What's Hot In Tucson: 2014 - Part 2 of 2

[Music] everybody who lives in the los angeles [Music] [Music] areas [Music] good to see you it seems like it was two months ago we're here yeah how fast that year went you know the rumor has it that this guy has more new minerals every year than anyone else and i kind of think that's true because i've been looking around i'm amazed there's some really nice things here that we got to look at so this actually is a giacato aqua from the mid-1980s okay that's huge yeah yeah that's a beautiful crudely terminated yeah on the bottom so as you know most of them are that size yeah exactly would you believe that fantastic what a lovely crystal for that locality how long has that been on the ground i think that was the late 80s okay so it's been out for over 20 years yeah steve smile owned this so oh okay it was buried with him so to speak for 20 years okay okay yeah that's a sweetheart fantastic beautiful it's it's a very it's a very meaty german word that's a major german thing that isn't just good that's major big fat wires like that oh there you go wow because usually they're thinner but it's got all these ram sword very much like kongsberg that's a wonderful thing well herbobotas you know brought most of them out in the mid 90s this was his piece i thought it looked a little familiar that it's yeah that is a killer is herb's collection yes yeah okay that's a major thing actually i like this one too people come in and assume that's a kongsberg and it's the same locality well people assume it's a kongsberg or european because of the thickness it's peruvian peruvian okay fantastic now you got a specimen down on the bottom shelf that's years ago was so common people didn't bother to buy them and that's the paint the pink garnet so hard to get you never see them yeah you never see them anymore they're huge nice that's beautiful from yeah in mexico that's right but this size and quality oh even then it wasn't that's awesome oh yeah yeah no that's a rare rare thing you know when we went down there originally those things were lying around loose on the on the ground when they first found them you just pick them up yeah yeah like never seen them anymore they just disappeared pete bancroft said he got this himself in mexico in the late in the late 1940s sure then later after the loose stuff had been picked up if you went down there to dig that rock was so hard oh it was a killer beautiful yeah i always loved those lake taco garnets these are wonderful i love the matrix pieces this little guy for instance perfect isn't that a little jewel perfect yeah you know the ironic thing even though it's such a weird difficult locality to get material from because it's so far removed from access to the market the prices are much more reasonable than what we pay for the for the flood of garnets from tanzania or kenya or any of the common sweet normally fine kyanite is nice but you've got a kyanite here that just blows me away i have never seen a cluster of kyanite crystals freestanding like that not buried in matrix that is so fine gosh i'll back that up too i've never seen anything like that yeah i've never seen that the preparation work that went into that thing had to be days you know it actually it looked almost this good when i bought it um it surprised me too i walked away from it three times yeah i think who's going to pay you know good money for a kyanite it's not it's not what i think of as a specimen but the spray the spray was all exposed it had a little more quartz in here that has been removed but uh what was remarkable is there was a whole pocket of these sprays they're all damaged this was the only one on an entire table from the pocket that that was complete and not broken it's just probably the best kyanite in the world it's so unusual well let's just don't see this that's why it's a common mineral less common needless to say to be in balls like that and they do get them in different colors too but this on matrix is an exceedingly rare specimen and it's beautiful and the curiosity of just spotting that it's it's wonderful it's a wonderful piece it has a nice balance to it absolutely with the quartz like that first of all this little array of fluorites and and material from illinois is just really nice i understand it's part of the ross lily collection right okay right how did you end up with it complicated story so you know ever since i was a kid and i was collecting everyone knew well ross was building the best broadest most depth full collection of illinois minerals he figures someday he's going to do the book someday he's going to sell it but the day never came he kept talking about it and uh and then all of a sudden the news was out he he sold it uh daniel trincillo bought the collection as you know and premiered the glorious fluorites at the top of it at the denver show yeah but the collection was 2 200 pieces oh my god so he put out 300 pieces and decided he was overwhelmed with the quantity yeah um and as well the collection had such a breadth of other species and less expensive but interesting minerals and then that's what i see here is the variety of species that's in here just take one common mineral like galena you know the variety of crystal forms that galena has just simple cubes like back in there and this beautiful thing right here it's it's a it's a twin yeah most people aren't aware yeah aren't aware galena's got that good from there yeah it's wonderful look at that that's one of my favorite rocks in the collection you know it's not five figures it's not a fluorite yeah but it's awesome it's a winner that's really a winner spinel twice sure how about that actually and if i can show you another yeah uh this is one of my favorites look at that again it's not a lot of money it's just something you don't expect to see from illinois it's a pyrite coating and partially altering from fluoride yeah isn't that nice very showy very different very showy and and really unusual down below there's two specimens just remarkable you know being an arizona person i remember shattered from a you know a couple of little calories but come on cross-section look at this look at these shadow guys look at this and you know wonderful the scary thing is they're still dirty they're just washed in water yeah lightly so it'll be even better when cleaned up yes those out of chicago we don't know these showed up at the beginning of the show one african dealer brought them in and uh i got some and brian kosner actually got the majority of the pieces or with him took them down to the university because i thought they were shadow kite on planchite but it's all shatter kite with slightly different color compositions and and no one knows the mine yet we're working on that well it would mean that ronald roane antelope stretch in central africa but what's interesting if you look at this it's actually lapidary material oh yeah oh yeah absolutely i don't know that market but i imagine there's some value well it's got the same structure as malachite except that it's shackling right two shelves that i find very very appealing the fluorites from china and down below the uh sulphides from china these came out last year but these are the better specimens that i've seen very very nicely the problem was getting them back from china they started to come out at the end of 12 and the the miners who collected them really unfortunately didn't have an idea of their potential value okay so the first pocket was the largest it was the end of 12 and it was mostly damaged they scraped things off the walls once they were off the walls they put them in boxes to ship them and most of the crystals broke off and um very few survived out of probably a thousand pieces the the bubbly crystals are juliet really and the coating is actually a very very thin layer of calcopyrite it's not an iridescent coating or an alteration yeah the girlia it's a rare one you know that's an exceptionally uncommon copper mineral yeah so this is this is from the first pocket the style okay that was uh late 2012 and then in the spring of 2013 uh they hit another very long extended pocket that was about 50 meters but all of this was on this very very uh dense rock so i actually bought by then i tracked it to the mine i bought a diamond chainsaw for helping mine it and the chainsaw worked for a little bit and then jammed up with the copper and the rock oh okay yeah yeah so so again you have a problem even though then they knew the value was was high it was difficult to extract exactly and that's this style on the big matrix pieces but the first pocket got distributed quite widely and honestly if people were looking on the internet i've heard of pieces worth thousands of dollars that were sold on ebay from china for fifty dollars a hundred dollars i missed them and the chinese dealers didn't know and some of them survived being damaged there were bargains these two the same story the first ones came out but here because it's fluoride and beautiful eve the chinese actually started at higher prices than i'm selling them for for the specimens but everything it had it had to be prepped and shipped back here and processed and and again there was another pocket of these by which time they needed a chainsaw to get out larger pieces the first pocket a lot of pieces were damaged because they didn't have that infrastructure yeah but let me just show you the colors on these are just i notice where the where the lights can pass through the crystals like that crystal up in the corner you see that yeah there it is you see that really rich red violet color it's marvelous our problem is i'm at a show i'm in a hotel room yeah i have to work with what i have so for these cases we need too much lighting and we don't have enough backlighting lighting is a real factor when you're showing if you're at home and your mineral case has backlighting these glow that goes back to what i said before the presentation that's being done for minerals now is so far exceeds what was being done 20 or 30 years ago yeah you know dave you know in the old days uh well if a specimen was put out light bulb sure sure now wow they really are being treated the way they deserve to be treated and they're respecting the equality of what the material is yeah exactly well you're you're to be commended rob really you have the time and money you have invested in bringing minerals to the general public i think it's just great you you've raised the and and i've got to mention this i did the dallas symposium last year and that's coming on as one of the great mineral activities in the united states the speeches were great the the social atmosphere was the best i'd seen since the old days of tucson honest to god it's just wonderful and i'll be there again it you know it started as our grand opening party when i opened my gallery four years ago and i never imagined it would morph into something so big and community-wide so thank you for coming i went to the first one and one of the speakers was the only geologist who's ever walked on the moon i've had i've done that sometimes i've been lucky in my selection of speakers come on that's class speakers absolutely even dave yeah yeah no it's it's been good actually the funny thing is i'll tell you the story and we'll put it on camera uh because if it was if it wasn't on camera i think you'd misremember it and dumb it down so it wasn't so much a compliment to you