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Jean Sendero
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Posted: Feb 17, 2013 22:00 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Let's finish with the winners
And finish with more from Fluospar Road.
All the specimens on Fluospar Road, 9 cases, are all from the same private collection.
And a few cases (specimens) that I caught my eye more than others
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Bideaux for Best Arizona specimen |
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A case from the Arizona Mineral Minions |
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A close-up on one of the specimen of the Minions |
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Another close-up on one of the specimen of the Minions |
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Another case.......just over whelming |
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Fluorite Rock Candy Mine, Brithish Columbia Canada approx. 20-25 cm across Only saw two Rock Candy Mine specimens....sadly I would have liked to see more. |
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Jean Sendero
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Posted: Feb 17, 2013 23:10 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Let's finish up with some Mexican minerals.
Several of the specimens will be illustrated with "real" photography work in the up-coming issue of Rock and Minerals. I had the opportunity to browse through one of the drafts for the article on Fluorite from Mexico and "golly" it will be an interesting issue with great specimens illustrated.
Other than fluorite, Peter Megaw did have case with what is new from Mexico for the past year. Some of these are illustrated below.
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Fluorite coated by Smithsonite Level 8th, Mina San Antonio, Sta Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico 8 to 10 cm on edge |
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Fluorite Torino-Tehuacan Chimney, Mina de Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico Crystal app 6 to 8 cm on edge A classic |
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Fluorite Torino-Tehuacan Chimney, Mina de Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico 6-7 cm across A classic spinel twin and huge |
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Fluorite with quartz and pyrite 520 Orebody, Mina de Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico 15 to 18 cm Spinel twin fluorite |
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Fluorite Mina de Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico Crystal app 1.5 cm across |
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Fluorite Mina de Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico 7 to 8 cm across |
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Fluorite on Sphalerite Mina de Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico 5-6 cm crystal group |
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Fluorite Mina Sabinas, San Martin District, Zacatecas, Mexico A smoking piece. Color, luster, crystal form, etc....my favorite. |
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Fluorite Mina Sabinas, San Martin District, Zacatecas, Mexico App 6-7 cm |
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Fluorite Mina Sabinas, San Martin District, Zacatecas, Mexico app 8 - 10 cm |
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Fluorite see below see below on the left, fluorite on sphalerite, 11 cm across from 570 orebody Naica, Chihuahua. On the right, Fluorite from the Segovidad Vein, Mina Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, appro 22 cm across. |
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Fluorite Veta Segovidad, Mina Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico app 8 cm I just love these fluorite from Segovidad. |
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Fluorite Veta Segovidad, Mina Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico App 6-7 cm |
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Wulfenite on Mottramite Level 6th, lugar San Juan Poniente, Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico app 7-8 cm Some of the controversial mottramite vs descloizite. The results of the analytical work I had completed shows that it does not cross over into the descloizite field. The matrix could be ranging from Mottramite to Zincian Mottramite. |
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Hemimorphite 4th level Mina San Antonio, Sta Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico 10 to 12 cm high |
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Jean Sendero
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Posted: Feb 17, 2013 23:15 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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And a couple more
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Calcite (Mn) Mina Madero, Noria de Gringos, Zacatecas Crystal app 4-5 cm This is from a very very very small village.... |
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Quartz covered with siderite ps after calcite Level 8th, Mina San Antonio, Sta Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico app 15 cm tall |
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Jean Sendero
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Posted: Feb 17, 2013 23:20 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Here we go. These were the last two photographs. A great Main show that lived up to its promises, "colors of the rainbow".
Hope you enjoy them.
I only have one small regret, I did not get a good photo of the purple fluorite on celestine from Mina Illusion in Coahuila. Very different then El Tule.
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Don Lum
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Posted: Feb 17, 2013 23:51 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Jean, thank you for your excellent reports and photos.
Regards
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Gail
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Posted: Feb 18, 2013 00:08 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Jean, you are wonderful. And your kindness to offer me a place to get online is very sweet. How nice to know that you are taking photos and tirelessly posting, thanks! We appreciate you.
_________________ Minerals you say? Why yes, I'll take a dozen or so... |
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Feb 18, 2013 02:44 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Jean, your photography is better than mine. And it is good to follow along with someone else's take on the show. Thanks.
