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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Oct 28, 2011 15:59 Post subject: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 - Images from John White |
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I add few photos from John White, he will add the captions at his return to USA
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John and Jesse in conversation |
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Michael Leybov, Ludmilla Chesko, Terry and Marie Huizing |
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Ian Bruce all dolled up for the opening ceremony. Ian played a major part on organizing the special exhibit. |
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Gerhard Niklasch
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Posted: Oct 28, 2011 17:13 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 - a few from Gerhard |
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A few qick impressions in a hurry (very tired, and it's far too late)....
As should be obvious from John's shots already, there's a bit of a Dinosaur theme this year. (Among other themes, which I hope will be reflected later.)
Enjoy, Gerhard
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A Triceratops grazing in the atrium. |
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The remains of a starved dinosaur in a little indoor park. |
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A small dino cavorting in the same park. Despite the crowds, there was actually a real bird about the place too (indoors!) - a robin I think, but never got close to my lens. |
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Lost? The floor plan of the four vast halls... in very small print. |
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Gerhard Niklasch
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Posted: Oct 29, 2011 16:40 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 - more from Gerhard |
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Another long day is drawing to its end (and fortunately the night will have one extra hour)...
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It is not allowed to climb the dinos. As if the children would care... |
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Scene in hall A5 (Martin van Meggelen's stall). On Saturday and Sunday the show is open to the general public, and it's quite a bit busier than on Friday. |
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And the main theme is: European Classics. Dimensions here and in the following are very approximate (for obvious reasons). Manganite; Cassiterite Ilfeld DE; Horni Slavkov CZ cabinet |
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Pyromorphite Les Farges, FR museum |
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Gerhard Niklasch
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Posted: Oct 29, 2011 16:54 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 - more from Gerhard |
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European Classics, continued. A few bits and pieces from the Alps are next, then we'll hop to the British isles, and then to Scandinavia...
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Garnet (Hessonite) Val di Susa, Piedmont IT large cabinet |
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Epidote Knappenwand, Salzburg AT cabinet One of several spectacular pieces from this famous site. |
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Linarite; Liroconite Roughton Gill, Cumbria; Wheal Gorland, Cornwall GB cabinet And a large Bournonite from the Herodsfoot Mine (also Cornwall) at the rear. |
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Danalite Yxsjöberg, Ludvika, Dalarna SE very large cabinet If you thought Danalite was a micromounter's affair, think again... |
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Gerhard Niklasch
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Posted: Oct 29, 2011 17:25 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 - more from Gerhard |
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This year, the "Flying Jewels" exhibition is placed in the Mineralworld part of the show, not hidden away (from a mineral collector's point of view) in the Gemworld as last year.
The project highlights surprising analogies in color and texture between insects and minerals. There are a lot of beetles this time (not pictured), along with the butterflies (they have a volière of living ones too!).
They missed the best mineral butterfly of the lot, though, sitting in the next hall among the European Classics! John had already captured it earlier.
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Petrified wood Birkenfeld, DE large toenail And the underside of the wings of Caligo oileus from Bolivia. |
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Sometimes il faut corriger la fortune. The dragonfly is being imitated by a couple of Tourmalines and a 4-way Gypsum twin. |
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Papilio ulysses from Indonesia. Nothing quite matching this on the mineral side... |
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arturo shaw
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Posted: Oct 29, 2011 19:02 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 |
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Hi Gerhard
Not bad for somebody who says he's not inspired!!
Keep it going!
Cheers!
Arturo
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Montanpark
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Posted: Oct 29, 2011 20:38 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 |
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folks .. it was a pleasure to meet (some of) you ... just put some pics online at facebook . so if you like have a look.
Gerhard, wo warst Du ? ;-)
ich bin wieder daheim...
Cheers
Roger
P.S. Carles, was nice to meet you in person albeit very short!
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Antonio Alcaide
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Posted: Oct 30, 2011 03:55 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 |
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Amazing, awesome, incredible European classic specimens. Thank very much Gerhard and Roger for sharing here as soon as you can.
I was told about the German classic erythrite. As far as I know they came before Morocco ones. Stunning!! I would be useless to remark every species shown. They all are fantastic!!
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Carles Millan
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Posted: Oct 30, 2011 04:37 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 |
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Montanpark wrote: | P.S. Carles, was nice to meet you in person albeit very short! |
Next year again and not so short I hope.
Thank you, Roger.
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Tobi
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Posted: Oct 30, 2011 06:24 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 |
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Antonio Alcaide wrote: | I was told about the German classic erythrite. As far as I know they came before Morocco ones. Stunning!! |
Indeed the erythrites from Schneeberg were famous before Bou Azzer became the source for the world's best crystals of that mineral. In the area of Schneeberg (today a small city in Erzgebirge, Saxony) mining started in the 14th century (tin, bismuth, later on silver and cobalt, in the 20th century even uranium). I think the Schneeberg area is even type locality for this mineral species.
Cheers!
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Gerhard Niklasch
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Posted: Oct 30, 2011 16:19 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 - finish from Gerhard |
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Roger, you ran right past me on two occasions, and were far away before I could shout! :)
(And no doubt I must have been equally blind towards someone else - still suffering from total sensory overload...)