but it was overheard there were a couple of new collectors in the audience about 220 people and one of my friends overheard one say to the other wow dave wilbur's legendary i wonder how much it i wonder how much it cost him to get wilbur to come here and speak no i heard that in your party someone told you that no they didn't tell me i heard him talking at the corner now here's here's the material on on dallas that was enclosed in the copies of mineralogical records so if you subscribe to the to the record you get this no charge it's wonderful and it tells the whole history of of this there was a young lady named monica who did most of the organizing yeah i i hired her to administer this more professionally yeah she has a background in graphics design yeah that's beautiful she's responsible uh for the more professional look of the symposium and the feel of it a lot so actually i have most most of my stuff out this year more than usual there's not a lot hidden in back but maybe i can show you two or three special pieces so that's all right sounds good come to my bathroom yeah you'll never believe where these pyrites are from just incredible textbook pyrites on crystallized dolomite twins beautiful jeez look at that look at this and these are dirty and they're that good this is from the chivor emerald mine oh you're kidding no i knew pyrite occurred down there yeah yeah well not like that when i was down in columbia i didn't get over to chiboro you would have owned this in a minute absolutely this this any one of the three absolutely good so of course normally when they're digging for emeralds they see pyrite they just blast through it they're not this was a famous piece that was shown in the 90s in the early days of afghanistan it came out oh my goodness gracious isn't that lovely what a nice piece with the background of morgan yeah go ahead oh that's beautiful they call this endicolid it is a blue but it is a dick light any of the shades of blue of tourmaline albeit but this has character with the cleveland diet right at the base centered right in the the smoky quartz uh quartz mass yeah it was wonderful a little bit of liquid light in there yeah i thought this was morganite but it is smoky isn't it yeah it's smoking yeah um let me pull out something else i think we'll surprise you yeah here we come even you yeah the good stuff out of the drawer you know look at the size of that pair though oh come on it's that thing for real yeah now it's not cleaned yet it's a little dirty still yeah but the color's right that didn't come from the island in the red sea that's for sure no i've never seen a larger one have you seen the larger i've never seen a larger one on one thing that's interesting is when we cleaned off the jamminess in there yeah we cleaned off the surface coating only but it hasn't been fully fully worked it's all cutting in yeah yeah and you see you can see it okay you cut that thing you'll get your hand cut off exactly that's marvelous beautiful holy that have got to be i've never have you heard of it no no it's got to be the world's biggest no question about it so what's interesting is again like this piece it came out probably 20 years ago it was in the very early days of okay afghani minerals yeah and they just haven't been seen yeah fantastic i do have one more thing you know dave just knowing your interest you know i always have something i think special that you'd like sure here hold out your hands all your stuff is good stuff oh my goodness now they gracious did feed that guy viagra and he hands it to me i just wouldn't want you to think i forgot about you oh that is so funny it's unbelievable that's marvelous you know for a small one because some of these things get real big that's a fine specimen for this kind of science collection it's great his cheeks are turning red yeah i've been that's great thanks guys christophe good to see you again hey bob how are you good to see you i haven't seen you in a couple of years and i don't know why the circumstances i guess i don't know but i'm still here good good and you've brought some nice things as usual i have been trying as every year to travel all around the world to try to find some good pieces for the west wildlife show yeah and you being able to travel all over the world yeah wonderful one of the specimens i noticed in this case is it's just a calcite yeah but it's from a place normally you associate with little codites and you know yeah what impresses me not only because it's you never see calcites from madagascar is the very very sharp crystals in a nice color yeah this piece came came out about uh five six years ago in madagascar okay a friend of mine is digging there and found a huge pocket of vegetables that's a twist yes yes yes yes yeah you can see the the um contact there yeah we have two crystals the the origin of this latest batch of azure ice is very interesting which we can talk about tell me about your experience down there where in mexico i mean sure well it was my first time and it was actually very interesting because what i like in my in my job is to travel all around the world and when i can discover a new you look in your locality it's pretty exciting and i want i went close to milpias and uh i saw all the mining works all around and it was quite amazing it's near canada was in canada actually yes did you get this from a miner or i got it from one guy who is working with miners oh okay yeah okay yeah now where is that from it's from la viesca which is close to la coyada in spain okay in asturias and it's a very fine fluoride from the from the place the color on those yes yes yes beautiful they're looks like they're slightly zoned some of the crystals yes yes we are fairly uniform in size on calcite is that uh quartz actually it's uncool look at this the adelaide mine has suddenly began not suddenly but in the last couple years has really started producing absolutely marvelous crocodiles yeah that's huge you know the problem with the early crocodiles is the matrix was so unstable that you really couldn't do much with them but now they've figured out how to how to stabilize them they've been able to get the gibb site off the crystals yes and this is just a wonderful specimen actually adam from the delayed mine company yeah he's doing a really good job for now three four years yeah yeah he has been mining there and he brought to the surface some unbelievable specimens yeah yeah this is a really good job yeah yeah blue cat productions has done a video on the fragrance went underground with the camera so the documentation of that mine has been really good yeah and but that's a marvelous piece too big for my collection it's a winner there's another one just up above here on the on the third shelf you get a little better a little better color maybe yes but more manageable for me yes that's really wonderful thank you while we're on the subject of large specimens you've got a large quartz over here that i need to hear a lot about this piece can come from the the swiss alps and uh there is a very interesting story about this this rock because the what we call the strollers who are the climbers who go go for uh for crystals in the alps they found um a vag in 2010 okay where they got few quarts including the grindel on top of the quartz yeah this one up here so they finished just the dwindle in 2010 and few and few quarts okay and then when the the snow came they had to leave the vag for the next summer and in 2011 they climb again to the place to the verge and a few meters deeper in the veg they found the big group of quartz okay when they came back to the valley they realized that there was one crystal missing on top of the piece and then they realized that the grindel was fitting with the grouse i can show you one special i've been traveling to morocco too because there were some some new blueberries from nador okay in morocco and i got uh a big lot and in this big lot there was one very special piece that i'm going to show you now go get it let's say let's take a look you see the piece and how fragile it is i don't know if i can get it this is nice boy it does not look like it has any damage at all no and it's what is very nice with this piece first is the size the shape the color but also it's in very good condition yeah and non-matrix on matrix yes sir right and most of the pieces were damaged because they were so fragile understandably so yeah and that one i was happy because it has the size and all all the craters for a good piece but it's also in very good condition you turn it a little bit i can try if you want to see the back yeah no well i don't yeah thanks thank you thank you again for showing me thank you big and small pieces that's good stuff great pieces thank you brian good morning good morning how are you doing fine nice to see you you are you are in charge of marcus bootle's goods here i help him because he is not able to come by himself no that's too bad and so he asked me and i say i like minerals and i'm they are coming excellent excellent yeah you've got a marvelous arrangement of crystals yeah it's not that it's beautiful green color yes crystals no damage beautiful you know when these were found they were pretty much scattered all over the pockets weren't they yeah so this has been reassembled shall we say yeah the interesting thing for me was yesterday was the presentation from daniella transfer right and so i have now much more information how they found it how many time it needs to fix the pocket oh yeah it takes a year or more yeah so you see such pieces with uh new eyes here and this is my dog i was gonna say you have a name i thought no uh the charles usually don't get the play the tourmalines do naturally or the colorful terminology i sure all the black thermal mineral but uh this is really fantastic because it's a floater yeah yeah you look around every side it's crystalline just gorgeous and the foam was like it's all for me yeah poodle the really good thing on this new font is that normally the russians has some brownish inside okay so the color is not really red but this pocket uh looks like for me a little bit to jonas yeah i was going to say at first glance when i looked in here i said oh jonah's mine yeah and the quality for wonderful russian is unbelievable oh look at that yeah isn't it marvelous yep this is unbelievable it's jammy has a good color yep and some of them what i like because i love tourmaline everybody knows that okay as the yellow green oh look at that yeah inside and there's a little yellowish hue to it many people think that uh blue or red is the uh rarest color but it's not true the yellow is the realest you know what you can found and you see it is really good it's so jammy the luster it's great stuff yeah now i want you to show me the some specials yeah some of those specials yeah oh my look at that look at this and let me switch the light on and we have a little bit more daylight inside and with with a little matrix that makes it for me that's marvelous what a beautiful specimen but perfect color luster hi luster perfect termination typical striations excellent this is the reason because i say it looks for me like a little bit jonas absolutely absolutely yeah it's a very rich red color yeah and i have another one because i know you like matrix like me i'm also favored from pieces with matrix so this piece will be i say nothing it looks like oh my goodness look at that isn't that