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Quartz, tourmaline                    Brazilianite                       Smoky Quartz                             Arkansas Quartz

                       Available at the show from Galaxy Gems Brazil                                      Available from  Bart Cannon

Display Cases

12 of these cases are still available. There is no table charge for exhibitors.

If you would like to make a case of your own, it's simple and inexpensive.  Buy a vinyl seven gallon "odjob" mixing tray from Scepter Corp at a hardware store's cement section ($5 to $20), paint the interior with Krylon "Fusion" spray paint, have a glass top cut to fit and trim the glass with black gorilla tape.  Viola', a monster Riker box.  The specimens shown are all medium to very large cabinet pieces.

Displays

Bart Cannon Washington Minerals, Copper Mining Technology, , Ed Godsey Various minerals, Ray Hill,  John LindellBob Meyer Tsumeb minerals, John CornishRob Woodside  

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Table Reservations  * = Advance payment received. 

Galaxy Gems Brazil     

Mel Judy              3    

Rice Museum           4   

Ray Hill              

Bob Meyer             3

Bart Cannon           3 

John Lindell          3

Rob Woodside             

Ed Godsey             

The Scepterguy        3

John Sobolewski       

Wes Gannaway             

Bradley Kornish       

Tom Payne             

Danny Steward         

Gary Buhr             

John Meek             3

UV Systems              

House Displays        4

John Cornish          2

Wholesale Nest        3

Peter Michael Boyd    

Christy Callens       1

TOTAL                    July 16, 2008

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Dealer Specialties 

 

Galaxy Gems Brazil    Newly mined Brazilian pegmatite minerals from many localities.  <http://galaxygemsbrazil.com/default.aspx>

  

                   Brazilianite Singles                                             Tourmaline Pencil  Assortment

Ed Godsey  General Minerals from his collection.

Scepter Gems and Minerals  Mel Judy.  Worlwide, contemporary minerals.

The Scepterguy  Worldwide minerals, quartz from from Washington and Hallelujah Junction, large selection of Brazilian amethyst.   Scepterguy on eBay or <www.cascadescepters.com>  

Rice Museum  Sale of Rudy Tschernich collection, fluorescent minerals, Northwest and Indian zeolites.    tschernich@msn.com         

Ray Hill  Worldwide microminerals and thumbnail specimens, rare, unusual, and usual.  Reasonably priced.          

Bob Meyer  Assorted Worldwide specimensstuff, mostly in storage since the late 1970s to early 1980s from around the globe.

 

 Galena and Fluorite, Naica, Mexico          Microcline, quartz , CO          Fluorite, Jianghi Province, China  ($50)

Bart Cannon  Northwest rare species, uranium minerals and display specimens.  Geology books, mining emphemera                          <www.cannonmicroprobe.com>

   

                  Arkansas Quartz                            Amethyst,  Croaker Pegmatite, Okanogan County

John Lindell  Field collected minerals from the western U.S. and peruvian minerals.  Also used lapidary equipment. 

Lew Landers   Northwest quartz, unique mineral art.     

Rob Woodside Chinese Minerals, Odds and Sods and rarities, last specimens from Mount Xuebaoding which was just destroyed by the Sichuan Earthquake, last chance for Ping Wu scheelites, tabular aquas, kesterite, cassiterites.  <rwmw@telus.net>

John Sobolewski  Worldwide affordable thumbnail and miniature mineral specimens. 

Wes Gannaway   Worldwide minerals from his collection.    

Gary Buhr  Cabinet specimens of general minerals and gemstones.

Cassie Magill  Stibnite from the Lucky Knock (her father Elwin Magill's mine), mining and hardware catalogs.

UV Systems  Don Newsome.  Ultra-violet lamps and fluorescent minerals.

Bradley Kornish  Washington Jade art objects.

Danny Steward  Fine mineral specimens from from his collection.

John Cornish  Riker boxes, rock breaking equipment  http://www.ezebreak.com:80/ high pressure, water based mineral cleaning equipment.

          

              Riker Display boxes                             Water Blast Cleaner

Peter Michael Boyd   Worldwide Minerals.

Wholesale Nest   Gurmeet and Peerti Virk.    Emeralds on matrix, aquamarine, amethyst.

Christy Callens  Brazilian and Californian pegmatite minerals.  Please give her a nice welcome.  She's flying in from So.Cal.

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Carpools

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Minerals for Kids

Each middle school and younger attendee will receive SIX Mineral Bucks, each good for "buying" a single specimen from the participating dealer's Mineral Buck Specimen Flats. 

Volunteers are needed to distribute the Mineral Buck mini-bundles.

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Displays, Talks and Other Presentations

There will be 25 display cases available for people wishing to display their specimens.  If you have your own case, you may bring it regardless of its style.  There is no table charge for display cases.  Please contact Bart if you would like to exhibit.  The usable display area of standard Mineral Market cases is 17" x 21".  That translates to around 12 to 18 small cabinet specimens. 

Exhibitors

Ray Hill, Bob Meyer, Bart Cannon, Lew Landers, Troy Hatch, John Lindell, Ed Godsey  

Educational Demonstrations in the Center of the Room will include:

* Petrographic microscope operation

* stereomicroscope study of minerals. 

* Free Mineral Identifications by the hottest mineral geeks in the Northwest.

  Other ideas are invited. 

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IMAGES of Dealer and Show Materials

    

  Newly mined assortment / Galaxy Gems    Newly mined andalusite crystals / Galaxy Gems Brazil

  

   Amethyst  Croaker Pegmatite, Okanongan Co. WA          ETEC Scanning Electron Microscope

                                                                   RIC 920 Rock and Mineral Identification Computer.

Poster Ad for a 1930 Portable Gold Dredge.  To be on Display at the Mineral Market.

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