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The Munich Mineral Show 2012
Last Updated: 29th Oct 2012
I returned to the Munich Show for the seventh straight year, although just a two day flying visit this time as we have a lot to prepare for Morocco.
The Munich Show
The main theme this year is Africa (quite topical with the Mindat.org Conference this year also being in Africa). As usual the display was incredible:
Tsumeb Dioptase
Scorodite from Tsumeb
Changoite from the Namib Lead Mine
Tanzanite
More Tanzanite
Big, but ugly, Chalcocite from DR Congo
Cerussite from Tsumeb
Huge rhodochrosite cluster from N'Chwaning
"The Snail" from N'Chwaning
Outside of the exhibitions, the dealers had a fine selection of minerals.
This one wasn't from Africa, but one could mistake the shape for the continent.
Gold nugget from Bendigo, Australia - The Arkenstone specimen
They also had this impressive exhibit of important specimens including a Romanian gold from the University of Arizona collections and a Kongsberg silver that used to belong to Swedish King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden.
Arkenstone special specimen display
The Kongsberg Silver
The Romanian Gold
The inevitable Ilfeld Manganite
A new find of quartz with fuchsite inclusions from Madagascar
More views from the show...
Beautiful display at Wendel Minerals
Kristina Bode at Mineralen Welt showing their new calender of German Minerals
Tom at Spirifer Minerals was very busy, not only is he selling at Munich, he's getting ready to go straight from Munich to Morocco to run the Mindat Conference.
Tom Praszkier at the Spirifer Minerals booth
He had some new and interesting artificial zinc oxide groups from Poland
These Moldavites in matrix from Czech republic looked suspicious, but Tom assures us they are natural
Prize for the weirdest discovery has to be these fossil pine cones containing analcime from Castelsardo, Sardinia, Italy. (Coll. Baldizzone specimens).
Fossil pinecone
The controversy over the fake 'Tadjikistan' heliodor never seems to go away, but at least one seller in Munich had decided to label these honestly. Apparently these are irradiated using medical machinery containing cobalt-60 (possibly chemotheraphy?) in Peshwar, Pakistan.
Irradiated Beryl from Pakistan - Alfredo Petrov specimens
Sieber Mineral Collection had a fine selection of unusual pegmatite minerals from Sri Lanka, including massive Edenite, Zircon and Forsterite.
Edenite
Zircon
Forsterite
I also took the opportunity to attend a meeting of the Society of Mineral Museum Professionals at Munich with representatives from many European museum mineralogy departments along with some guests from the United States. It all was going so well until they saw me trying to take photographs.
Mr. Prof. Dr. Alan D. Hart, Henrik Friis (it's hard to believe his ancestors were Vikings), and Mike Rumsey
Christophe Gobin had more new mineral specimens from Iran, including these wonderful descloizites with mimetite.
Descloizite and Mimetite from Iran
Ludmilla and Michael from Mineralogical Almanac had a small party at their booth with Russian vodka and chocolate.
На здоровье!
Meanwhile, Ian Bruce is hard at work at the Crystal Classics/Kristalle booth.
This specimen is worth a lot of gold coins
They also had some excellent new pyrite specimens from Merelani Hills, the Tanzanite locality in Tanzania.
Pyrite
More pyrite, this time on hematite, from the classic Isle of Elba, Italy locality, from dealer Stefano Freschl
Pyrite from Elba
Pyrite on hematite from Elba
Finally, while taking photos of specimens on Jordi Fabre's table, this butterfly came and landed right in front of me, crawled around inside the box with this Chinese Loelligite+Arsenopyrite specimen, then flew off again.
Butterfly on Loellingite
My next reports will be from Morocco. Stay tuned!
The Munich Show
The main theme this year is Africa (quite topical with the Mindat.org Conference this year also being in Africa). As usual the display was incredible:
Tsumeb Dioptase
Scorodite from Tsumeb
Changoite from the Namib Lead Mine
Tanzanite
More Tanzanite
Big, but ugly, Chalcocite from DR Congo
Cerussite from Tsumeb
Huge rhodochrosite cluster from N'Chwaning
"The Snail" from N'Chwaning
Outside of the exhibitions, the dealers had a fine selection of minerals.