wonderful raspberry red twins as far as i'm kids and look at this speaks for himself you know what and what i like really much is the second generation right you know you have the the big one yeah then you have the musculight what is really snow white and then the second generation of the small uh timberlane so this is really this is really a great specimen and from any angle it doesn't matter yeah my goodness gracious it's amazing something like that survives in a pegmatite pocket it's wonderful yeah that's really really the best one it is for me look at this oh look at that yeah the color is just intense this is marvelous unbelievable i have not an idea if brian can film that because it's so clear i try to show it a little bit look at it look at that gee yeah that is really a superb specimen my goodness gracious the name is the deep blue the nickname and you can see why oh yeah yeah yeah it's a great so it's called deep blue and you have seen the the faces yeah yeah yes and the termination is actually more complex than so much yeah very nice so another sugaring piece okay it surprised me good heavens my goodness gracious me beautiful emerald i say that only for correctness it's a real emerald it sure is it sure is it's loaded with chromium it gives it that wicked green color look at this thing this is now where is that from this comes from colombia colombia okay do you know the mine uh the mine is the la pita well uh oh yeah i've seen a couple of lapita specimens yeah that's one of the mines i didn't get to a laptop and cause quest brings the blackish brownish calcite okay the contrast yeah between the emerald and the calcite it makes it yeah it's wonderful yeah the muzo crystals come out on a white calcite which is nice but the darker calcite i think gives it a much more intense setting but that's a superb crystal i have never seen such such a emerald textbook form yep and you see classic color the natural etz yeah faces around oh what isn't that the man who opened the pocket that had that and must have had a shark so you have to deep blue on one side on the other side so it's a good feeling i'm glad i don't collect gems jim crystal i love gems that's my problem yeah yeah look at this one oh isn't that nice what a nice setting that is really fine yeah this is really special because yeah yeah the termination is certainly different from the termination on the other ones a little more sword-like or chisel-like it's really sweet and then the calcite really sets it off that's really fine beautiful and if you display that with a little bit lighter oh my goodness you see the true yeah color really jimmy yeah that's great yeah personally i prefer this over the other one even though the other one is far more valuable i'm sure i know you like matrix yeah the setting is just it really shows it off that's wonderful why now is that the russian locality again no no okay this piece comes from jonas oh it is a jonas it is hard to tell the difference 1978. that's sweet yes beautifully beautifully positioned yeah very slight modifications on the termination very nice yeah you see them here on the corners really nice good rich color yep that's beautiful it always amazes me when something that beautiful comes out of the ground you know and not damaged whoever dug it had to really be careful yeah it's really wonderful have a look boy that is really a nice specimen good good rich color they're the finest skelenohedral uh calc or rhodochrosites in the world no question about it just really wonderful love it oh special gold really nice hoppered gold yeah now where is that from this is from venezuela oh it's one of and that's big for venezuela yeah really it's really big most of them are you know that's wonderful chevron patterns in there when you hold it up like that it almost looks like a religious shrine yeah like a madonna isn't it you say madonna this is uh reminds me on the um on the rose quartz what was in the heritage auction this is nearly the same big yeah but i love that that's a very exciting gold i must show you that okay it's intense a night but not the tenza knight what people knows this is a purple yeah tons of knives the color is certainly different yeah very different it's like a white i don't know if this look at that that is a jewel yeah it really is really real have you seen something no no that's the first time i've seen one yeah let me take a look at this oh my goodness gracious that is it's glass clear yep and an absolute gem yep great colors now where is that is that it looks brazilian but that's just a guess on my part that is from pakistan pakistan it comes that exceeds virtually everything i've seen from pakistan i think that it's i don't know if uh you can really see the color in the of the camera because it is so clear yeah that it looks like really like your hand yeah yeah but in this moment oh look at that look at that intense blue termination look at that if you had a piece of blue glass and cut it like that it wouldn't be any more intense or beautiful than this natural crystal nice very nice very nice setting yeah yeah and uh this piece has some specials because this crystals yeah yeah this crystal goes inside and if i use the now i put my glasses on this is this happens we try if we can see oh look look look you see that look can you see in there that blue tip of that crystal right down though yeah correct holy mackerel so it's possible that there was another crystal here in this direction yeah yeah yeah those are the finest vinaign nights ever came out of there this is that from a seaf um area of course yeah yeah i don't know yeah well yeah but it's so perfect wonderful wonderful personal like crystal yes yeah superb grenade nights and standing up yeah tammy said it looks like a boat yeah great red what a piece yeah oh this is german no no no this comes from china this was the new farm from last year wow ah this is cargo pyrite with cedar right okay calco pyrite on cetera beautiful lustrous brown ciderite yeah you can see it here and sticking out among the calcapyrites wow boy aren't those beautiful the luster is intense sharp crystals the piece has only one problem well the problem is you cannot make a good picture because it's they try they try to make a photo from that yeah and this has hundreds of reflections yeah sure it's so bright you see you'd have to do it in a very subdued light with a long time exposure this is a gold from brazil from brazil from brazil yeah yeah you don't hear much about gold from brazil yeah way back in the days and then when they found that one big deposit that they open pitted but uh you know you don't see any of that on the market this is really nice that's the reason i i show that to you because brazilian gold is so not often to see on the market looks like it's got yeah there's nice yeah nice cubes yeah some blades another cube edge there face there that's that's cool yeah it's being awesome more than just a nugget yeah there's a few ounces there it's an aquamarine a barrel but we have a scepter here oh look at that i've often wondered and i'll still wonder how could nature do this grow a crystal grow another crystal and have it scepter like that yeah why no color here and color here there's the questions support questions yeah and it's etched not enough to make it look uh you know to ruin its appearance the etching actually gives it character it's wonderful thank you thank you thank you this has been a wonderful surprise i really enjoyed being with you all right thank you i like it thank you hi steve good to see you again how do you like it down here in a nice warm arizona away from colorado oh my goodness we've had a rough winter as most of our colleagues up in the northeast have had it's been it's been a brutal winter this year and we're glad to be here every year in tucson you've got some new things that i want to talk about we absolutely do and we're excited to show them to you look at that goal isn't that an amazing goal it's a marvelous scenic piece these are new production at the tail end of last year and they are just spectacular are they these specimens have all gone through our lab to to uh remove some of the quartz that obscures the the gold and uh this particular piece is just phenomenal it's it's about 62 ounces of gold is it really yeah it's it is nice and heavy bob i'll let you hold it great and you've got great crystal development here on the on the upper part of the specimen micro crystals micro crystals all over and wonderful combination with the quartz vein material as as well as some of the other country rock that's what i like about this specimen the gold is great but if you look at it like this you can see how the gold occurred in a narrow quartz vein in the country rock and you've etched away enough of the courts to make this an absolutely spectacular isn't that a beautiful piece we have another one here from that same uh production this is also spectacular that's beautifully etched look at the way that crystallized gold has developed these these fans up at the up at the top of that specimen very heavy and those quartz veins are so narrow they are amazing yeah so this is solutions that came in later and followed the the cracks and veins and natural fractures in the country rock and brought in the quartz and the gold and and you see all of the little dendritic gold crystallization in these in these leaves just very very showy yeah and the backside really has some some great luster on these crystals as well yeah this beautiful little sulfide mineralization here as well yeah you often get arsenal pyrite and other minerals in association with the uh with the gold there in mariposa county look at the combination of several different minerals on one piece give me the history on this and how you acquired that this piece you see these incredible really gemmy and lustrous pink fluorides yeah and uh yes and then you have the the classic aquamarine from the nagar area and this one is really cool because you also see the little pink appetites that have occurred they're just lustrous and very vibrant pink color in in the apatites as well so classic tabular hexagonal crystals another big pink fluorite uh you can see some of these clusters uh that are classic from nagar just lustrous jimmy a great color for nagar this one is heavily color zoned you've got this incredible pink stripe that runs along this front edge and a little bit of colorless fluoride in the center and then another uh stripe of pink on the side and this is a twin it is a twin yeah yeah you can see the the twinning right here right up the length of the crystal beautiful spinel law twin uh pink fluorite and here again from from the gem pegmatite fields in nagar boy just a lovely area yeah and of course is in the hunza valley in baltistan pakistan and then when you talk about green fluorite it doesn't get any better than this over here here again from nagar so you're getting the pink from nagar you're getting green from nagar and this specimen is just an incredible window into into the world of fluorite yeah you've got you've got a giant crystal highly modified highly modified and and super luster and incredibly jimmy you can see all the way through it back to the matrix the muscovite matrix in the back look at that look at that yeah how jimmy a little bit of pink yeah yeah look at the pink on there yeah isn't that something yeah oh wow yeah what a fluorite it is just a jewel of a