tourmaline." Federico Barlocher, International videographer from Milan and prominent dealer of high quality unheated Burmese gems spoke on "Mogok Myanmar ( Burma): A Secret Overview of the Most Famous Mining Area for Colored Stones in the History of Gems." Bryan Swoboda, President of Blue Cap Productions was present to film the lectures in their entirety that will be available online.
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| Posted: Feb 21, 2014 18:52 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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Don Lum
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| Posted: Feb 21, 2014 18:55 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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| Rocksaholics wrote: | | Don Lum wrote: | | With great admiration and respect, I dedicate my 2014 Tucson Show Report to two remarkable women, Gail Spann and Aisha Jan. Both of these courageous and beautiful women have heightened my awareness and appreciation of the mineral world. |
Thank you Dr.Lum for the dedication of your fantastic 2014 Tucson Show Report to Gail and me. If I may, with your permission, I would further like to dedicate it to all the survivors of breast cancer, the world over.
Aisha Jan.
Rocksaholics LLC |
Agreed as long as you understand that you and Gail are special to me.
Don
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| Posted: Feb 21, 2014 20:59 Post subject: Re: My 2014 Tucson Experience |
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