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Jean Sendero
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Posted: Jan 29, 2011 10:22 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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To all aficionados of Mexican specimens,
As I only collect Mexican minerals, I generally only pay attention to these. So, after quick round of the dealers on Friday at the Tucson City Centre hotel, I found some of the Milpillas Brochantite in Don Olson room, a shelve full of lovely "AstroTurf" look a like specimens, some nice mimetite-tsumcorite-segnitite specimens from Campo Sure at the Ojuela and unusual vivianite crystal fragments from Mina La Caridad Sonora in Dennis Beals room and, for those of you that missed the Naica fluorite spinel twins a few years back, Luis Miguel Burillo has a fine selection.
I will try to keep you posted on any other interesting Mexican minerals in the next few days. Still to see will be Peter Megaw room and in the ballroom, Benny Fenn, and John Fender should have an interesting selection.
Pictures to follow later tonight, I hope.
Cheers
Jean
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Jan 29, 2011 22:32 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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This was the scene in the court yard of the Inn Suites the night before this show opened. Lots of people, and I think i can see some beer here and there. |
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Cuprite in KARP's room. Note that i also saw nice cuprite in two other rooms at the Inn Suites (Russian Minerals & Axinite) but the pictures did not look good enough to post. There are varying opinions about how rare these exceptional cuprites are going to be. The best info I could find is that oxidation zone from where these were taken only has a year or so left. There are other unexploited oxidation zones nearby, but there is no reason to believe that they also have good cuprite. |
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The large single xtal in the middle has almost no to no damage and, from memory (didn't measure it) is maybe 3-4cm on edge. |
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Although reflected light shows a nice metallic luster, a strong light will penetrate all of these cuprites some distance showing a very nice red color. |
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Jan 29, 2011 22:58 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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I am partial to pyrite, and Pyritas de Navajun's room is always fun to see. Nice people too. |
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Some great people in the MinRec/Rocks & Minerals/Mineral Almanac booth in the ballroom at the Inn Suites. Picture includes Terry Huizing and his lovely wife, and Ludmila Cheshko. I remember my first Tucson several years ago having several long, informative, and fun conversations with Ludmila - and she has always had a smile and nice conversation to share since. |
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Jan 29, 2011 23:59 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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A quick shot of some distinguished members of the non less distinguished Club HAMS (Houston Area Mineral Society ;-)
Jordi
2011 European correspondent of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show™
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Some HAMS fellows on the Inn Suites patio |
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Jan 30, 2011 00:20 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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The Quality Inn on the Benson Highway has mostly Chinese, Russian, and Indian dealers. I remember last year many of the Chinese dealers had a significant portion of their inventory caught up in customs, and i couldn't find anything i liked. This year, my impression (for what it is worth) is that the Chinese dealers have some better material than they had by the time I got to this hotel last year.
Last year, I remember having a long conversation with Cui hua Gao of Xiaoxiang Crystal Mineral Museum about what we collectors were looking for. She seemed like such a nice person that I took the time to wade through a significant language barrier to communicate to her that i wanted no damage and no oil. This year she and her brother came back with some nice calcites and fluorites in good shape. I don't remember any specimens leaving an oily feeling on my fingers. I particularly liked the calcites they had from the Manaoshan Mine, Hunan. These have no damage, interesting twinning, and no apparent coating. I bought one, included in the photos below.
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Cui hua Gao and her brother. |
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This calcite is huge, from memory 10-15cm on a side. |
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Calcite on fluorite from the Xianghuapu Mine. From memory, I believe the entire piece was more than 15cm long. |
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This is the calcite i bought. The twin is about 5.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm. Although the twin is very symmetrical, one side of the twin is mostly transparent and the other has a distinct phantom just below the surface. |
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Jan 30, 2011 00:36 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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One more pict of the calcite - previous post ran into a limit of how many pictures each post can contain.
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Posted: Jan 30, 2011 22:17 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Two specimens that caught my eye in Donald Olsen's room today at the Inn Suites are an Elmwood fluorite with classic "Carthage corners" and an English calcite. Fun!
