This post provides a glimpse at several individual minerals at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show® from the worldwide exhibit cases that I found interesting.
Copper Crystals from the Chino Open Pit, New Mexico
The University of Arizona Mineral Museum
Remarkable Crystallized
Gold ("The Thunderbolt") from Mt. Monger, Western Australia, Found in 2014
Rob Lavinsky
Enormous
Tanzanite Crystal - the Largest I Have Ever Seen
Marcus Budil
Beautiful Hexagonal
Calcite from Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Prov., China
Unknown Collection. Note the incredible
double refraction!
Crystallized Gold and Wire Silver
The Gold is from Ace of Diamonds Mine, Washington; the Silver from Kongsberg, Norway
Unknown Collection
Rhodochrosite on
Tetrahedrite from Graham's Pocket, Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado
Unknown Collection. The red color is the raw photo and not enhanced!
Pink
Calcite "Butterfly Twin" from Dal'negorsk, Russia
Unknown Minerals of Russia Exhibit
Botryoidal
Rhodochrosite from the Oppu Mine, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Unknown Collection
The "Smoky Hawk King", a giant
Amazonite with
Smoky Quartz, Smoky Hawk Claim, Florissant, CO
Dorris Family Collection
Large and Lustrous
Wulfenite from the Old Yuma Mine, Pima Co., Arizona
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
Large Hydroxylherderite from the Havey Quarry, Poland, Maine
Maine Mineral & Gem Museum
Beautiful Purple
Fluorapatite with
Siderite from the Panasquieira Mines, Portugal
(This Should be in the Western European Exhibits, but I Accidentally Left it out of there.)
Tom and Gail Spann
