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I left for Denver on September 7th and it means one thing - for the next 2.5 days there is going to be a lot of sitting with a lot of countryside wizzing by.   Below is a photo log of just a small sample of the scenery along the route during the Friday, Saturday and Sunday I was in the car.  Thanks for indulging my urge to photograph the landscape.

 

On the edge of Weaverville and saying good bye...

 


Road stop for highway construction just inside Shasta county.

 


Looking back at Mt Lassen.
 

 


Crossing into Nevada on hwy 395. Mt Peavine dead ahead.

 


The traffic on US hwy 50 is atrocious!  West of Austin, Nevada.

 


This is somewhere between Eureka and Ely, Nevada - all limestone.

 


This sprang up in the last year a wind farm power generation field just west of Great Basin NP in Nevada.

 


I gave this guy on the bicycle a wide berth on US hwy 50. 

 


The never changing Utah/Nevada border...

 


Sandstone formations east of Salina, Utah on Interstate 70.

 


I-70 winds through some fabulous landscapes! This is west of Green River, Utah.

   

 


50 meters from the Utah/Colorado state line on Interstate 70.

 


On I-70 along the Colorado River. 

 


Fall is a bit early this year - likely due to heat and drought stressed aspens. 

 


Just east of Vail, Colorado it is apparent that 80% of the conifers are dead from beetle infestation.  There is a big fire in store for this place.

 


The last tunnel on I-70 then it is all downhill to Denver. 

Finally here in Denver.  It was the 10th before I was able to actually hunt around to see what, if anything was new.  The hotel for the Marty Zinn show has changed its name from the Holiday Inn to the Ramada.  My first objective is always to try and learn about any new finds that are around. Doug and Terri Wallace of Texas were my first stop.  Doug had found some new specimens of altaite from a mine near Organ, Dona Ana County, New Mexico.  There were no crystals - only massive material but this is a rare mineral. Some of the specimens were quite rich in this lead telluride.    


Very rich specimen of silvery white altaite about 2.5 cm across. 

In one of the first rooms I entered I saw Joe Dorris. Joe had a very interesting find of blue albite var. Cleavlandite from the Lake Delmo area of Jefferson County, Montana.  The color is glacier blue and I have never seen this intensity of blue before in any feldspar.   I was too late as all of his available pieces were sold. I was happy to get on picture of one still waiting to be picked up.


Blue albite setting in my hand.

Joe also had a new find of blue halite with sylvite from the Intrepid mine in Carlsbad, New Mexico.  The color is deep indigo blue. I did not pick any of these up as halite in my wet environment does not usually end up so good.  Still the color was very attractive. .


Specimens of the blue halite and sylvite. 

Later that same day I ran into Marcus Origlieri.  Marcus had bought the remaining specimens of the recent find of Wesselsite fromfrom the Wessels mine in South Africa, from Marshall Sussman in Tucson.  Recall that in Tucson I had bought 7 of these specimens that were sold as effenbergerite.  Subsequent analysis by Bill Pinch showed them to be some exceptional specimens of the rarer wesselsite.  In addition, two new minerals were found on some of the specimens and named lavinskyite and scottyite from that lot.  I bought this entire second lot of wesselsite and will do some work to determine if any of them contain these two new species.  I will also have them posted shortly after I get back home to Weaverville.  The specimens are mostly found associated with sugilite.


5 cm specimen of the recent find of wesselsite. 

Marcus also had a flat of miersite - an copper, silver iodide, iodargyrite and chlorargyrite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.  The miersite has all been analyzed by Xray diffraction at the University of Arizona in Tucson.


4 cm specimen of crystalline miersite.

 

Axinite PM had a small hoard of these intersting fossils of clams shells that are host to vivianite crystals. They come from Kertch Crimea in the Ukraine.  This is not a new discovery but I have not had any for some time and since there's not much new here in Denver I thought it would make for an interesting update.


6 cm specimen of a fossil clam with sharp lustrous crystals of vivianite. 

KARP had some nice specimens of the rare platinum bearing mineral sperrylite.  These brilliantly lustrous crystals are found in massive chalcopyrite which is mechanically abraded away to reveal the crystals.  These come from the Talnak deposit near Noril'sk, Russia.


A 3 cm specimen of massive chalcopyrite with elongated crystals of sperrylite. 

 

Russian dealer Dmitry Belochovsk had more of the tenorite specimens first shown at the East Coast Show.  While in his room I found some nice specimens of khaidarkanite. This is a hydrated copper aluminum hydrxide and it forms sky blue acicular crystals.  They come from the type locality of Khaidarkan, Kyrgystan. 


A 5 cm specimen of acicula crystals of blue khaidarakanite on siliceous matrix.

Brazilian dealer Luiz Menezes had a new find of blue colored apatite set on thin quartz crystals.  The crystals reach up to 1/2 cm in size and cover one side of quartz crystals or feldspar crystals.  These come from the the Fairia mine in the Golconda district of Govenador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil.


A 12 cm fully terminated quartz crystal smothered in blue crystals of fluorapatite. 

More to come from Denver in the next report.  

 

 


 
 

Past Shows & Reports
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1999
Munich Show
2000
Sainte Marie Show
Munich Show
2001
Sainte Marie Show
Munich Show
2002
Tucson Show
Sainte Marie Show
Denver Show
Munich Show
2003
Tucson Show
Sainte Marie Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show
2004
Tucson Show
West Coast Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show
2005
Tucson Show
West Coast Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show
2006
Tucson Show
Bologna Show
Sainte Marie Show
East Coast Show
Munich Show
2007
Tucson Show
Dallas Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show
2008
Tucson Show
West Coast Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show
2009
Tucson Show
West Coast Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show

2010
Tucson Show
San Francisco Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show

Munich Show

2011
Tucson Show
San Francisco Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
Munich Show

2012
Tucson Show
West Coast Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show 
Munich Show

2013
Tucson Show
Sainte Marie Show
Crystal Days (Poland)
Munich Show  

 

 
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