2007图桑展会矿物图片

明远矿业 · 发表于 2007-8-17 14:55

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January 25-28

I have been racing around Tucson the past few days looking for new material and catching up with old friends. Mineral shows like Tucson or Munich are like salt licks on the open range. Salt licks attract cattle from all around to that one spot. I am not trying to suggest that mineral dealers and collectors are the equivalent of cattle but rocks are our preferred drug of choice for sure and the rocks here are attracting people from around the globe.
My first stop was at the Executive Inn. This show seems to be growing from its rebirth of a few years ago. There were not many dealers set up but I did find Eric Cantayre open in the main wing. He had some intense red rhodonite specimens from Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil. I was in Brazil this past July and was openly depressed when I had a chance to see some rhodonite with Ze Estrada. He had barrels of the stuff and it was 99.999% road fill in terms of quality. Anyway, my eyes popped when I saw these and rapidly started to accumulate a pile of them.

This is a blood red floater crystal that is 5.3 x 3.8 x 0.7 cm.
There is some drusy quartz over the front of it.

There wasn't much else to see at this point at the Executive Inn so I went to the Inn Suites. I ran into Isaias Casanova initially and he tipped me off on some minerals John Cornish was offering. John is offering specimens from the Paul Harter collection and some of his own stock as well as his usual array of heulandite and mordenite from the Rat's Nest mine in Custer Co., Idaho.

An example of the heulandite and mordenite.

A 9 cm specimen of manganocalcite with a 1.5 cm crystal of
fluorite from Dal' Negorsk, Russia also from the Harter Collection.

Other dealers were open also including Spanish dealer Luis Miguel Fernandez Burillo who had some stunning new specimens of bladed rhodonite from the San Martin Mine, Chiurucu, Huanzala, Peru. This is not a new locality but there hasn't been any quantity of good material from there in some time now. There was a crowd around these but I did get some fine pieces.

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明远矿业 · 发表于 2007-8-17 15:10

Two views of the same 6.5 cm specimen with bladed crystals to 1+ cm in length.

Wendy's Minerals had a new find of calcite frosted with micro crystals of pyrite from Dandan, Guangxi Province, China. They also had specimen of the rounded pyrite clusters on fluorite from Shao Guan, Guang Dong Province, China. I have only seen these sparingly at the Munich Show up till now.

An 8 cm specimen of calcite with partial pyrite coating from Dandan.

I have been racing around Tucson the past few days looking for new material and catching up with old friends.  Mineral shows like Tucson or Munich are like salt licks on the open range.  Salt licks attract cattle from all around to that one spot.  I am not trying to suggest that mineral dealers and collectors are the equivalent of cattle but rocks are our preferred drug of choice for sure and the rocks here are attracting people from around the globe.
My first stop was at the Executive Inn. This show seems to be growing from its rebirth of a few years ago.  There were not many dealers set up but I did find Eric Cantayre open in the main wing.  He had some intense red rhodonite specimens from Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil.  I was in Brazil this past July and was openly depressed when I had a chance to see some rhodonite with Ze Estrada.  He had barrels of the stuff and it was 99.999% road fill in terms of quality.  Anyway, my eyes popped when I saw these and rapidly started to accumulate a pile of them.

This is a blood red floater crystal that is 5.3 x 3.8 x 0.7 cm.
There is some drusy quartz over the front of it.

There wasn't much else to see at this point at the Executive Inn so I went to the Inn Suites. I ran into Isaias Casanova initially and he tipped me off on some minerals John Cornish was offering.  John is offering specimens from the Paul Harter collection and some of his own stock as well as his usual array of heulandite and mordenite from the Rat's Nest mine in Custer Co., Idaho.

Here's John standing in front of his Heulandite case.  These are quite reasonably priced and outstanding in quality.

An example of the heulandite and mordenite.

A 9 cm specimen of manganocalcite with a 1.5 cm crystal of
fluorite from Dal' Negorsk, Russia also from the Harter Collection.

