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Darren
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Thanks Joan! La Cocina, that's it! I guess I just assumed since it has a Spanish name it would be Mexican food! Gonna try it anyway with the wife and kids on Saturday, after we stop to introduce ourselves and say "howdy!" And Samuel, our summers here can get above 100 easily, and dry, dusty!!!! Ya'll have a great night (day!)
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Feb 04, 2011 01:08 Post subject: Tucson Show 2011 - 4 |
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Tucson 02/03/2011
The topic of discussion this year are not the minerals, but the weather. Yesterday it reached a low that has never been in the history of Tucson: 18 Fahrenheit (-8 Celsius) but tonight is said that will reach 15 Fahrenheit (-10 Celsius) The half of the city had not water because the pipes are frozen and, of course, it is difficult to work well, since the conditions here are not suitable by this so low temperature.
Tomorrow they say it will warm, so as soon as we thaw, I begin to publish more pictures of minerals ;-)
Wild Tucson!
Jordi
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Tucson's Ice.
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Gail
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| Posted: Feb 04, 2011 08:19 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Jordi, thank you for posting wonderful photos! Your site offers such great views of the Tucson experience!
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| Posted: Feb 05, 2011 00:01 Post subject: Tucson Show 2011 - 5 |
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Tucson 02/04/2011
With the intense cold already gone, I still publish two more photos to show the impact of this unusual circumstance i the fair .
As the worst is over, I'm back to post photos of minerals, this time from one of the excellent Jeremejevites on matrix found between February and March 2010 in the Amib Range, Erongo, Namibia. The matrix was studied whether it could been a new species, but finally, acording Bill Pinch, is simply a term through Elbaite-Foitita series.
Jordi
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The Electric Park is one the largest venues in the Tucson Show and yesterday the cold was so intense that they were obligated to close it temporaly to survival, due the fact that many exhibitors are outside and this venue it is located in a very windy place.
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One of the fine Jeremejevites on matrix of Elbaite-Foitite mined in February-March of past year in Amib Range, Erongo, Namibia. Crystals about 3 cm. length
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Gail
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| Posted: Feb 05, 2011 03:39 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Jordi, is that the jeremejevite found in this month's Mineralogical Record?
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Feb 05, 2011 11:45 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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| Gail wrote: | | Jordi, is that the jeremejevite found in this month's Mineralogical Record? |
Same found, but is not the same specimen pictured in the page 74 of the January-February 2011 issue of the M. Record. It looks like but isn't.
Best regards from the other side of the Show! ;-)
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Jean Sendero
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| Posted: Feb 05, 2011 13:03 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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A few shots taken yesterday, Friday February 4th at the Westward Look Show. Of course these will all be Mexican pieces. Not a lot of real smokers were out there when I visited the place but, these are the ones that caught my attention.
Apologies if the sizes are not given. The quality of the specimens makes it somewhat irrelevant. But they range from miniature to cabinet.
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| More Brochantite, astro turf variety, these one from Masterpiece |
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| A killer pyrargyrite from Fresnillo from a new lot that came out of Mexico in December 2010. A little smoker, lucky Scott, this is found in the Miner's Lunchbox |
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| A smoking stephanite from Arizpe in the Stonetrust |
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| A very nice polybasite from Guanajuato in Dan Weinrich room 240. |
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| A lovely large miniature at the limit of small cabinet size wulfenite from Los Lamentos. This one found in Mike Bergmann |
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| My favorite, another wulfenite from Los Lamentos shown in Kristalle |
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| Wulfenite from Los Lamentos in Collector's Edge |
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| Another breath taking wulfenite in Collector's Edge room. |
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Jean Sendero
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| Posted: Feb 05, 2011 20:19 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Today, back to the Tucson City Hotel. On the way there, a quick stop at the "Mineral and Fossil Market Place on Oracle to see Mexican dealer Holguin in his tent. Clearly lower quality material but all in quantity that can be purchased by the flat or on occasion as individual specimens. This is a great place to find some locality specimens if the better aesthetics is not mission critical. No rare species, generally run of the mill but the occasional, unusual such as cerrusite on goethite from Sta Eulalia (my photo did not turned out).