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Sorry i forget to take measurements. I think this one was maybe 7cm on edge. |
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I hope to remember to put a ruler in all the pictures I can. |
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Jean Sendero
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Posted: Jan 30, 2011 22:22 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Here are a few pics from Dennis Beals (Xtal), Luis Miguel and Don Olson. I first saw examples of these (mimetite-tsumcorite and brochantite) at the Denver show and on offer by other dealers (Mineral Zone and Arkenstone). I like these for the mimetite rather then the much rarer tsumcorite. These mimetite are very different then those most commonly recovered in the past and are reminiscent of those from Tsumeb. One can find additional mimetite-tsumcorite with segnitite in Peter Megaw room.
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Some mimetite with Tsumcorite from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico in Xtal room. |
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Mimetite, approx 1.5 cm on tsumcorite from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. |
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Some of the vivianite incomplete crystals from La Caridad Mine in Sonora Mexico. An unusual locality. |
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Some of the spinel twin fluorite from Naica Chihuahua in Luis Miguel room. These are smokers. |
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Brochantite from Milpillas on offer at Don Olson. Really, these look like astro turf. Another set of smokers. |
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More smokers. Killers for the specie and from a Mexican locality...... the best of both world. |
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A weak spot of mine. The amethyst from Amatitlan. These are on matrix, which is not often seen. Amethysts crystals sitting millimeter sized clear quartz with mm sized hematite rosettes. The full mineral association. These are from Mine La Valenciana, Amatitlan, Guerrero, Mexico |
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Matt_Zukowski
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Posted: Jan 30, 2011 23:39 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Some more minerals that have caught my eye.
First up is another cuprite from KARP's Inn Suites room. This one is like the front cover of the new Mineral Almanac (V16, No 1) with sharp, euhedral parts of faces of large cuprite xtals surrounded by patches of sparkly second generation cuprite. According to the Mineral Almanac, the second generation cuprite possibly heals defects in parts of the faces of the original larger xtals.
The second is a Jiepaiyu (Shimen) Mine calcite. The largest xtal is 4 cm long, is mostly transparent, and has an inclusion of realgar. I can't find any xtals with damage, even the small xtals covering the matrix. The xtals have great luster.
Last up is a Navajun pyrite. Yes, yes, these are very common, but this one is perfect, with no eye-visible damage i could find. It also has interesting growth features including what i think is a growth terrace about 1 mm high on one of the faces - see last picture (left side). The largest xtal is 4.7 cm on one edge.
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The entire cluster is about 6x5x4 cm. It consists of 3 or 4 larger octahedra to 4 cm on edge. |
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Julian C. Gray
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Posted: Feb 01, 2011 21:50 Post subject: Friends of Mineralogy General Meeting and Social Hour |
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The Friends of Mineralogy Annual Membership Meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 8, at 4 pm, in the restaurant of the Hotel Tucson City Center (formerly Inn Suites). A Social hour will follow the membership meeting from about 5 to 6 pm.
All Friends of Mineralogy members and prospective members are encouraged to attend our annual membership meeting and provide input and ideas to help our organization be as effective as possible.
This meeting is the same day as the FMF gathering, but there is plenty of time to catch the Friends of Mineralogy meeting and/or drop by for the social hour and still get to Casa Vicente by 7 PM.
Hope to see you there!
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Posted: Feb 01, 2011 21:54 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Today I wandered into Geometra's room (Inn Suites). I am partial to anything multichroic, and the Urucum spodumenes jumped out of the case at me. They had this rich gemminess and luster that looks to me like jelly. Very enjoyable to look at. Sorry I don't have sizes, but the case they are in is a large case (that should provide some scale.
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Posted: Feb 01, 2011 22:17 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Back to the Quality Inn, I saw some nice pieces in the room of Great Wall Mineral Museum.
By the way, my purple ruler is 15 cm.
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Posted: Feb 01, 2011 22:43 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Finally for tonight, there is one Chinese dealer in, of all things, the Ramada Inn. I never would have heard about this fellow if I had not been talking to Ross at North Star Minerals, because the Ramada Inn is almost all fossil dealers.
This fellow, has some nice pieces, especially interesting ilvaite clusters. Pictures below.
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Mangoan Calcite, with a habit like Elmwood. |
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Feb 02, 2011 01:36 Post subject: Re: Friends of Mineralogy General Meeting and Social Hour |
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Here -> https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=15653#15653 Julian C. Gray wrote: | The Friends of Mineralogy Annual Membership Meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 8, at 4 pm, in the restaurant of the Hotel Tucson City Center (formerly Inn Suites). A Social hour will follow the membership meeting from about 5 to 6 pm.
