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This post provides a glimpse at several individual minerals at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show® from the worldwide exhibit cases that I found interesting.

Copper Crystals from the Chino Open Pit, New Mexico
The University of Arizona Mineral Museum



Remarkable Crystallized Gold ("The Thunderbolt") from Mt. Monger, Western Australia, Found in 2014
Rob Lavinsky



Enormous Tanzanite Crystal - the Largest I Have Ever Seen
Marcus Budil



Beautiful Hexagonal Calcite from Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Prov., China
Unknown Collection. Note the incredible double refraction!



Crystallized Gold and Wire Silver
The Gold is from Ace of Diamonds Mine, Washington; the Silver from Kongsberg, Norway
Unknown Collection



Rhodochrosite on Tetrahedrite from Graham's Pocket, Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado
Unknown Collection. The red color is the raw photo and not enhanced!



Pink Calcite "Butterfly Twin" from Dal'negorsk, Russia
Unknown Minerals of Russia Exhibit



Botryoidal Rhodochrosite from the Oppu Mine, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Unknown Collection



The "Smoky Hawk King", a giant Amazonite with Smoky Quartz, Smoky Hawk Claim, Florissant, CO
Dorris Family Collection



Large and Lustrous Wulfenite from the Old Yuma Mine, Pima Co., Arizona
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum



Large Hydroxylherderite from the Havey Quarry, Poland, Maine
Maine Mineral & Gem Museum



Beautiful Purple Fluorapatite with Siderite from the Panasquieira Mines, Portugal
(This Should be in the Western European Exhibits, but I Accidentally Left it out of there.)
Tom and Gail Spann

This post is the second one giving a pictorial guide to the various showcase exhibits at the Tucson show. This post and the one before it are of all the non-themed cases. The themed cases of "Minerals of Western Europe" have been described in their own separate posts.

High Quality, Colorful Minerals
Various Collectors



Pyrite from Around the World
Unknown Case



Minerals of Russia
Unknown Case



Misc Worldwide Minerals
Unknown Case



Exhibit Dedicated to Breast Cancer Survivors
Various Women Collectors



Misc Worldwide Minerals
Unknown Case



Minerals of Namibia
Trafford Flynn Minerals



Minerals from Tsumeb, Namibia
Unknown Case



Misc Worldwide Minerals
Bisbeeborn Minerals



Native Copper Specimens
Label Says "Copper Queen Branch", so my Assumption is this is from Bisbee



Classic Minerals of Mexico
Tom Hales Collection



Misc Worldwide Minerals
Scott Rudolph Collection



The "Smoky Hawk King" and other Beatiful Amazonites and Smoky Quartz
From the Smoky Hawk Claim, Florissant, Teller Co., Colorado
Dorris Family Collection



Minerals of New York City & its Environs, Manchester Collection
Unknown Case



Minerals of "New Spain" (In this Case: Mexico & Arizona)
Minerals of Arizona Sonora Desert Museum



Minerals from Maine
Maine Mineral and Gem Museum



Amethyst and Calcite of Uruguay and Brazil
Roz and Gene Meieran Collection



Minerals from the Southwest
Paul Harter, Bill Larson, & Gene Meieran



The World of Tourmaline
Gerhard Wagner Collection

Aside from the main theme of "Minerals of Western Europe," the Tucson show also hosts a variety of other special exhibits from various museums, collectors, and mineral societies. In fact, there were more non-themed exhibit showcases than themed ones. This post and the following one feature all the non-themed exhibits at the show. The order of the pictures is once again not specific to any organization, but rather the sequence of my photography. Since there were many showcase exhibits, I divided these into 2 separate posts.

Favorites from Colorado Mines
Jeff Self & Donna Aware



Treasures in Time: Minerals Found in Fossils
Indiana State Museum



Prehnite from Around the World
(Disappointed that this Case Lacked any Prehnite from New Jersey, a Premier Prehnite Locality!)
Henry & Patsy Schmidt



Self Collected Arizona Minerals
Jon & Ruth Brugman



Agate & Geodes from Montana
Bozeman Gem & Mineral Club Member Specimens



Minerals from Montana
Bozeman Gem & Mineral Club Member Specimens



Lead Ore Minerals
Rice NW Museum of Rocks & Minerals



The Ed David Copper Collection
The University of Arizona Mineral Museum



Misc Worldwide Minerals
Geology Museum at the University of New Mexico, Albuqueque