flourishes and then you know we were talking about afghanistan yeah you have beautiful pap rock tourmalines and we we for the last several years have had some of the finest of the pap rock tourmaline this one is called the lion of asia and just a spectacular combination specimen of smoky quartz well terminated smoky quartz with this beautiful bi-colored green and red the position it's just you couldn't replace it any better than nature did that's a spectacular piece what a rock we have a fluorite across the room i wanted to show you also from the another impressive piece well it's just so doggone amazing to me but we have this absolutely you can see my fingers you can see my fingers up behind here as i'm moving around but this you can see the tuning plane yep it's a total jewel i mean the this would it would be a crime against nature to do it but you could facet this into a into a huge right so that that's just an incredible beautiful light pink color and it has this interesting uh additional growth on the surface it had a late stage development of some additional octahedral faces on this spinel law twin fluorite and just a just a beautiful specimen remarkable isn't that remarkable you know fluorites were never so good yeah this nagar area has been producing just some real incredible jewels over the last year or two yeah the temperature in in that deposit had to be higher than the temperature that we're ignoring we normally see in place like southern illinois where the cubes form that's right this forms in a slightly higher temperature in these gem pegmatite environment yeah yes really nice well thank you all right so uh i've got one other somebody yeah you know every time we shoot you have such great stuff out here i can't believe you've got something hidden in the back but with a smile tells me oh we have a special piece to show all right i'm glad you're here with me let's take a look all right this is one of the finest spojamine specimens that we've ever had at the collector's edge this thing has a beautiful light pink color with a lovely yellow green cap on this on this particular spogamine crystal and the the great thing about this is that uh it is a matrix specimen it's an association so many times with spogamine you see a crystal that's been either naturally severed from matrix and re-healed or something that's been broken off the matrix this one you still have a beautiful terminated slightly smoky quartz with it you have some felspar and uh you got these beautiful quartz in association with the incredible size spogamine i would say this is probably 15 inches or so tall and just one of the biggest finest most well-formed spogamine crystals we've ever had this is another mockingbird mine gold and just an incredible development of crystals you've got highly lustrous complex gold crystals there's some branching development to the gold here uh there's there is some octahedral development but they look a whole lot like maybe some some dodecahedral development as well yeah yeah may i yes of course you can thank you this is brand new last year's production wow this this came to our shop to be uh cleaned and prepared to go to go to market and it's been etched out of the courts it has been etched out of the quartz vein to expose the gold wow just a really super aesthetic high quality uh gold specimen it's great that you you know you left enough of the matrix to give it a nice positioning so when it's you know when you put it on you mount it on the glass right right it just stands right up there and sparkles i love this chain of yeah highly mastered crystals and that's something really it's just terrific yeah this is a special piece yeah that tops what you've shown me this arguably could be the single finest pink fluoride in the world okay this one was this piece was found recently in nagar in pakistan and uh it's an incredible size it's twinned it's a twin one i think i see twinning here here maybe here it's a it's a spinella twin yeah it's it's color zoned it's got this incredible rich red color reddish pink color looking at it from above slightly up above you see a colorless zone yep all across the back here right there and then the rest of this chest isn't the richest yeah that you can get i don't think i've ever seen a fluorite that good before and this is big i mean look at that the size of my hand is this fluorite dwarfs this this particular and it's a matrix and it's on matrix what a rock that is just stunning yeah and the location is this is and it's um from baltistan pakistan region and it it arguably is the finest pink fluorite specimen in the world super luster geminis you can see right down in the crystal and this incredible look at the pink color look at that yeah steve thank you you have surprised me more than once today it's wonderful well thank you for taking the time to come in and see us i look forward to seeing your exhibit at the main show hi dylan good to see you as well you've got some great things here thank you so much yeah another tucson yeah right right you've got a classic here i love english bear writes i really do there's a lot of them around but you've got one that just is very appealing it's got the you know the iron oxide dusting big crystal in the back doubly terminated that ends it sets up a backdrop for all the lovely little crystals that are laid down there and a little little um dolomite with it it's a really really fine old timer yeah let's talk about these blue azurites that have great color yes you know when i first looked at those i said oh milpias yeah very nice but they're not no no tell me about it they're a new find from laos very small production and it's just been trickling out so this is what you're going to see at the whole show wow can we pull one of those out the one in the back there looks particularly appealing to me it's got nice malachite azurite contracts and excellent blue color look at that blue color let me light that up look at that electric blue and it's from an open pit mine in laos yes sure yeah these jonas uh tourmalines are superb anyway and uh that is really that would make any tourmaline collector proud what a fine piece this is wonderful and the setting in the in the feldspar and the quartz in the back just a really fine example of those three minerals boy that is a honey you know yeah look at that gorgeous ma shattuckite color but laying in there is a wonderful little cluster a primary color isn't it yeah wonderful it's a great contrast the big ones i've seen are just um just uh plungite this is very nice of having a second mineral malachite in there really really good yeah you've got a morgan right here uh as morganites go okay it's a big crystal good color uh no matrix but yeah you know just a nice morganite but it's got a history that just blows me away the provenance the jp uh this was a gift from kunz to morgan and this is one of the pieces that uh uh coons named after jp morgan yeah yeah the type of for the specimen you've mentioned two names that are phenomenal well known in the history of mineralogy in the states coons and morgan morgan a banker coon's a mineralogist beautiful and this came from where this came from uh mesa grande the himalaya mine all right so it's an american it's a california one yeah all right but the history on this the provenance just marvelous uh any morgan specimen is in high demand among you know really knowledgeable collectors great that's an old-timer that is you've got something recent and from an odd locality this came out of nepal this summer um it's a unbelievable aquamarine nepal yes with uh quartz and unbelievable mica as well that's amazing beautiful trio of minerals nicely clustered the color of the aqua is tremendous yeah any any thought on the the size of the locality or and the name of the locality in nepal yes it's mount topple young and it's uh okay it's one of the highest mountains in the world it's really mount everest is this one of these things that was dug at like fifteen thousand feet above fourteen thousand feet i actually saw the mountain i took an early morning flight right along all the himalayas and this the this is right this is next everest oh my god so the the size of the mountains it's it's mind-blowing actually yeah isn't it and then we have a barrel from madagascar oh look at that look at the color on this they call a lagoon barrel what do they call it lagoon barrel legume bro why well it looks like the color of a lagoon ah okay and it doesn't have enough vanadium to be an emerald oh okay okay but the color is it's it's it's magical yeah it really is really is modified termination very nice yeah oh isn't that nice what a perfect miniature look at that doubly terminated slightly zoned a little darker color on the tips perfect positioning of the crystals excellent excellent color couldn't be any nicer and a nice matrix specimen oh isn't that something now let me put a light on that and see what we got in the way of color look at the color in that baby rich green beautiful pink oh and terminated typical tourmaline striations yep trigger form oh look at that look at that salinas boy that is nice nice color determinations yep perfect termination perfect six-sided crystal thanks thank you so much great you've got some great rocks thank you really enjoyed looking at him and a lot of history a lot of recent stuff way to go a little bit everything thanks so much thank you bob will hey how's it going good to see you you know every time i come in this room i'm virtually overwhelmed by the quality of what you've got in your cases thank you given the limits of time and footage let's see i've selected three specimens i'd like you to talk about sure sure i know the milpitas azurites are quite common now because of the big bang they hit but you've got one here that's nice more than a little unusual i really like it because of the malachite you can see it there and let me go ahead and pull that out okay it looks like astroturf almost that's wonderful yeah normally the azurites are all kind of clustered together and you can't see the just distinct crystals but this one is wonderful because it has these individual clusters of crystals on a very very showy plate yeah just love the color and the isolation of the crystals i mean you could hope for larger ones but other than that i mean it's uh for me it's a perfect specimen this is just a jewel i love this we featured this on our pallet gems mineral web news and it's a new find from nepal we have uh this material and it's just a wonderful japan law twin court so you see that right there with a regular you know courts right there on the side so i just love the the fact that you get the combo and it's so aesthetic copper is copper but this little rascal from michigan has a history it does it's from the roebling collection washington rolling in the uh national museum so uh you know it's a pretty old piece you know uh i wouldn't be able to date it exactly but i would guess you know it's at least uh you know 100 years old yeah well well over 100 years old so roebling is the guy who built the brooklyn bridge among other things exactly so the fact that it was in his collection yeah has a it's a really nice provenance great great product it's a wonderful one it's very nicely crystallized yes i love the crystallization here and the patina is wonderful a lot of people don't understand coppers i actually happen to personally love coppers think they're underappreciated