This post features some of the remarkable individual minerals in the display exhibits at the 2022 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®. The show theme was the Apatite group of minerals, which includes Fluorapatite, Pyromorphite, Mimetite, and Vanadinite.
There were several outstanding minerals within this category on display, but there were many other non-themed minerals on display that were exceptional. This post features many of the themed minerals as well as others that I found noteworthy, including the remarkable Bisbee minerals of the Graeme tribute displays.
Spessartine Garnet on Quartz from the Shigar Valley, Pakistan
From the Collection of Kyle Kevorkian and Will & Rika Larson
Silver Wire Formation from Kongsberg, Norway
Collection of Gene Meieran, coming soon at the Rice Museum of Rocks and Minerals
Silver Wires in "8" Shape on Matrix from Kongsberg, Norway
Collection of Gene Meieran, coming soon at the Rice Museum of Rocks and Minerals
Purple Fluorapatite from Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine
Maine Gem and Mineral Museum
Zoned Purple Fluorapatite from Georgetown, Sagadahoc Co., Maine
Maine Gem and Mineral Museum
Arsenian Pyromorphite from the Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Idaho
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Bright Green Pyromorphite from Roughton Gill, England
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Blocky Fluorapatite Crystal from Teofilo Otoni, Brazil
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Blocky Fluorapatite Crystal Cluster from Renfrew, Ontario
American Museum of Natural History
Lustrous Green Pyromorphite Crystals from Cumbria, England
American Museum of Natural History
Purple Fluorapatite on Matrix, Pulsifier Quarry, Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Copper Chisel Fan from the Central Mine, Keweenaw Co., Michigan
Cincinnati Museum Center
Botryoidal Mimetite from San Pedro Corralitos, Chihuahua, Mexico
New Mexico Bureau of Geology Mineral Museum
Fluorapatite on Quartz, Barroca Grande Mine, Panasqueira, Portugal
New Mexico Bureau of Geology Mineral Museum
Green Fluorite Afton Canyon, Cady Mountains, San Bernardino Co., California
Robert E. Reynolds Memorial Case
Azurite & Malachite from the Junction Mine, Bisbee, Arizona
Rice Northwest Museum Richard W. Graeme Tribute Exhibit
Aragonite with Rosasite from the Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Arizona
Maslansky Collection, Richard W. Graeme Tribute Exhibit
Azurite & Malachite from the Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona
Phil Scalisi, Richard W. Graeme Tribute Exhibit
Chalcoalumite, Holbrook Mine, Bisbee, Arizona
U of Arizona Mining & Mineral Museum, Richard W. Graeme Tribute Exhibit
Azurite & Malachite, Bisbee, Arizona
U of Arizona Mining & Mineral Museum, Richard W. Graeme Tribute Exhibit
Azurite "Rose" from Bisbee, Arizona
Tony Gleckler collection, Richard W. Graeme Tribute Exhibit
Siderite from the Junction Mine, Bisbee, Arizona
Will Moats collection, Richard W. Graeme Tribute Exhibit
Polished Campbellite from the Campbell Mine, Bisbee, Arizona
John & Karen Cesar collection, Richard W. Graeme Tribute Exhibit
Stalactic Apatite Crystals from the Sapo Mine, Brazil, Gail & Jim Spann Collection
Gail & Jim Spann
Gemmy Blue Apatite Crystals from Oak-saung Hill, Mandalay Division, Mynamar, John Rakovan Collection
Gail & Jim Spann
