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GneissWare
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Location: California
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 Posted: Feb 12, 2011 01:11 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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More California cases.....
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| An Axinite from Riverside County from the Smithsonian. |
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| Colemanite from the Thompson Mine in Death Valley. California is known for its suites of Borate minerals, but these were not well represented at the show. A Smithsonian piece. |
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| California has numerous Garnet localities. This Smithsonian specimen is an Andradite from Calaveras County. |
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| A rare Linarite and Calendonite from the Blue Bell Mine in San Bernardino County. These were produced in the early 1900s and are very hard to find in this quality...I know. It took me years to find one for my collection! |
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GneissWare
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
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Location: California
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 01:16 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Bill Moller was a wonderful man, field collector and he and his wife, Elizabeth, assembled a fabulous mineral collection together. Bill passed on a few years ago, and this tribute case shows some of his California specimens: a Benitoite, a Neptunite and a Mesa Grande Elbaite.
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GneissWare
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
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Location: California
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 01:25 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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About half the cases did not feature California minerals. Here are a few I like....
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| A complex and largely undamaged Japanese Stibnite |
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| Evan and Bob Jones' Red Cloud Wulfenite. The color is top quality on this large cabinet specimen, and the camera just cannot capture how impressive this piece is in person. |
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| A sharp Kesterite from Mt. Xuebaoding in China. |
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| One of the rare combos of Bertrandite, Apatite and Fluorite from Kazakhstan. |
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| A fine Stibnite from Guerrero Mexico. These are not very common. |
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GneissWare
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Location: California
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 01:32 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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And to wrap up my contribution to this thread, a few more California minerals...
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| White Queen Mine Beryls--an Aquamarine and Morganite both on the same specimen. The photo does not do justice to this piece. |
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| A large plate from the Little 3 Mine in San Diego County. Unlike many specimens from here, the Elbaites are in perfect condition with small Albites embedded in the terminations, and 2 large Aquamarines on the side. The only thing missing to make this the perfect specimen is a Spessartine garnet. A fabulous piece! |
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 01:37 Post subject: Tucson Show 2011 - 8 |
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Tucson 02/11/2011
For the people already in Tucson and for they who will arrive tomorrow I strongly recomend a visit to the Arizona University Mineral Museum where this days runs a temporary exhibit of fabulous specimens from pegmatites, mostly Pakistan and Afghanistan. The exhibit deserves the trip, as well as the whole collection of minerals of Arizona University -> https://www.uamineralmuseum.org/
Jordi
2010 European correspondent of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show™ 
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Or like this...
Photos: Joaquim Callén |
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Gail
Joined: 21 Feb 2008
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Location: Texas, Lone Star State.
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 01:46 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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The Kesterite shown above is one out of our collection. It is my favourite.
Loving this show report, by the way!
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Lumaes
Joined: 09 Feb 2011
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Location: AUSTRALIA
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 02:10 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Hi Gail
The Kesterite is indeed a lovely piece and you should be proud to own it. I too have a lovely one, well soon I hope depends a lot on EMS from China. When it arrives I will post a photo. All the best
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 07:40 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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...Loving this show report, by the way!
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Me too, please keep posting...
Very soon I will fly back to Spain, and for several days I don't will publish more posts, so please FMFers do your best and help Bob and Gail to show to the minerals fans the core of Tucson Show! ;-)
Jordi
PS: I have a lot of infos, photos, etectera to post and I will do it during February. In the meantime I'm sure that others FMFers will post such interesting news.
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One of the California Golds displayed in the TGMS
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Wilson Bonilla
Joined: 27 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 08:30 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Good gold specimens. Congratulations !
Could you please show them more in detail pictures,i.e. one per one from the collection?
Thank you.
WILSON
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Jean Sendero
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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Location: Hudson Heights, Quebec
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 08:45 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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A few pics from the Main Show at the TCC. Again a small focus on the Mexican specimens to see. Not a dealer review as several were seen before at the Westward Look, but mainly the display cases.
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| A busy Peter Megaw during set-up on Wednesday. |
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| Lauren Megaw setting her Competition Case with Carl Francis on the side. |
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| Marshall Sussman having a chat with Jim and Imelda Klein when setting-up the META case. META stands for the Mineral Enthusiastic of the Tucson Area. A newly formed group of collectors from the Tucson Area. |
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| Jim and Imelda Klein hard at work with the META case. They did a great job, the case looks simply great. |
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| Jim and Imelda and myself after having filled-up our Taxco Exhibit case |
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| A group of people set-up a number of cases on calcite alone. Mexican calcite is very well represented with this case put up by Peter Megaw. |
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| One can always learn something looking at these. The nice pink calcite from Concepcion del Oro is too often termed "Cobalto Calcite" when in reality it is a Mangano Calcite from Mina Aranzazu. |
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| Other educational calcite cases included the description of Twins. Several Mexican examples are used to display twinning in calcite. Here at the back, one of these beautiful arrowhead calcite from Areponapuchic, Mpio. De Bocoyna, Chihuahua |
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| A classic from the 18th Level of the Chiminea J-Norte in the Mina Buena Tierra, West Camp, Santa Eulalia. |
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| Peter had another case for our enjoyment, A smoking case filled with specimens from the Milpillas mine. The azurite on malachite have such a nice contrast, the "bat" is simply astonishing, and the brochantite.....I only had my BB to take picture yesterday. Better close-up later with the better camera. |
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Jean Sendero
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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Location: Hudson Heights, Quebec
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 15:41 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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A few more
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| The Bat from Milpillas.......wow! |
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| The Brochantite. Not the "astro turf" variety but solid crystals in breccia. Absolutely stunning. |
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| A bit of a closer view with better color contrast. |
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Matt_Zukowski
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| Posted: Feb 12, 2011 19:31 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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| Jean - you take nice photos...thanks for putting them up.
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strahler
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Feb 13, 2011 20:32 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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A few impressions from the Main Show
New Azurites from Milpillas, Mexico
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strahler
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Feb 13, 2011 20:34 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Some cases
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strahler
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Feb 13, 2011 20:46 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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More cases.
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| San Francisco Crystal Gazers Case. |
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| Pretty Iconic, I am inspired. |
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| Evan Jone's Arizona, cannot wait for next year. |
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strahler
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| Posted: Feb 13, 2011 20:57 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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More cases....
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| Tucson Mineral Enthusiasts |
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Gail
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Location: Texas, Lone Star State.
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| Posted: Feb 13, 2011 22:29 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Just got in to Dallas. Can't wait to update. Thanks for great photos!
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chris
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Location: Grenoble
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| Posted: Feb 14, 2011 12:19 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Hi Folks,
Great report. Thanks for sharing your photos with people (like me) who didn't have time to visit the show. I hope you'll post some more in the coming days.
Christophe
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Feb 14, 2011 12:53 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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I will, but I need time (probably weeks) to do it. Hopefully on the meantime other FMFers cover my lack...
Jordi
PS: Don't miss the fabulous thread of Gail -> https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?t=1547
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VRigatti
Joined: 19 Dec 2009
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Location: Denver, CO
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| Posted: Feb 14, 2011 21:51 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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| Thanks for posting the great photos. Now i need to wipe the drool off my chin
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