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[Jordi Fabre]

Barcelona 10/05/2019

Only 3 weeks to the start of this great Show. Here you have the poster announcing this year's exhibit: "Whoever collects makes history"

[Gail]

Jim and I have a nice display at Munich. Excited to go.

[Jordi Fabre]

Barcelona 10/16/2019

An interesting article related to this year's exhibition in Munich "Whoever collects, makes history" and that will be available in the "Official Show Magazine" which will have a free distribution during the Show.

[Jordi Fabre]

Barcelona 10/20/2019

Some of the things that will be seen this year in Munich

[Tobi]

Though it is not confirmed that the "Collectors are happy people" quote is really from Goethe, I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of great photos and stories from München here! Gail, I hope you have your camera with you ;-)

[Jordi Fabre]

Munich 23/10/2019

Although it seemed that Munich Show was going to resist the tendency of so many other Fairs to start more and more soon, it has not been this way and this year on Tuesday there were already many people inside the Show and some stands almost built.

[Jordi Fabre]

Everybody is arriving.
Tom Moore and Tom Gressman from The Mineralogical Record photographed by John White (founder of the Mineralogical Record) 😁

[Jordi Fabre]

Munich 10/25/2019

Eloïse Gaillou and Farida Maouche loved the article "Musée de Minéralogie MINES ParisTech (École des Mines de Paris) - (26)" and they wanted to celebrate it with this selfie in which Carles Manresa (the "force") is missing which no doubt he was busy making millions of photos to delight us with his report of the Show.
As they say: "a toast for Carles!"

More photos and information on the "Spanish side of FMF"

[Jordi Fabre]

Munich 10/26/2019

New minerals for a new day 😉

[Jordi Fabre]

The best at all 🤩

Tom Greesman, Tom Moore and Christi (The Mineralogical Record), Jim Spann (a half of a powerful couple) and John White (the "rondinaire")

[Gail]

How wonderful. I miss everyone. I could not fly due to a nitrous oxide bubble in my eye after detached retina surgery. The day before flying they told me “No flying “. I insisted Jim go. He didn’t want to but I gave him my good Nikon camera and told him to take photos! When he comes home I shall post. He is traveling with the Oboddas and is in Freiberg today. museum time!
Jim promised we’d go next year!

[Don Lum]

[Gail]

Thank you So much. You are always so gracious.

[Bob Harman]

Hi Gail,
Being a retired MD pathologist, my diagnosis might be:
I guess that is what you might get from all your "eye popping" specimens!

Seriously tho, Regards and the best to the both of you, Bob Harman

[Jordi Fabre]

Doing a magazine of minerals is not easy at all, and even more if it is a magazine like the Mineralogical Record. They have to send a reporter and a photographer to the main Shows like Mineralientage and their work is not so simple. Here we can see Tom Moore preparing his texts and Christi fighting with her camera 🙄

[Jordi Fabre]

Hundreds of images published from Munich 2019 Spanish side and many more that will be downloaded in the coming days. Do not miss it!

[Gail]

I gave my camera to Jim and he took over a thousand photos! I’ll download them today. ( Jim made it home yesterday morning ) he also visited the salt mine ( 502 years in production ) and Erica Pohl’s museum and Freiberg.

[Jordi Fabre]

[Roger Warin]

Hello,
Although occupied by the preparation of the Liege Interminal Show - 50th anniversary (16-17 November 2019), I will present in the coming weeks photos of aesthetic or remarkable minerals.
This will not be an exhaustive presentation, as the Munich Show 2019 was exceptional in abundance and quality and often similar to small local shows.
The Thematic Exhibition had an unusual theme = the roundness in the specimens ... I found the most beautiful Elbaites of the Elba Island (Pezzotta’s Coll.) that I had seen since 1977.
I will follow a random order depending on my encounters.
Roger.

[Jordi Fabre]

Barcelona 11/01/2019

My 10 favorites of this year's displays.
Actually 10 + 1 because I have not published the picture of a large group of very transparent and very red crystals of Chinese octahedral Fluorite from Gail & Jim Spann. Maybe later someone will publish it...