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John S. White
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Posted: Feb 20, 2013 05:34 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Why the dinosaurs died off!
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_________________ John S. White
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Feb 23, 2013 13:42 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - Let the fun begin! |
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Barcelona 02/23/2013
"Nunca es tarde si la dicha es buena" in Spanish says. It means (more or less) that during this weekend I will try to publish a similar amount of info/photos as past years but this time a little bit late and concentrated in two days, today and tomorrow.
Let the fun begin! ;-)
2013 European correspondent of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show™
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Feb 23, 2013 14:11 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - The Initial Days and the TCC-InnSuites |
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The initial days with the starter Shows...
2013 European correspondent of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show™
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As I commented in previous posts one of more astounding features in Tucson is the size of the Show and the number of venues. In Tucson the number of selling spots like this one is almost unlimited... |
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... and even the monstrous visitors remain hallucinated, like this Dinosaur aparently a little bit overwhelmed in the TCC-Inn Suites... |
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...and the number of possibilities is so large that the people needs time to take a break and forget the minerals for a while, like this guys in the court of the TCC-InnSuites... |
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...or the great Dave Wilbur, here relaxing his eyes with the mystical Tourmaline glasses of Naomi... |
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...But at the end everybody get fun like Bryan Swoboda and Rob in the Queen Mine visit. So, Tucson is Tucson! ;-)
Thanks to Bryan Swoboda for the photos of Dave Wilbur, snow storm and this last one. All other photos are from Jordi Deusedes. |
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Feb 23, 2013 14:37 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - The Westward Look |
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The Westward Look
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...but the life is not so easy, even in the Westward Look. Here we can see Tom Spann and one worker who is trying to fix one more of the large number of troubles that the rental Show cases had this year. Not power for the lights of this two ones... |
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...that's probably the reason why Bryan (at right) is dancing a kind of "Haka" before to tape the US mineral's collection of Kevin Brown. Joe Budd (at left) seems also to be ready to help in case the lights fall down... |
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...but finally the sunset arrives giving peace to everybody in the Westward Look.
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Feb 23, 2013 15:42 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - The Party! (1) |
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A little bit crowded, a little bit a social reunion, a little bit friendly, a little bit a great night. The Party! ;-)
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Tom (Spirifer) and his polish team helping in the entry (thanks Tom!) |
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Marshall Sussman and Mike Weise from Smithsonian |
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George Harlow from American Museum of Natural History at the center, seems to be looking for something (run away? ;-) |
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Carl Francis former curator of the Harvard Museum of Natural History |
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The Callen's from the magazine MineralUp posing for the posterity ;-) |
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Bad photo but great people: Carl Francis, John Veevaert, Joan Kureczka and Jesse Fisher |
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The kindest people I know: Terry & Marie Huizing from Rock & Minerals magazine |
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Posted: Feb 23, 2013 17:27 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - The Party! (2) |
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Some great collectors in this photo headed by Karl Warning. Tresa Foster, John Lucking and Rhys Foster. |
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Daniel Trinchillo and his lovely wife. |
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Anthony Kampf and George Harlow seems to be judging the Huizings and me... ;-) |
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Vicente, this round's on me! |
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With the Grays from the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia |
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And Alan Hart from NHM in London joins the fun |
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You look great in this photo Gail. Vic Rzonca seems to feel it ;-) |
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_________________ Audaces fortuna iuvat |
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Feb 23, 2013 18:12 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - The Party! and (3) |
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And Gail with another new curator, also a women, Eloïse Gaillou from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles |
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Summing: what a party!!!
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Posted: Feb 24, 2013 13:06 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - The Main Show (1) |
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And the time pass and the end of the Show arrives. Is the time of the Main Show (Tucson Convention Center)
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The Main Show is not only a business Show but mostly a kind of social event where all kinds of people walk, keep open their eyes and also they buy... |
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Offer all kind of things... |
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..."Django Unchained"! ;-)
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Posted: Feb 24, 2013 14:05 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - The Main Show (and 2) |
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But nevertheless the most important in the Main Show are, undoubtedly, the display cases...
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...this other case of Topazes with Wayne Leicht (Kristalle) "through the glass" ;-) |
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Every one has his personal preferences and for good or for bad, my ten favorites Fluorites among the hundreds displayed in this Tucson Fluorite's year are (without order preference) the 10 below.
