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Tucson Gem & Mineral Show 2014 - Highlights

 We are back from an amazing trip to the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show and are shipping our crystalicious stock which should be here next week (w/c 24/2).  

It's the biggest crystal, rock, gem and mineral show in the world. It's out of this world... well some of the meteorites, moon rock and tektites are :-) 

 At the unit right now are tourmaline crystals, moldavite, Libyan glass (a yellow tektite with a similar feel to moldavite) zincite and a few moldavite pendants. 

 On our first day we found magical mini quartz crystals perfect for quartz stars, pretty pink Manganoan Calcite specimens (should have said bloody amazing!!! They are the best we've seen!!), stunning silver crystal specimens - which are also the very very best we've ever had! And a newly found crystal blue barite - much much more to follow about this one! 

The second day started aquiring Fire Opals from a Mexican gentleman who'd probably been pouring tequila on his cornflakes! Que Sera stone, hundreds of hunky Herkimers, Lemurian quartz crystals and pink Lemurian quartz crystals, Super 7 pendulums - and YES you did just read that correctly - Super 7!!!!  Then had a lovely hour with our old friend Melody and swapped stories and books. 

 

After lunch we had much Brazilian dealing picking up rutilated smokey quartz, excellent chevron amethyst crystal points perfect for pain prevention, one very special crystal skull carving, tourmaline crystals including watermelon, bi-colours, pink, elbaite and one piece of rare achroite  A large batch of natural citrine crystals, wondrous polished natural citrine points, large quartz double terminated crystals - perfect for talking crystals  and a batch of natural dark smokey quartz including one massive crystal point - a day of Wows! 

 Early start again on day 3 aiming at spending the morning with our old friend David Geiger but we were slightly distracted as happens often in Tucson… So we start selecting some very interesting crystal balls in various materials including pyrite, rhodochrosite, manganoan calcite, lepidolite, nephrite jade, gabbro (more of this later :-)), chrysocolla and epidote. So on to visit our friend David when funnily enough something caught our attention… Chinese jade carvings including a wondrous white jade Quan Yin. Right on to David… Gabbro… what exactly is gabbro? I think I’ll write a blog on this one when I have time because the energy was absolutely amazing… so we bought some more! Wands and palm stones … So David, right? Yea! We finally arrive at his show room 2 1/2 hours after we get to the show and Lyn goes woosey… just like she did when we first met the original Russian Lemurian quartz crystals over a decade ago… wonder what she’s got cooking this time… stay tuned...

 

We found eudialyte which is becoming harder to find but works so wonderfully with morganite to clear things out and heal the heart. An interesting ad hoc meeting with a US publisher and somewhere along the way we also picked up amethyst, citrine, quartz, rutilated quartz and tourmalinated quartz freeform crystals. Oh yes and kyanite sticks, watermelon tourmaline slices and I almost forgot the moldavite pendants  We ended the afternoon meeting up with Ashley Leavy & Diane Doughman from Mimosa Books. Right we’re off to bed and we’ll be up bright and early again tomorrow bringing you the best from Tucson!

 

Sunshine greets our 4th day in Tucson as we wander to one of our regular Chinese dealers and as is the way here the deal is ongoing and might be another day or 2 to complete but I can tell you that it includes stunning lapis lazuli points and bowls and a selection of crystal bowls, some unusual tumble stones, 

palm stones (that we have an idea for) and several other crystal treats  Then we found some great moldavite and zincite. Had most of the afternoon off and wandered in to look at a fossil show… where we bought… erm… No! Not fossils but more crystals Small specimen pyrite crystals, malachite, pyrite suns, amazing azurite specimens and spacey meteorites that are out of this world

 Lots more to see and do… see you tomorrow night x

The Tucson Gem & Mineral Show always holds surprises. Sometimes it’s the people you meet, sometimes the crystals. On day 5 we had 2 amazing crystal finds… first was early in the day, in fact one of our first buys, a perfect miniature dioptase cave  and the second was right at the end of the day and our last buy; a crystalicious collection of super polished crystal points including amethyst and smokey quartz elestials, clear, rutilated and tourmalinated quartz, citrine and golden healer quartz. It’s a one off crystal collection that we’re sure you’ll fall in love with. 

Other crystal finds include black tourmaline crystals, pink opal, really bright orange calcite wands, lava rock palm stones, very clear quartz standing crystals, and blue apatite. 

Magical malachite and great Native American horn rattles signed by the artist, sage smudge sticks, abalone shells, key chains/key rings, neck pouches and 1 very special smudging fan. I know several people who will be waiting for these to arrive! 

Day 6… a day of moving boxes! Arranged the shipping and started loading our pallet. Collected our crystals from our Mexican friends including blue and orange calcite, obsidian arrowheads, some very special natural chalcopyrite,hand size specimen desert roses, large calcite display pieces and acquired some lovely scolercite from the stand next door. We finally found some small selenite spheres – it seems that no one brought them to the show! We found some amazing tumbled natural citrine , sunstone and “African gold” that feels amazing! I was just drawn to it as it screamed at me across the tent. 
Then rounded the day with one of our specialities… aqua aura We are bringing back clusters, points, drusy, stars, mini crystals for quartz star healing technique, DT crystals, angel aura, titanium quartz and one very, very special large aqua aura cluster fantastic quality. 
We also met Judy Levy from Maui who stocks and loves my books and invited us there next year to teach my crystal healing courses - what a wonderful world Tucson can be...  

 Our find of the show!!!! A beautiful Buddha carved from a single large tanzanite crystal! Wow!! Seriously crystalicious :-)

 

The next day was a day off from crystal shopping and we absorbed ourselves in the desert and American Indian Culture...

Day 8… Back to work! And what a great day! Went back to buy ALL the small pyrite crystal specimens that we could because they’re really amazing both energetically and as a collectors mineral, and because they’re small they are very inexpensive  We also scored a bountiful batch of biotite mica. Brilliant black tourmaline crystal pendants set in silver. A small stunning collection of Buddhas and Ganeshes and a shell (?) and an eagle, which were all carved by hand by very spiritual people from India and all have a beautiful soft energy. Hand polished kyanite palm stones. And one of the finds of the day Libyan glass tektites from… er… Libya. One more day of crystal shopping to go… 

 

 

 Early start on our last buying day as we go to several shows to do the final haggling and pick up some of the things we've seen but haven't bought yet then planning to meet up with American author Hibiscus Moon for a scenic coffee at the end of the day.

New stock will be here next week. Contact us to arrange an appointment to see our amazing, beautiful crystalicious crystals when they arrive!

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