[Rockhounds] Show Report - IMRMC Annual Sumer Sale

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Family obligations caused me to arrive half an hour late, and I only 
got to stay for 90 minutes (before I had to leave for a kid pickup). 
I'm glad I got to the Indian Mounds Rock and Mineral Club Summer Sale 
in Wyoming, MI again this year.

BTW, I did cleanup last year, and again at this year's club show, so 
missing one event contributing to the club still leaves me as a net 
contributor; you get more out of your club if you put something into it.

It wasn't quite as big as last year, but over a couple dozen dealers 
and collectors lined one side of the long parking lot.

The first table, and several other tables I stopped at. asked me to 
help identify a variety of specimens. I got to see some fun mineral and 
fossil specimens, most fairly common but with unusual habit or quality. 
I'll bet money I got most of them right.

There was a lot of cutting material available (mostly agates, kona 
dolomite, and petoskey stone, but a lot of odd stuff), finished stones 
and jewelry, many mineral specimens (including a lot of closed 
locations), and some lapidary equipment.

I purchased a few mineral specimens (most from closed locations; 
Gaspeite, Barite, Azurite).

I found a few copper and/or silver crystals worth taking home. One had 
a 1/2 inch (10x lens) copper vug lined/filled with hairs of connected 
cubic copper crystals (and some minor silver), and some great epidote 
vugs almost as big.

Every dealer I talked to at length was having a better than average day.

Good show. I wish I could have stayed longer -- the dealers kept 
pulling out new stock.

Kreigh