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Posted: May 27, 2018 13:07 Post subject: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 |
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Ste. Marie on my mind! 🤗
To see where everybody will be use the General Map
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Posted: Jun 05, 2018 09:47 Post subject: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 - We will be there! |
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We will be there!
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Posted: Jun 16, 2018 13:33 Post subject: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 - Creating a Show |
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Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 06/16/2018
For a number of unwanted reasons, including a delightful unexpected strike by the French airspace controllers and the surreal unforeseen management of the airlines in general I have already landed (quite literally 😉) at Ste. Marie.
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Sainte Marie, always hospitable, welcomes us... |
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...and although by the day that it is today it seems that there should still be no one, almost everything is already installed... |
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...but yes, see, there is someone... |
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...and even the dinosaurs have arrived at the new Osmont Pavilion (former "Normalu" factory, restored and remodeled by the city council and destined to fossils - 400 square meters / 40 new exhibitors) |
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Furthermore, this year's exhibit about the "Hidden Treasures" of the Museums is almost ready... |
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... with the curators inside the exhibition reviewing the final details together with Alain Martaud.
Side note: this year everybody should stop visit this "Exposition Prestige". It will be a great exhibit. |
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And for those who know French language here you can see a brief informative summary of what will be the Show, published yesterday Friday in the local edition of the newspaper DNA (Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace) |
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Posted: Jun 16, 2018 14:14 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 |
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sadly I will not attend this year. :(
last year 1st experience was marvellous
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Posted: Jun 18, 2018 23:51 Post subject: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 - The awakening of the Dragon |
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Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 06/18/2018
The Dragon is slowly waking up
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From the deepest dream in the hall of the ValExpo... |
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...or in the side corridors... |
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...to the absolute madness in a matter of hours. |
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Some, like Christophe Gobin, blocked by the intensity of the initial deployment use their time to check their cell phone ;-) |
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Posted: Jun 19, 2018 23:41 Post subject: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 - The chronicles of Carles Manresa |
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Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 06/19/2018
Please follow the complete chronicles and images of Carles Manresa (in Spanish language)
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Posted: Jun 20, 2018 23:42 Post subject: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 - An unusual Show |
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Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 20/06/2018
Finally and despite what it seemed the first days, it will be a good Show for the novelties, mainly Moroccan, although many of these novelties will not be seen by the visitors, either because they have been sold entirely or because those who have them prefer to show them in privacy.
Surely we will see them soon online and, physically, I'm sure we will see them later at the Munich Show or at small local Shows that take place before Munich.
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As has been said so many times before, Ste. Marie is unique. From the same Show you can see mountains with cows grazing and you can even hear the braying of donkeys. Its privileged geographic position allows that so special communion with the Nature. |
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Posted: Jun 22, 2018 12:54 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 |
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Maybe this is just an impression but the alleys were less crowded this year than in 2017...
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This time I stayed in Ribeauvillé, one of the many charming small towns on the Alsace Wine Route. |
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Typical Alsatian headdress - well, not so typical these days as it was abandoned after WWII |
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Claude Abel, the mayor of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines and organizer of the show. |
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Posted: Jun 22, 2018 13:53 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 |
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The Prestige Exhibition was carried out by Alain Martaud.
The theme this year was "Fantasmineral: collectors’ dreams‘" - a short-lived museum dedicated to the collectors’ dreams and their mineralogical fantasies.
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Not (yet) part of the museum. Jordi might tell you more about this specimen :-) |
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A case full of old oil lamps and a spectacular ax |
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Calcite from Fontainebleau - ParisTech museum |
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Azurite from Chessy-Les-Mines |
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Rhodo from Oppu mine (ParisTech museum) |
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The story of the discovery of Thoreaulite |
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Native copper from Kolwesi |
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German treasures from the University of Strasbourg |
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A special one for Tobi... |
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Posted: Jun 22, 2018 14:34 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 |
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Neudorf, again and again... |
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Wonder why this fluorite caught my eyes |
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Another case full of oil lamps and... minerals |
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A tribute to the mining history of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines |
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Are these real???? One of the cases of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris |
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Fluorite from Le Beix (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris) |
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From the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris |
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Another case with samples of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris |
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The english fluorites case |
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Fluorite from St. Peters mine |
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French treasures from the Natural History Museum of London |
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Posted: Jun 22, 2018 15:04 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 |
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Calcite from Fontainebleau |
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Another snapshot of that St. Peters fluorite |
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Posted: Jun 22, 2018 15:41 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 |
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more dreams from the show
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Gilles Emringer had a dream... |
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French calcite and Colombian gold |
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Bournonite from La Mure and gold from Santa Elena de Uairen |
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The naughty case. It was designed by a famous Italian curator. |
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Posted: Jun 22, 2018 15:59 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 |
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One last glimpse
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Pyrite on siderite, from Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage, France |
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Pyrite on siderite, from Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage, France |
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Posted: Jun 23, 2018 07:02 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 |
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A few extra snapshots from the show
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Top and lower right azurites are from Chessy-les-Mines. The one on the lower left is from Touissit. |
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Artwork from Brazil sold per kg |
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"First quality" from Huanzala |
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Booth of Ethiopian stones |
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Posted: Jun 28, 2018 08:21 Post subject: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 - Coming back |
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Continuing with my beautiful relationship with the French airspace controllers, this time I returned to Barcelona from Ste. Marie late and in very bad shape 😡
Let's see if little by little I can go back to my normality and this weekend I can publish more photos and comments...