Other dealers were open also including Spanish dealer Luis Miguel Fernandez Burillo who had some stunning new specimens of bladed rhodonite from the San Martin Mine, Chiurucu, Huanzala, Peru. This is not a new locality but there hasn't been any quantity of good material from there in some time now. There was a crowd around these but I did get some fine pieces.

Two views of the same 6.5 cm specimen with bladed crystals to 1+ cm in length.

Wendy's Minerals had a new find of calcite frosted with micro crystals of pyrite from Dandan, Guangxi Province, China.  They also had specimen of the rounded pyrite clusters on fluorite from Shao Guan, Guang Dong Province, China. I have only seen these sparingly at the Munich Show up till now.

An 8 cm specimen of calcite with partial pyrite coating from Dandan.

A 6.5 cm specimen with pyrite balls to 1.5 cm across from Shao Guan.

French dealers Brice and Christophe Gobin, as usual, have some nice new material from the Erongo Mountains in Namibia and also dioptase and associated minerals from the Kaokoveld Mine also in Namibia.

A 3.5 cm specimen of lustrous aquamarine with attached
and included crystals of schorl from the Erongo Mts.

A 4.5 cm specimen of schorl and olive colored fluorite. The fluorite is dodecahedral with cubic face modifications.
Up to this time I have seen very few dodecahedral form fluorite crystals from the Erongo Mts.

明远矿业 · 发表于 2007-8-17 15:15

A 5 cm specimen of quartz with chrysocolla, malachite and dioptase crystals.

On the 26th Top Gem had their grand opening at their new digs about 3/4 mile up Oracle from where they have been the past several years. There is also a group of warehouse storage areas where other dealers such as Clive Queit, Collector's Edge and Lehigh Minerals were set up to move their wholesale material.

The crowd is already lined up for the opening at 10AM.

The open door leads to the Collector's Edge wholesale material. No Sweet Home rhodochrosite in
this place unfortunately. More importantly there is scant few new specimens of rhodochrosite
available with CE. The ones they have are reflect the scarcity price wise too.

The line for check out in the Top Gem warehouse at 11:30AM of opening day.

Collector's Edge had a huge supply of material from China. They are actively engaged in specimen recovery projects in China and they are expected to produce a number of fine specimens for years to come. That doesn't mean forever. Remember places like Tsumeb and Cave in Rock where there was a belief that the minerals would never end. They do eventually and right now Yoagangxian is a modern day classic locality that won't last forever. So I decided to pick up a flat of high quality single pieces of fluorite and scheelite and combinations thereof.

明远矿业 · 发表于 2007-8-17 15:19

总体上说，中华传统石文化的影响以及奇石贸易主要还是局限于日本、韩国及东南亚国家。中国观赏石如何引起发达欧美国家重视?如何提高我国赏石文化在国际中的地位?是我们必须研究的重要课题，要找出一个新的突破点。

蘑菇碧玺/产地：云南。

国际上销量最大的奇石依次是矿物、化石、陨石。目前国际上矿物、宝石、化石及石制工艺展销市场主要集中在美国和欧洲；日本和其它地方有零星的分布。特别是欧美国家奇石(矿物)市场已有一百多年历史，其长盛不衰发展的重要原因之一是各国许多地区的宝石矿物协会、化石俱乐部经常举办融商业性、学术性、趣味性及普及教育功能于一体的宝石——矿物——化石展销会。在国际上，每年举办重要奇石展销会上百个，其中规模和影响较大的展销会也有几十个。美国以亚里桑那州的图桑和科罗拉多州的丹佛为最大，前后附着有三十多个大小不同的展会;欧洲以德国慕尼黑和法国圣玛丽展会为主体，前后连带有四十多个展会；亚洲最大奇石展会在日本东京。这些展销会集中了全球各国的资源在此交易，形成稳定的定期的交易市场。

