We have added the Wolframite Group and its minerals. Make sure to check them out:

• Wolframite
• Huebnerite
• Ferberite

We produced a new video showcasing some of the outstanding minerals displayed in the Tucson shows in February 2012, in amazing detail. Footage includes minerals from the main TGMS Convention Center Show, the Westward Look Show, the InnSuites Show, and the Pueblo show. Footage by Hershel Friedman, www.minerals.net. See the video below:

Once we are on the topic of the Molybdates and Tungstates, we decided to also add Molybdenite, a molybdenum sulfide. And once we added Molybdenite, we added the similar but extremely rare and pretty much only rhenium, Rheniite.

We have added brand new pages for the following minerals:

• Wulfenite
• Stolzite
• Raspite

These pages have new content, photos, and 3-D crystal illustrations.

We have just blasted our March edition of the Minerals.net online newsletter.

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We are proud to announce the 3 winners of our 2012 minerals.net Trivia Auction!

John Colangeli - Awesome Prehnite Snakehead from Lower New St, Paterson, NJ
Roger Robinson - Giant Apatite in Matrix from the Yates Mine, Otter Lake, Quebec
Tracy Liu - Thick Copper Dendrite from the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan

Congratulations and we hope you enjoy your new specimens!

The past month has been very busy with adding all the new photos from our camera to the website blog and contacting potential advertisors from Tucson. We have added many new photos to the website from a range of interesting specimens we encountered at the Tucson show. Please see the following pages for new mineral photos:

• Gold
• Silver
• Vivianite
• Colemanite Geode
• Calcite
• Aragonite
• Smithsonite
• Rhodochrosite
• sphaerocobaltite
• Aragonite
• Rhodochrosite
• Azurite
• Wulfenite (Page Under Construction)
• Quartz
• Cristobalite
• Microcline
• Anorthoclase
• Phlogopite
• Pectolite var. Larimar
• Beryl

Stay tuned for our short film we are putting together with summary of these minerals!

On Thursday, February 8, I went to the main show. This show is the original show that made Tucson a famous mineral destination. It's the biggest show in town and has almost all of the well-known dealers exhibiting here. I was at the show a few minutes after opening at 10:00, and the line behind me was out the door. Due to time constraints, I only got to spend one day at the big show, but I tried packing in as much as I could during that one day. Here are a few sample photos of the event:

Long line for registration to get into the show at the opening.

Looking into the show from the top pavillion.

Another view looking down.

Natural Gold from the Olinghouse Mine, Washoe Co., Nevada.
Miner's Lunchbox Display Specimen.

Deep hot orange Wulfenite from the Red Cloud Mine, La Paz Co., Arizona.
Les Presmyck Donation Display Specimen.

Amazonite from Konso, Ethiopia.
This material is very similar and almost as outstanding as Colorado Amazonite.

Rare Anorthoclase Feldspar from
Mt. Eberus, Ross Island, Antarctica.

Tabular Wulfenite crystals with a bright orange color.
From the Old Yuma Mine, near Tucson, Arizona.
Dick Morris Display Specimen

Botryoidal Malachite mass, from the Czar Mine, Bisbee, Arizona.

Dark Lustrous Azurite Crystal Group.
Daniel Trincillo Display Specimen.

Bisbee Display Case

Bisbee Display Case

More Display Cases

Amethyst scepters from the Fat Jack Mine, Bradshaw Mountains, Arizona.

Wulfenite from the Glove Mine, near Amado, Arizona.

More Wulfenite from the Red Cloud Mine, Arizona.
Lyda Hill Display Specimen.

Huge Sulfur Crystals from Sicily, Italy.

Wulfenite Crystal Plates from the Defiance Mine, near Gleeson, Arizona.

Square Tabular Wulfenite from the Rowley Mine, near Theba, Arizona.

Huge Rhodochrosite rhomb from the Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado.

Display case that contained the above Rhodochrosite.

On Wednesday, February 7, I returned again to the InnSuites. I had a better chance to visit more dealers and take some more good photos.

Slice of polished Larimar (blue Pectolite) from the Domican Republic.
Mountain-Mark Trading Co., Ltd

Amazing Siderite pseudomorph after Calcite, from Satu Mare, Romania
North Star Minerals

Red Quartz with Hematite inclusions from the Orange River, South Africa
Donald K. Olson

Natural Yellow Citrine find in Mansa Luapula, Zambia.
Natural Citrine is very rare.
Crystal Habit, Peter Beckwith

Perfect Pyrite cubes in matrix from Navajun, Spain.
This is a very dense and amazing specimen.
Pyritas De Navajun, S.L.

Faceted Red Beryl from the Wah Wah Mountains of Utah.
1.36 carats.
Red Beryl Mine, collected by Gary Harris

Large Calcite scalenohedron with sparkling Pyrite and Marcasite
from the Conco Mine, North Aurora, Illinois.
Saga Minerals

Azurite Sun in Kaolinite, from the Malbunka Copper Mine, Australia

Occupy Tucson.
I saw this on my way back to the hotel at the corner of Speedway and Stone.

On Tuesday, February 6, I also made a visit to the Pueblo Show, at the Riverside Hotel. This has become an important show, though I noticed many more beads and tumbled material rather than minerals this year over previous years. It's still a great show though and is definitley worth the visit.

In the evening I returned for a presentation by Jolyon Ralph, founder of Mindat, and Tomasz Praskier, Spirifer Minerals.

A Giant Amethyst Geode from Artigas, Uruguay.
The size of these never cease to amaze me,
and they seem to get larger and larger every year.
Steven Bookbinder

The same Amethyst Geode with me Posing in front of it.
The photographer I asked didn't do a good job and cut off the entire top!
Steven Bookbinder

Here is one more fascination Amethyst Geode.
Has a large hexagonal Calcite Crystal Inside.
Steven Bookbinder

Excellent Wulfenite with classic dipyramidal habit and butterscotch color.
From the new finds at Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.
This piece was very reasonably priced at only $7,
so I purchased it, and it is now in my collection.
Shannon and Sons Minerals

Fluorescent Balls of Red-Glowing Calcite and Green-Glowing Willemite
C B Ward Fluorescent Minerals, Hershel Ward

Jolyon Ralph's Presentation at the Pueblo Show
Visit the Pueblo Gem Show Website