First day in Tucson. Up at 6 and headed for the Mineral City show after a quick breakfast. Side stop at the post office to get boxes for mailing back stuff in. Thank God for priority flat rate mail Ok, Mineral City is some self storage units that are close to each other. All follow pretty much the same stocking items, mineral specimens and bulk rocks for cabbing. Barlow's is where we made our first stop and we loaded up on things like gold sheen obsidian, African Blue lace agate, blue tiger eye, Amethyst lace agate, Botswana agate, chrome mtorolite, Dumerite, blue goldstone, green fluorite, chrysocolla and a Malachite sphere, and a chrysocolla/quartz specimen and that was just at Barlows!
Leaving Barlows, we headed to the self storage warehouses where Lelsie decided to wreck havoc on some of the dealer's inventory's along with my wallet.
Leaving Barlows, we headed to the self storage warehouses where Lelsie decided to wreck havoc on some of the dealer's inventory's along with my wallet.
By this time, it was getting toward late afternoon and I wanted to hook up with a friend of mine at the 22nd Ave show. Finding he was stuck in his booth (selling both Fac-ette and Facetron Faceting machines along with several other products that will be unveiled in the future so we wandered through the show, and picked up some really nice garnets and wandering further, we came upon some real, out of this world, rhodonite, both specimen and faceted stones. If you know rhodonite, you'll know that it's VERY rarely found as a facet-able stone. Be sure and come to the Feb. Meeting and goggle at some of these juicies!
Until tomorrow,
Pete and Leslie.
The cabs are a new hit of Hauyne out of Afghanistan
Until tomorrow,
Pete and Leslie.
The cabs are a new hit of Hauyne out of Afghanistan
