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***** FIVE STAR SHOW Arizona Mineral & Fossil Show, Tucson, AZ
These
are
the true, big time, mineral and fossil shows here in Tucson. If
your
looking for museum quality display specimens, the AMFS shows are the
ones to visit.
If your looking for the biggest ban for your buck, these are not
necessarily
the best places to look. As a general rule: If you see it in an
expensive
motel room at an expensive hotel show, the prices are inflated to cover
the extra overhead. If you see the same quality of specimen at a
warehouse or tent show, you will get a lot more for less money.
That
said, if your willing to buy in LARGE quantities, you may be able to
get
an excellent buy even at a hotel show. And finally, if you wait
till
the last day of a particular show, you can get great deals because most
dealers DO NOT want to have to carry a lot of heavy specimens back
home.
The problem with waiting till the very last day is that you will not
have
the best selection of material or may have missed out completely on the
specimens that you waited to buy. So, it all boils down to
knowing
where to go to get the best deals and skipping everything else till you
have most of your shopping done! (I wish I could follow my own
advice!) InnSuites: 2007 MANY MORE DEALERS BOOKED IN THIS YEARS' SHOW COMPARED TO PREVIOUS YEARS. The extra dealers (most of them are coming over from the Clarion Hotel show) are being placed on the second floor of these two floor, outside access, motel buildings. I would not have want to be a dealer located on the SECOND floor in past years but this year ?may? be different.! They started this practice back in 2005 and those dealers really starved. Now there could be enough reasons to climb those stairs to see what is to be seen on the second floors. All the dealers on the first floors at InnSuites report that they had the best first three days of sales than they have ever had. Second floor dealers are still reporting slow traffic. Takes time to train buyers/lookers to set aside some extra time/energy to explore the second floors at the InnSuites. I predict that all the rooms will be filled with dealers in 2008. Upstairs and downstairs . . . It is amazing how the InnSuites has fast become the premiere AMFS show to be in. |
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5 STAR SHOW
[2006]
 THE INN SUITES HOTEL |
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The higher priced and better quality mineral and fossil dealers are found at the InnSuites. |
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 ONE OF MANY DEALER BANNERS HANGING FROM THE SECOND FLOOR RAILINGS. |
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[2006]
 The SECOND floor in 2006. |
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COURTYARD EXHIBITOR |
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KIRK NORLIN4428 Tennyson St., Denver, CO 80212303.477.1847 877.499.5511 (toll-free) www.kirknorlin.com |
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2007
 Fine art gicle'e printing. |
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2007
 The art work above was created by using a photo scanner of an actual mineral specimen that had been slabbed. The resulting picture was enlarged and art gicle'e printed on high quality art paper. Priced under $1,000 |
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| HARDROCK MINERALS USA
INC. POB 9077, Torrance, CA 90508 310.320.7039 www.hardrockmineralsusa.com |
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[They were only here for the 2006 show-still in business in Calif.] 
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 Expensive but beautiful. . . |
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 The next two pictures will show the true beauty of this material. |
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 Bottom right plate in the above picture. . . |
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 Bottom left plate two picture back. . .(brownish) |
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 STANDARD - PARTIAL GOLD (reddish) |
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 PREMIUM - HEAVY GOLD |
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LOBBY AT THE INNSUITES |
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Philippe GoldsteinSpechbach-le-bas, Francewww.philippe-goldstein.com Philippe-goldstein@wanadoo.fr |
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2007
 Petrified wood table tops with real wood trim and stands. Ebony, mahogany, oak, cherry. . . |
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2007
 Small tables were priced at 7 to 10 thousand. Large ones at 10 to 14 thousand. |
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Mineral Artist at the Inn Suites main lobby. 2007 - This Mineral Artist has actual minerals for sale to suppliment his art work sales. |
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DIXIE EUHEDRALS
Rodney Moore |
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2007
 Rodney Moore of Dixie Euhedrals of Jackson, GA. previously owned property near Jackson's Crossroads, Wilkes County, GA. Last year's amethyst came from this location owned. The cut stones from this mine were of great color and of gem quality! This is an old mineral location that has been recently dug with a big trackhoe in the last couple of years. |
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2007
 Great matrix specimen . . . |
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2007
 Great color . . . |
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| John
Cornish Minerals Port Angeles, WA (360) 457-7630 |
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[2005]
John Cornish showing off his newly found "Worlds Largest Quartz after Apophyllite Pseudomorph" |
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2007
 Best Heulandite that has ever been found at the Rat's Nest claim. (Located in the previous display case picture - on the lower right bottom shelf.) |
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2007
 One of the best Mordenite specimens ever found at the Rat's Nest claim. |
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2007
 Large size denotes the larger cost of this specimen. Very showy with large Mordenite and Heulandite crystals. |
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 Heulandite Peanut . . . |
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[2006]
 John's large display cases highlight the beauty of the specimens from his "Rat's Nest" mine. |
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[2006]
 Heulandite/Mordenite |
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Another one of John's "Largest" finds displayed in his showroom at the InnSuites. |
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[2006]
 New find this year was
the Calcites with the Heulandite/Mordenite. Notice the large calcite crystal perched on top of the white mordenite
and attached to the pink heulandite.
[Yellow colored mineral I.D.
tag denotes that this specimen is fluorescent(calcite)] |
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[2006]
 A calcite attached to the pink heulandite and situated on a bed of white mordenite. [Yellow colored mineral I.D. tag denotes that this specimen is fluorescent(calcite)] |
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[2006]
 Large calcite perched upon Mordenite plate with Heulandite crystal |
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[2006]
 Mordenite crystals |
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| FOSSIL HALL | |
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[2006]
 There
are three fossil specimens above. The small one in the
foreground on the right is a Dromaeosaurus albertensis and the little
bit larger fossil specimen on the left is a Thescelosaurus.
Hard to separate out because of the poor lighting. |
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[2006]
 Small specimen above the right information sign above. |
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[2006]
 Small specimen above the left information sign above. |
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 For scale. . . Cheryl would make a tasty meal! |
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[2005]
The Fossil ballroom. . . |
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[2005]
 That's one ugly turtle. . . |
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| OTHER FOSSIL DEALERS | |
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[2005]
Pine cones anyone? - ARE THESE LEGAL?? |
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[2005]
 Case of Virgin Valley opalized wood. |
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[2005]
 Virgin Valley opalized wood. . . |
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LOWCOUNTRY GEOLOGIC
Mark and Karen Havenstein |
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 Mammuthus imperator, Mammoth teeth, Terrestrial Mammal Fossils from Charleston County, South Carolina. Hawthorne Formation - Pleistocene Epoch |
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 Mammuthus imperator, Mammoth tusk errestrial Mammal Fossils from Charleston County, South Carolina. Hawthorne Formation - Pleistocene Epoch |
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 Scaldicetus, Sperm Whale teeth, Marine Mammal Fossils from Ace River Basin, SC. Hawthorne Formation - Miocene Epoch |
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 Carcharocles megalodon Fossil Shark Teeth from South Carolina. |
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 Most of the dealers have inside and outside tables. |
