Scott also had just picked up flat of large hambergite crystals from Pakistan.  There were a couple that were both large and very well formed for the size.  The two piece pictured were shot with them in my hand for scale. Both are doubly terminated. Scott will have these at the Westward Look Show which opens today.

One last item to note with Scott was another gold he was putting out in his room from Round Mountain.  This is a 15 cm specimen of quartz with crystallized gold with a variety of forms. Just unreal to look at...

I spent a little more time at the Inn Suites to try and track down some more of the Peruvian and Brazilian rhodonites. These have essentially disappeared as dealers scooped them up left and right. I did find a few more and have now posted them to site.  But that will be it for these specimens.

While at the Inn Suites there was a gale force blast of wind that sent a large set of palm leaves crashing toward the ground.   There was a loud crash and there they were right where I had been moments before and where a small kid would be no less than 10 seconds later...

Not far from this crash I saw Jesse Fisher manning the UK Ventures room.  Jesse is a wealth of knowledge about minerals with an emphasis on British Fluorites and southern California Pegmatite minerals/localities.  While yucking it up with Jesse I noticed some of these unusual quartz epimorphs of fluorite. These are quite odd in that the quartz was deposited over the fluorite and then a subsequent pulse of sulfide mineralization came through depositing sphalerite crystals on the front and insides of the casts.  Somewhere between the fluorite was dissolved away.  These come from the Boundary Cross Vein, Rampgill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England. I picked up a few of them to post later on.

I had a chance to visit with Dudley Blauwet and see the new material he brought to the show.  The majority is more of the same with Pakistan and Afghanistan material comprising the bulk of it.  He did have specimens of a new find however of Potassium Ferritaramite.  This is an amphibole species closely related to pargasite and hornblend.  The crystals are lightly to moderately etched and look like jet black kunzites at first glance.  These come form Niaslo, Basha Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan.  Dudley had only a dozen of these and I did pick out 4 of them to post in the next few days.

The last item of note here in this report are some new specimens of wulfenite from Utah.  This is not a few find per se but I have not seen wulfenite this good from there before.  Isaias Casanova has the entire supply of these that I am aware of and he will be set up at the main show with thumbails to small cabinet sized specimens.  They come from the Harrington-Hickory Mine, Milford, Beaver County, Utah.  They are associated with minute mimetite or vanadinite. I will have a selection of 10 or specimens to post in the next few days.

Lots more to come from the 2007 Tucson Show!