[Rockhounds] TUCSON 2009!

[John & Gloria Cornish]

Hi Everyone,

I was in Quartzite yesterday and visited the Desert Gardens Show. I wandered through quite quickly as usual not seeing much. But, that may be due to the fact that I got very little sleep the night before and started my drive east to Quartzite at 4:45 a.m.! Two mega long days of driving! 

At Quartzite, I found a lady who had some very nice dinosaur bone for sale. I snapped off several photos and will share these in my report upcoming. While there, I returned a broken Arkansas digging bar which had snapped through an inch thick section of steel! Hopefully, the new bar replacing it will be a tad bit stronger!!

As I write, I'm in Tucson and will check into my room at the Inn Suites tomorrow and then my adventure will truly begin. I'm being a tourist today and only stopped at one place, the mineral dealership of Superb Minerals. They have a brand new building stocked to the rafters (a small exaggeration only) and are open and already conducting business. I took a dozen or two photos of some of the real killers they are offering this year and know you'll as equally be impressed with their treasures. Apophyllites, calcites and a plethora of zeolite goodies. They even had one room filled exclusively with MONSTER-SIZED specimens all exceeding several feet and very impressive.

It is raining off and on here today and the temperatures are comfortable by NW standards. I'll try to post little updates here throughout the show... wish me luck! All the very best everyone, take care,

John 

 
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