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The 2009 East Coast Show
Trinity Mineral Company |
August 6-10, 2009
Minerals from
the Jim & Gail
Spann Collection
The following images are from the collection of
jim and Gail Spann who had 53 cases filled with minerals from their collection.
As usual
Dave Bunk was on hand to help organize and
set up the cases. It is amazing how many GREAT specimens Jim
and Gail have accumulated in such a short time! Thanks Folks!!
A very fine gem icy blue
topaz crystal from Minas Gerais, Brazil!
A 15+ cm gem crystal of aquamarine
from Minas Gerais.
The famous " Rocket" bi-colored elbaite from the Pederneira mine n
Brazil.
The Spann's have a 1st class
sense of humor - Cheese
anyone?
An exceptional matrix specimen of pezzottaite on matrix from Madagascar.
A 4.5 specimen of
mimetite from the famous Gem pocket at Tsumeb. Wow!
A 3.5 cm crystal of mimetite covered in arsentusmebite from Tsumeb.
A stunning
canary yellow, gem crystal of anglesite from Toussit, Morocco.
A 30 cm, glassy specimen
of deep blue fluorite from Cave In Rock, Illinois.
This is a spectacular
benitoite specimen. If the Spann's would
send it to me it would make a world
class thumbnail and one
of the finest minatures in existence. Gail? Jim? I am waiting....
One of the blue caps from the famous
find of the 1970s at the Tourmaline Queen mine.
A fine cabinet specimen of cadmium smithsonite from Tsumeb.
A
fine minature specimen of emerald green fluorite from Sweden.
A 3.5 cm specimen of sperrylite on chalcopyrite from Russia.
"Just" a couple more large elabite specimens from Afghanistan...
Pink octahedral
glass - I mean fluorite - from Nager, Paksitan.
Just another stunning
example of
a spinel law twin fluorite from Pakistan...
A 25 cm crystal
of pink fuorite from Pakistan with some muscovite "residue"...
A case of "Cover" specimens.
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- a doubly terminated, 2.5 cm red beryl from Utah.
A gorgeous
4.5 cm crystal of pink topaz from Katlang, Pakistan.
A 1.5 cm gem
crystal of legrandite from the Ojuela mine in Mexico.
A gem 3.5 cm rhomb
of rhodochrosite from the Sweet Home min in Colorado.
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