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.
The Mineral Wines Collection
Brett Keller
A Love Affair with Prehnite
Steve Blyskal
Herkimer Diamonds: World Class Treasures from the Mountains of New York State
Rocko Rosenblatt
Made in America - USA Gemstones
Display Case Devoted to Sulfur
Colorado World Class Minerals
Mines Museum of Earth Science
Significant Color Varieties of Calcite
Cincinnati Museum Center
Sample of World Class Minerals
New Mexico Tech Bureau of Geology Mineral Museum
Large Impressive Chinese Minerals
Perot Museum of Nature and Science
Arizona's World Class Minerals
Les & Paula Presmyk Collection
An Amazing Case of Exceptional Minerals
Walt Donovan
Arizona's Best
AZ Mining, Mineral and Natural Resources Education Museum
Some Classic Mineral Examples
Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History
Treasures from the AMNH'S Bement Collection
American Museum of Natural History
Large Interesting Gem Minerals Mineral
The Meieran Collection
What Makes a World Class Mineral?
Rice Museum of Rocks and 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.
Footballs and Snowballs: The Mines of Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee
Tellus Science Museum
Golden Calcite from Malmberget, Sweden
Peter Lykberg
In Memoriam of Tom Hales: February 19, 1943 - April 4, 2019
Gregg and Glenn Hales
Beautiful Mineral Examples from the Harvard Collection
Harvard Mineralogical Museum
The Science Behind World Class Diamonds
GIA - Gemological Institute of America
Mineralogical Record Covers of Minerals in the Museum Collection
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
From the Mineral Museum Collection: World-Wide Minerals
The University of Arizona Mineral Collection
Marquis Pieces from the Spann Collection
Jim & Gail Spann, Rockwall, TX
Classic Collection Pieces from the Frederick A. Canfield & Washington A. Roebling Collecton
Smithsonian Institution National Museum on Natural History
Colorful Gemstone Minerals
JTV Internal Collection
Favorites from the Collection of Gary and Rosemary White
Gary and Rosemary White
Exceptional Mineral Display
Bruce Carter: Board Member of Rice NW Museum of Rocks and Minerals
Russian Treasures
Robert Lavinsky
MAD Treasure Honoring the Mineralogical Record
MAD - Mineralogical Association of Dallas
The Mineralogical Record: Celebrating 50 years of Excellence
Arizona Mineral Minions
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.
New Find of Orange-Red Tourmaline (Dravite) from New Mexico, Discovered April 2019
Collected by Orlando and Nicole Haworth
Pink Rhodochrosite Rhombs from Mina Remedios, Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico
META (Mineral Enthusiasts of the Tucson Area)
Rhodochrosite embedded in Selenite from the Sunnyside Mine, San Juan Co., CO
META (Mineral Enthusiasts of the Tucson Area)
Large Plate of Barite Crystals on Matrix from the Magma Mine, Superior, Arizona
Les and Paula Presmyk Collection
Calcite Colored Green from Malachite from the Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Arizona
Les and Paula Presmyk Collection
This is our second post on the individual minerals of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show® display Minerals. A continuation of our previous post, this post shares some of the remarkable minerals on display in the exhibits at the show.
There were so many good minerals on display, and it was difficult having to choose the best ones. However, we are posting many of the other great display minerals we photographed at the show on our Instagram page at instagram.com/mineralsnet, so please check there as well for additional show minerals.
Our order of the pictures does not follow any system. We simply posted in the order of how we photographed them at at the show. We hope you enjoy!
Purple Octahedral Fluorite on Quartz from the T&G Prospect, Grant Co., NM
Gregg and Glenn Hales, in Memoriam of Tom Hales
Rhodochrosite with Pyrite "The Worm" from Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
Marquis Pieces from the Spann Collection
Euclase with Fluorapatite from the La Marina Mine, Pauna, Boyaca Dept, Colombia
Marquis Pieces from the Spann Collection
Aegirine on Albite from Mount Malosa, Zomba, Malawi
Bruce Carter, Board Member of the Rice NW Museum of Rocks and Minerals
Large Chalcanthite "Hairs" from the Planet Mine, La Paz Co., AZ
Arizona Mineral Minions Tribute to Mineralogical Record - Michael Shannon Collection
"The Butterfly" Polished Azurite and Malachite from Bisbee, Arizona
Bill Larson Collection
Iridescent Goethite from Pahang, Malaysia
Young Mineral Collectors World Class Minerals: Clifford Wong Collection
Calcite on Cavansite from the Wagholi Quarries, Pune, Maharashtra, India
The Iconic Mineral of Spirifer Minerals
Young Mineral Collectors World Class Minerals: Joanna Gajowniczek-Praszkier Collection
The East Coast Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show, takes place every year in August in the Eastern States Exposition Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. This show, more commonly known as the Springfield Show, is the most significant mineral show in the Eastern USA.
Many important dealers are present at Springfield, bringing some of their best specimens to their booths. Much of the material from Tucson earlier in the year can be seen here, as well as some new material released since the summer and by local dealers who weren't able to travel to Tucson.
The show also puts together an exceptional public display exhibit. This year, the New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources Mineral Museum exhibited, with many cases featuring the best of New Mexico's minerals, as well as their worldwide collection featured.
This first post of the 2019 Springfield Show highlights some of the outstanding and memorable cases of New Mexico minerals. Although all the cases were exceptional, this article highlights our selection of the photos that came out best.
Additional posts of the show will include the following:
An Incredibly Large Smithsonite and Memorabilia from the Kelly Mine
Gemstones of New Mexico
Nice Assortment of Unusual New Mexico Minerals
Fine Fluorite Assortment from New Mexico
Another Nice New Mexico Mineral Assortment
Outstanding Fluorite from the Cookes Peak District, Luna Co.
Polished "Ricolite" Serpentine from from Ash Creek, Grant County
Fine Copper Crystals from the Chino Mine, Santa Rita District, Grant Co.
