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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 Lindell. Bob Meyer Tsumeb minerals, John Cornish, Rob 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 specimens—stuff, 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.