um this one has that dark dark patina which you know you can only get really from aging you you can't you can't fake that or anything it would lose some appeal if it looked like a shiny penny we're going to start with this specimen another old classic it's a hematite oh look at it from isn't that and so that's a really really sweet piece luster really large size beautifully positioned on the matrix a little bit of felspar with it and just sitting right on top you know which is really nice and those rosettes are normally are not that large to be honest most of them a lot of them anyway a little on a dull side yeah that that's really nice this is the 400 000 and the reason we say that is because we put 150 feet in the esmerelda mine and we hit one pocket and this is the only tourmaline that was in the pocket that was terminated we hit a lot more shorels but yeah and for some reason they're usually uh yeah they easily damn we got some really nice quartz crystals i didn't bring them with us so it's just a joke here's a very wonderful uchuchakwa silver i love it it's very aesthetic i think oh nice yeah just a cute little guy just wonderful and it's got the little camp tights on it yeah and uh really nice shape very very nice little crystals on it and a twin of chris a barrel from brazil yeah yeah and really good uh pretty much 360 and a nice color and everything just a wonderful wonderful specimen great great 20. yeah i really like that this is a wonderful rutilated courts it actually has sort of a funny story i was in tokyo uh visiting some friends and i happened to see a little rock shop and i walked in and this had been sitting on the shelf i asked it's been sitting on the shelf for 20 years and so i negotiated and bought the specimen yeah locality and it's just a really really beautiful specimen it's really loaded with routine yeah and all the terminations are pretty perfect and just got really nice luster this is a wonderful calcite specimen with a wonderful emerald look at that yeah it's a dissolution emerald which is super rare i've actually never seen one before until i saw this specimen what's what's the mine uh la pita [Music] really really nice calcite as you can see here all terminate all perfect you know a lot of this material does not come out that way especially the calcite that that makes so and that makes it right there just it's like a little sail ship back to brazil here i recognize it yeah that's a hurdle right on matrix that's a fantastic piece what's that is that virgin it's the virgin dalapa with the uh with the mica okay and uh you know it's beautiful nice got a little bit of the yellow tips on each side doubly terminated yep lustrous lustrous very sharp yeah it's just a wonderful one i love the aesthetics of it and this is the last specimen i'm going to finish with we're going to go back in time again oh look at that at least 100 maybe 150 years i asked some of the germans if they knew exactly and they weren't sure but bottoms uh wonderful pyromorphite and it just looks like a flower yeah yeah i mean it's just it's got a stem and everything there's been a lot of those out in the old days but most of the pyromorphites were more or less parallel clustered exactly this one really opens up it's a burst i just love it you've got some good treats thank you for sharing yeah thank you guys good job it's great to see you all right you know when i came in your room i saw your new volume yes thank you minerals i think that's true this specimen is how big was that that thing was this big and i've always considered this the best specimen i ever sold really yeah i it's unique in the world it's very well known very famous it's pictured many places and i just thought it deserved to be on the cover of volume four we this is the fourth in a series of volumes that we do and all the photos in here are specimens we've sold nice nothing currently available it's all archival and the purpose of it has always been that many of these pieces go into private collections never to be seen again in this way every collector can can get to sharing the beauty of these pieces yeah this is chinese yeah this is a a very well known piece it was on display here at the u of a last year it's a spinel twin with born a night yeah down there i see a cast that just is remarkable can we pull in yeah of course we can yeah this is moroccan it's a locality that's well known for these box epimorphs but this one i like so much because you've got this beautiful opening that's completely crystallized and if you look all the way down in there you'll see almost stalactites of quartz go for gosh sakes yeah and i'm not 100 sure what this is replacing maybe calcite it's hard to say none of them ever have the original mineral there but it's just such a beautiful form they ever find floor right there by any chance uh i don't know if this locality could be fluoride modification yeah and you know i guess you know you would know better than i would those old english ones the old english boxes well this is just a variation on that for morocco there's a specimen here you've got that i think has tremendous history yes it's a well right we had this this very unusual pink fluorite and we had it labeled just as switzerland because we didn't know much about it nice little pink cubes in there and yesterday in walks eric acelborn okay very well known for his expertise in alpine minerals and he walked up the case and he said stuart that fluorite is the from the original pocket of fluorides that were found in 1866 the first recorded fluorite ever found in switzerland you're kidding and he said they're very identifiable with this clear modified cubes with the pink centers wow he said maybe there are he knows maybe 30 40 pieces in museums in europe and he knew right away he walked in and said no that's the one this piece is from a very well-known pocket it's very old and it's got the malachite replacing azure right but what's special is this coating of sugary quartz that you see yeah isn't it and there have been you know a few of these around over the years but this is clearly all from one pocket yeah that's an old timer though this this piece we've got a nice old label with it from the collector from schumacher but what i like most is it says here for it was bought from airmen in 1941 in december 1941 for ten dollars wow yeah and you know i mean martin airman is clearly every mineral dealer's idol yeah and uh so it's really special yeah he was going to africa in the late 1930s exactly exactly this pyrite and hematite from al baitly is the largest crystal we've ever seen yeah and you've seen more than i have of these and i really most of them are a tenth of this size oh yeah i've seen hundreds of hundreds of these things on on hematite nothing no and it's complete all the way around euhedral crystal not not a single damage on it yeah to get one out that big i've never seen it sharp edges great luster beautiful crystal form yeah it's really remarkable i think it's enough for the size yeah yeah absolutely yeah this is from china from yao ganji and literally we've probably seen thousands of these not with this color and not with this beautiful association association beautiful pair yeah i mean just it's so balanced the piece but this color and clarity and glassy surface i i think in all the yawaganji florets we've seen there was one other of this color of this just vibrant greenish blue color this is a jewel and it is an old timer the person i bought it from said it had been in a private collection in europe for about 30 years and he'd been after it for 30 years and the guy actually sold it and then he had to chase it down somewhere else but just it's just look at the the setting of gemini as well a perfect isolated green appetite from panaskara kanaskara produced some ferberites or will fermi eyes whatever we finally decided to call it and some just marvelous appetizers and that's a little jewel probably if you handed this to just about anybody here at the show except for a few people they would have no idea what this is yeah i didn't know until you told me it's a very very nice it's a vareninite from pakistan but it's the only known matrix vareninite in the world okay yeah i've seen some singles right there about half this we've owned two other singles and this is over over 30 years we've owned two singles herba boda who of course mr pakistan has owned maybe two others three others and that's it and this is this is first of all this is about twice the size of all the others i've ever seen and it's on matrix yeah i've never seen anything that size and you know rare minerals are rarely beautiful i mean just it goes hand in hand this is beautiful well i like it on the matrix because you know the singles i've seen are you know they're attractive and it's rare yeah and i'm not even sure the chemistry i kind of suspect it's a manganese mineral but it looks like a road night just a wild guess yeah but i don't know that it's related in any way no vareninite and this is actually doubly terminated too what a piece yeah this is a special piece you know most rare minerals today are kind of tiny this is very showy yes good size yeah it's wonderful thank you sure pleasure anytime anytime good to see you again hi bob yeah i'm glad you're here at tucson because whenever you come you always like to bring something to show us i've got anything this year i do i've got it let's take a look okay let's take a look that's a moroccan barrier bathroom rocks very very aesthetic wonderful all the tips are perfect and it's on matrix yeah what a piece you know bob i just love the artistic side and to me that's like a natural work of art really showy and good color throughout no zoning just wonderful this one is a uh a chinese inner mongolian hell bite there's the helvite but what i like about this is the matrix yeah the included quartz is with the composition how would you show that like that i think actually yeah that could be it could be like that it could be like that you know it's interesting some minerals the composition it it transcends the minerals involved in other words when the composition is uh okay it's a hell of specimen but to me the quartz is just as important because of the way it's a spray it's a very common mineral and yet the almost porcelainous appearance of the crystals with a rare fairly rare mineral makes it even better i couldn't put it better i recognize that that's an old-timer yep yeah that came out of uh south america years ago rock currier was the first he was he brought them out and they shocked the world yeah there was some question about the color on this that it was caused by an organic inclusion but i don't i've never read anything about you know anything definitive on it wonderful pink fluorites from peru one thing that does happen to them and you had mentioned this to me bob the green cores do tend to fade so the the ones that have been protected that still have the green course that makes it special put your light on theirs absolutely and you can see it's prominent green course yeah all right yeah that the organic idea came from the fact that cores were green yeah don't know if it was or not this reminds me i shouldn't say it but this reminds me of the golden calcites that used to come out of baja california oh the ones they used to cut yeah yeah yes yes but it's not calcite actually it also looks ready for this imperial topaz now it is obviously not