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| Table covered with flats and individually priced specimens of quartz (var amethyst) from Guanajuato. Some nice pieces in these and the prices are very reasonable. At Holguin at the Market Place |
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Matt_Zukowski
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| Posted: Feb 06, 2011 00:04 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Saturday was collector day at the Westward Look, and this year Wayne Sorensen was kind enough to share some of his spectacular specimens with us.
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| Top left case, mostly Elmwood. That is a spruce claim pyrite on qtz in center of pict. |
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Matt_Zukowski
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| Posted: Feb 06, 2011 00:20 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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More of Wayne Sprensen's pieces.
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| Mostly pyromorphites on middle shelf, left cabinet. |
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| A spectacular Bad Ems pyromorphite, sorry about the lousy camera work. |
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| That is a spruce claim pyrite! The pyrite xtal morphology reminds me of Elba. |
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Antonio Alcaide
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| Posted: Feb 06, 2011 03:28 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Thanks to all for sharing not only the pics but the feelings and the atmosphere.
It is a good counterpoint to my boring and cold -without Show- Sunday here in Europe.
Cheers
PS: Gail, every year with your report I learn to love a bit more your "people pictures" than mineral ones.
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Elise
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| Posted: Feb 06, 2011 15:55 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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| Jordi Fabre wrote: | | I propose to operate this time with a single thread (this thread) where everybody can download their images, thoughts or just comments in order to create a large thread to give to the rest of the world an extended vision of this large Show. |
Jordi keeps after me to write something so here I go: this is a report from my temporary abode at "Camp Scovil" here at the Inn Suites where I am so fortunate to have a unique window into the Tucson scene as some of the most fabulous mineral and gem specimens of the show, if not the world, come through this door to have their portraits taken. I never get tired of watching Jeff work, nor of learning from both Jeff and Mark (Mauthner) - they are great mentors for me with their knowledge of mineralogy and the aesthetics of fine specimens; it is that which is behind a truly great mineral or gem photograph as everyone here already appreciates!
It has been wonderful meeting many members of the FMF for the first time, as well as old friends. The show here at the Inn Suites is incredible in its range-- I am here at Camp Scovil for the entire two weeks, but with no hope of even making a dent in seeing all there is to see from the vendors here, let alone out in the wider Tucson. My best finds here have been a trapiche grossular garnet, a multi-star rainbow andradite garnet from New Mexico and the pink grossular garnets shown below. Jeff took a break just now from his long day of shooting to image them for me (more in this thread I started earlier here: https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?t=954). These grossulars are something I was particularly interested in obtaining for my library and Jordi had enthusiastically sent me over to Dennis Beals (Xtal, room 120) where I spent a good 2 hours learning all about the locality and and the characteristics. I was able to pick out some very affordable and representative specimens for my collection, including some splits which show the black cores, while also getting to view extraordinary larger examples which exceed the carry-on weight limit for my flight home.
As a gemmologist, I also have to relate my delightful experience last Sunday of walking around on an "inclusion tour" here at the Inn Suites with my friends Kristi and John Koivula; John being the author of the 3 volume PhotoAtlas series on inclusions, posted here by John White: https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?t=1112 I know that on the surface mineral dealers/collectors might not appreciate this aspect at first, but last evening Alfredo passed on a most apropos quote originating from someone to whom cut gems are an anathema (this uttered upon seeing an extraordinary inclusion within a fashioned stone): "Cut gems are merely precision trimmed matrix; the inclusion is the mineral specimen!" The microworld of minerals within minerals (and sometimes yet again within minerals 3x) is mineral appreciation of a different sort. Alfredo and I share a love of the....well, weird. Some of my best inclusion specimens come from this man, including natural volcanic glass from Bolivia with swarms of beautiful spessartite garnets within.
This ends my first week of the show; I look forward to the next week and the FMF dinner!
Cheers!
