The most impressive displays at the The Tucson Gem and Mineral Show® are the large glass exhibit cases, mostly clustered around the center display area of the Tucson Convention Center show floor. These displays contain some of the finest minerals from mineral collectors, museums, and club members, and are put together very well aesthetically with sharp lighting. This year's large displays were outstanding, and I made a separate news post featuring some of them.
Rock Currier's Worldwide Search for Minerals
Brazilian Crystal Treasures in the Jim and Gail Spann Collection
Hawaii Volcanics from the Keiki Mineral Club of Honolulu
Mineral Localities in Hawaii from the Keiki Mineral Club of Honolulu
Highlighting Minerals from 3 of the 6 Crystal Systems from the Arizona Mineral Minions
"Fabulous Forms" from the Mineralogical Association of Dallas
Cruzero Mine Tourmaline Giants, from St. Troy Consolidated Mines, Ltd.
"Crystalline Treasures" - The Mineral Heritage of China
Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Society - Celebrating 60 Years
This post shows our selection of some of the interesting or aesthetic minerals in the exhibits of the museum display cases at the 2018 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®. The theme of the show was "Crystals and Crystal Habits," and many of these minerals have interesting or unique crystal habits in line with this year's show theme.
Stacked Rhodonite Crystals from Franklin, NJ
Mineralogical & Geological Museum at Harvard University
Blue Brucite Crystals from the Bazhenovskoe Mine, Middle Urals, Russia
Fersman Mineralogical Museum
Octagonal Vesuvianite Crystals from Yunnan Province, China
Royal Ontario Museum
Complex Purple Fluorite Crystal from the Mex-Tex Mine, Hansonburg, NM
New Mexico Bureau of Mineral Resources
Kafehydrocyanite Ps. After Sulfur from Cozzodisi Mine, Girgenti, Sicily, Italy
Society of Mineral Museum Professionals
Tourmaline from Mt. Marie, Paris (L) and the Dunton Quarry, Newry (R), Maine
Maine Mineral & Gem Museum
Purple Apatite from Mt. Marie (L), Greenwood (C), and the Pulsifier Quarry (R), Maine
Maine Mineral & Gem Museum
Odd-Shaped Calcite Crystal from the 2nd Soviet Mine, Dal'negorsk, Russia
Cincinnati Museum Center
Reniform Hematite from Michigamme, Marquette Co., MI
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Large Green Titanite Contact Twins
American Museum of Natural History
Chrysoberyl Sixling Cyclic Twins from Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais, Brazil
American Museum of Natural History
Bournonite Cyclic Twins from the Machacamarca Mine, Potosi, Bolivia
American Museum of Natural History
Cerussite Contact V-Twins from Touissit, Morocco
American Museum of Natural History
Bright Green Diopside Crystals from the Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania
University of Arizona Mineral Museum
Autunite from the Daybreak Mine, Spokane Co., WA
University of Arizona Mineral Museum
Large Axinite-Fe Crystal from Bahia, Brazil
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
Pink Spinel Crystals from Mehenge, Morogoro Region, Tanzania
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
Triangular Diamond Macle Twin from the Ekati MIne, Lac De Gras, NW Territories, Canada
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
Dark Gray Cubic Diamond from South Africa, Museum Gift of Washington Roebling
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
Large Green Gem Beryl from Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
This post is a continuation of the previous post, showing additional museum display exhibits from the 2018 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show.
A Study in Calcium Carbonate
Rice Museum of Rocks & Minerals
Form & Function
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Classic Keweenaw Copper and Calcite Crystals
A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum of Michigan Tech
Merelaniite - 2016 Mineral of the Year
A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum of Michigan Tech
"Quartz Quirks"
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Twins and Twinning American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History
Colorado Minerals
Colorado Minerals Colorado School of Mines
The Atomic Structure of Select Minerals
The Sherman Dugan Museum of Geology at San Juan College, Farmington, New Mexico
Southwest Indigenous Lapidary & Jewelry Amerind Museum
Amerind Museum
Minerals have no Bad Habits But they do have Personalities
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
From the Ann and Ed David Collection (Donations to the Museum in Memory of Ed David)
University of Arizona Mineral Museum
Crystals - Object of Wonder
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
Many important museums exhibit at the The Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®. They often select minerals from their collection relating to the show theme, and put together exceptional cases of these mineral in a traveling exhibit. Museums such as the Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History, and the Royal Ontario Museum are among the list of prestigious museums exhibiting at this show. This is the first of two posts on the museum display cases at the 2018 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®. We will also create a separate post of some of the individual minerals in the exhibits in a later posting.
Selections from Charles Palache's Crystal Collection at Harvard University
Mineralogical & Geological Museum at Harvard University
The Annotated Mineral Specimens of Professor Matthew Heddle
National Museums Scotland
32 Crystal Classes of Symmetry
Fersman Mineralogical Museum
Forms of Nature
Royal Ontario Museum
Crystals of Enchantment New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
Unfamiliar Faces: Crystals with Atypical Forms
Society of Mineral Museum Professionals
Bubble, Balls, and Blobs Mineral Habits
Tellus Science Museum
Minerals from the State of Maine
Maine Mineral & Gem Museum
Pseudomorphs of Arizona
Arizona Mining, Mineral, and Natural Resources Education Museum
Calcite & Friends
Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites
Calcite Prism & Pinacoid
Cincinnati Museum Center
Historical Literature on Crystallography in the GIA Library Gemological Institute of America
Gemological Institute of America
The Tucson Gem and Mineral Show® has some of the most impressive public displays. Aside from the displays of the museums and private collectors, there are also several featured exhibits of exceptional individual pieces. This year's show featured some magnificent items, including a giant red Elbaite Tourmaline from the Jonas Mine in Brazil, which is the largest and most significant specimen from this mine. Also featured was an iconic Aquamarine crystal with internal "helix" growths, from the Marambaia Gem District in Brazil.
Giant Red Elbaite Tourmaline ("Tarugo") from the Jonas Mine in Brazil, in Display Case
A Closer Up Profile of this Large Jonas Tourmaline
Information Plaque Explaining the Above Jonas Mine Tourmaline
Post Emerald Necklace with Colombian Emeralds
Smithsonian Institution
Carved Quartz Crystal "Eye of the Tiger" by Designer Alfred Zimmerman
Large Floater Calcite Crystal from Dalnegorsk, Russia
Found in 1990's
Giant Turquoise Nugget (The Largest Ever Found) from the Mona Lisa Mine, Polk Co, AR
Mined in 1892 by Jack Wrigley and cut in 2018 by Michael Beck
Giant Laguna Agate "The Monarch Queen of Mexico from the Alianza Claim, Ojo Laguna, Mexico
Albert O. Ray
Show Poster of an Amethyst Scepter with the Specimen from the Goboboseb Mountains, Namibia
Scott Rudolph Mineral Museum
Zoomed in to the Above Scepter Amethyst
