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Mineral ShowsIndiana shows?
16th Feb 2012 14:21 UTCAnonymous User
16th Feb 2012 16:10 UTCBob Harman
So, you see there are numerous Indiana shows and several in nearby states Hope you can attend some BOB HARMAN President, Midwest Chapter Friends of Mineralogy
16th Feb 2012 16:58 UTCD Mike Reinke
There are show schedules at Rock and Gem, and MWF, midwest federation of min. 7 geo. society http://www.rockngem.com/
http://www.amfed.org/mwf/Calendar/October.html
The Bloomington show is big, you will need two days to see it all at an unhurried pace, at least that is what I found out last year. I got to 5 shows last year, which was great fun, but you sure have to budget yourself, and you don't know what will be staring back at you at the next table, so where to outgo your income can get suspenseful! It is funny, I find when i limit my spending, I'm the most satisfied w/ my purchases.
While you're out gallivanting, check out the Funk mineral museum & house, just s. of Bloomington, Il. What a collection, and it is free. By appointment, too, since you are guided, not left in there alone! Enjoy.
16th Feb 2012 18:18 UTCJim Daly
Jim Daly
16th Feb 2012 23:09 UTCBob Harman
17th Feb 2012 02:08 UTCNorman King 🌟 Expert
I have also attended the Greater Indianapolis Gem and Mineral Show (Hancock County Fairgrounds), although I missed last year’s due to being in California that weekend. I bought several good specimens the previous year, including a remarkable specimen of fluorite consisting entirely of trisoctahedrons. There’s nothing else like it on mindat out of over 12,500 fluorite photos! This was the largest regional show I’ve been to, and I’ll be there every year I can. It also has a bit of everything.
The Evansville Lapidary Society gem, mineral, and fossil show is set up in the corridors of a mall. They have a lot of lapidary material and gems, but few highy-quality mineral specimens. Last year (late October) there were more dealers than ever before (I've been there at least ten times, but I live here), but none who specialized in mineral specimens. A few had entry-level material or special items such as meteorites. A few had fossils also. However, several years ago I acquired the magnetite specimen there whose photo I uploaded to mindat.
I also attended the Cincinnati show last year. I was there on the same day as the Kentucky Derby, and since I have to drive through Louisville to get there, I was in a hurry to make the return drive before the big crowd hit town in the afternoon. Most dealers were high-end or approaching that, so there wasn’t much that interested me that fit my budget. However, I bought a few very nice pieces, among them cabinet-sized spinel-twinned sphalerite and skeletal galena from Bulgaria that were marked at half the regular price (but still over $100 each), and a dirty miniature of really good cuprite octahedrons from the Rubtsovskoe deposit in Russia that I knew would clean up nicely. The cuprite did, and those are all posted on mindat now. I wrote a completely non-judgmental and enthusiastic piece on that show also, and posted quite a few photos, as I had promised my photographic subjects. But someone associated with the show saw my write-up (article) on mindat and uploaded quite a long letter as a complaint about my story (which was me writing about MY experiences there, right?) and explaining how much I missed and therefore neglected reporting. That over-the-top reaction to my innocent little article was so obnoxious that I deleted the whole thing. But, there was a lot to see, even if I couldn’t afford much.
17th Feb 2012 04:30 UTCAnonymous User
17th Feb 2012 04:49 UTCD Mike Reinke
Thanks for your concern, please note the Il is not a "two" after "Bloomington". There apparently are several of them. (Did they ever figure out which 'Springfield' the Simpsons live in?!) And getting there would require some "gallivanting" from Indiana, but well worth it.
Norman,
It takes a thick skin to deal w/ some posters, please endure, as I enjoy what you don't delete! The dinosaur cheeks explaination was fascinating, and the chert/chalcedony piece was very good. i read somewhere that 'all teaching amounts to discerning the differences between things', and that, you do well.
Mike
17th Feb 2012 11:58 UTCBob Harman
Hope to see you all at some of these shows. BOB HARMAN President, Midwest Chapter Friends of Mineralogy
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