The collectors' showcases are always full of nice surprises, and almost always impossible to photograph due to the bright reflections in the inclined glass covers. Still, a few shots seem to work. Topics varied widely; some of the examples below, however, echo the "European Classics" theme and add yet more perspectives to it.
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Archduke Stephan of Habsburg-Lothringen, an avid 19th century collector. |
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Specimens from the archduke's collection. |
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More specimens from the archduke's collection. |
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Clinoclase Wheal Gorland, Cornwall small fist size Williams Caerhayn Mineral Collection |
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From the Naab-Wölsendorf fluorspar district in northeastern Bavaria: a reddish slab of granite with violet fluorite veins, Grube Hermine, Lissenthan, and yellow "Honigspat" fluorite, Grube Marienschacht, Wölsendorf. |
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Martin Haubenreißer from Leipzig made these miniatures: "The colorful world of minerals." |
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mesozoic limestone Tennengebirge, Salzburg (state) AT ca 4 inches / 10cm Returning once more to the decorative stone exhibition: Walther Luft of Vienna reveals interesting patterns in all sorts of Alpine rocks, taking alluvial rounding just one step further to spherical perfection... This pumpkin face seems particularly appropriate at this time of the year. |
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The show is over - the show goes on! See you all at Munich 2012! |
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Oct 31, 2011 16:04 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 |
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It seems that many photos will land to this thread during next days-weeks, and many related with the great exhibit "European Classics", so before they arrive I selected two that may not will be the most famous but they deserves to be, and one hyper aesthetic Beryl with a very interesting provenance, Karelia Beryl Mine, Finland.
Photos: Jordi Deusedes & Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Oct 31, 2011 21:27 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 |
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Here are some of my photos from the show.
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and..... John Veevaert always seems to show up for a good party :-) |
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strahler
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Posted: Oct 31, 2011 21:57 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 |
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Carles Millan
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Posted: Nov 01, 2011 04:34 Post subject: Munich Show 2011 - A couple of photos from Carles |
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Two different shots of a gigantic sulfur specimen from the Riccardo Prato collection. (The photos have very low quality since they were taken on the fly with my cell phone.)
It must be between 40 cm and 50 cm tall, and comes from the Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Girgenti, Sicilia, Italy.
Not for sale! It was exposed at the European Classics display.
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Nov 01, 2011 09:59 Post subject: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 - Bombshell about Ste. Marie 2012!!!! |
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Bombshell!. Although the rumor was spreading during the Fair at Munich, only now it can it be confirmed that, although it was expected that the change would occur slowly, special circumstances have forced the Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show to move to Colmar in 2012.
Michel Schwab will soon publish a more complete official explanation that we will try to reproduce here, but it is now confirmed that Ste. Marie 2012 will be in Colmar.
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Martin Stevko
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Posted: Nov 01, 2011 09:59 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 |
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Some more pictures from European Classics displays at Munich show.
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Devilline Spania Dolina, Slovakia circa 6 cm specimen |
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Anglesite Matlock, England superb circa 10 cm specimen |
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Martin Stevko
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Posted: Nov 01, 2011 11:35 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 |
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Some more pictures....
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Galena on quartz Neudorf, Germany circa 10 cm specimen, Ex. C.S. Bement collection, Ex. Herb Obboda collection |
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Liroconite (right) and Mimetite with Plumbogummite (left) Wheal Gorland, England and Roughton Gill mine, England circa 12 and 10 cm |
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Tobi
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Posted: Nov 01, 2011 11:55 Post subject: Re: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 |
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DSCN0265.JPG (giant blue fluorite) ---> From Le Burg, France?
DSCN0158.JPG (the three exceptional, stunning, terrific Neudorf galenas) ---> I'm drooling over this picture!!! :-)
Thanks to all who took photos of that wonderful European classics! And thanks to Gerhard who captured some impressions from the collection of Archduke Stephan - the man with the most beautiful mineral labels in history :-)
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Nov 01, 2011 12:32 Post subject: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2011 - Spain |
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People have asked (mostly in FMF Spanish side ) why Spain was not so well represented in the great exhibit "European Classics" of this Munich 2011, which is a good question. It is a long story to be frank. They worked hard seeking to obtain specimens from the large European museums, which always takes a long time and a lot of effort, and other things got in the way... so to obtain major Spanish specimens for this show was complicated and luck was not on our side, so a decision was made in the end that, instead of few presented rocks obtained badly in the last minute, it was better to wait.....
Why do I say wait? Because an idea has already started. The idea is try to prepare in few years more (at least eight years) an exhibit of "Spain" in Munich (maybe not just Spain, but certainly dominated by Spain) with the idea that if this were done well and prepared with enough time it would be possible to do something really spectacular. In fact something that has never been done before, as it would be possible to reunite the best specimens of Spanish minerals that are spread across the museums around the world (we all have a list in our heads, for example the Horcajo Pyromophites in the School of Mines in Paris and the Geology Museum in Barcelona, the Freieslebenites from the School of Mines in Madrid...), as well as the best specimens from private collections, including some that have never ever been shown before.
What was on show from Spain this year was not, in reality, that great when compared with what could be assembled in such a show, so you can just imagine what a future exhibition year might look like if it were to be around the theme "Spain" (or "Iberian Peninsular") and also you have to be aware that it will take time to get this to happen if it is to be done well...
A great dream, isn't it?
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