This is my Springfield Mineral Show show report! The show was huge and crowded.
Here is a view from above of the whole show that shows how huge it was:


Kristalle has a very nice wire silver from Kongsberg Silver Mining District, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway.


Wright’s Rock Shop’s bright pink Spherocobaltite from the Agoudal Mine, Morocco.


An Arseniosiderite from Morocco, also at Wright’s Rock shop



These skeletal galena crystals from Bulgaria were everywhere at the show, all of the galena cube is etched away except the edges. This particular piece was being sold at Edwards Minerals.



A hydroxylherderite on albite from Pakistan


A faden clinozoisite from Hashupi, Pakistan at Mountain Minerals was interesting because it is the first faden piece I’ve ever seen that wasn’t adularia or quartz.



An aquamarine from Apaligun, Pakistan (also at Mountain Minerals) interested me not only because of the parallel growth of many small crystals, but also because of the shade of blue much darker than any I had previously seen in aquamarine.



A whole shelf of diopside from Koksha valley in Afghanistan at Mountain Minerals.



A new find of bright blue sodalite crystals from Larjuar Madan, Afghanistan at Mountain Minerals International.



I.C. Minerals’s Austinite from Mina Ojuela, Mexico


Beautiful red beryls from Utah at Vance Gems.


I love the color combination of amazonite and smoky quartz from Crystal Peak, like this one at Green Mountain Minerals.


Also at Green Mountain Minerals, a pink fluorite on muscovite from Pakistan.


Me next to the biggest japan-law twinned quartz I’ve ever seen. This is also at Green Mountain Minerals.


The mineraloid heklaite, a man-made byproduct of mining in Florida. This is at Minerals America.


Red Beryls, from Utah at Vance Gems.


Calcite from the Aghbar Mine, Morocco at Dan and Diana Weinrich’s mineral booth.


Red-pink fluorite from Plaggenstock Mountain, Switzerland at Dan and Diana Weinrich’s booth.


A beautiful pyromorphite from Bunker Hill (Idaho.)


Dan and Diana Weinrich’s beautiful aquamarine from Pakistan with an interesting “corkscrew” inclusion.


Dan and Diana Weinrich’s huge crocoite crystal from the Red Lead Mine, Australia.


A mimetite from the Congreso-Leon Mine in Mexico, also at Dan and Diana Weinrich’s booth.


Dan and Diana Weinrich’s smithsonite pseudomorph from the Berg Aukus Mine, Namibia.


A new find of Andradite garnets in quartz, with clinozoisite, at John Betts Fine Minerals.


Ethiopian Opal at John Betts Fine Minerals.


A neat bent tourmaline from Paprok, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan at John Betts Fine Minerals.


Thank you for reading my show report! It is my first show report or Mindat article.
By Jessica

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