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[Jordi Fabre]

[Jordi Fabre]

Four more

[Tobi]

[Gail]

Oh my. I apologize for the confusion! But I will still be very honored by your compliment. Now that I have a better understanding of which Tobi is which I shall be sure to distinguish!

[John S. White]

I took many photos and will attempt to post some of them.

[John S. White]

More pics

[Jordi Fabre]

Barcelona 02/18/2018

Definitively the new discoveries in Tucson this year has been very scarce. In fact, as far as I know, there have only been three real novelties, the Fluorites of Madagascar, the Quartz of the District of Kullu in the Indian Himalayas and the Golds of the Serra Dourada, Brazil. The other "novelties" have been mostly re-findings.
Is curious that in a year in which the plethora of fabulous minerals were even better than in previous editions there have been so few new discoveries…

México:
Following the general tendency there were not new things in Mexico although it is true that you can describe as "new" the numerous Barytes found in the volcán vein of the San Diego Mine at the Santa Bárbara mining district in Chihuahua.
In the "revisited" chapter, the San José mine in Oaxaca has once again given a significant quantity of crystallized silver sulfides that should have to be analyzed but in which it seems there may be Acanthite, Pyrargyrite, Miargyrite and perhaps some other species. Also revisited are the new Paradamites from the Ojuela mine, of great quality.

India:
Impressive alpine geode-fissure in the valleys of the Himalayas, in the District of Kullu, India. As already explained and seen in the video of Tucson Show 2018 - New spectacular quartz from Northern India! this is an impressive find that will surely have continuity and probably will give a lot to talk about in the future

Madagascar:
Great surprise for the new Fluorites of Madagascar, an island that is not exactly famous for that mineral species. Large crystals with good color and slightly dichroic have been found recently close the Mandronarivo area, Beroroha District, Atsimo Andrefana Region, Toliara Province, Madagascar. One of the few real novelties of this edition of the Tucson Show.

Brazil:
New Golds, potent, from a locality not known until now: Serra Dourada in Mato Grosso, Brazil. As you can see in the photo, they are of great quality and good size. With luck and if they are still finding more specimens in the future, they can become a classic.

Congo D.R.:
New finding of exceptional Carrollites at the Kamoya South II Mine. It is difficult to say if they are better or not than those of the famous findings of 2001-2002 but in any case they are extraordinary.

Peru:
In the recent years Peru seems to have been specialized in the Axinites. As if they were not enough, the two new recently discovered deposits are now adding a new one: Raipa, Aija Province, Ancash Department, which is giving large pieces filled with also large crystals that form spectacular groups.

As you can see there was not much new. If until now at the major Shows many small finds filled well the chapter of the new discoveries, in this Tucson 2018 the number of new discoveries has been very low, although it is true that the few that have been found are of great interest.

[Jordi Fabre]

Barcelona 02/19/2018

And the last 5 selected images of the specimens from the collection of Peter Megaw.

[John S. White]

More Tucson pics

[Tobi]

[Stefan Koch]

Hi there,

The "Tobi" shown in the picture is Tobias Weise, the son of Christian Weise, publisher of the german mineral magazine "Lapis".

Cheers,
Stefan

[Jordi Fabre]

[dontgogreen]

If anyone has high-resolution photographs or links to them of the MAD case or Ralph Clark's display, would you please share them with us?

[Gail]

[Jordi Fabre]

A series of eye candy images taken by Jordi Deusedes and me at the Westward Look.