左边是无色绿柱石，六方晶系，产地：新疆。右边的：托帕石/黄玉/产地：云南。

国际上规模最大的石展是美国图桑宝石矿物展，图桑位于美国西南部亚里桑纳州，人口约40万人，图桑及其邻区矿产资源丰富，是世界上著名的铜矿基地，出产的观赏矿物晶体举世瞩目。每年2月的图桑宝石矿物展已享誉全球，是世界上同类展销会中历史最长、规模最大、参加人数最多的一个。展销会场包括一个主展厅和20多家旅馆及地摊市场，多分布城中心，每届有30多家国际著名的博物馆送来展览品，在展销会设有摊位的宝石观赏石厂商达5000家之多。中国有商人组团参加，中国的矿物占百分之十以上，并呈逐年增长之势。

天河石/产地：云南。

我国在宝石、矿物开发上取得了很大的成绩，我国宝玉石资源分布广，储量丰富，种类多。至目前为止，全国已发现各种宝玉石332种，其中：宝石为51种，玉石121种，有机宝石12种。国内产的彩石资源丰富，块度大、质量优，以物美价廉著称于世，一些产品远销国外。观赏矿物目前已发现55种，有些在国内享有盛名，在世界上也占有一席之地。虽然在部分省市已形成了一定规模的矿物市场，也有部分消费群体，但总体上说对矿物认识不足，从奇石产出情况和消费水平看，我国介于国际上典型的奇石资源国和消费国之间，目前仍以奇石出口为主，但进口量呈逐年上升之势。

新疆海蓝宝

我国丰富的宝石、矿物、奇石资源为举办国际性宝石、矿物展销会提供了厚实的物质基础。

巴西绿碧玺

将宝石、矿物列入奇石国展，培育国内消费群体。我国宝石、矿物资源丰富，产量大，在国际上有一定的影响。第二届柳州国际奇石节举办了专题的首届全国矿物晶体展，引起极大反响。因此将宝石、矿物列入奇石国展，提高其地位，提高国民的认知程度，培育消费群体，将是我们今后要努力做的一项工作。随着改革开放不断深入，全面建设小康社会，中国必将成为世界上宝石、矿物、奇石消费大国。

云南祖母绿

举办中国国际宝石、矿物展销会是提高我国赏石文化在国际中地位的直接途径。国际市场运作方式和特点是以展销会为主体。国际奇石市场巨大，中国矿物、宝石、化石、奇石资源丰富，而中国的奇石外销额仅占很小比例，因此要依靠所掌握的场馆和资源充分调动全国的资源，举办国际性中国矿物宝石展会，并以此为切入点将我国的奇石行业与国际市场进一步接轨，把我国奇石展销活动推向一个崭新的阶段。

云南碧玺

在这方面柳州具备了较好的条件。只要今后真正将开发、招商、招展的措施到位，使柳州成为与图桑类似的国际奇石交易中心是指日可待的。

巴西绿碧玺

东西方赏石文化的差异是巨大的，中国赏石文化独具特色，只有通过展销会吸纳国内外奇石资源，并提供各方面的服务及保障，为东方赏石文化走向世界开辟窗口。充分挖掘国内的奇石资源，并充分利用资源，通过这扇窗口，充分展示东方赏石文化的多样性及魅力，让世界充分认识了解东方赏石文化。为国外奇石、矿物商进入中国提供有效的渠道。通过东西方奇石相互贸易，不断扩大石文化交流，东西方藏石风格的交融，以及地学知识在中国的普及，将使世界奇石贸易更加活跃，中国赏石文化在国际中的地位将会不断提高。

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明远矿业 · 发表于 2007-8-17 15:19

1。美国图森矿物、宝石展览会 1月底2月初

   文字介绍http://www.gss.org.cn/bbs/dispbb ... ;ID=6153&page=1

2。美国丹佛珠宝矿物展会群 9月中旬

3。德国慕尼黑展会 10月底11月初

   参展图片介绍http://www.gss.org.cn/bbs/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=12&ID=6110

   老外慕尼黑石展笔记http://www.gss.org.cn/bbs/dispbb ... ;ID=6438&page=1

4。法国的圣玛丽(St.Marie-Aux-Mines)展会 6月中旬

5。东京国际矿物展 6月