Tucson 2015 - A quick photo tour
Last Updated: 27th Feb 2015By Jolyon & Katya Ralph
Tucson 2015
The Tucson Show has been over for nearly two weeks - and this is the first chance I've had to put together a report. It's going to be a very quick photo report with few comments. Enjoy the photos though!

Autunite from the Margnac Mine, France (Khyber Minerals)

Crocoite from the Adelaide Mine

More crocoite from the Adelaide Mine

Canadian cubanite (Spirifer Minerals)

Large (2cm) dioptase from Altyn-Tube, Kazakhstan (dioptase.ru)

Aragonite from Cumbria, UK (Fabre Minerals)

Tarbuttite from the Skorpion mine, Namibia (Fabre Minerals)

Gold from Uriman, Venezuela, Mined in 2014 (Fabre Minerals)

Pink fluorite from China (Fabre Minerals)

Ernstite pseudo after Childrenite from Linopolis, Brazil (Kristalle)

Jarosite, Colorado Mine No.1, Utah, USA (Kristalle)

Pyromorphite from Bunker Hill, Idaho (Collector's Edge)

An enormous Australian wittichenite crystal (Mineral Movies)

Mineraldesk were showcasing their system for recording 360 degree spins of mineral specimens - now fully supported in mindat.org!

Snail shell replaced with chalcedony, etc. from Dahkla, West Sahara. (Gunnar Farber)

I told you there was a lot of that blue fluorite... (Jinan Chinese Mineral Trading)

An incredible lab-grown quartz (Ian Jones specimen, from R&D XTALS, Inc)

A lovely sliced shattuckite from DR Congo (Valere Berlage)

Rarestone/Dioptase.ru were offering a box full of dioptase fragments suitable for creating mineral pigments.

Superb plumbogummite after pyromorphite from China (Arkenstone)

Augelite from Peru (Arkenstone)

Mimetite from Mexico (Bergmann Minerals)

Another piece of the sliced and polished shattuckite from DR Congo (Mineral Classics)

Metatorbernite from Old Gunnislake Mine, Cornwall (Dave Bunk)

Topaz from Murzinka, Russia (Dave Bunk)

Sperrylite from the Broken Hammer Prospect, Ontario, Canada (Dave Bunk)

One of several copper specimens from Chino mine, New Mexico (Dave Bunk)

Fluorite from Erongo, Namibia

Rose quartz from Brazil (Anton Watzl)

Fluorite from West Pastures Mine, Cumbria, UK (Crystal Classics)

Ian and Diana from Crystal Classics are so busy at the show they only get the chance to talk occasionally by phone

Wulfenite from China (Roberts Minerals International)

Bad Ems pyromorphite (Miner's Lunchbox)

Bournonite from Herodsfoot, Cornwall (Graeber & Himes)

Legrandite from Ojuela Mine, Mexico (Graeber & Himes)

Pharmacosiderite, Wheal Gorland, Cornwall, UK (Crystal Classics)

Bismuth, St Ives, Cornwall (Crystal Classics)

Proustite, Marienberg, Germany (Weinrich Minerals)

Liroconite, Wheal Gorland, Cornwall (Weinrich Minerals)

Pyrargyrite, Brahmaputra vein, Saxony, Germany (Weinrich Minerals)

Rowley Mine wulfenite (Crystal Habit)

Gold from the Bulolo Mine, Papua New Guinea (Crystal Habit)

Cassiterite (yes, really!) from the Barranca Mine, Mexico (Crystal Habit)

Baryte from Hilton Mine, Cumbria (MZ Minerals, now in J.Ralph collection)

Wulfenite from China (AAA Minerals)

A tray of tumbled Cornish luxullianite pieces (Wonderworks)

Fluorite, Kara-Oba, Kazakhstan (AFMC)

Adamite, Brenner Mine, Russia (AFMC)

A selection of Boulby, UK boracite specimens (Fossils-UK.com)

The 'mickey-mouse' boracite (Fossils-UK.com)

On thursday night mineral museum curators and friends of Jordi Fabre's FMF forum gather for a party hosted by Gail and Jim Spann and Jordi. The main attraction is the gigantic paella.

Three drinks between two curators. A normal sight. Renate again plus Peter Davidson (National Museums Scotland)

Carnegie Museum display - 'Oakstone' baryte from Derbyshire, England

Finally, a very stylish display combining famous mineral collector Dave Wilber's passion for antique barber bottles with mineral specimens from the Jim and Gail Spann collection. Do click on this one to view in more detail!
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Comments
Jolyon,
Thank you for all that you do with both mindat and posting photographs. I thoroughly enjoyed another Tucson 2015 photo tour. As an Arizona resident now, I get to participate in the spectacle that we call Tucson for over a month. It comes and goes so quickly, and I don't take enough photographs myself, but I get to relive it through the internet. It is such an immense undertaking that one cannot see it all, and these photo tours help us cover more ground, and see things that we might have missed. Kudos to yourself, Gail Spann, and John Veevaert for giving us additional glimpses into a fascinating world of mineral collecting!
Phil
Phil Richardson
27th Feb 2015 4:54pm
Thank you for all that you do with both mindat and posting photographs. I thoroughly enjoyed another Tucson 2015 photo tour. As an Arizona resident now, I get to participate in the spectacle that we call Tucson for over a month. It comes and goes so quickly, and I don't take enough photographs myself, but I get to relive it through the internet. It is such an immense undertaking that one cannot see it all, and these photo tours help us cover more ground, and see things that we might have missed. Kudos to yourself, Gail Spann, and John Veevaert for giving us additional glimpses into a fascinating world of mineral collecting!
Phil
Phil Richardson
27th Feb 2015 4:54pm
Thank you Jolyon - not quite as good as being there, but it helps! It's nice to see a Hiltom mine baryte (OK 'barite' because it's Tucson). It seems a long time since I saw a specimen from the Silverband mine on display or sale - have they all gone into hibernation?; I remember some monsters from the early 1960s...
Fascinating specimens and Romain seems to be getting the taste of it all well!
Best wishes
Tim
Timothy Greenland
27th Feb 2015 5:13pm
Fascinating specimens and Romain seems to be getting the taste of it all well!
Best wishes
Tim
Timothy Greenland
27th Feb 2015 5:13pm
Jolyon,
Thank you for taking the time to take all these pictures so expertly and selecting the best to share with us all. I have ti say though that Roman stole the show!
John Attard
15th Mar 2015 7:25pm
Thank you for taking the time to take all these pictures so expertly and selecting the best to share with us all. I have ti say though that Roman stole the show!
John Attard
15th Mar 2015 7:25pm
Hi Jolyon ,
Thank you very much for presenting these pictures so precisely and selecting the best to share with all of us interested in minerals .
I am from kathmandu Nepal always wishing to visit Tucson show , may be some day
I enjoyed viewing the beautiful photos
Thank you
Best Regards
Akrur.
akrur Dhoj shah
25th May 2015 9:55am
Thank you very much for presenting these pictures so precisely and selecting the best to share with all of us interested in minerals .
I am from kathmandu Nepal always wishing to visit Tucson show , may be some day
I enjoyed viewing the beautiful photos
Thank you
Best Regards
Akrur.
akrur Dhoj shah
25th May 2015 9:55am
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