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Munich Show 2012 Travelling across the ocean is always an adventure. Mine started out in Redding, California at 6:00 AM on October 20th and ended at 7:55 PM on October 21st in Munich. A canceled flight in Redding, a nine hour layover in San Francisco, and the eleven and half hour flight to Munich made for a very long day... But it could have been worse. I decided to come here a few days earlier than usual so that I could at least try to get the upper hand on jet lag. It is nine hours time difference between California and Germany and you definitely feel it for a few days...
On the Tuesday before the show a lot of work has already been completed to get the show ready. Tables, booths and show cases have all been set up and some dealers are already getting minerals out. I saw Christophe Gobin and he had some interesting lots of specimens including a new group of cuprosklodowskite from Musonoi, Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. He also showed me a group of pseudomorphs of mimetite after descloizite from Nakhlak, Iran.
The Kristalle and Crystal Classics booth was the first to be set up. Ian Bruce and Wayne Leicht had a large responsibility in getting the special displays set up (the theme this year is Minerals from Africa). So they wanted to get it set up ahead to focus on that task. I ventured in to take a look and was stunned with the display of native elements - gold and silver.
This is just the first teaser here on what is happening in Munich. I will have a new report up tomorrow with lots of specimens that were found here. PLEASE NOTE: The minerals that were offered on these pages are all sold
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