The main show video.
A quicklime video of the floor of the main show.
 

A 15 cm specimen of native lead from Broken Hill.

George Steacy brought these two gem crystals of rhodonite from Broken Hill. Red glass here folks.
 

Rob Selecki numerous specimens on display. This specimen
of stolzite has crystals to nearly 1 cm across.

How about a 4 cm crystal of gemmy microcline???

A fine copper specimen from Broken Hill on display by the Smithsonian.

This was a very fine stolzite placed on display by the Smithsonian.

Dona Leicht had one of the finest gold specimens ever on display.  I actually held this 
specimen last year and took some photos of it then at the Westward Look show.  There are no 
better cubic gold crystals anywhere that I am aware of.
 

Then there's these two crystals of inky blue, lustrous boleite. Better than any I have seen from Mexico. Also from Broken Hill.

This is a fine reticulated cerussite from Broken Hill about 15 cm across.

A 20 cm glendonite replaced by precious opal from Coober Pedy. 
 

A 40 cm specimen of crocoite from Tasmania.  Crocoite does not get any better than the mines from Tasmania.
 

Several specimens in a case put in by Rob Selecki of Gold, Rhodonite and mimetite.
Good stuff!!!

A 25 cm specimen of pyromorphite from Broken Hill.

One of the finest jeremejevite specimens (4 cm) known from the original Namibian find near Swapkomund, Namibia.
This specimen was in the Barlow collection and I have actually held it in my hand before. The color is unlike any other
mineral I know of.
 

Herb Obodda had a striking display with two images of him taken at least 20 years apart.
I think the CIA and FBI could turn over some interesting "stones" in Herb's background...
No pun intended :^) 
 

The following three images are the exceptional toenail sized specimens Herb had on display.

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An enormous pegmatite specimen from Pederneira, 
Minas Gerais, Brazil. It stands at least 45-50 cm in height.

New gold specimen from the Mockingbird mine in Mariposa County, California.
This and several other specimens were offered by Collector's Edge. They sold
for about $500,000 to $1,500,000 each. Yowza!!

A superb copper specimen from Michigan

An equally superb silver specimen from Michigan.

A stunning azurite from Bisbee, Arizona

A gorgeous cluster of elbaite crystals from the Himalaya mine in San Diego Co., California

A color zoned spinel law twin fluorite from Mexico.
An old Walt Lidstrom specimen.

San Francisco collector Jack Halpern had a case in. I found it hard to look past the 7 cm gem tanzanite

Irv pointed out this remarkable specimen of chalcocite from Bristol though that made me look away for a while....

One of the strangest things I have ever seen anywhere.
This is a pencil of aligned garnet crystals with epitaxial apatite over the garnet.
There is some albite and acicular schorl associated with this 9 cm specimen
from Shigar, Pakistan but it is 100 % genuine and owned by Mike Bergman. 
Totally wild and hard to imagine as being real unless you hold it as I did in your hand.

Here's the volunteer crew busy at work cataloging the specimens.

Here are the minerals that you will see later in April.
Some very generous donations this year from the dealers.