Our final post of the individual minerals in the display exhibits within the "Treasures of the Midwest" theme is listed here. We have many more pictures that we couldn't not post here due to space constraints. We'll post many additional photos over the coming weeks on our Instagram page.
Calcite with Gypsum and Ktenasite from Treece, KS
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Calcite and Galena from Joplin, MO Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Fluorite with Calcite from the Minerva No.2 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, IL
British Museum of Natural History
Palasite Meteorite Slab with Olivine from Lyon Co., KS
Maine Mineral & Gem Museum
Copper "Fan" from the Keweenaw Peninsula, MI
Arizona Mineral Minions
Calcite on Calcite from the Kenora Mine, Cardin, OK
George and Cindy Wittens
Calcite twinned Scalenohedron from Picher, OK
George and Cindy Wittens
Galena Octahedrons from the Blackhawk Mine, Picher, OK
George and Cindy Wittens
Greenockite Coating Calcite from Joplin, MO
Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History
This post continues with the special exhibit displays of the Tucson show. Listed here are additional pictures of the cases from the "Treasures of the Midwest" theme.
Friends of Mineralogy Midwest Chapter, Member Collected Specimens
Friends of Mineralogy Midwest Chapter
Unexpected Specimens from the American Midwest
Society of Mineral Museum Professionals (SMMP)
Mineral Treasures of the Midwest
Matilda and Karl Pfeiffer Museum
Midnight Constellations - Stars of the Midwest
Tellus Museum
How the Midwest was Won
Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum
Geode Minerals from the American Midwest
Cincinnati Museum Center
Minerals of the American Midwest
American Museum of Natural History
Minerals of the Soudan Mine, Soudan, Minnesota
Donald K. Olson
Two Great Minerals of the Lake Superior Region
A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum
Minerals from Clay Center, Ohio
Donald K. Olson
Minerals from the Copper Country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Donald and Gloria Olson
Mineral Treasures of the Midwest
Minerals from the Montreal Mine, Wisconsin
This is the final of three posts on the special exhibit displays of the Tucson show. There is no specific order of these posts; they are in the same order as they were photographed at the show. The next post will include some of the individual minerals of this year's theme.
Minerals from the Tri-State District (Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma)
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
A Selection of Midwestern Minerals
The Harvard Collection
The Midwest USA Meets the Mid (and the West) UK
The British Natural History Museum
Native Copper from the Keeweenaw Peninsula of Michigan
National Museum of Scotland - Davis Burgess Collection
Minerals of the Illinois and Wisconsin Lead Zinc District
Midwest Giants - Barite and Calcite
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Minerals of the Midwest
New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources - Mineral Museum
Minerals of the Canadian Midwest
ROM - Royal Ontario Museum
Minerals from the Fluorspar Mines of Southern Illinois
Sherman Dugan Museum of Geology, San Juan College
Midwestern Stony Iron Meteorite
Maine Mineral & Gem Museum
Upper Mississippi Valley Lead & Zinc Distric (Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin)
Steve Bussan
Fluorite and Other Minerals from Southern Illinois
The Carlon Collection
Quartz from the Zigras Mine, Blue Springs, Arkansas
Midwest Minerals
Arizona Mineral Minions
Minerals from the Tri-State Lead/Zinc District
George and Cindy Withers
Minerals from the Tri-State District
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
