[Rockhounds] Show Report - IMRMC Annual Sumer Sale

[Brenda Van Dyke]

nice :o)

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Kreigh Tomaszewski <Kreigh at tomaszewski.net>
wrote:

> 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
>
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