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This is our third show report post of the dealer minerals at the 2020 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show® . This post features the minerals of one very prominent dealer: Collector's Edge Minerals. Collector's Edge is known at the show for having a booth right near the show entrance, featuring large, flamboyant minerals that are over the top in quality and size. They did not disappoint this year, and we have some of their fantastic booth displays featured in this post.

One of the most memorable items at Collector's Edge was one of the largest specimens of pink Fluorite, in the the form of multiple octahedral crystals on green-included Quartz, from the new find this past year at the Huanggang Mines in Inner Mongolia, China.

Collector's Edge also had plenty of great examples of Wulfenite, from the new find at the La Morita Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico. As stated on a plaque in a display case of these new Wulfenites, this is the most significant discovery of Wulfenite in the past 20 years.

The main attraction this year at Collector's Edge were three giant Silver boulders mined in 2018 in the Richmond Basin, Gila Co., Arziona. The largest specimen on the the find, and on display, weighs 411 pounds!

This post about the 2020 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show® focuses on some of the amazing displays at the show. Private collectors, dealers, museums, and mineral clubs set up public display exhibits that showcase some of the most exceptional minerals that are out there. 

This show, the most prominent mineral event in the world, features over one hundred displays with a wide variety of specimens that rival the displays of the best museums in the world. It would be difficult to cover these displays our post, so we chose some of the most prominent and photogenic samples and divided the display exhibits into two posts, this being the first one.

This year's theme was "World Class Minerals." This is a loosely defined terminology and this is a more encompassing theme than in previous years. The website of the Tucson Gem & Mineral Society devoted a page to explain the theme - visit their website to read more about the theme at http://www.tgms.org/news-archive/2019/10/20/world-class-minerals.

This is our second post on the display exhibits of the The 2020 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®. We divided the photos of the displays into two posts to keep it from being too long. We didn't put these photos in any particular order -- the order is the sequence of our photographs.

In past years, we separated our posts on the display cases into separate posts for theme-related and non-theme related. However, with this year's more ambiguous theme of "World Class Minerals," every case seemed to have been filled with "World Class Minerals" so it was hard to separate the theme from the non-themed. We therefore included them all together and did not designate separate posts for this.

Please stay tuned for our next post which will include some of the exceptional minerals within these display cases.

This post shares some of the individual minerals on display in the exhibits at the The 2020 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®. As always, the minerals were outstanding, with an abundance of old classics, new finds, amazing aesthetics, and great rarities.

Of the hundreds of great minerals we photographed in the exhibits, this selection is a condensed version narrowing down our top picks. This decision of which minerals to include in the post is always a difficult one, and proved even harder this year than in previous years because we didn't separate the posts by theme vs. non-theme minerals. This year's theme of "World Class Minerals" really left all the exhibit minerals liable to fit under the theme definition, so we didn't differentiate between the themed minerals and non-themed minerals as was done in our show reports from previous years.

This is the first of two posts on the individual show minerals. Stay tuned for our next posts on the individual minerals which we will be posting shortly.