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[Jordi Fabre]

Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines reaches its 50th edition and this anniversary deserves to be celebrated!

For now, and as an appetizer, I publish with this post part of the advertising material that the organization of Ste. Marie has prepared for this year.
For anyone who wants to get an idea of ​​what makes this Show so special, here you have the reports that have been published in FMF from our start, in which you can see the evolution of the Show (and of FMF ;-) as well as the details of the recent change of the organizing committee in 2012:

Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2007 from FMF
Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2008 from FMF
Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2009 from FMF
Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2010 from FMF
Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2011 from FMF
Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2012 from FMF

[Jordi Fabre]

New book of Ste. Marie and from Ste. Marie!: A new book for the end of June: The minerals of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines

and... below you can see the dinosaurs of Tucson arriving to Ste. Marie after five months on the way ;-)

[Tomasz Praszkier]

It is also worth to mention that this year at the Sainte Marie show there will be for the first time Mindat.org meeting with talks.
To see more details see here: https://www.facebook.com/events/388799451232981/?fref=ts

For the first time we will have a meeting with 4 speeches connected with the topic of the main exhibition - American Minerals. Event will be open for public.
Meeting will be in Friday afternoon in the Temple (23 rue du Temple) !!!!!

Speeches:

Mining California tourmalines
By Bill Larson

Famous California mineral localities
By John Veevaert

Collecting Yukon phosphates (Rapid Creek), Canada
by Mark Mauthner

Gold from Round Mountain, Nevada, USA (this one can change)
by Scott Werschky

Here you can see location of the temple on google map: https://goo.gl/maps/v9lfz

Everyone is welcome!

[Montanpark]

Hey Tomek ...
will the speeches event conflict with the (in)famous mindat.org meeting at your booth with all the goodies we are used to?
If yes you´ll have a problem LOL

See you there,
cheers
Roger

[Tomasz Praszkier]

Roger,
this year we do not make special big party, we will have rinks during whole show, but real mindat meeting will be for the presentations. You know, sometimes people have to be serious ;-)
We make a BIG party 2 weeks later during Mindat Meeting in Lwowek ;-)
Cheers!

[Montanpark]

Pity i´ll miss Lwowek .. am in Spain (enjoing the sun hopefully).

And we will be serious? .. you´re kidding ;-)

Looking forward to meet you all there
cheers
Roger

[Tomasz Praszkier]

In fact we do not have to be serious, only speakers should be ;-)
Are you coming for presentations?

:-)

[Montanpark]

we´ll see .. i think i will .. have to persuade my company :-)
you may help me a bit since we´ll see you days before .. so try hard ;-)

[Jordi Fabre]

Mr. Claude Abel, mayor of Ste. Marie and organizer of the Show, was so kind to supply this message for visitors / dealers / everybody related with the 50th edition of the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Show.



I am very pleased to welcome you for the 50th edition of the Mineral Exhibition in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines. This Jubilee is especially important for the expression of heritage, friendliness and high demand.

Heritage is found in an exhibition and a book dedicated to the vast mineralogical heritage of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines.

Friendliness- it is our desire to welcome you, exhibitors, amateurs and visitors under the best possible conditions, with many services and that extra something that should make your stay a unique and unforgettable moment.

Demand- means offering activities, conferences and exhibitions meeting the requests of the experts or adapted to a less informed public.

Our vision of the future is to become a vector of development for those, professionals or amateurs, who are involved in the world of minerals: to highlight the professions, to support schools, to suggest vocations.
Be sure that during this 50th edition, we will not fail to show you all our professionalism and enthusiasm so that your visit provides you pleasure, wonder and enrichment. Be our guests!

Claude Abel
Organisateur de Mineral & Gem
Maire de Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines

[Nico78]

Hi all,
As severals of you I wll go to SMAM the next week;
Owner of a car I offer to share this one from Paris to go to the show.
I can take people on the road!
It's a good way to save some money and to share ours hobby!

[Tobi]

I hope we'll have a great report here on FMF! Gail, will you be there ...? ;-)

https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/files/sainte_marie_aux_mines_2013__dinosaures_013_210.jpg
->>> Oh, and i always thought they were dead ;-)

[Jordi Fabre]

The guys from "Le Règne Minéral" magazine already published in the "Mineralogical Literature" section infos about the new book "The minerals of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines" in the thread A new book for the end of June: The minerals of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines

As this book will be offered for sell in Ste. Marie, I complete these infos with the complementary information below (only in French language, sorry ;-)

[Jordi Fabre]

One novelty for this year will be the new exhibit area in the parc Jules Simon, a green area located behind the Show. Below you have a short description of this new area sent by the comitee. A map of this new area is available in the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mine's web site

The park Jules Simon is located in the Mineral Zone and will be composed by:

- A tent with around 15 exhibitors

- 45 exhibitor’s stands

- The merchandises exhibited will be minerals, fossils and shells

- Exhibitors come from 4 continents. Half of them are news exhibitors; some of them are big exhibitors who wanted to grow up their exhibition surface (like Minerama)

- Concerning animation:

- Two workshops (dedicated to the families):

o Gold washing workshop: initiation, discovery of utensils and methods

o Experimental excavation: learn the searches ‘methods to discover a skeleton of dinosaurs

- 3 dinosaurs will be exposed in the park:

o A pachycephalosaarus

o A ceratosaurus

o A skeleton of Ouranosaurus nigeriensis

Mineral & Gem Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines comitee

[Jordi Fabre]

And to complete the infos, below you will find part of the press dossier supplied by the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mine's committee (in French language)

[Nico78]

Up^^
As offer above I have again 2 or 3 places in my car for the travel from Paris To SMAM show!
Departure on Tuesday for a return the sunday or Monday!
Do not hesit to contact me!
A good way to share our hobby during the travel and to reduce the fees!

[David Mustart]

As i won't be at the show, just wondering will the four talks on Friday June 28 by Larson, Veevaert, Mauthner and Werschky be recorded, published or CD's made?

[Jordi Fabre]

Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 06/24/2013

As I'm exhausted in the first day of the pre-Show, I will publish just some photos with not too much text. I hope do better in the next days! ;-)

More to come...

[Jordi Fabre]

Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 06/25/2013

Today is an exciting day for the most obsessed dealers & collectors because in the set up day the novelties (if there) appear and some sleepers and goodies change of owners...

In terms of novelties although is true that (as usual) is not a major novelty that focus all the Show, this Ste. Marie 2013 is plenty of small but interesting novelties, mainly from Morocco, which consolidates the fact that Ste. Marie is the main Show for the Moroccan material.

Putting aside Morocco, I I would like point out the very good Smithsonites pseudo Calcite from san Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia, Mexico, the funny rosettes of Azurite from Plaka Mines, Lavrion, Greece and, although not a real novelty, the Linarites with Brochantite from King Arthur Mine, Evros, Thracia, Greece, some of them with a very high quality.

More to come...

[Jordi Fabre]

Different visions of the "pre-Show" days

[Antonio Alcaide]

We can see the live show via webcam provided by the Sainte Marie-aux-Mines management:

https://www.sainte-marie-mineral.com/webcam.html

It's a pity the camera is not a hand one travelling from one booth to another :-)

Regards