Here we are , for the first day at the Main Show , the last which close the three mineralogical weeks in Tucson. This year the 49th edition featurers 'Minerals form the Andes' The show had a number of dealers offering specimens from those lands.

an incredible 10000Euro proustite from Chile	Many rhodocrosites were showed by several dealers , here is an example of the quality offered from Peru' mines

The classic Colorado minerals   were presented in perfect specimens  but  few

Some nice specimen of  Bastnaesite in the show, ..some og them with very big and gemmy crystal	....a recent mineral Afghanite was presented in several pieces

Mimetite from China: the very new minerals of this show.    Very nice orange and bright crystals	An important specimen of Inesite on quartz from China

Very nice rubellites from Burma	Another peruvian rhodocrosite  with atacamite included in gypsum and elbaite

The best chinese amethyst that we saw in very few samples	...the way the majority of dealers presented the average samples

Thematic Exposition

The theme was Minerals from the Andes that were presented by private collectors and museums. There were also many other cases full of hundreds of several specimens.

A view of the cases	One of the Andinean collection

A Traversella Amethyst !!! for some of us was the first time to see it	A silver and rhodocrosite from Peru'

A crystalized gold from California	It is incredible the elgance and the beauty of this emerald from Columbia

A Scepter Amethyst from Washington state	A jeremejevite gemstone from Namibia

A general view of the some collection exibited

The 2002 find at the Crio Gene mine California	An incredible pink fluorite from Peru'

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