All Friends of Mineralogy members and prospective members are encouraged to attend our annual membership meeting and provide input and ideas to help our organization be as effective as possible.
This meeting is the same day as the FMF gathering, but there is plenty of time to catch the Friends of Mineralogy meeting and/or drop by for the social hour and still get to Casa Vicente by 7 PM.
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Hi Julian, welcome your news. I merged your previous thread in this thread to keep more coherent this section. If some one needs more individual info about the Friends of Mineralogy meeting is still this other thread available -> https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?t=1543
BTW, why you don't explain there a little bit more about what is Friends of Mineralogy and which are your activities? many people, specially from foreigner countries, could don't know it...;-)
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robynahawk
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Posted: Feb 02, 2011 18:44 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Stopped by Jordi's room yesterday and it was standing room only!
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Jordi Fabre
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Posted: Feb 03, 2011 00:08 Post subject: Tucson Show 2011 - 3 |
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Tucson 02/02/2011
As the post of robynahawk shows, my social life here is extremely busy. In one sense that's fine because I can meet a lot of old friends and join new ones, but in another sense, this prevent me to find time to write my regular columns, because sleeping 3-4 hours per day don't give to me the possibility to do much more as I'm doing. Sorry for it.
Anyway, today I have few free minutes and I use it to publish one of the promised photos, the image of one of the new Coppers after Cuprite and two shots of the unexpected weather here in Tucson. After few days with a "kind of spring" days, suddenly the temperature fall down and right now and at least until Saturday it seems that we will get a very cold weather which is not so funny considering that people is working in open spaces or in rooms with the doors open...brrrrrr ;-)
BTW, everybody in Tucson with acces to a computer, please publish your thoughts about Tucson Show here. Only if we collect many different visions we could offer to the rest of the world the reality of Tucson Show!
Jordi
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Copper crystals after Cuprite on Copper crystals from Rubtsovskoye Mine, Rubtsovsk, Siberia, Russia. Crystal size about 5 cm. |
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Frozen art at the InnSuites-Hotel Tucson City Center. Please note that's a very sunny day and still frozen... |
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Big change for this Goniatites! After millions years in the hot Sahara, now in the Sonora desert it becomes frozen! ;-)
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Darren
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Posted: Feb 03, 2011 21:03 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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I know that someone posted, somewhere, about a great Mexican food place close to the Inn Suites - as we will be out there this weekend (and looking for good food) can someone remind me of what this place is called????? Gotta say, we are used to New Mexico "Mexican" food and Sonoran is VERY different, but I'm willing to go for it!!!!!!!
Thanks, ya'll!!!!!
Darren (in cold-as-an-ice-box-Las Cruces, NM!)
(Yeah, ten BELOW zero here last night!)
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Samuel
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Posted: Feb 03, 2011 21:38 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Hi Darren:
you are very lucky to have such nice weather. Where I live the temperatures get up to 115F, and it is flat, dry and dusty. The Flinders Ranges can be seen in the distance.
Stay frosty.
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Joan Kureczka
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Posted: Feb 03, 2011 22:05 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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Darren -- if you were thinking of our posts on the UKMV Facebook page regarding La Cocina, it isn't a Mexican place but more of an internationally focused cafe, although they do have a few Mexican dishes. Just a nice, relaxed and affordable cafe, with coffee drinks/teas, beer, wine and cocktails, open all day from 9 am until late. And live acoustic music many evenings. It's at 201 North Court, not far from the original El Charro. Jesse and Ian Jones have been spending quite a bit of time there this past week and other folks they've taken have liked it as well.
If you're looking for good Mexican you may also have seen posts for Cafe Poca Cosa and LIttle Cafe Poca Cosa (both downtown). The Little Cafe is breakfast and lunch only, M-F and is a favorite of Jesse's and mine.
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GneissWare
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Posted: Feb 03, 2011 22:11 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2011 |
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There is a pretty good place down on Oracle, between the Executive and Collector's Edge Wholesale. Its on the side of the street closest to Hwy 10. You can't miss it. Good hand-made at the table guacamole!
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