For information on Gem/Mineral Shows http://www.mindat.org/msgboard-64.html Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:43:26 +0000 Phorum 5.2.15a http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296890#msg-296890 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296890#msg-296890
Lee]]> Lee Champigny Mineral Shows Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:17:59 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296865#msg-296865 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296865#msg-296865 Tom Sheehan (2) Mineral Shows Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:27:18 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296764,296840#msg-296840 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296764,296840#msg-296840 Matt Neuzil Mineral Shows Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:55:05 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296838,296838#msg-296838 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296838,296838#msg-296838 As many of you I will join Sainte Marie Aux mines show, the next week!
I will leave from Paris and I own a car. So I can offer some seat for the travel to SMAM!
It's a good way to share our hobbies and to reduce the fees of travel.
I wish go from the Tuesday until the sunday/monday.
You can join me for one part of the trip of both of them!
Don't hesit to contact me^^]]> Nicolas Born Mineral Shows Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:53:53 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296835#msg-296835 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296835#msg-296835 Mary Serembus (2) Mineral Shows Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:26:09 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296833#msg-296833 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296833#msg-296833
Yes, there is a Steve Garza & he will be present; however, when have EITHER of you seen me when I've been ALL there? As Jim Tovey is bring another rock for my mini-talk/lecture, let's see, if this yr., I can find ANOTHER mineral not listed from his mines? LOL

Can't wait to meet everyone, again; always a blast!

Your wired friend, Steve]]> steven garza Mineral Shows Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:07:19 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296792#msg-296792 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296792#msg-296792
Leaving in the AM tomorrow. Will be headquartered in Brattleboro, VT. at Super8. Arriving late Wednesday.

The Gilsum Show is also a vacation for us. We will have a day a one-half for touring and PROSPECTING.

Hope we will get to chat a while with all of you.

Don and Linda Kauffman
Reading, PA :)-D]]> Don Kauffman Mineral Shows Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:39:50 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296764,296769#msg-296769 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296764,296769#msg-296769 I use: [www.amfed.org] and: [www.rockngem.com]

Between Wayne's two and these 2, you shouldn't be lonely... Maybe poorer at summers' end!
Hope you find cool stuff.

Mike]]> D Mike Reinke Mineral Shows Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:25:51 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296768#msg-296768 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296768#msg-296768 Wayne Corwin Mineral Shows Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:57:27 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296764,296767#msg-296767 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296764,296767#msg-296767
http://www.mineralfest.com/calendar.html

and

http://www.amfed.org/efmls/calendar.htm

Have fun :-D]]> Wayne Corwin Mineral Shows Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:55:39 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296764,296764#msg-296764 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296764,296764#msg-296764
I live in cleveland and am hoping there are some shows coming up soon relatively close. I'm willing to drive about hours. I know its more hunting season than show season but i'm looking to get to some shows.

Only one i can think of now coming up is the gemboree in bancroft.

If anyone knows of any I'd like to know. Ive checked the vug and i'm waiting for the next list of shows.

MAtt]]> Matt Neuzil Mineral Shows Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:33:01 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296763#msg-296763 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296763#msg-296763 Look for me at the show. Will be wearing my red baseball cap again this year with "Have you mindat today??" pined on. say Hi please!
and of coarse those pies on Saturday are to die for. Thanks to the town folks for continuing that tradition. YUM

See ya all there
Rachel Cesana

ps
Several others from our rock club (Rhode Island Mineral Hunters) are also spending the weekend
Hey Steve Garza will you be there??]]> Rachel Cesana Mineral Shows Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:46:42 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,296751#msg-296751 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,296751#msg-296751
Sadly ALL bureaucracies generate these horrors when some ignorant, but enthusiastic, low level bureaucrat has absolute authority.]]> Rob Woodside Mineral Shows Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:32:06 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,296725#msg-296725 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,296725#msg-296725 Alfredo Petrov Mineral Shows Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:17:53 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,296718#msg-296718 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,296718#msg-296718
In spite of this official sanction, which was advertised at the Tucson Gem and Mineral show, the National and State government could not stop the predatory customs and tax officials from screwing up the show. Is that a fair assessment of the situation? I understand that the Kristalle has yet to get their specimens back from China. Why would any of the victims of this treatment ever want to go back?]]> Rock Currier Mineral Shows Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:39:03 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296717#msg-296717 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296717#msg-296717 Lee Champigny Mineral Shows Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:15:34 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,296714#msg-296714 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,296714#msg-296714 Just like the famous saying, Roma wasn’t built in a day! And the opportunity has a brother called challenge. We do find some hard nuts the CMGS should bite such as the customs and logistics. But please read carefully the article below jointly written by two experts and you will find the opportunity that you should not miss to take part in the CMGS.

