KOFA National Wildlife Refuge - February 2010 - photo by John Veevaert
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B efore I move on to the Westward Look show I saw an interesting group of specimens available from Igor Mikhailov at the Quality Inn. These are etched sphalerite floaters with epitaxial chalcopyrite from Dal'Negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia.  They are likely not new to the mineral world but I found them to be fascinating and picked up a small group for a future update.


A 4.5 cm specimen of sphalerite with epitaxial chalcopyrite.
 

So, the past couple of days have been some of the coldest on record here in Tucson.  Yesterday morning there was no water available in many places all over town due to frozen and busted pipes and natural gas supplies were running short to exhausted in many places around town as everyone's heater was doing double duty. Shoot, we all come down here to get out of the weather but sometimes mother nature has other ideas.


A fountain photographed on February 3 at the Westward Look.  That is Sandor Fuss moving out of view to the right.

As usual the Gobin's have some great things available here in Tucson.


12-15 cm specimen of crocoite from Adelaide, Tasmania.  

 


13 cm specimen of pyromorphite on fluorite from an old French locality.

 


A 3+ cm tsavorite from Tanzania in Christophe's hand.

 

There are so many great rocks here at the Westward Look that it could fill ten web pages so to hone it down is a challenge. The prices for specimens here are not for your average collector either.  This is where you find the crème de la crème!


One of the most incredible rocks here in Tucson - a 20 cm specimen of tanzanite on calcite matrix with icy blue prehnite crystals.
Green Mountain Minerals has this one and it also had a Sold sign on it. Mercy! 
  


Scott Werschky had this beast from the Lokel Mine, Humboldt Co., Nevada available for $175,000.  Over 70 troy ounces of gold in this thing!


A  fine group of three sixlings of cumengite from Baja California, Mexico in the Gobin's room.

 


Brian Swoboda video taping Dave Wilbur talking to Bob Jones by the frozen fountain at the Westward Look on Feb 4. 

 
Dave Bunk showed me a new group of liddicoatite specimens he recently obtained from Madagascar.
 

Herb Obodda has this 30 or cm etched quartz draped in adularia crystals from the Tormiq area of Pakistan.
 
Like most people much of the time is spent talking with folks you've not seen for a while.  That is as much fun for me as it is looking at the minerals.
 
 

The spontaneous memorial that arose at the site of the shooting on the corner of Ina and Oracle....
 

On the way to the Westward Look you drive right past the shopping center where the insane shootings took place on January 8.     I think everyone in Tucson felt wounded by this event and I can't help but feel that the numerous gem and mineral shows around town are helping everyone to feel like life is getting back to "normal". 

I will be posting an update of new minerals soon.  My energy level is not what has been since my accident last November but I have a lot of things I will be posting in the next few days.  Stay tuned.
 


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1999
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2000
Sainte Marie Show
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2001
Sainte Marie Show
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2002
Tucson Show
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Denver Show
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2003
Tucson Show
Sainte Marie Show
East Coast Show
Denver Show
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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
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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
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Munich Show

2011
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East Coast Show
Denver Show
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2012
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West Coast Show
East Coast Show
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2013
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Crystal Days (Poland)
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