St Marie-aux-Mines Mineral Show 26th to 29th June
Next week will see the return of the St Marie-aux-Mines Minerals. Set in a pretty French village in the Alsace region, this is a fun show to visit. The show runs Friday 27th to Sunday 29th, with Thursday 26th as invitation only professionals day.This show we will have a really exciting range of specimens including many new finds!!
Brand new Spessartine Garnets from Loliondo, Tanzania, and what is really exciting is that these are the first superb specimens we have seen on matrix!!! The colour is super, bright orange and quite gemmy. The matrix is a shiny Muscovite schist, and there is assocaited Kyanite in a rare orange-brown colour.
New Garnet var Spessartine on Muscovite from Tanzania
We will also have new Pyrites on Fluorite from Dayu Co., Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China; plus other new specimens from China.
Pyrites on Fluorite from China
Smithsonite, Tsumeb, Namibia
Ian and Wayne have been keeping busy acquiring several new collections including the Dr Winfried Boehmer, Germany, and pieces from the collection of Wolfgang Henkel, plus several other high standard collections of aesthetic pieces.
Cuprian Smithsonite, Tsumeb, Nambia
Cobaltian Smithsonite, Tsumeb, Nambia
See you there!!!
Pyrites on Fluorite from China
Smithsonite, Tsumeb, Namibia
Ian and Wayne have been keeping busy acquiring several new collections including the Dr Winfried Boehmer, Germany, and pieces from the collection of Wolfgang Henkel, plus several other high standard collections of aesthetic pieces.
Cuprian Smithsonite, Tsumeb, Nambia
We will be in our same place in the Grande Theatre, in the middle towards the stage, in a shared booth of Crystal Classics and Kristalle.
Cobaltian Smithsonite, Tsumeb, Nambia
See you there!!!