THE RAPID RISE OF CHINA’S MINERAL MARKETPLACE
by Robert Lavinsky and Guanghua Liu, Quota from the Xpopress

China, one of the world’s largest countries, has not only a long mining history but also abundant mineral resources. Although mineral collecting never became a tradition in China as it did
in Europe and the United States, beautiful mineral specimens from China have been emerging on the international market since the mid-1980s. Chinese specimens have amazed collectors worldwide, but are now also stimulating a rising interest within China itself, in government museums, in mining institutes and among private collectors. The history and trajectory of Western
civilization has in part been determined by use of natural resources, and by the application of research in mineralogy and mineral deposits. Researchers have come from the ranks of young people inspired to get into the sciences. The West has a tendency to preserve mineral specimens
and to look on them both as display pieces and as objects for scientific research in a way that Chinese culture traditionally has not; the Chinese have only recently, tentatively, begun to adopt the Western approach. It was with China’s “opening the door to the West” policy in the late 1970s, and the arrival of Western visitors, including mineral collectors and dealers, that Chinese attitudes about minerals began to change. Seeing the lucrative potential of a “mineral-specimen economy,” many in the Chinese mineral market began to adopt this Western concept. Beautiful red cinnabar and realgar crystals and large, shining stibnite clusters from mines in Hunan Province were the first groups of Chinese minerals to find their ways into the markets of Western countries. In 1980,
the Geological Museum of Beijing sent curators to the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show with an exhibit of display-quality Chinese mineral specimens. As a result, several American mineral dealers started traveling to China, although there were as yet no organized mineral markets there.
Nonetheless, during the last two decades, the Chinese mineral dealer community has expanded exponentially, as global exchange of information itself has expanded (thanks to the Internet), and large varieties and quantities of fine Chinese minerals are now appearing in the international markets. As mentioned, the Chinese themselves had not been accustomed to collecting mineral specimens, and thus the mineral business in China was poorly developed until native wholesale dealers emerged. When they did, they organized supply channels to get specimens to market more
efficiently; also they had to educate the miners about how and what to collect. A whole vocabulary had to be created in order to explain what kinds of specimens had value, and how they were to be collected and protected from damage. The miners were quick to learn, but the process still goes on today as new localities and communities are found and tied into the international fine mineral specimen markets.
CHANGSHA’S IMPORTANCE
The first significant commercial mineral trading took place at the geological museum in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province and the modern epicenter of the mineral-specimen trade. In the early 1980s, individual mineral collectors and dealers visited this museum and began making purchases from Zhou Xinkuang, the curator. In this way Mr. Zhou made a good profit for
the museum, thereby encouraging several geologists and petrologists from the Hunan Geological Research Institute to establish a mineral shop at the museum in 1985. This was the first true mineral shop in China. Mrs. Xia Zhifen, a geologist from the institute, was assigned to be the first manager of the store. Under her leadership the museum’s team worked hard to develop a supply of collectible minerals from different mines, especially from the nearby Yaogangxian mine, which
remains among the top known Chinese localities to this day.
MINERALOGY EDUCATION
The growing appreciation of Chinese mineral specimens and their transfer into Western markets has so far inspired only a few Chinese museum exhibits of beautiful crystals. As of the end of 2011, there were 14 natural history museums, 19 geological museums, nine paleontological museums, and twelve other science museums with mineral and fossil exhibits in China—all run by the government or by state-owned universities and geological institutions. Although each museum has an exhibition of minerals, most of the specimens displayed are mineral ores or mineralbearing rocks showing nothing attractive to ordinary visitors. The display methods are mostly primitive, lacking good lighting and attractive case design, and substituting too much text and pictures for actual specimens that might inspire interest. Happily, the situation seems to be changing. In the last few years the Chinese government has decided to enhance the general public’s awareness of minerals and mining by establishing museums and “geoparks.” Several major museums, including
the China Geology Museum in Beijing and the Henan Geological Museum, have worked to bring their exhibits of minerals and geology up to Western standards in style and presentation, emphasizing minerals and rocks as objects of science rather than as merely home decor. A new government initiative has encouraged education in the geosciences through the construction of new, modern museums of natural history. Accordingly the government has funded over 100 new museums already under construction in big cities, and in the near future it will fund construction of a natural history museum in every Chinese metropolitan area with a population over five million (that is, in approximately 200 cities!). Recently, the central government mandated that within the next ten years every geo-park and nature park in China (197 of them as of October 2012) must establish a geological museum, or at least an exhibit, in the Western, scientific style.

SHOWS, FAIRS AND EXPOS
In May 2013 the Chinese National Government and the Hunan Provincial Government jointly sponsored the first China Mineral & Gem Show in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province. The clearly defined goals of the show are to bring in outside influences to spur a market in mineral specimens, to direct more young Chinese into sciences which are useful for resource exploitation, and to grow the related economies.

