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var ACE_AR = {Site: '823065', Size: '468060', CallType: 'IFRAME'}; Minerals.net Complete Information Guide to Rocks, Minerals, & Gemstones Minerals Minerals & Varieties View All Minerals View by Alphabetical Order Varieties and Other Names Mineral Search Filter Minerals Filter by Chemical Group Filter by Color Filter by Streak Filter by Hardness Filter by Crystal Group Most Visited Minerals Quartz Diamond Pyrite Gold Fluorite Amethyst Gypsum Calcite Galena Talc Gemstones Gemstones View All Gemstones Gemstone Varieties This Month's Birthstone Diamond Gemstones By Color Metallic White Colorless Blue Red Green Yellow Orange Pink Purple Banded Multicolored Most Visited Gemstones Ruby Sapphire Topaz Agate Garnet Quartz Tourmaline Jasper Zircon Emerald Research What is a Rock & What is a Mineral Mineral Properties Color Streak Hardness Specific Gravity Luster Cleavage, Fracture Tenacity Chemical Properties of Minerals Birthstones Top 5 Tips for Diamond Buying Trends in Mineral Collecting All Research Topics Q&A View Posted Questions Ask A Question Most Popular Questions Newest Questions News News Blog Twitter News Feed Follow us on Pinterest Glossary Photo Gallery Gallery Home Mineral Photo Gallery Gemstone Photo Gallery Videos View All Videos View Minerals.net Videos View Our YouTube Channel Directory Add Your Free Listing Gemstones Mineral Dealers Online Reference Sites Mineral Publications Museums Gemstone Blogs Gemstone Show -- The 2020 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show® Introduction March 13, 2020 Hershel Friedman (0) Our annual show reports of the happenings at Tucson will start with the 2020 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®. This show is the main show that started all the other mineral and gemstone venues in Tucson and made it the mecca it is today for mineral and gemstone collectors. This first post introduces the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®, showing some of the general show themes, as well as some of the major cases, including the largest Gold specimen found in modern times, an iconic wire Gold that serves as the logo for the Harvard Mineralogical Museum, and the famous "Snail" Rhodochrosite specimen from South Africa, that was one of the most expensive minerals ever sold. This was also the 50th anniversary of the Mineralogical Record, with several cases highlighting this milestone. We will also create additional posts for several of the other Tucson shows. For the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®, we'll add posts on the exhibit cases, individual minerals, and dealer minerals. This page will contain links to all the posts that we create as we organize and publish them. Stay tuned and check back frequently for additional updates on Tucson, including posts on the exhibit cases, individual minerals, dealer minerals, and other shows in Tucson. The Tucson Gem and Mineral Show® View from Above on Opening Day Another View of the Main Hall from Above Peter Megaw, Exhibits Chair for the Show, Showcasing the Large Gold Specimen to the Media Tribute Case to the Mineralogical Record by Green Mountain Minerals "Dragons Lair Gold" - A 113 Pound Gold Specimen discovered in September 2018 in the Beta Hunt Mine, near Kambalda, Western Australia Prepared by Collector's Edge Minerals and Pending Sale to the Pinnacle Collection Large Wire Gold "The Gold Horn" from the Ground Hog Mine, Gilman District, Eagle Co., CO Icon Mineral of the Mineralogical & Geological Museum at Harvard University The Snail: An Iconic Rhodochrosite on Manganite from the N'Chwaining 1 Mine, Kuruman, South Africa Bill Larson Collection Tribute Case to the Young Mineral Collectors Showcasing Youth Involvement in the Hobby The 2020 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show® Displays Part 1 March 7, 2020 Hershel Friedman (0) This post about the 2020 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show® focuses on some of the amazing displays at the show. Private collectors, dealers, museums, and mineral clubs set up public display exhibits that showcase some of the most exceptional minerals that are out there. This show, the most prominent mineral event in the world, features over one hundred displays with a wide variety of specimens that rival the displays of the best museums in the world. It would be difficult to cover these displays our post, so we chose some of the most prominent and photogenic samples and divided the display exhibits into two posts, this being the first one. This year's theme was "World Class Minerals." This is a loosely defined terminology and this is a more encompassing theme than in previous years. The website of the Tucson Gem & Mineral Society devoted a page to explain the theme - visit their website to read more about the theme at http://www.tgms.org/news-archive/2019/10/20/world-class-minerals . The Mineral Wines Collection Brett Keller A Love Affair with Prehnite Steve Blyskal Herkimer Diamond s: World Class Treasures from the Mountains of New York State Rocko Rosenblatt Made in America - USA Gemstones Display Case Devoted to Sulfur Colorado World Class Minerals Mines Museum of Earth Science Significant Color Varieties of Calcite Cincinnati Museum Center Sample of World Class Minerals New Mexico Tech Bureau of Geology Mineral Museum Large Impressive Chinese Minerals Perot Museum of Nature and Science Arizona's World Class Minerals Les & Paula Presmyk Collection An Amazing Case of Exceptional Minerals Walt Donovan Arizona's Best AZ Mining, Mineral and Natural Resources Education Museum Some Classic Mineral Examples Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History Treasures from the AMNH'S Bement Collection American Museum of Natural History Large Interesting Gem Minerals Mineral The Meieran Collection What Makes a World Class Mineral? Rice Museum of Rocks and Minerals The 2020 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show® Displays Part 2 March 2, 2020 Hershel Friedman (0) This is our second post on the display exhibits of the The 2020 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®. We divided the photos of the displays into two posts to keep it from being too long. We didn't put these photos in any particular order -- the order is the sequence of our photographs. In past years, we separated our posts on the display cases into separate posts for theme-related and non-theme related. However, with this year's more ambiguous theme of "World Class Minerals," every case seemed to have been filled with "World Class Minerals" so it was hard to separate the theme from the non-themed. We therefore included them all together and did not designate separate posts for this. Please stay tuned for our next post which will include some of the exceptional minerals within these display cases. Footballs and Snowballs: The Mines of Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee Tellus Science Museum Golden Calcite from Malmberget, Sweden Peter Lykberg In Memoriam of Tom Hales: February 19, 1943 - April 4, 2019 Gregg and Glenn Hales Beautiful Mineral Examples from the Harvard Collection Harvard Mineralogical Museum The Science Behind World Class Diamond s GIA - Gemological Institute of America Mineralogical Record Covers of Minerals in the Museum Collection Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County From the Mineral Museum Collection: World-Wide Minerals The University of Arizona Mineral Collection Marquis Pieces from the Spann Collection Jim & Gail Spann, Rockwall, TX Classic Collection Pieces from the Frederick A. Canfield & Washington A. Roebling Collecton Smithsonian Institution National Museum on Natural History Colorful Gemstone Minerals JTV Internal Collection Favorites from the Collection of Gary and Rosemary White Gary and Rosemary White Exceptional Mineral Display Bruce Carter: Board Member of Rice NW Museum of Rocks and Minerals Russian Treasures Robert Lavinsky MAD Treasure Honoring the Mineralogical Record MAD - Mineralogical Association of Dallas The Mineralogical Record: Celebrating 50 years of Excellence Arizona Mineral Minions Sliced and polished Malachite and Azurite Pieces Will Larson Collection The 2020 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show...