Crystal Classics

St Marie-aux-Mines Show

19th June 2008

Next week will see the return of the St Marie-aux-Mines Minerals. Set in a pretty French village in the Alsace region, this is a fun show to visit. The show runs Thurs 26th to Sunday 29th, with Thursday as professionals day.

This show we will have a really exciting range of specimens including many new finds!!

Brand new Spessartine Garnets from Loliondo, Tanzania, and what is really exciting is that these are the first superb specimens we have seen on matrix!!! The colour is super, bright orange and quite gemmy. The matrix is a shiny Muscovite schist, and there is assocaited Kyanite in a rare orange-brown colour.

We will also have new Pyrites on Fluorite from Dayu Co., Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China; plus other new specimens from China.

Ian and Wayne have been keeping busy acquiring several new collections including the Dr Winfried Boehmer, Germany, and pieces from the collection of Wolfgang Henkel, plus several other high standard collections of aesthetic pieces.

We will be in our same place in the Grande Theatre, in the middle towards the stage, in a shared booth of Crystal Classics and Kristalle.

See you there!!!