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

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


Calcite Septarian Nodule from South Dakota Tellus Science Museum
Calcite Septarian Nodule from South Dakota
Tellus Science Museum


Celestine from Newport, MI Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum
Celestine from Newport, MI
Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum


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


Quartz Phantom with Hematite Inclusions from the Soudan Mine, Soudan, MN
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
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
Manganite from the Lucy Mine, Marquette Co., MI
A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum


Yellow Fluorite on Calcite from Clay Center, OH Donald K. Olson
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 "Muscle Man" from the Quincy Mine, Houghton Co, MI
Donald K. Olson


Copper Tree from the Mohawk Mine, Keweenaw 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
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
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
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