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This year's theme at the 2016 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show® was "Shades of Blue." An astounding array of blue minerals was organized by top collectors and museums and placed into exceptional public exhibits. This show has more public display exhibits than any other show, with over a hundred different themed cases. While most of the displays were related to the theme, there were many other cases as well, which we'll show in a separate post.

Our coverage of the the display cases is very comprehensive, with the most details photos on more cases than anywhere else online. We try covering all the cases at the show, though we do occasionally miss a few, or there may be several where the photos did not come out up to par.

This is the first of two postings on the blue-themed public display cases. The order is not specific; its the same order of the photos we took at the show. Click the pictures below for larger pop-ups.

"Colorado Blue" - Blue Minerals from Colorado
Denver Museum of Nature & Science

"Shades of Blue" - Worldwide Blue Minerals
Cincinnati Museum Center

Miscellaneous Worldwide Blue Minerals
The Sherman Dugan Museum of Geology at San Juan College

Exhibit of Kyanite, as well as Blue Minerals from Germany & Austria
Mineral Museum of Bonn, Germany, Poppelsdorfer Schloss

Azurite Suns from Malbunka Copper Mine in Central Australia
Dehne & Maureen McLaughlin, Tasmania, Australia

Azurite from Russia
Fersman Mineralogical Museum in Moscow

"Blue Hues from Arizona"
TGMS Members John Callahan & Stephan Koch

"Blue Minerals of the World"
The Thomas Hales Collection

"Colorado Blues"
Jeff Self & Donna Ware

Azurite from the Apex Mine and La Sal Mine in Utah
Martin Zinn Collection

"Beyond the Blue"
Rice Museum of Rocks & Minerals

"Maine's got the Blues"
Maine Mineral & Gem Museum

"Arizona Type Blues" - Type species for Gerhardtite & Spangolite
Yale University

"Are we Blue?"
California Academy of Sciences

"The Birth of the Blues"
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum

"Causes of Blue Minerals"
University of Arizona Mineral Museum

Bisbee Azurite from Princeton University
University of Arizona Mineral Museum

Worldwide Blue Minerals
American Museum of Natural History

Blue Celestine from Pennsylvania
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

"Mother Nature Sings the Blues"
GIA Museum

French Blue Fluorites #1
Alain Martaud Collection

French Blue Fluorites #2
Alain Martaud Collection

"Smithsonian Blue: A Selection of Blue Minerals from the National Gem & Mineral Collections"
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History