Tucson 2019
Last Updated: 18th Feb 2019By Jolyon Ralph
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It's time once again for the annual Tucson Shows report, this year sponsored by Tucson's New Mineral Show.
The show has expanded this year with dealers in buildings and tents. Let's go check out some minerals!
New find of hematite from Iron Hill district, New Mexico. Enchanted Minerals.
One of the hematites.
Super Smoky Quartz from Lincoln Co. New Mexico - Enchanted minerals
Some classic Bisbee copper minerals from MineralZone. The azurite is ex Ben Williams collection, he was instrumental in the founding of Arizona state.
Cuprite from bisbee with bideaux label. MineralZone
Polished Cornish turquoise - Ed Loye
Ronna Veeveart selling some of her late husband's stock including these benitoites
Devon metaautunite - ex John Veeveart collection.
Chalcedony from Staritsa quarry, Tverskay, Russia. Geonica Inc.
Interesting and very inexpensive!
To all those who say minerals are too expensive today I say could you get a one inch octahedral cuprite crystal for twenty dollars twenty years ago?
Peridot beach sand from Hawaii. Guaranteed curse free. Shannon & Sons
Calcite from Tynebottom mine, England - Richard Shupe minerals
Now hunting for unusual things at Minerals Unlimited. Here's a Sal ammoniac from Paricutin volcano, Michoacan, Mexico.
Zircon crystals from Sigulani, Blantyre district, Malawi. Collected 1963. Minerals Unlimited (and this one now in my collection)
Big amethyst in a truck.
Nice South Korean amethyst. Ricki Minerals
Penfield quarry fluorite Rocko minerals.
Vial of gem corundum from Yogo Gulch Montana, MineralZone specimens
Chamosite after garnet. Mount Shasta Michigan. MineralZone specimen
The sale of part of the Rock Currier collection at JTI.
Showing one of Rock's classic lifesaver labels
First stop today at the new Mineral City show
Keystone (50% discount) specimens at Crystal Classics including this great French pyromorphite
Spirifer minerals have a new find of fluorite from Mongolia.
Some examples.
Also some purple fluorite.
Super large English hematite - Wendel Minerals
Collectors Edge still seem to have a secret stash of Sweet Home Rhodochrosite for sale, now with 30% discount.
Paul Botha has some very interesting books as well as a fine selection of southern African minerals.
I bought a copy of this one
Next door is the Mineral District show mostly wholesale but also some keystone outlets.
Actually it's the sun gemstone show.
Here at the University of Arizona with the Mineral Evolution team who I have been working with for many years now. It's good to be involved in real scientific research.
And now I'm at the HTCC show
Thulite crystals from Snillfjord, Norway. Collected January 2019 by Gunnar Farber.
The collecting in Norway in the winter!
Specimen with crystals.
Back at the Mineral City show. Matrix India
Big thing from them is amethyst and zeolites from India.
Superb mordenite stalactites from Anay Village, Pune, India.
Natural Creations have some super displays.
Calcite and amethyst
Quartz on and partially included by byssolite from Italy
Apatite on calcite from Muzo, Colombia
Back at HTCC show today. With Dennis Beals who has these new boleite on matrix from Mexico. There is some debate about whether they are entirely natural but so far nothing has been proved either way.
Kobyashevite
Incredible Graphite and diopside from Rossie, New York. Collected in summer 2018 by Michael Walter. Geologic Desires specimens.
One of a new pocket of crocoite from the Adelaide mine Tasmania. Adelaide Mining Company
Artisan Made Gemstones have created these fabulous glass 'Wulfenites'
Iridescent fluorite from Dalnegorsk, Russia. Dr Petr Sztacho
Morimotoite possibly largest crystals in world, from Russia. Dr Petr Sztacho
At the westward look show
I found this pin on the ground here
Legrandite specimens from Mapimi Mexico, Unique Minerals
Red Beryl showing the half with the mould of the crystal before trimming.
Calcite with included conichalcite from Tsumeb. Both this and previous piece from Pala Inc.
