KOFA  National Wildlife Refuge - February 2010 - photo by John Veevaert
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Tucson 2012 Report 2

I have been here in Tucson now for ten days.  I figured I would get here early this year to see if it made a difference in terms of "being there" when people were opening up.  To some extent it has but I think I would have done just as well waiting until the 23rd or 24th and done just as well.  This year at the Hotel Tucson the grounds are being policed by some visitors from the distant past.  Tom Kapitani has imported dozens of near life sized models of dinosaurs.  They are scattered all over the grounds and have turned quite a few heads.




Here's Tom unwrapping one of the beasts.
 

Some more of the models in the parking lot.  Note the new additional paved parking added this year.


 


Always fun to watch the prices change as the show draws closer. As of Jan 27 the price was $79.99 per night.
 
 

No Volley Ball this year....

 


Jesse Fisher and Ian Jones trying to ignore the little beast in the sand...
 
 
On to what is here in terms of minerals...
 

 Here is an example of the new fluorite from the Huanggangliang Iron mine in Inner Mongolia, China. 
I saw this one in Wendy's minerals for $2800.  When I went back to look at it it was sold.
 
 

Collector's Edge was selling Kalahari minerals by the flat from the Uli Bauhman collection.  This is specimen of brucite with ettringite.
 

This is a fantastic specimen of henritermierite.  It is the only variety of garnet that forms octahedral crystals and very rare.
 
 

I found this specimen of rhodochrosite on manganite with Rocko minerals.  Rocko also has a huge selection
of Millpilas azurite and brochantite and also scores of chalcocite from the Flambeau mine in Wisconsin.
The above specimen is sold
 
 

A large single crystal of chalcocite from Flambeau from Rocko Minerals at the Hotel Tucson.  
 
 

I found this smoker Little Three mine spessartine with Burillo minerals.  The crystal is 2 cm across.
The above specimen is sold
 
 

A few dealers are carrying fine examples of plumbogummite on pyromorphite from the Daoping mine in China. This specimen is 7 cm across.
 
 

Also a number of these single hoppered pyromorphite crystals also from the Daoping mine.  This is 3+ cm from top to bottom.
 
 

I found this specimen of uvarovite and Kammererite from the New Idria district in San Benito county, California. The
Uvarovite crystal is 4 mm across - GIGANTIC for the species from San Benito county!!!
The above specimen is sold
 
 

I picked up a small lot of pyrite ps of pyrrhotite from Dal'Negorsk from Pavel Bantsekov at the Hotel Tucson.
 
 

I bought this optical grade specimen of quartz covered with pink fluorite from Don & Gloria Olson.  It is from Les Droite, Chamonix, France. 
 It was formerly in the Ernie Schlicter collection.  The quartz is undamaged as are the uniformed sized fluorite crystals.
 
 

The cuprite from the Rubtsovskiy mine in Russia is as good as ever.  Axinite PM has the best prices I think.
The above specimen is sold
 

Teodocio Ramos has excellent specimens of pearceite from the Uchucchacua mine in Peru. 
He's at the Hotel Tucson.
 

 
Dudley Blauwet has a new find of Aquamarine from Doi Ty mine, Thuong Xuan district in Viet Nam. This is a 3 cm crystal. 
 

I found this gem sphene crystal from Mullah Ghani, Pakistan with Dudley also.
 
 

From Luiz Menezes I purchased several specimens of the matioliite from Mendes Pimentel,
Minas Gerais, Brazil . This is one of the richest specimens known of this insanely rare phosphate.    

 
Lots more to come over the next two weeks.  The show officially starts today January 28, 2012.


Past Shows & Reports
PLEASE NOTE: The minerals that were offered on these pages are all sold
1999
Munich Show
2000
Sainte Marie Show
Munich Show
2001
Sainte Marie Show
Munich Show
2002
Tucson Show
Sainte Marie Show
Denver Show
Munich Show
2003
Tucson Show
Sainte Marie Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show
2004
Tucson Show
West Coast Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show
2005
Tucson Show
West Coast Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show
2006
Tucson Show
Bologna Show
Sainte Marie Show
East Coast Show
Munich Show
2007
Tucson Show
Dallas Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show
2008
Tucson Show
West Coast Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show
2009
Tucson Show
West Coast Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show

2010
Tucson Show
San Francisco Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show

Munich Show

2011
Tucson Show
San Francisco Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show

2012
Tucson Show
West Coast Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show 
Munich Show

2013
Tucson Show
Sainte Marie Show
Crystal Days (Poland)
Munich Show  

 

 
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