KOFA National Wildlife Refuge - February 2006 - photo by John Veevaert

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Updated February 19, 2013

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Crystallized & Leaf Gold	February 19th -New Find! Gold from Sikiyou County, California - Prior to the show I met with the owner of small claim who is finding crystallized and leaf gold specimens in far northern California.  One specimen is a single octahedral crystal 1.7 cm in dimension!
Aragonite - Mexico Chalcopyrite - Missouri Rosasite ps Azurite - Arizona	February 19th - Ronna's Rocks - Ronna spent the last few days of the show finding some real bargains that we can pass on to you.  An ecclectic group here with some real bargains!!!
Mimetite	February 19th -New Find! GOrange Mimetite from Iran - PAny mineral from Iran is difficult to find since importing things from Iran has a lot of restrictions.  Here is a small group of mimetite specimens with deep orange color similar to that of the San Francisco mine in Mexico.  British dealer Crystal Classics had these.
Copper	February 19th - Utah Copper - Curt Forrester offered me some specimens of crystalline copper from the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah.  Specimens of native copper are surprisingly rare from this gigantic copper mine due to the method of mining primarily.
Phosphophyllite   Titanite   Cerussite	February 15th -Mixed Minerals from Tucson    - All sorts of interesting specimens found here at the 2014 Tucson Show.
Chalcopyrite on Chalcocite	February 10th -NEW FIND!  Chalcopyrite on Chalcocite - At the 2013 Munich show a new find of chalcocite covered with chalcopyrite emerged.  They are from the Daye mine, Hubei Province in China. These were picked up very quickly off my website so I decided to look for them here at Tucson.  Sure enough Chinese dealer Huanqiu Crystal Mineral Museum had a supply of these - including some specimens on matrix.
Frankeite & Arsenopyrite	February 10th -NEW FIND!   Franekite - Teodocio Ramos had some specimens of frankeite from a new find at the San Jose mine in Oruro, Bolivia.  The crystals are found in spherical masses and several have unusual prismatic arsenopyrite crystal associations.
Wulfenite	February 10th -NEW FIND!  Wulfenite, Mimetite & Hemimmorphite - One of the more significant things to show up here in Tucson are specimens from the M'fouati mine, Bouenza Dept., Republic of Congo. Laurent Thomas has the finest specimens from this new find that I have seen with blue hemimorphite, lemon yellow mimetite, dioptase on cerussite, gorgeous wulfenite specimens - some rare examples on matrix, and willemite.
Native Lead	February 10th NEW FIND! Native Lead - Don Olson found me at the Inn Suites and told me of a new find of native lead from the Garpenberg Noora mine, in Garpenberg, Hedemora, Sweden.  The lead is found as sheets filling fractures in metamorphic schistose rocks.