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After visiting the Arizona minerals & fossil show at the Inssuite & Quality inn we continue in the other venues , among the others, Market place , Tucson Electric park, Pueblo gem show, River Park Hotels and others.....
Coming back to the Quality Inn, there was a couple of dealers with a very selection of specimens, among them we have noted lucent, deep red HUGE cuprites from Kazakhstan with crystals till 3-4 cm . Most of the pieces were loose cluster withour matrix, but there were 3-4 pieces with the cuprites directy on the native copper!!! From Russia we have also to highlight gemmy large intense pink red apatites in association with smoky, almost morion quartz and chlorite , with a very nice and interesting color contrast. For the rest, many more Russian pieces, expecially from Dal'nergosk area such as quartz , datolite , sphalerites fluorites ..but nothing new
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| Pink Apatite from Kazakstan and nice Prase from Russia | |
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| Very nice Calcite crystal with thin pyrite coverage from China | |
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| Interesting combo of apatite and aquamarine | |
At the Tucson Electric Park we didn't found much new but a booth was showing old stuff of Flourite from Illinois with phamton colors
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Some nice blue hemimrphyte from mexico |
IIllinois fluorite collection |
At the Holidome we visit the room with the classic Herkimer quartz wher we saw and selected some intersting pieces. In another room we saw and incredible emerald crystal from Colombia of 7 cm standing up in a black calcite crystal plate ..It was sold for 180K !!
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A Large gemmy emerald was sold and only for display |
.From India we saw very old pieces of yugawaralite in crystal till 5 cm inside basalt vugs and collected in Bombay area in 1985 ! There were also nice Pentagonite , Goosecreekite and we selected some of these pieces . We also saw very big crystal of Babingtonite over prehenite from China
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...will continue
