2007 Denver Mineral Show - Trinity Mineral Company

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Thursday was set up day at the Denver Merchandise Mart for the Main Show. It is controlled chaos watching everyone busily uploading trucks and vans and then emptying boxes and setting up displays. It is also a great time to "get in the way" and visit with people you haven't seen for a while. I say "get in the way" because all I am doing is interrupting folks while they try to beat the clock and invariably they all do. It is a remarkable transformation in less than 24 hours.

There entrance to the Main Show.

Scene 1 of "Controlled Chaos".

Scene 2 of "Controlled Chaos".

There is always one guy who would rather goof off instead of work and that is Isaias Casanova of Florida.
You can take the Cuban out of Cuba but you can't take the "Cuba" out of the Cuban...

These are two large posters, designed by Wendel Wilson, to commemorate the initial
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences Collection Release.

The following are images of just a small sampling of specimens from the collection.

Here Ian Bruce is holding an exceptionally rich specimen of nagyagite from Romania.

One of the largest specimens of Stolzite I have ever seen from Broken Hill, Australia.

A palm sized specimen of native gold from the early (circa 1900)
workings of the Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, California

The first of two shots of a very large native Lead from Langban. This one shows the price paid in 1900 of $40.

The second shot showing the enormous crystal which is about 15 +/- cm across.

I can't recall ever seeing a matrix specimen of Stibnite from Ichinokawa, Japan.

Another large crystalline group of stibnite from Japan about 30 cm in length,

Yet more fine specimens of stibnite from Japan.

A 15 cm +/- specimen of azurite from Tsumeb.

Topaz with smoky quartz from the Nertschinsk mine in Russia.

One of the finest erythrite specimens from Schneeberg, Germany I have ever seen.

A very fine barite specimen from Tsumeb.

I saw this specimen a few weeks earlier and my jaw dropped when I found out the details. Drusy dioptase over a malachite pseudomorph of azurite from Goodsprings, Nevada. This is about 45 miles SW of Las Vegas in the Spring Mountains. Show me another...

A 5 cm crystal group of sphalerite from Roxbury, Connecticut.

A jewel like crystal of copper included calcite from Michigan.

The defining specimen for gratonite. This specimen has crystals to nearly 1.5 cm in length. I have never seen anything remotely close to this specimen before for gratonite. Dan Weinrich is the new owner of this specimen.

Ok, on to other interesting things here at the show...Scott Werschky of Miner's Lunchbox had a couple of rocks that immediately caught my eye...

This 25 cm specimen of fluorite from Okarusa, Namibia
Atypical color for fluorite from this locality.

And this 90.5 troy ounce nugget of gold. WOW!

During the day I was asked by Wendel Wilson and Tom Moore to photograph some interesting new finds that were in Denver. They took me to Rob Lavinsky's room where he pulled out some new Azurite specimens from a new mine near Nacozari, Sonora Mexico. Rob also had some specimens of skeletal galena from Bulgaria. More about these later on here.

This is one of the new azurite specimens from Mexico.

A 9 cm specimen of the Skeletal Galena from the 19th of September mine that Rob Lavinsky had.

This is one of the specimens I obtained from the same find.

The skeletal galena specimens are from the 19th of September mine, Madan, Rhodope Mts., Bulgaria. All of these were brought to Denver by Ivan Pojarevski who is a Bulgarian dealer. He apparently had two lots of these and Rob Lavinsky got the best specimen (pictured above) from either lot available here in Denver. I picked up the entire group of the second lot and the best of that group is also pictured above. Scott Werschky also had one specimen of this find available also obtained from Ivan earlier. Scott mentioned to me that these were actually found about 20 years ago and ignored until someone in Bulgaria figured out how to remove the encasing clay without damaging the delicate features of these remarkable specimens. They are just absolutely incredible and easily the most impressive new thing here at the show.

As for the Azurite specimens Rob is the only one who had any that I saw except for Evan Jones. Evan's azurite specimens were significantly less in terms of quality than the ones Rob had but Evan had some new malachite pseudomorphs after Azurite from this same new locality that no one else had. I picked up four for a new find update here from Denver.

This is one of the specimens I obtained from Evan - a 4.5 cm specimen with pseudos to 2.3 cm across.

John Seibel had some specimens of grossular from a new find from the Coyote Front Range near Bishop in Inyo County, California. These are uniformly brown in color and are dodecahedral with trapezoidal modifications. Steve Perry also has some of these but Seibel's were a bit better overall. Sorry Steve... ;^)

This is a specimen with grossular crystals to 1.8 cm across.

Well my task for the last report is to gather some pictures of the many excellent displays at the show and also a few people images. I will have quite a few more updates - especially with many of the fine minerals I picked up while here at the show. I will have one more update here in Denver and then one more after I get back to Weaverville after the 2 day drive home.

More to come from Denver!

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