Azurite and Malachite from Arizona
Mineralogical Society of Arizona



Sphalerite from Worldwide Localities
Les Presmyk Collection



Transistion Metals
Unknown Collection



Misc Worldwide Minerals
Unknown Collection



Misc Worldwide Minerals
Unknown Collection



Minerals from Arizona
Richard Bideaux Memorial Trophy Competition



Minerals from Russia and Western Europe
Fersman Mineralogical Museum



Highly Aesthetic Trophy Minerals
Marcus Budil



Tourmaline Collection
Gerhard Wagner Collection



Misc Worldwide Minerals
Unknown Collection

This year's Tucson Show featured a smaller sub-theme in addition to the regular theme. The sub-theme was titled "The Great Quartz Crystal Face Off." There were twelve showcase exhibits filled with all different types of interesting and unique Quartz crystals. The pictures below show all the exhibits for this sub-theme, and towards the bottom of this post are several of the individual minerals within this exhibit.

Lab-Grown Quartz Crystals, Synthetically Produced Through the Hydrothermal Process
R&D XTALS Inc



Quartz Worldwide
Unknown Exhibit



Large Quartz Crystals from a New Find at the McEarl Ridge Mine, Arkansas
Avant Mining LLC



"Magic of Illusions" - Beatiful Dendritic Agates
Paarijat



Amethyst and Milky Quartz from Ashaway Village, Hopkinton, Rhode Island
Unknown Exhibit



Angled Quartz Twins
Unknown Exhibit



Miscellaneous Quartz Exhibit
Unknown Exhibit



Colorful Quartz
Unknown Exhibit



Miscellaneous Quartz Exhibit
Si & Ann Frazier



Miscellaneous Quartz Exhibit
Wendy Melomeny



Quartz and Associates from King County, Washington
Unknown Exhibit



Quartz from the Royal Scepter Claim, Peterson Mountain, Washoe Co., Nevada
Misc Exhibitors



Star Rose Quartz from Minas Gerais Brazil
(This specimen was actually in the vicinity of the Quartz cases, so I included it here)
Lyda Hill


Rare Quartz with Unknown Yellow/Brown Inclusions, Macaubas, San Francisco River Area, Bahia, Brazil
Misc Exhibitors



Chalcedony Pseudomorph after Twinned Aragonite, Sueco, Coyamito Ranch, Chihuahua, Mexico
Si & Ann Frazier



Beautiful Amethyst Scepter on Matrix, King Co., Washington
Misc Exhibitors



Quartz Scepter on Pyrite, King Co., Washington
Misc Exhibitors



Amethyst on Matrix from the Saltman Prospect, Sweden
Misc Exhibitors

Here are the rest of the photos of the individual minerals from the Western European exhibits at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show® that I found interesting. Stay tuned for additional posts in the coming days, which will include "The Great Quartz Crystal Face Off" and other miscellaneous exhibits.

Large Jordanite Crystal with Lamellar Twinning from Lengenbach, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland
Natural History Museum of London



Incredibely Large Crystal of Anatase from the Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland
Natural History Museum of London



Twinned Fluorite from the Rogerly Mine, England
UK Mining Ventures



Large Zircon crystals Seiland Island, Alta Fjord, Finnmark, Norway
Canadian Museum of Nature



Large Pyrite Cubes In Matrix from Navajun, Spain
Unknown Case



Calcite Butterfly Twins from the Malmberget Mine, Gallivare, Lappaland, Sweden
Unknown Case



Orange-Pink Fluorite on Albite from Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France
Unknown Case



Classic Calcite from St. Andreasberg, Harz Mts, Lower Saxony, Germany
University of Technology Bergakademie Freiberg (Mining Acadamy)



Blue and White Halite from the Menzengraben Mine, Rhon Mts, Thuringia, Germany
University of Technology Bergakademie Freiberg (Mining Acadamy)



Large Silver Wire from the Himmelsfurt Mine, Saxony, Germany
Unknown Case



Epidote V-Twins from Knappenwand, Untersulzbachtal, Salburg, Austria
Unknown Case



Large Axinite Crystal from LeCatonge, Sembrancher, Les Bagnes Valley, Wallis, Switzerland
Unknown Case



Yellow Smithsonite Polished Slice and Nodule from the Masua Mine, Sardinia, Italy
Unknown Case



Tubular Aragonite var. Flos Ferri from the Erzberg, Styria, Austria
Unknown Case



Hematite Kidney Ore with Dolomite from the Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria, England
Scott Rudolph