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[GneissWare]

This topic is started as a place to post photos from the 2009 Denver Show, please feel free to add anything you wish from your Denver Show visit.

The MAD group case was a highlight of the show. A few of my favorites are posted below.

[GneissWare]

Scott Rudolf's cases offered some other treats.

[GneissWare]

Collector's Edge had some old rocks and some new rocks. These are ones that I would buy if my wife would let me mortgage the house.

[GneissWare]

A few of my friends at the show.

[Jordi Fabre]

[Gail]

The first SHM rhodo and the Swedish fluorite are ours, we truly love them. Great photos Gneissware!!!!

[Peter Megaw]

I want to know more about the golden calcite from Zacatecas, Mexico in the MAD case! anyone get a picture?

[Gail]

Peter, I will ask the person who owns that for more info. He is a new MAD member and really enthusiastic.

[Peter Megaw]

Than ks Gail...Lauren sez hello

[Tobi]

The Baryte from El'brusskiy Mine is just stunning, an almost unreal fine specimen. How big is that crystal?

[GneissWare]

Hi Tobias,
Based strictly on recollection, I would estimate the Baryte at about 4 to 4.5 cm tall. It is a stunning piece, and was, in my opinion, the nicest piece in the case.
Bob

[Pete Modreski]

A few more photos from the Denver Show! Some specimens that I particularly enjoyed seeing, follow. These first photos are of the very large wulfenite crystal, "perhaps the largest in the world", that John Attard had on display at his booth. It has been around since the 1960s, and a picture of it, by Rob Lavinsky, is posted on mindat too. Its mass is 1.8 kg. It was shown to me as a "guess what this is" and I must admit, it took me a good number of wrong guesses before I came up with wulfenite. John told me that Jaroslav Hyrsl, I believe it was, did identify it correctly right off.

[Pete Modreski]

Here's the bottom of the same crystal.

[Pete Modreski]

Now, several views of a nice large, color-zoned (colorless to blue) topaz crystal recently found by a Denver area collector near Wigwam Creek, in the Pikes Peak batholith, Jefferson County, Colorado. It was found on the surface, a section of a cleaved crystal--the collector is still looking for the other portions. I recorded the carat weight but can't seem to find where I wrote it down--but as you can see from the scale (fingers), it is on the order of 5 cm across.

[Pete Modreski]

Another large and quite well formed (John White would never allow me to get by with saying, "euhedral"! topaz, this time from the Tarryall Mountains, Park County, Colorado. Collected by Jeff & Donna Self.