I find new and interesting things every year at the dealer booths of the The Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®. Many dealers and collectors choose the Tucson show to introduce their new finds to the market. Some well-known dealers are now accustomed to my visit, and show me their new or interesting material when I come by to visit their booth. Below are some individual photos of these new or interesting minerals that I was able to get a good photo of.
Newly Mined Amethyst (as well as Pyrite) from the Purple Hope Claims, King Co., Washington
Cascade Scepters
Iridescent Bornite Coating on Pyrite from the Milpillas Mine in Mexico
Bruce Wood Minerals
Purple Fluorite from Tombstone, Arizona
Bruce Wood Minerals
Incredible Quartz Phantom Crystal from the Goboboseb Mountains, Erongo, Namibia
Alectorius Minerals
Yellow Polished Smithsonite Stalagmite from Masua, Sardinia, Italy
Note the specimens provenance. This is the same material as the "matched pair" case at the show
Mineral Classics
Incredibly Clear "Muzo Habit" Quartz from Penas Blancas, San Pablo de Borbur, Boyaca, Colombia
Alectorius Minerals
Large Purple Calcite from Joplin, Missouri (ex WG Levison, Ca. 1897)
Alectorius Minerals
Green Mimetite, Roughton Gill, Cumbria, England (ex WG Levison, > 1895)
Alectorius Minerals
Colorless Tabular Barite Blades from the Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico
Miguel Portillo
