Tucson 2013 - The TGMS Show
Last Updated: 20th Mar 2013By Jolyon Ralph
Tucson 2013 - The TGMS Show
Finally, a little overdue but better late than never, the TGMS photo report from last month's Tucson Show.
The show prepares to open the doors to the public.
And the public queue up ready to enter.
The theme of this year's show is Fluorite, and we had the great fortune to have found this incredible fluorite specimen, called the Weardale Giant, within the last twelve months. See this article on how it was collected.
The Weardale Giant
A quick roundup of the more important fluorite displays:
Liz and David Hacker stand next to their incredible Blue John fluorite cabinet.
The Blue John cabinet.
Chinese fluorite
More chinese fluorite
Fluorite from the Far East of Russia
Close-up of some Dalnegorsk Fluorite
Fluorites of France, part 1
Fluorites of France, part 2
Mexican Fluorites
Fluorite of New Mexico
Fluorites of the Northern Pennines Orefield, England
Blackdean Mine yellow fluorite
Frazer's Hush Mine fluorite
Fluorite from Strzegom, Poland
Fluorite sitting on albite with microcline
Fluorite from Strzegom
Illinois Fluorite
Illinois cleaved fluorite octahedra (note: not natural crystals!)
'Self' collected Fluorites from Colorado
Fluorite from Kazakhstan
Five generations of minerals and mining - Kosnar/Foster/Bergman family collection
Fluorites from the Mineralogical Association of Dallas
Fluorite from Riemvasmaak, South Africa
Fluorite on Albite from Chamonix, France
Fluorite from Pakistan
Arizona Fluorite from the collection of the Sonora Desert Museum
Fluorite with Calcite from Tennessee
Fluorite from other US localities
Fluorite from other worldwide localities
Fluorite - colours of the rainbow
University of Arizona Mineral Museum fluorite display
French Fluorite
Wayne and Dona Leicht's Native Element collection
Enormous platinum nugget from the Urals, Russia
Wire silver specimens
Carnegie Museum of Natural History specimens
Fluorite Fun Facts courtesy of the Natural History Museum of LA County
London's Natural History Museum display of Lesser Known UK Fluorites
Box epimorph after fluorite from Virtuous Lady mine, Devon, UK
Electric green fluorite with galena from St. Peters mine, Co. Durham, UK
Cincinnati Museum Center's display of Fluorite from England
Large Weardale fluorite.
American Museum of Natural History (New York) Fluorite display
Green octahedral and cut gem from Wise Mine, New Hampshire, USA
Display from the Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall, UK.
Big South Caradon mine, Cornwall blue fluorite
School cap from 1908
'horse tooth' siderite from Wheal Maudlin, Cornwall
Chalcedony from Cooks Kitchen Mine, Cornwall
Fluorite from US and Foreign localities
Jim and Mary Fong Walker were showing off a superb collection of minerals due for auction later this year.
Stibnite from France
Rose quartz on smoky quartz from Brazil
Linarite from the Blanchard Mine, New Mexico
Mindat has a booth as usual, here I am showing off our new T-shirts
Buy our new t-shirts!
We were visited by Lauren Megaw and her mineralogy student friends.
There was also a giant bony fake fish fossil walking around the show, presumably to remind the kids to feed their goldfish.
Mineral dealer Danny Trinchillo junior, with some help from dad, offering some quite nice Iranian mimetite specimens for sale at the show at kid-friendly prices.
Amanda Adkins, full-time specimen miner in Colorado and one of the stars of the new Weather Channel TV series 'Prospectors', showing off a classic Amazonite specimen.
Dmitriy Belakovsky, from the Fersman Mineralogical Museum in Moscow, Russia, and Guenther Neumeier of the Mineralogical Record magazine
Elise Skalwold showing off her new book on the Edward Arthur Metzger Gem Collection (review coming soon on gemdat.org!)
That's all for Tucson this year. My next report will be from the New York/New Jersey Mineral Show at the NJ Expo Center, April 12-14. I'll post a preview article about this show in the next 2 days!
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Tucson 2013 - The TGMS Show
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