[Rockhounds] TUCSON!

[John & Gloria Cornish]

Hi Everyone,

I've been unable to get to a terminal as the Inn Suites has become a very busy place these last couple of days. The show here officially opened yesterday and it was a busy day with folks coming and going steadily from 10'ish to after 6 when I finally called it quits and headed out to a wonderful dinner. There are less folks here as one may expect due to the economy, the hassles of air travel, etc. Still, many of my friends are here and I feel very fortunate to be a part of this years experience. As usual when working alone, I've had near zero opportunity to visit anyone and have only managed a couple of rooms on the way to breakfast or later as I walk the grounds at night. Thank goodness for folks coming to visit me!

I've heard of few good new things, though a group of new Russian cuprite on copper has many excited. New for me, I've some crystalline golds from Mexico which were worthy of a write-up as you can see by going to the following link...

http://www.mineralman.com/tucson2009.html

This is the second Show Report that I've been mentioned on (to my knowledge) and I'm absolutely thrilled.

The weather here has been getting warmer and I believe that this pattern is going to continue. I'm sorry that I've been unable to really and truly report on all of the happenings here. Being locked into the room is tough, especially knowing all of the cool and groovy things that are all about me!!! 

Thankfully I did manage some rooms, Collectors Edge as always has lots of terrific things, azurites from Australia, amazonite and smoky quartz combos from Colorado, amethyst japan-law twinned quartz from China, etc. Lots of eye candy. Kristalle and Crystal Classics are sharing a wholesale room and they were full of goodies, the dioptase groups they had were especially nice to my eye. And from there, my exposure to the new drastically falls away. Maybe I'll get out more later, though I hope I'm way too busy! 

Take care everyone, I wish you were here! All the very best,

John 

 
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