but look what happens to that that's one of the finest she lights i've ever seen chinese of course absolutely listen the golden color of that is wonderful this debuted in the 90s in the denver show and a lot of us were shocked by this we had never seen anything like this and actually to this day still haven't seen anything yeah i haven't seen anything of that color that's that intense color from china yeah this is an old timer yeah uh it's a white queen morganite a complete floater yeah gorgeous yeah we all knew the guy who dug these norm dawson he was a great guy yeah so bob do you know how you know that it's a white queen morgan i from california no it's surfing give me a break [Laughter] the next thing you know you're going to tell me there's a shark in the matrix no the shark is over here uh you're too much but that is that's a sweet one complete crystal perfect transparent lovely color sharp edges beautifully positioned on a specimen matrix wonderful this is really nice very very heavy nice patina too it's got a slight rosy patina to it yeah really terrific a little bit of matrix on there now what does it remind you of bob i'm going to give you a second chance because you blew the california surfing barrel you can wipe me one if you want i have to be tested here i call it i call it medusa oh okay snakes over there snakes yeah yeah ugly face though very ugly face yeah that's a little very ugly face is this a silver sulfide yes yeah okay yeah really nice i don't think i've ever seen a better bigger finer silver with thick wires like this from china most of them are pretty anemic looking compared to something like this that's really sweet years ago there was a dealer named prosper williams who who would come to the shows in fact he'd come down from canada and stay at my house and then he'd come on down to the show and he told me about these onganya cooperates first of all they're jimmy inside if you're silly enough to want to soak off the malachite to expose the coop right yeah i'm sorry about it that's okay and uh he told me that when they found these they had you know the crew had gone in and drilled and blasted and then they have to wait for the gases to clear and then the second shift comes in and when that second shift came in the blast had opened up a wall of calcite ugly calcite but on the calcite were these these cuprite crystals just clusters and groups all over the world and that's why we had quite a flood of these for a while and now none but this is exceptional because the the green is very evenly colored all over the crystal the the cuprite is sharp razor sharp very very nice rock thanks bob i have been a fan of yours for a long time i know this i know you hate this but i'm in a fan of yours and every month when i get rocking gem it brings back memories and i just want to applaud you because rock and gem thanks sheriff is a magazine that brings people into the hobby because i give my rocking gems to kids good for you and that's important the section that is for the kids the on the rock section is the first section i go to lynn does that yeah and i just want to thank you for that because you know what it you've done such a body of work and i think sometimes you don't go appreciate as much as you should be and i just want to thank you for that thanks sir all right thank you appreciate you showing me your wonderful specimen it's a great collection [Music] anytime here we are at tucson still and we've got an exhibit from the museum of natural history in london that alan hart brought over and it is an amazing historically documented gemstone let's take a look at it alan thanks for being here nice to meet you thank you tell us about this gem well this is a sapphire this sapphire is unique because it came out the collection of sahan sloan and sahan sloan actually founded the british museum so he was a guy that collected rocks minerals bird skins herbarium sheets plants from all over the world and not many people realized that he had about 10 000 minerals in his collection my goodness and the part of those was a gem collection and i used to show this at dinner parties of royalty to the hyatt society and one of his favorite objects was this sapphire we call it one of our great survivors it's really gorgeous yeah this this has been our collections since about 1753 when the british museum was founded uh sloane had it before that and you can see that we have records that we're here having the case yeah but he paid 43 pounds for it um it's an amazing piece you look at the color it's a beautiful deep inky blue it's 31 carats it actually came out of its mount a few months ago and we had a look at the stone and it's actually got a lovely zoning color zoning so all of the inky blue color is in the actual table of the stone and the pavilion is colorless it's quite unusual all right so you can see it's an immogal piece of jewellery very very uh indicative of his time yeah classic fantastic yeah but sapphires are very unusual in in local jewellery so we're thinking that it was once an emerald uh and at the time the emerald come out and slowness substituted a european rose cut sapphire in its place to make what is a unique item of jewelry yeah it's marvelous this handwritten label is that part of the museum collection yeah or was it done before the museum was established well this is uh we call this a blue slip every specimen in our collection has a blue slip and that's filed as it came into the museum so in 1820 when they started a general catalogue this is where all the people who curated this stone wrote on there so it's actually a history of the stone at the museum you can see there's a picture we know who wrote what and all the details are captured on one one [Music] himself very typical british mobility of his time he could have passed for william penn for guys yeah we always look for pictures and you can see on the pitch he has a lovely broach uh holding his scarf in place yeah right at the bottom yeah but you can see that many of the collection items they had at the time uh it was his collections he used to wear them so this is a it's a fantastic piece of look back at history well for wealthy people to have a natural history cabinet was not unusual that's right his cabinet obviously hit the gamut of all scientific things really amazing that's right and i think what's amazing about it is this sheer diversity so the whole the whole thing even antiquity material uh became the british museum in 1753 yeah now normally the sapphires are identified as coming from up in the himalayas but this is labeled as coming from india is would that still be up in the mountain region yeah well actually i looked at this stone very carefully um that the the indian deposits were discovered much later 1883 so there's only two sources sri lanka or burma right and when you look at this stone under a geological microscope you can see some folded inclusions like the fingerprint inclusions they look like flags yeah yeah yeah and that is really quite indicative of burmese okay so we think it was a it was originally a birmingham research that has been cut and incorporated into local focal jewelry it's a marvelous piece when you look at the color it's amazing you have to shine my torch on here the actually the color actually comes out you can see the pureness well i hope all the people viewing this can get to the museum of natural history in london because this is just one of many many many historically famous pieces you've got that's right well worth seeing we like to think that by showing an item like this we bring a piece of our collection to the tucson great yeah and come and see more that's that started here actually in 1970 when pete came over here and uh you know he exhibited some things from cornwall i think yeah he had a cornish cornish uh case here at the museum we still have the list of what he bought oh okay yeah that's what started this uh the international flavor of this show he was the first of the international curators and you're right yeah and you're right on the list i think it's great that you're here thank you both so thank you for being here so much pleasure arizona is the copper state and the mine that probably produced more copper specimens than any other mine in the state is in bisbee starting with the copper queen in the 1880s so it's only right that there should be a museum in bisbee that features some very fine arizona copper minerals this is the bisbee mining and historical museum in copper queen plaza in bisbee it is a smithsonian affiliate which means that they get support from the smithsonian for exhibits and for materials the copper queen mine was very well known for its calcite bugs huge caves really in which very fine calcites could be found and of course its best known specimens are azurite malachite and copper itself there is a specimen in the case that surprises me it's a gold nugget it doesn't come from the copper queen but it's from the same county cochise county and it's out of the huachuca mountains which are very nearby bisbee bisbee is now closed unfortunately but the beautiful thing about it is that the phelps dodge that operated the mine did allow miners to collect after they worked or as long as it didn't interfere with their time and their work they could collect so that accounts for the great number of fine bisbee minerals that are still on the market today what they do each year here is try and identify the best mineral on display and award it the lidstrom trophy and brent won it this year brent welcome and thank you for exhibiting a wonderful case of minerals oh well thanks bob tell us about the specimen that won the trophy the mimetite okay well that's a cobar mine piece from uh new south wales australia and i believe they came out in the late 1980s and uh there's a second level of the silver mine there and these things were very attractive there weren't a lot of them no no not at all and you know as time went on uh they became pretty scarce and i was able to actually find this one and acquire it and that's one of the pieces i've always wanted yeah how'd you locate it well um i actually uh knew a dealer who had it okay and i was able to uh talk him into uh let me have it and this is history here great but i'm a i'm a lead minerals collector oh okay that fits right in sure it's my it's my passion all right every every good collector has passion yeah yeah you gotta have it thanks so much thank you very much appreciate you explaining your minerals for this thanks for taking the time sure hi brett hey bob how are you good how are you congratulations on having best in show exhibit well thank you very much this size that's wonderful this guy is quite a collector i know he spent a lot of time at the bonita white locality he's got a bonito light in here that we'll talk about let's talk a little bit about your minerals here all right of course my favorite in the case is the lorac and i'd be only because of my familiarity with cornwall and you know i spent so much time there and i just love the history of the whole uh region but you've got some really super things here some rare things uh the fresno white and the almight just you know pentagonite wonderful things tell me more about how you put this together well thanks you know i started with the bonito eye and uh the idea was the field collect bonita white and i started trading and selling and trading some more and then i got more interested in