I found a brief window of opportunity to get away from the
Rocks & Relics booth in which I worked at the
59th Annual Tucson Gem & Mineral Show at the
Tucson Convention Center week-before-last. During that time I was able to capture the following images of the display cases featured at this year's show whose theme was the mineral fluorite. I did so with my clunky little old camera so please pardon the imperfection of some of the images. There are caption comments for some of the images but not most of them.
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| Display case area at the center of the main convention hall. |
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| Fluorite from Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois. |
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| Fluorite from Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois. |
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| Fluorite from Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois. |
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| Fluorite from Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois. |
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| Fluorite from Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois. |
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| My two favorite fluorite localities represented here, to wit, Hardin Co., Illinois and Smith County, Tennessee. |
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| This show was my first contact with fluorite from this locality. |
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| The Weardale Giant, the largest Rogerly fluorite I have ever seen and this was the first I had heard of it. |
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| One of the nicest specimens of fluorite from Felix Mine above Azusa, CA, I have ever seen. |
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| Fluorite from Luna County, New Mexico. |
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| The New Mexico fluorite to which I'm more familiar. |
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| Fluorite from Bingham, New Mexico. |
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| Fluorite from Bingham, New Mexico. |
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| One of the nicest specimens of fluorite from Hardin County, Illinois, that I have ever seen (and rather large, too). |
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| Largest fluorite specimen from Felix Mine above Azusa, CA, I have ever seen. |
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| Fluorite from Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois. |
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| Another fluorite duet from my two favorite fluorite localities. |
All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).
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