This one wasn't from Africa, but one could mistake the shape for the continent.
Gold nugget from Bendigo, Australia - The Arkenstone specimen
They also had this impressive exhibit of important specimens including a Romanian gold from the University of Arizona collections and a Kongsberg silver that used to belong to Swedish King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden.
Arkenstone special specimen display
The Kongsberg Silver
The Romanian Gold
The inevitable Ilfeld Manganite
A new find of quartz with fuchsite inclusions from Madagascar
More views from the show...
Beautiful display at Wendel Minerals
Kristina Bode at Mineralen Welt showing their new calender of German Minerals
Tom at Spirifer Minerals was very busy, not only is he selling at Munich, he's getting ready to go straight from Munich to Morocco to run the Mindat Conference.
Tom Praszkier at the Spirifer Minerals booth
He had some new and interesting artificial zinc oxide groups from Poland
These Moldavites in matrix from Czech republic looked suspicious, but Tom assures us they are natural
Prize for the weirdest discovery has to be these fossil pine cones containing analcime from Castelsardo, Sardinia, Italy. (Coll. Baldizzone specimens).
Fossil pinecone
The controversy over the fake 'Tadjikistan' heliodor never seems to go away, but at least one seller in Munich had decided to label these honestly. Apparently these are irradiated using medical machinery containing cobalt-60 (possibly chemotheraphy?) in Peshwar, Pakistan.
Irradiated Beryl from Pakistan - Alfredo Petrov specimens
Sieber Mineral Collection had a fine selection of unusual pegmatite minerals from Sri Lanka, including massive Edenite, Zircon and Forsterite.
Edenite
Zircon
Forsterite
I also took the opportunity to attend a meeting of the Society of Mineral Museum Professionals at Munich with representatives from many European museum mineralogy departments along with some guests from the United States. It all was going so well until they saw me trying to take photographs.
Mr. Prof. Dr. Alan D. Hart, Henrik Friis (it's hard to believe his ancestors were Vikings), and Mike Rumsey
Christophe Gobin had more new mineral specimens from Iran, including these wonderful descloizites with mimetite.
Descloizite and Mimetite from Iran
Ludmilla and Michael from Mineralogical Almanac had a small party at their booth with Russian vodka and chocolate.
На здоровье!
Meanwhile, Ian Bruce is hard at work at the Crystal Classics/Kristalle booth.
This specimen is worth a lot of gold coins
They also had some excellent new pyrite specimens from Merelani Hills, the Tanzanite locality in Tanzania.
Pyrite
More pyrite, this time on hematite, from the classic Isle of Elba, Italy locality, from dealer Stefano Freschl
Pyrite from Elba
Pyrite on hematite from Elba
Finally, while taking photos of specimens on Jordi Fabre's table, this butterfly came and landed right in front of me, crawled around inside the box with this Chinese Loelligite+Arsenopyrite specimen, then flew off again.
Butterfly on Loellingite
My next reports will be from Morocco. Stay tuned!
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Comments
You could seen here 260 pictures for africa exposition :
[url]http://www.alpinismeetmineraux.fr/mineralogie/bourses/munich2012/munich01.htm[/url [Link Broken? May 2013]]
Frédéric Hède
31st Oct 2012 9:08pm
[url]http://www.alpinismeetmineraux.fr/mineralogie/bourses/munich2012/munich01.htm[/url [Link Broken? May 2013]]
Frédéric Hède
31st Oct 2012 9:08pm
http://www.alpinismeetmineraux.fr/mineralogie/bourses/munich2012/munich01.htm
Frédéric Hède
31st Oct 2012 9:08pm
Frédéric Hède
31st Oct 2012 9:08pm
[url= http://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/Veranstaltungen/Mineralientage%20M%C3%BCnchen%202012%20oder%20The%20Munich%20Show%20-%20Messebericht][/url]
Alfredo Petrov
4th Nov 2012 10:47am
Alfredo Petrov
4th Nov 2012 10:47am
Not sure why the above says "Link broken?" - seems to work for me.
Alfredo Petrov
4th Nov 2012 10:50am
Alfredo Petrov
4th Nov 2012 10:50am
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