the colorful minerals and bonito white was a great thing to feel collect because it had value yeah and it enabled me to get into collecting higher end minerals and more colorful things more rare things um but it also allowed me to do it on a budget because i started with something that i found and i etched and smiled and i had a great time with that and uh it's evolved into this you know a world of color and i remember your benito light case at the fresno show oh that was a good find yeah no it was turlock wasn't it you said you etched the medina yes i do all my own etching i was taught by a couple fellows that are experts on that rick kennedy and john weaver have been very helpful with that okay and so uh you know i've i've done a lot of etching i enjoy it because it is an art form and uh during my first trip to tucson i was a speaker at the crystal ballroom on the presentation of bonito okay and how to prepare it and that was a great honor and very good a great time so bonita white's a love of mine but i i'm starting to branch out into other things as you can see is that your favorite mineral or is there something else here that's your favorite he has a different favorite mineral every week oh okay okay that that's the sign of a good collector well i mean i love that you know and uh you know one of my favorites now is uh it's the marshall night because it's a new uh new species and that's a really nice miniature and named after a great collector good color it's been nice to have here um been very very fond of the azerite with the rsn suma bite it's a new acquisition this year ah yeah our sensor maybe is pretty rare you uh you scored full points on rarity yes i did okay that's it's really a marvelous case what was your total score out of 100 possible points uh we scored right at 90 points good hurts and uh that's a real challenge yeah it is it is yeah the judges are pretty pretty uh persnickety shall we say well they are yeah that's a great great collection well we're judged on our ability to create a museum display which means it's got to be rare it has to be well presented uh it has to be clear and concise um everything we do at display and what impresses judging is how you arrange the minerals you see the blues kind of have a pattern there's a match with the oranges on either side greens yeah balance there's balance and that's important there's right hand pieces there's left hand pieces some look good from one side or the other and so all that comes into play well that's a great display i really appreciate you talking about it brett well thank you very much it's a great honor and good luck with your minerals with your with your wine oh that's just fun i like to ferment things and uh it's a passion we have we grow the grapes and we make the wines at our place it's nice to work at home and it's especially nice to share them here in tucson and i must say that i've enjoyed the occasional wine taste just a few thanks bob thank you brett you know collector's edge headed by brian lee's is probably the first organization that really developed the technique of opening minds for specimens doing specimen mining they're famous of course for the sweet home operation back in the 1990s but they really started in the in the mid 18 1980s he started in 1984 we have explored or operated over a hundred different areas around the world and we actually did over 40 mining projects at a very sophisticated level these specimens in this case are representing 21 of our mining projects that we've done over the past 30 years and so we've got some incredible specimens that brian and his mining crews have been able to harvest from around the world and all the way from these beautiful amazonite and smoky quartz specimens here we have a group of three outstanding specimens showing the rich color geminis and luster of the rhodochrosite rhombohedrons that were found at the sweet home mine we have a gemstone that's the very finest ever cut from sweet home mine rhodochrosite the very largest and just an incredible saturated gemstone brian owned the colorado quartz mine for gold from 1996 to 2006 that particular specimen amongst other really fine crystallized gold were found at the colorado quartz mine during the period that brian was operating was part owner of that particular mine the emerald project that we did with gemfield's plc at the cajun mine in zambia and this one not only did we provide technical mining assistance uh for the recovery of these specimens to the the gem fields mining crew but we also uh were able to prepare these emerald crystal specimens these emeralds were completely encapsulated within massive courts and our laboratory technicians were able to very delicately remove the quartz from around these emerald crystals and expose these tremendously long and jimmy prismatic emerald crystals you know brian owned and operated the bonita white gem mine in san benito county california from 2000 to 2005 and the gem mine is the only commercial source for the rare and beautiful mineral bonitowite bonito white happens to be the state gemstone of california and it's exceptionally rare worldwide and so this was a fun project for the collector's edge it was mostly a gemstone project and brian found some world-class size gemstones from this deposit you know one of the more recent projects that our company has worked on is dioptase that we're mining in the cockaveld plateau in namibia and this is just some fantastic examples these are shallow prospect pits that are being dug whenever there's a surface expression of of copper mineralization and they take an excavator in and follow that copper mineralization in and we found some incredible dioptase crystals up to uh 2.5 centimeters in length the largest individual crystal we have found so far and uh just lovely combinations with shadow kite this beautiful light blue color that's represented in this specimen we're digging currently croco white at the famous red lead mine in tasmania australia for the first time this year we've really had those out for sale at this tucson gem and mineral show and we're just in the initial stages of mining activities at the red lead so we we're really anticipating great things to come from our mining efforts there in the future but this gives you an example of some the geminis transparency and and fine luster that's seen in these in these crocodile specimens the collector's edge worked with newmont mining corporation at their twin creeks gold mine from 1999 through 2001. this was one of the more interesting collaborative projects between a very large mining corporation that's known worldwide for their huge gold production and the desire to preserve some really world-class mineral specimens in this case highly uh lustrous bright orange well-crystallized orpam specimens some of the finest ever encountered in the world during the 2014 tucson gym and mineral show brian lee's was awarded the american mineral heritage award for field collecting achievements contributing to the heritage of american mineral specimens and that was february of 2014 and we're really proud with all of the work that brian's done in mining around the world and in particular in the united states that he was recognized for his mining achievements and we we thank uh the mineralogical record and and the other sponsors and voters for this particular award to brian lee's the lozandra museum of laboratory art from elmhurst illinois just outside chicago always puts a very fine exhibit in the tucson show and this year they brought a really special piece of work this was done over a hundred years ago in the orient it's a gold encrusted and gem encrusted carved ivory elephant it's there have been a few of these around but none any better looking than that one that's a real beauty the lazadro is a very very nice museum because they specialize in lapidary materials and a visit there is well worth your time they have some superb chinese carvings wonderful minerals in fact and they just did the new mineral hall within the last couple of years but this is a particularly fine piece for the tucson show this year good morning donald good morning nice to see you again thank you so great to have you here in the soil you're still with gia i am okay it'll be 34 years in march oh my goodness and i'm the director of the litigot gemological library and information center named in honor of mr litigo all right i'd like to tell you about our yeah this is historically important let's let's take a look thank you it's the gia library and the geoliterate society and we wanted to focus on india as such an important source of diamonds sure historically and we're going to start with this figure tavernier jean-baptiste tavernier who lived in the 1600s and traveled to india it's really amazing what he did because he spent 36 years traveling throughout india turkey persia east asia brave man you're thinking doing that on horseback all by himself over here on the left we have a map of india showing on the blue the path of where he traveled throughout india wow and on the right we can see those features in india if you look under the letter r you'll see golconda okay very famous very famous so important for major historical diamonds and we're going to take a look at those good how do we know about that we know about it from his writings we have his first edition book from his six voyages to india that one was 1676 and the plate on the left shows the diamonds that he sold to the king of france amazing the book on the left is the english edition okay one year later and the play the plate that we've opened to shows some of those famous diamonds that he found and brought back to europe in the upper left-hand corner you can see the great picture the diamond the great mogul we have a replica here yeah it's a 277 carat stone another famous diamond in the upper right-hand corner is this one the florentine oh okay we see it first in it's rough yeah isn't it slightly yellow yeah very yellow very we would call that a fancy yellow okay fancy yellow diamond great cut that you see depicted in that oven in that plate in our plate if we look at the upper left-hand corner we find the replica that we show here the 116-carat tavernier blue okay that was the original blue that was the original blue rough then it was cut to 68.9 carats and became the french blue and that's what he's wearing in his product okay and that was stolen during the french revolution that's right disappeared disappeared and when it pops back up again it's been re-cut again now it's 45.52 carats and it is the hope diamond okay we haven't known that for sure throughout time it's been speculated but then important gemological research has happened in recent years to tell us first a mold was found in france but then they were able to take that mold study it study the current hope which is at the smithsonian and realized that indeed the hope had come from the french blue which came from the tabernacle this is wonderful donna thanks so much i'll see you at the library yes you will okay while you're here last year we did a shot on the hopple collection that's being offered again by the heritage auction people in dallas and here's another example of what's in that collection it's a phenomenal collection really very very large and this year they're in may they're offering this beautiful native gold from kalgoorlie which is in western australia is quite a remarkable piece i'd love to