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Before I launch into the display cases that were set up at the main show I wanted to mention that I actually visited the Coliseum show.  This show has been open for a number of years now and I had not been to it until this year.  Anyway, the bulk - I mean vast bulk - of the show is centered around beads, agates, lapidary and fossils.  There are a few mineral dealers set up but they are few and far in between.  Regardless, if there are minerals to be viewed it is worthwhile to see what someone has. I found only a few specimens of the chalcopyrite coating chalcocite from China. These all need some TLC to be made sellable but that is what September 23rd is slated for.  Other than that it was not worth my time as I am soley focused on minerals only. If, however, fossils is your thing (and meteorites too !) then this is a venue for you to check out next year in Denver.

  


Dino bones at the Coliseum Show.

 


Large spheres and a chair made of quartz from Brazil.

 


A giant geode of citrine and calcite from Brazil.
 

 


I guess someone might like this hideous end to some rock.

 


I think this was a replica of a T-Rex.

 


An apparent skull of a triceratops.

 

The theme of the show this year was minerals from the American Southwest.  I have always thought this to mean the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Nevada.  Some folks put items from California in the mix which, technically, is correct but I have always equated the first five as being the Southwest.  Regardless, there were some GREAT cases put on display.  These folks deserve a lot fof recognition since there is a lot of work behind them and they get paid zippo. 

   


The California Academy of Sciences had an interesting case of minerals first found and described from the Southwest.  Lots of rare species.

 


Sorry Seaman Museum - my out of focus pictire was all variscite slabs from Caly Canyon, Utah.  All from the Robbe Collection.

 


The best specimen in terms of color.  The green is variscite and the yellow is crandallite.


The story on George Robbe.
 


Specimens of the Montana Tech Museum from the best copper hole in America - Bisbee.


Including this insanely good specimen of spangolite - the best specimen at the show IMHO.
 

 


Specimen from the Thomas Range in Utah. One of the best I have ever seen!!!

 


An exceptional specimen of clinoclase from the former Holden Collection.

 



A fine specimen of benitoite from the Phil Gregory Collection.

 


Also from the Phil Gregory Collection.

 


Exceptional specimen of cuprite var. Chalcotrichite from Bisbee.

 


Azurite and malachite ps azurite from Bisbee - pieces from the Rice Museum.


A  number of fine Kelly Mine smithsonites.

 


A close up of one of the best.

 


Another case profiling minerals from New Mexico.

 


This beast in the center was well over a 20 inches across!


A smoker specimen of native copper from New Mexico.


 

 


The American Museum had a fine display of great specimens from the Southwest.


 


The second best specimen IMHO at the show after the spangolite from Bisbee. Thanks Jamie!

 


I wish the lighting was better in these cases...


The Spann's - what else would you expect except a case of the best rocks in one place at the show?


This Rowley mine wulfenite is ridiculous with the phantoms!

 

 

 


A huge linarite crystal and doubly terminated and gemmy red beryl. Gail and Jim Spann will you adopt me? 


They also find a "way" to include exceptional examples of rare species.

 


This is a case from Les & Paula Presmyk - just look at the color!


This is a GREAT Glove mine Wulfenite and Malachite inc. calcite from Bsibee!

A 20 cm Japan Law Twin of citrine from Zambia. 


Neil and Cami Prenn's case of Nevada minerals.

 


A crystal of gemmy natural blue topaz from the Zapot mine in Mineral Co., Nevada.  Zapot is topaz spelled

 backwards. Harvey Gordon (RIP) used to own this mine and now Scott Werschky does.

 


Here is a specimen Neil collected a couple years ago at Halellujah Junction.

 


Some fine gold specimens from Neil and Cami's collection.

 


Evan Jones put up a case of sensational copper specimens.

 


Spinel Twins from Evan Jones' collection.

 


Two more drop dead ringes from Evan Jones' collection.


Marty Zinn put up a couple cases of GREAT things. Look at this case of Clay Canyon Variscite!!


Marty Zinn just acquired the sphere on the left from Alan Day who mined the deposit this past June.


One of Marty's classic slabs from this locality.


This specimen of red beryl was in Marty Zinn's case of red beryls from Utah.

 


A case of minerals from the Colorado School of mines.

 


A sensational case of smoky quartz and amazonite from Colorado.


Who do I make thecheck out to???

 


The Spanns, Scott Werschky and Paul Harter put this case of Round Mountain golds on display.



This is insanely good! A wire and leaf from Round Mountain.

 


Round Mountain will be considered a classic locality for gold - looooooook at this thing!!!

 

 


A cube at the end of a long stack of smaller cubes. How in the world did this thing happen in nature???

 


The Kiles of Colorado had one of the best cases - all self collected!


The smokies with the fluorite and amazonite are sensational!

 


This specimen of baryte from Otero County is NUTS!


Perhaps my favorite specimen on display - two adjoined Manebach twins with an attached smoky quartz. Colorado Nirvana Rock!

 

We arrived back to reno yesterday evening after taking a side track through Dinosaur National Monument which is situated on the border of Utah and Colorado.  There are many things to see in this Monument managed by the National Park Service.  We only had time to visit the Carnegie Quarry but that is simply impressive to view.  To see literally thousands of bones from animals that lived during the Jurassic - about 75 million years ago - is somewhat mind boggling. Anyone who thinks the Earth is only 6,000 years old should be sure to see this and hopefully come away enlightened - at least a little...  The following are pictures taken of the quarry from the overlook.


Human sized femurs and parts of spines 7 feet in length.

 


Tattered remains of triceratopns.

 


More bigger than full sized human bones. 

Now a few final thoughts on the 2015 Denver Show.  There was a level of unrest here this year.  The Fine Mineral Show, which is where I spent most of my $ started the 12th of September.  This created some issues for collectors who want to take advantage of seeing and possibly obtaining the best specimens at any given show since the main show was a week later.  This is where dealers tend to show their best specimens but this new Fine Mineral Show is also a place to showcse the best.  As it stands now there are three shows of interest to mineral collectors: The Colorado Mineral and Fossil Show, the Fine Mineral Show and the club's Denver Gem & Mineral Show.  The powers that be are trying to sort it out so that the club show does not suffer but it can't continue as is according to the vast majority of dealers I spoke with.   Never mind that the prices for specimens are finding a way to board the latest and greatest form of star ship to find new highs - they are!  But the problem facing Denver is the increased length of time that the show(s) take to complete and the fact that the Fine Mineral Show and Club shows happen on different weekends.  Most collectors can't come to both and no one is all that happy about spending up to two weeks in Denver so something will change. The show organizers are aware of all this and are working to make it less stressful on the dealers and make it more of a fun time instead of a controversial time.  That said, I will be here again next year and look forward to finding new specimens to entice you all with.  Any mineral show is better than no mineral show so I will be here again in 2016 regardless.

I have a full day's worth of trimming and cleaning to do so I expect to have a very large update posted this weekend - most likely on Sunday the 27th.

Until then,

  

 


 
 

Past Shows & Reports
PLEASE NOTE: The minerals that were offered on these pages are all sold
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)
East Coast Show
Munich Show

2014
Tucson Show
Denver Show 

Munich Show

2015
Tucson Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show 
Munich Show

2016
Tucson Show

 

 

 
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