Starting with this superb green, large, one from St. Peter's Mine, Allenhead, UK from the Sir Arthur Russell Collection, currently hosted in the London Natural History Museum... |
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...and of course the "poster" of the year, this extraordinary example of the highest quality of the Illinois Fluorites. This Fluorite is owned by Ross Lillie, congratulations Ross! |
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As usual, with these marvels were also some other remarkable specimens like this large rose Quartz from a private collection that Jim Walker and Mary Fong from Heritage Auctions have been achieved recently... |
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Posted: Feb 24, 2013 17:31 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - My final comments |
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And finally here's is my usual summary of what I believe has been the Tucson Show 2013.
One of the main novelties of Tucson this year has been the absence of news ;-) If in the past the number of new finds was decreasing, their absence in this Tucson has been almost total, just some minor things like the Jacobsites from the N'Chwaning III, the perhaps? small Pyromorphites with Wulfenite and Azurite from Morocco, the Wulfenites on Mottramite-Descloizite and the series-Duftite-Conichalcite-Austinite both from Ojuela Mine, the silver sulfides from the Oaxaca area, the new works in Santa Eulalia with Rhodocrosites and Smithsonites ... and the vast quantity (and quality) of the material from the mines of Huanggang, China... and as far as I know not much more. Just persistent rumors about new and large Wurtzites from Arusha, Tanzania, but as a collector of reference told to me in the Main Show, it seems that the number of best specimens sold "under the table" is increasing so if they were in Tucson, I did not see them.
Due the lack of news, much has been said about the feeling that, at last, the decline of the “crazy prices” with success in sales has begun. I mean, even we continue to see many prices with 5 or 6 zeros, this year several elite collectors said to the sellers that the price did not correspond much to the quality of the piece: "You're crazy" (personal communication) , allowing one to hope to soon reach a "normalization" rather than continuing the race in which it appears that the value of the piece given is its price, not its quality, so that newcomers to the hobby could believe that the best specimens were those with more zeros ... I would say that many of the collectors who have arrived in recent years to this hobby have learned a lot in a short time and hopefully things can go back to a kind of rationality, rationality that sometime before seems to have been lost.
The hobby is solid, there are many collectors who are happy with their collections and will continue with them enthusiastically, which in my opinion guarantees a good future for the hobby. What may slowly disappear are those pieces with a real value of about two or three zeros priced in five or six zeros.
I agree that exceptional pieces should cost big money, but what does not seem right is that some mediocrities could cost fortunes to satisfy “snob” collectors whose concept of "good" is simply that expensive = good.
With this last post I hope I compensate my limited participation in this thread during the fair due to a multitude of small problems that have been burdening me throughout the show. Again, thank you very much to Valere Berlage, Matt Zukowski, Jean Sendero... for their fine contributions throughout the Show, I hope that many more join this thread to provide their thoughts on this thread. Even if only short texts, all contributions add up to create a much more complete picture of what is and what means the "Tucson madness"
Other recommended threads for more information about Tucson 2013:
- The very broad, comprehensive and well done Gail Spann’s thread: 2013 Tucson Show Adventure ~ Gail Spann Style.
- The infos published by Jolyon in Mindat News
- The stories of the pioneer in this kind of chronicles, John Veevaert
2013 European correspondent of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show™
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Bye, bye Tucson, the dinosaur can't bear her grief, but we will come back the next year! ;-) |
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John S. White
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Posted: Feb 25, 2013 06:37 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Some novelties that our fearless leader missed.
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Chabazite with scolecite Pune (Poona) India the largest piece is 4.5 cm |
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John S. White
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Posted: Feb 25, 2013 06:45 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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More novelties missed by Jordi.
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Chabazite with stilbite road cut at Bavdhan, near Pune, India 7 cm across Mark Mauthner photo |
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Chabazite with stilbite road cut at Bavdhan, near Pune, India 8.5 cm across Mark Mauthner photo |
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Roger Warin
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Posted: Feb 25, 2013 07:55 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Thank you for dreaming throughout Tucson Show.
Thank you for the various comments and also for the Jordi’s conclusion.
Roger.
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