Elise
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| Garnet var. Grossular, Sierra de Cruces (Lake Jaco), Hercules, Coahuila, Mexico. Largest 6.10 cm high. Photo: Jeff Scovil, 2011 (notice black core on split) |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Feb 07, 2011 00:01 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 - FMFs party in Tucson 2011 is almost here! |
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Hi FMF minsurfers! This is a friendly reminder of the FMF party ( https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=13662#13662 ) that will run on Tuesday 8 February at 7:00 PM in Casa Vicente. The best companionship in town! :-)
Suposed attending: over 30 people
See you there!
Jordi
Casa Vicente is in downtown Tucson, 375 S. Stone Ave, Tucson AZ 85701
Stone Ave is one way, heading south. Get onto Stone at downtown (Congress or Broadway) or any point north, and then head south, upper the Covention Center. There is ample parking.
Map: https://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&ie=UTF8&q=Casa+Vicente+Tucson++map&fb=1&gl=es&hq=Casa+Vicente&hnear=Tucson,+Arizona,+EEUU&cid=0,0,4471995366425424129&ll=32.219046,-110.969167&spn=0.015939,0.0421&z=15
Casa Vicente: https://www.casavicente.com/
Past year party: https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=9662#9662
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| Posted: Feb 07, 2011 10:09 Post subject: Tucson Show 2011 - 6 |
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Tucson 02/07/2011
If Tucson is always intense, this year even more. The general impression is that the discouragement generated by the economic crisis has passed, at least in the U.S. and at least in what concerns to collectors specimens, with maybe the slight nuance that it seems that is a little bit harder than in the past to find buyers for the more expensive specimens.
By this Tucson's intensity, I do what I can do to publish columns, but is hard to find time to do so. Thanks to the other minsurfers which are also publishing their stories in this thread, which thus is more complete.
Jordi
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Joaquim Callén is here in Tucson, with his mobile photographic studio. He is the manager of the MineralUp magazine and a great photographer.
In the room Mario Pauwels, well known belgian collector, Joaquim Callén, his wife Eloïsa and me |
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Cute, isn't?
These are the Chrysocolla after Boleite from Boleo I mentioned before:
"- Very interesting and colorful pseudomorphs of Chrysocolla after Boleites and Cumengeites from recent finds in the Amelia Mine area. Also, it is reported that the Amelia Mine has been covered by tons of rubble from a new mine which will open soon. So, in some ways it is good news because this new mine could supply novelties in the future, but in another way is very bad, because with all these tons of rubble, the Amelia Mine probably will never more supply Boleites, Pseudoboleites, Cumengeites, etcetera....For more info about the new mine you can use -> http://www.bajamining.com/ "
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Gail
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| Posted: Feb 07, 2011 10:14 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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I met and enjoyed the company of Joaquim and his most lovely wife last evening!
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Feb 07, 2011 10:20 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Hi Gail,
Everybody enjoys Joaquim and Eloïsa, they are just wonderful persons.
BTW, these paralel threads from Tucson are funny. We cover most of the show and from different perspectives, right? ;-)
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Gail
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| Posted: Feb 07, 2011 11:18 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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If we both do show reports we can capture more of the magic of Tucson. All the better!
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GneissWare
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| Posted: Feb 07, 2011 12:46 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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I've been in Tucson for 2 days and have made it through just a few places --- spending way too much time talking to people. Anyhow... I've been to the Quality Inn near Benson Highway twice, mostly focusing on Chinese dealers. The show has been very slow for them, and there are lots of nice specimens, and some mediocre specimens with large prices. It always pays to look around. I found 3 dealers in particular with uniformly good quality and reasonable prices...I would encourage people interested in Chinese minerals to head up there. Here are some photos...
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| An unusual combo of Beryl on Feldspar from Xuebaoding. This specimen is about 10-11 cm, and the Beryls have good color. This is from Shicheng's room and I took this piece home with me. She had lots of great Beryls and it took about 40 minutes to decide on this piece. |
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GneissWare
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| Posted: Feb 07, 2011 12:54 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Last night was the Old Farts meeting in Jesse and Joan's room at InnSuites. After spending all day wheelin' and dealin', I decided to stop in for an ale and fluorite. Of course, I could resist stopping in to see our Fearless Leader, Jordi, as his room was still open after most dealers close at 5pm.
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