Super Colorado amaxonite and smoky quartz - Pinnacle 5 minerals
Neat stephanite minature from Fresnillo Mexico - MineralMovies specimen
Aquamarine on orthoclase from Brazil. Cristalli specimen
Quite the impressive Rhodochrosite - Bergmann minerals
Blue beryl from Afghanistan - Stonetrust
Blue beryl with tourmaline from Afghanistan - Stonetrust
Super new cuprite from DR Congo - Stonetrust
Suite of hematite from Brazil. The Mineral Gallery
Pew pew pseudomorph of calcite and quartz after mordenite - Blake Barnett minerals, as was the last one too (oops)
Emerald pocket reconstruction from Hiddenite, NC about 60 years old. Green Mountain Minerals
Kongsberg silver - Crystal Classics
Azurite overgrown on a malachite pseudomorph after azurite. Tsumeb mine. Crystal Classics
Azurite on tetrahedrite from France. Dan Weinrich specimens
Dadsonite with siderite from Saint-Pons, France - A.Martaud mineraux
New lustrous azurite from Morocco - A.Martaud
Fundraising dinner and auction for the University of Arizona Mineral Museum
Back today at TNMS and here at Phil's Minerals are four flats of apatite on magnetite from Cedar City, Utah
Close up of one piece.
Californian Dioptase from Phil's Minerals
Orthoclase ps after leucite from Kamam-Kalehovuk Turkey. Tin Can Hill minerals.
Minerals too expensive? Good selection of interesting specimens for $6 each. Tin Can Minerals
Tincalonite from Searles Lake $6
Another $6 rock from Tin Can Hill minerals
Interesting new fluorite from the Surprise mine, Cookes Peak, New Mexico - Enchanted minerals
New and inexpensive Blanchard Fluorite - Enchanted minerals
Another nice pseudo from Enchanted Minerals
Whilst on the subject of pseudomorphs Erin Delventhal has this really unusual pseudo of chalcedony after something from Indonesia! Guesses as to what the precursor was have included cerussite, aragonite and odd volcanic vapour phases. A mystery.
Braunite from Langban, Sweden - Shannon & Sons specimen
Back at Comet Meteorite Shop in HTCC show and they have this 845g piece from the brand new meteorite fall in Cuba on Feb 1st this year! H6 class.
Huuuge Rhodochrosite with pyrite from Oppu mine, Japan. Nicholas Stolowitz fine minerals.
Back at HTCC this morning and Jaroslav Hyrsl has a fantastic Zektzerite crystal from Washington Pass.
Now I'm at the Pueblo Gem & Mineral Show
Superb ferberite from Kami mine, Bolivia. SZ Mineraux.
CΓ©dric Sonney from SZ Mineraux with a fabulous Freiberg fluorite.
Hematite from Le Saut des Roches, France. SZ Mineraux
At the Chinese New year party of the View Stone Association of China.
At the mindat party here at Ray Hill's place.
And it's almost time for the TGMS show aka the Main Show.
Big queue for the grand opening, 10am this morning.
Haven't had much time to report today, but here's a Sal ammoniac with Lecontite from Chile. IC minerals
A memorial display to the late and great John Veeveart
Wulfenite from the UK display case from the Natural History Museum (and National Musuems Scotland). Long story short, the UK doesn't produce spectacular wulfenite specimens. But it can be found if you persevere.
Mine treasures from around the world.
The Society of Mineral Museum Professionals have a case of Wulfenite. Mindat.org and SMMP have collaborated to create a Virtual Gallery of 'What Wulfenite Loves'.
https://www.mindat.org/smmp/2019
https://www.mindat.org/smmp/2019
Chinese minerals from the Jim and Gail Spann collection
Arizona treasures from the University of Arizona.
Arizona meteorites.
What a caledonite!
Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society display on Garth Bricker and his mining work at the red Cloud mine.
Blue Rose of the Urals. Corundum from Russia.
Jeremy Sinkus' display of glass replicas and glassware.
Sulfides. Venture West Crystals and Minerals
Memoirs of a micromounter
Sherman Dugan Museum of Geology
Natural History Museum of LA County
Close-up of their golds.
Wulfenites of Mexico
Need a crystal wall? UK Mining ventures can build you a crystal wall from $500 per square foot from English fluorite direct from their mines.
Nephrite jade cane
The King Henry gold, 94kg 1,402oz Au from Beta Hunt mine, Western Australia
Wulfenite from Mexico. Megaw family collection.
Kevin DeLeon case.
Harvard Museum
Royal Ontario Museum
Wulfenite in systematic mineralogy case by American Museum of Natural History
Spar minerals. Fersman Museum display
Coyamito agates of Mexico
Cooke's Peak New Mexico
One of the new Mineral adventure trips coming this year.
And the other! Email katya@mindat.org if you'd like more information.
TGMS banquet. Is under way.
Last nights mindat.org auction raised over $5,500. Thank you all! But special thanks to Robyn, Nathan and Holger for their tremendous help last night.
And finally the show is over. Here, have some more wulfenite. Next year's theme will be World Class Minerals, but we will also be celebrating 50 years of the Mineralogical Record and 20 years of mindat.org!
See you then!
See you then!
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