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The Tucson Gem & Mineral Show® Treasures of the Midwest Minerals, Part 1

March 14, 2017 Hershel Friedman (0)

Our next several posts on the The Tucson Gem & Mineral Show® feature individual minerals in the display exhibits within the "Treasures of the Midwest" theme. We took hundreds of photos of these minerals, and selected about fifty of the best or most interesting to be featured on our news blog. The first group is below; stay tuned for additional posts.

Purple Calcite with Marcasite from Mineral Point, MI
Yale Peabody Museum

Calcite on Dolostone from the Sweetwater Mine, MO
Laurence and Helen Tuelle

Smithsonite Quartz, Sphalerite from Morning Star Mine, Rush Creek, AR George and Cindy Witters

Smithsonite on Quartz and Sphalerite from Morning Star Mine, Rush Creek, AR
George and Cindy Witters

Blue Barite "Transformer Man" from the Denton Mine, Hardin Co., IL
Al and Sue Liebetrau

Calcite Sand Pseudomorph from Rattlesnake Butte, Black Hills, SD
Chuck Hauser

Calcite Twin from the Black Rock Quarry, Lawrence Co., AR

Copper and Calcite from the Caledonia Mine, Ontonagon Co., MI
Bob Schreiber

Blue Fluorite from the Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, IL
Charles Sahlman

Odd Fluorite Growth on Fluorite from the Elmwood Mine, TN
Bob Schreiber

Fluorite and Calcite from Cave-in-Rock, IL

Yellow Diamond 3.85 ct. from Crater of Diamonds Park, Murfreesboro, AR

Fluorite & Quartz from the Deardorf Mine, Cave-in-Rock, IL Flagg Mineral Foundation

Fluorite on Quartz from the Deardorf Mine, Cave-in-Rock, IL
Flagg Mineral Foundation

Barite Ball and Sphalerite from the Elmwood Mine, TN
Flagg Mineral Foundation

Pyrite "Sun" in Matrix from Sparta, Randolph Co., IL
Phil Richardson

Pyrite from Indianapolis, IN
Friends of Mineralogy Midwest Chapter

Fluorite from the Elmwood Mine, TN
Raymond M. Thompson

The Tucson Gem & Mineral Show® Treasures of the Midwest Minerals, Part 2

March 13, 2017 Hershel Friedman (0)

Our coverage of the The Tucson Gem & Mineral Show® continues with our three posts on the individual minerals in the display exhibits within the "Treasures of the Midwest" theme. We hope you enjoy!

Cut Fluorite Gem from Cave-in-Rock, IL
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum

Diamonds from Crater of Diamonds State Park, Murfreesboro, AR
Matilda and Karl Pfeffer Museum

Calcite Septarian Nodule from South Dakota
Tellus Science Museum

Celestine from Newport, MI
Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum

Calcite with Copper Inclusions from Quincy, MI
American Museum of Natural History

Quartz Phantom with Hematite Inclusions from the Soudan Mine, Soudan, MN
Donald K. Olson

Goethite from the Queen Mine, Marquette Co., MI
A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum

Manganite from the Lucy Mine, Marquette Co., MI
A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum

Yellow Fluorite on Calcite from Clay Center, OH
Donald K. Olson

Copper "Muscle Man" from the Quincy Mine, Houghton Co, MI
Donald K. Olson

Copper Tree from the Mohawk Mine, Keweenaw Co., MI
Donald K. Olson

Barite on Calcite from Elk Creek, Dalzell, SD

Fluorite with Color Growths from the Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, IL Jim Gebel

Fluorite with Color Growths from the Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock
Jim Gebel

Purple Fluorite with Calcite from the Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, IL Jim Gebel

Purple Fluorite with Calcite from the Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock
Jim Gebel

Copper "Rabbit" from the Keweenaw Peninsula, MI
Scott Rudolph

Upper Mississippi Valley Mineral Oddities Yale Peabody Museum

Rhodochrosite from the Montreal Mine, near Hurley, WI

The Tucson Gem & Mineral Show® Treasures of the Midwest Minerals, Part 3

March 9, 2017 Hershel Friedman (0)

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.

Galena and Chalcopyrite on Dolomite from Treece, KS
Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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

Marcasite Skull with Calcite from the Shullsburg area, WI
Steve Bussan

Calcite on Sphalerite from the Cumberland Mine,TN
Arizona Mineral Minions

Copper "Fan" from the Keweenaw Peninsula, MI
Arizona Mineral Minions

Calcite on Calcite from the Kenora Mine, Cardin, OK
George and Cindy Wittens

Yellow Hemimorphite Pseudomorph After Calcite from Lone Elm, MO
George and Cindy Wittens

Sphalerite on Dolomite from the Blackhawk Mine, Picher, 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

Sphalerite with Dolomite from Treece, KS
Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History

The Tucson Gem & Mineral Show® Treasures of the Midwest Displays, Part 1

March 8, 2017 Hershel Friedman (0)

One of the highlights of The Tucson Gem & Mineral Show® is the display exhibits. Some of the top museums and private collectors have specimens of their collection publicly featured in display cases throughout the show floor. The cases are meticulously planned, and often have good descriptions.

Every year, the show board chooses a special "theme." Many of the displays are related to theme, bringing additional interest and variety each year to the show. This year's theme was "Mineral Treasures of the Midwest," featuring top mineral specimens from a broad definition of the Midwestern United States. As there were many good within the theme, we will divide the themed displays into three separate posts.

Upper Mississippi Valley Mineral Oddities
Yale Peabody Museum

Treasures of the Midwest
Sue and Stan Celestian

The Rush Creek, Arkansas Zinc District
George and Cindy Witters

Treasures of the Midwestern United States
Al and Sue Liebetrau

A Selection of Midwestern Calcites
William B. Wray

Midwestern Calcites and Other Minerals
Dan & Diana Weinreich

Calcites from the Picher Field, Oklahoma

Midwest Calcite
Phil Richardson

Midwest Calcites
St. Louis Mineral & Gem Society | Melissa Perucca

Calcite from Midwest Localities
Chuck Houser

Midwestern Minerals

Midwestern Minerals
Edward Terri and Eddie Lopez

Mineral Treasures of the Midwestern USA
Bob Schreiber and Charlie Sahlman

Best of Theme of Midwest Minerals

General Midwestern Minerals

Minerals of the Midwest
Flagg Mineral Foundation

The Tucson Gem & Mineral Show® Treasures of the Midwest Displays, Part 2

March 6, 2017 Hershel Friedman (0)

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.