In sum, a new mineral culture has begun to grow in China, with dealers, collectors, museums and government people all working to preserve Chinese mineral specimens as never before. The Chinese are becoming aware of the difference between the earlier Chinese collections of natural history and Western style collections which, when exhibited, serve to educate the public in science and to inspire careers in science and resource development. No longer content to see their mineral treasures entirely exported to the West, the Chinese are now beginning to acquire mineral specimens for their own collections and for their public museums. The vast extent of China, with its innumerable sources of collector-quality minerals in still unexploited localities, presents an almost unlimited potential for growth in the quantity and variety of fine mineral specimens. This potential can be realized thanks to the low cost of mining and the insatiable interest of collectors
around the world. And the money to be made should help dealers maintain enough motivation, in coming years, to continue tracking down new and lucrative localities and gathering rare and exotic
mineral specimens from them . . . for decades to come.]]> Jessica707 Mineral Shows Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:30:39 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296675#msg-296675 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296675#msg-296675 Hope to see all this coming weekend at Gilsum.]]> TOVECO Mineral Shows Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:51:30 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296151,296552#msg-296552 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296151,296552#msg-296552 GREEN PERIDOT Mineral Shows Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:36:15 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294871,296524#msg-296524 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294871,296524#msg-296524 D Mike Reinke Mineral Shows Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:01:57 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294871,296510#msg-296510 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294871,296510#msg-296510 John Davis (2) Mineral Shows Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:27:55 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296507#msg-296507 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296507#msg-296507 John Davis (2) Mineral Shows Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:04:24 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294871,296485#msg-296485 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294871,296485#msg-296485
And they got pies too ! ! !

Gilsum Rock Swap - Gilsum, New Hampshire, USA

Video Proof's:
Gilsum Rock Swap 2008
Gilsum Rock Swap 2009
Gilsum Rock Swap 2010 / Show
Gilsum Rock Swap 2010 / Gilsum Guys
Gilsum Rock Swap 2010 / Toveco
Gilsum Rock Swap 2011
Gilsum Rock Swap 2012


KOR

Wayne]]> Wayne Corwin Mineral Shows Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:46:45 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296484#msg-296484 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296484,296484#msg-296484
Gilsum Rock Swap - Gilsum, New Hampshire, USA

Who's going to be there ?

Gilsum Rock Swap - Gilsum, New Hampshire, USA

Video Proof's that you should go: :-D
Gilsum Rock Swap 2008
Gilsum Rock Swap 2009
Gilsum Rock Swap 2010 / Show
Gilsum Rock Swap 2010 / Gilsum Guys
Gilsum Rock Swap 2010 / Toveco
Gilsum Rock Swap 2011
Gilsum Rock Swap 2012



KOR

Wayne Corwin]]> Wayne Corwin Mineral Shows Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:40:48 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296151,296151#msg-296151 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,296151,296151#msg-296151 I am wondering if anyone has any experience with the October date for the Shanghai mineral and fossil show. I noted there is also a show in April, for which there seems a lot more information about. Is the October show as big and as popular for example - or is it best to wait till next April. I haven't been to a Shanghai show yet.
Thanks.]]> Tom Ross-Clift Mineral Shows Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:03:58 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294871,296021#msg-296021 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294871,296021#msg-296021
Take enough time to enjoy yourself, at least a week, better two. Remember that the odds are pretty good that you'll pick up some kind of cold or flu virus amongst the hordes, so you're going to have to budget a day or two in bed. Got the worst cold I've EVER had when I was there.

Check out the Grand Canyon, the Petrified Forest, maybe even Bisbee or the myriad other desert attractions, don't just skulk down hotel corridors.

Come with a plan. There are infinite pretty rocks, so if you can specialize in some way, you'll have more fun. Try to narrow down what interests you; eg: Aussie minerals, or sulfides, or twins, or specialize in a single mineral like fluorite, calcite, quartz, or whatever. Makes shopping simple; you can go into a room, ask if he's got any xyzite, and skip right along.

Figure out how you're getting your purchases back home, and don't buy fragile stuff.

Did I mention saving up? Bring every penny you can.]]> Tim Jokela Jr Mineral Shows Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:17:30 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,185615,296002#msg-296002 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,185615,296002#msg-296002 Bradley Hendershot Mineral Shows Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:53:01 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,295992#msg-295992 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,295992#msg-295992 Dona Leicht Mineral Shows Sat, 08 Jun 2013 21:22:28 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,295955#msg-295955 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,295955#msg-295955 Alfredo Petrov Mineral Shows Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:45:31 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,295935#msg-295935 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,64,294594,295935#msg-295935 www.facebook.com]]]> Eric Ackermann Mineral Shows Sat, 08 Jun 2013 06:06:08 +0000