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The embassy of the Belgian collecting: Mr. Roger Warin, his wife Marie-Paule and Mr. Guy Hubert |
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The miners of Ste. Marie coming back from the past... |
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Posted: Jun 30, 2018 09:47 Post subject: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 - The New Discoveries |
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Carles Manresa has done an excellent job in the Spanish side and he has published there a lot of images and infos. He did so well that this time I will cancel my regular notes about the new discoveries and I suggest everybody read Carles Manresa's text (revised for me) using the Google translator located at the left top of the page.
Select your language there and voilà!, going to: https://www.foro-minerales.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=138485#138485 you will learn about the main new discoveries present in Ste. Marie 2018 according Carles Manresa!
If some soul of this Forum can translate Carles' text to a more proper English language and publish it or send to me the translation in order to be published, it would be great. Otherwise I believe that the Google translation is intelligible 😉
Mineral: | Pyromorphite |
Locality: | La Ascensión del Señor Mine (Mercader Mine), Judío Hill, Munébrega, Comarca Comunidad de Calatayud, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain |  |
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Mineral: | Gold with Malachite |
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Posted: Jun 30, 2018 12:26 Post subject: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 - "Fantasmineral" and the least recognized? |
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Although the Fiebre Verde review of this year's exhibition "Fantasmineral: Rêves de collectionneurs" has been very complete, as the exhibition was about the hidden treasures I have chosen my 5 favorite treasures "half-hidden" within the exhibition of hidden treasures ;-) because I believe that maybe they have gone a little bit unnoticed among the number of extraordinary pieces of this year's exhibition.
As each of these pieces bears its associated label, I leave to the good judgment of the FMFers to suppose why I believe that each of these 5 pieces deserves special attention.
Mineral: | Pyrargyrite |
Locality: | San Genaro Mine, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru |  |
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Mineral: | Fluorite |
Locality: | Le Beix Mine, Saint-Germain-près-Herment, Herment, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France |  |
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Mineral: | Moschellandsbergite |
Locality: | Landsberg (Moschellandsberg), Alsenz-Obermoschel, Palatinate/Pfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany |  |
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Mineral: | Beryl (heliodor variety) |
Locality: | Pecout Quarry, Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Bellac District, Haute-Vienne Department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France |  |
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Mineral: | Cumengeite |
Locality: | Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Municipio Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico |  |
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Posted: Jun 30, 2018 12:43 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 |
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The ParisTech Mineralogy museum has a very nice set of Cumengeite and Boleite crystals on display.
Same for the Beirut MIM museum.
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Posted: Jul 07, 2018 11:45 Post subject: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 - Reviews of the Newspapers |
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Barcelona 07/07/2018
One of the things that helps to better understand the atmosphere of the Shows are the reviews of the local newspapers. Thanks to the help of Pina and Gérard Schneller we can see the vision of the St. Marie Show of the local newspaper DNA
I'm publishing the reviews in order, from the start to the end of the Show, Again, thanks Pina and Gérard!
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Posted: Jul 08, 2018 00:31 Post subject: Re: Sainte Marie-aux-Mines Show 2018 |
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Very interesting. We talk about the 'lack of innocence' of mineral shows, but the photo of soldiers patrolling the event also reminds me of the general 'lack of innocence' of life today. Ah, the 60s to the mid-90s were a different time.........and a time I miss for minerals and life, generally.......sigh....
....but I still love life and still love minerals despite the changes....
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