Home Page	Log In	Messageboard	The Mindat Directory
Register	Search Pages	Mineral Chatroom	The Mindat Store

Tucson 2011 - Westward Look Mineral Show

Last Updated: 12th Feb 2011

Tucson 2011 - The Westward Look Mineral Show

It's Tucson time again, and first off I visited the Westward Look Resort for the opening day of the Westward Look mineral show. Tucson is slowly starting to warm up after record-breaking low temperatures. This next photo from the resort shows a sight I've never seen in Tuscon before!

Water Fountain

Stonetrust had some of the spectacular Austrian Fluorites seen in the recent Mineralogical Record article:

Stonetrust Fluorites

Also from Stonetrust, the dark crystals here on feldspar from the Shigar valley, Pakistan, are the (newly reclassified) Pyrochlore group mineral - Fluornatromicrolite.

Fluornatromicrolite

Moving along to Kristalle/Crystal Classics...

Tanzanite with Prehnite

Titanite from Pakistan

Native Silver from the Keeweenaw Peninsula, Michigan

And then on to Green Mountain Minerals

Cruizero Mine (Brazil) Tourmaline

and a much larger (but not as gemmy) Tanzanite with Prehnite

From Western Minerals:

Caledonite - Mammoth St. Anthony Mine, Arizona

Alpine Mineral Co. had these amazing Nevada opals, stored underwater in plastic domes

Nevada Opal

Of course, Tucson is a place to meet friends, here are Gail Spann and Frank Hawthorne

Gail and Frank

A.Martaud Minerals of course had pink Fluorite

Pink Fluorite from France

... and Gypsum from Djibouti

Gypsum

Over to Rob Lavinsky at The Arkenstone, and the most significant new thing he was offering was a small selection of Prehnite specimens from Prospect Park Quarry, New Jersey

Shelf of Prehnite

Prehnite from New Jersey

And over to the Gobin brothers...

A pair of Gobins.

Nice Tasmanian Crocoites

Collector's Edge had this HUGE Chinese Rhodochrosite

Chinese Rhodochrosite

... also Chinese Ilvaite

And great Congo Malachite

At Dan and Diana Weinrich's room:

Parisite-(Y) from Muzo, Colombia

and this fabulous Caldbeck Fells Pyromorphite...

Pyromorphite, Roughten Gill, Cumbria, UK

The next report will detail the new exhibition at the University of Arizona Mineral Museum (Afghan and Pakistani minerals) and the "Inn Suites" show - will be uploaded soon!

Return to Jolyon & Katya Ralph's Article Index

Article has been viewed at least 21121 times.

Comments

Jolyon, great report, thank you very much for posting! We wait for more info from Tucson!

Tomasz Praszkier
7th Feb 2011 8:20am

Like wise Jolyon thanks for the report. Nice to see those beauties even if we can't be there.

Fred A. Schuster
8th Feb 2011 4:45am

It's been great hanging out with you Jolyon, what fun! By the way, that Chinese Rhodo above is now in our collection. It's a beauty!

Gail Spann
10th Feb 2011 9:04am

Thank you Jolyon have enjoyed looking.

John Truax
14th Feb 2011 12:24am

Well heck, that is our tanzanite with prehnite above also! I might have to hire you as a photographer Jolyon!

Gail Spann
19th Feb 2011 10:35pm

In order to leave comments to this article, you must be registered

Mineral	and/or Locality
Search Google

Copyright © Jolyon Ralph and Ida Chau 1993-2013. Site Map. Locality, mineral & photograph data are the copyright of the individuals who submitted them. Site hosted & developed by Jolyon Ralph. Mindat.org is an online information resource dedicated to providing free mineralogical information to all. Mindat relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Mindat does not offer minerals for sale. If you would like to add information to improve the quality of our database, then click here to register.
Current server date and time: 19th May 2013 23:20:47