know how it was found because it doesn't look like it was dug out of rock it looked it might have been found by a metal detector another fine gold here of course from california and the hemi morphite over there is fourth the locality is really quite exceptional it's from mapami which is very famous for its hemimorphites that's got a very nice light patina of iron oxide that gives it that yellowish hue very very nice in this lower shelf there's a specimen that i think is quite remarkable it's it's black i love black minerals a lot of people don't but this is an exceptional piece of calcasite from africa south africa the crystals are very very fine an excellent excellent specimen this is an example of the violet or purple creedite that was found originally in mexico and now comes from kazakhstan the mexican material was first really not discovered but really revealed when paul deseles was down there and he was given a specimen of this mineral in a minor shack and when there was very little lighting and yet when he handled it he said oh this is creedite and the reason he could say that was because the crystals are so sharp that he could feel the sharpness of the crystals and realized what it was and this has those same very very fine sharp crystals excellent color a different locality again kazakhstan but a real really remarkable specimen for the mineral the hopple collection also had a nice variety of very popular things like the surucite from sumab and the azurite from bisbee a very fine a bright dioptase from africa but the specimens that caught my eye are down in this shelf uh this hydroborocite that's a that's a relatively uncommon mineral and some of it was found in england but nothing of the quality that this specimen has that's very very fine wonderful crystal groupings there and just behind that is one of my favorites i've had the fortune of digging there a couple of times in the wall wall mountains where the red burls come from this was mined by rex harris and his crew and uh it's a very very fine positioned gem red burl in the rhyolite the color on that is due to the manganese content it's a rare mineral for burl and that's a very very fine example of the specimen you know everybody who lives in the los angeles area is very fortunate to have the los angeles county natural history museum it has a collection of california mills of course it's worldwide too because i know they have the mark bandy collection there which represents a lot of bolivian things african things but they have very very fine california minerals in this case at the tucson gemini mineral show is a great example of that the variety of minerals that have come out of california are just quite remarkable of course most famous probably is bonita white from san benito county and there's a superb faceted stone and crystal specimen there a few people realize that california also produced things like jade nephrite jade jadeite jade turquoise wonderful cutting roof the coast of california has suffered great pressures and crustal movements and it's that kind of metamorphosism that has created some of these specimens everybody knows about california's earthquakes of course and they play a role of somewhat role in creating specimens like that another massive mineral that is seldom known from california is lapis lapis we think of as having come from afghanistan but california has produced some very large and fine blue lapis from a deposit in the los angeles area one of the most odd specimens i think in this case is the gold nugget that's a recent find if you can believe that it's over three ounces 3.2 ounces and it was found in the san gabriel river well that that runs right through los angeles county and whoever found this really made a remarkable discovery i suspect there'll be a lot of folks digging in the sands of the san gabriel river now after this specimen surfaced it's a three over three ounces as i mentioned it's an odd shape really it looks like it's really been beat up in its travels down the riverbed but it should really be considered most rare and remarkable at this time for gems the spongy means the kunsites from california are just remarkable they're rivaled only by the the kunzites that have come out of afghanistan in the last several decades there are two localities represented here the faceted stone is from one locality and the large crystal from another so they do represent the best of california's sites we seldom think of diamond as being something from other than south africa or india but california has produced some very very nice diamond crystals they're not gemmy appearing they you know there may be little jimmy areas in them but these are from printed at trinity county and very very fine as a example of the diamond this this little diamond is is from el dorado county and is a gem crystal uh they aren't large that's a little over a carrot but for california pretty slick the mineralogical association of dallas or the very appropriately named mad group they're mad about minerals always puts in a spectacular case at the tucson show this is a group of collectors who've very have very strong taste in fine minerals and they all get together and decide what they show each year in this case is no exception to the high quality that they always put into the show very very fine things ranging from rhodochrosite on down there's gem crystals in there's a wonderful uropreto topaz for instance they have a very unusual rhodocrosite right in the center i can't tell i can't even tell you what it is some sort of a creature coming out of the ground but the mad group is very supportive of the perot museum in dallas very strong supporters of that and they also very strongly support the tucson show with one of the better displays each year morning rob good morning good to see you thank you we are in an entirely different setting here at the 60th anniversary of the tucson show normally and back in the old days we just had a straight line of cases of exhibits and then you know aisle by aisle by isle of dealers this is remarkable it's like a gem and jewelry and mineral shop now you know munich the munich show is um i would say it's more european more stylish right right and they're trying to bring some of that over here so the black drapes the black carpet it just presents a better feel it's also more comfortable to walk on the show has done a great job of upscaling it all really is fine and you've done a good job thank you thanks rob you want to see it let's look at some minerals a few of the new pieces we have here it's just your basic ramshorn gypsum but it's a double that's a real hook it's very sturdy yeah where's that from this is morocco no oh okay okay yeah i never saw anything like that down in the caves of mexico that's really sweet yeah so we saved this for the main show because the public is very attracted to it yeah that's a fairly large himalaya mine terminal i guess it is yeah i've collected there i never saw anything that big that's really something yeah have any idea when that came out of the ground uh this was in the bill larson era okay in the late 70s yeah yeah and it was actually in their company collection for many years doubly terminated of course this is a swiss guindel of course and what i find remarkable is the combination of normal prism courts right your basic open gwindle and a closed squindle yeah yeah same piece three different forms i always wonder what was going on in a pocket like that in a way of pressure and temperature to get you know such a variety of forms it's a marvelous crystallized gold sure but it's still locality it's from boise county idaho yes it is yeah that's really wicked the belshazzar mine or belshazzar mine i've never heard of it before they were found i think five or six years ago by what actually one of the mineral collectors in our community ran into the mining company and found they had specimen gold there and was allowed to bring them to market legally wicked just just so beautiful this is from the pedernairo mine but it's old pattern era it's not from the last decade oh really production okay yeah yeah we can turn it around for the camera look at that it has remarkable luster and the color is unusual as well it looks like it has a bluish green tip and then and sort of rose down through the shaft yeah yeah pink down in here so the funny thing is i actually sold this at tucson back in the mid 90s it was the most expensive rock i'd ever sold at tucson shell 20 years ago almost i can't believe that an expensive uh really it was at the time having a mineral worth more than my car was rare yeah this looks kind of familiar you had some of these at the westward look but this is quite exceptional and then where is that from i did this is from the dion mine it's it's actually a commercial fluoride mine in rural china okay and i did have a number of them at the westward look but this was my best piece i saved it to put out here and these things were found in two pockets in about march and may hmm the rounded faces of the octahedrons are really unusual and these little tiny grooves actually they look like modification faces but they're not they're they're the grooves in between the faces have you ever seen curved fluorite so large no no not at all i've only seen small ones from mexico yeah but this yeah so the this is the mind that produced those octahedrons and the white quartz for years and years it's been producing specimens for a decade and then all of a sudden boom you know something totally new that's the only really amazing colorful new find from china this year it's an off year thanks bob thanks rob the theme of the tucson show this year is diamonds gold silver and gems this case contains silver specimens from two major collections bill larson and gene myron and most of the specimens in here are from kongsberg because i think they represent sheen myron's wish to represent his birthplace he was actually born in kongsberg so there's quite a few kongsberg pieces here but there are pieces from germany and from south america and uh one petite particular piece i like is on the back shelf uh it's because i used to own it it's that big hook in the center i found that specimen in a bushel basket that the fella had picked up in a house that was being wrecked and he knew it was silver but he didn't know really what it was worth and i wanted to buy it and he agreed he had other minerals but his they were colorful and his wife had them in flower pots with flowers and so she didn't want him to get rid of those but this one had no color so she said okay you can sell it to him so i bought it for the huge sum of 75 dollars and of course jean paid a little more than that when he acquired it anyway silver is of itself the most spectac one of the most spectacular of the metal minerals because it forms these marvelous herringbone patterns and hooks and curves and curls they're just marvelous you get the ram's horn effect and silver has been the mainstay of the mining industry for well since at least 900 a.d when it was discovered in germany so this is really a truly remarkable case of minerals and i'm sure any collector seeing this would love to have their pick of what's in this case here we are at the tucson show with two people who have done so much for our hobby and they entered a case in the for the desert tells trophy and by golly they won jim and gail spann they are two of the super people from dallas that everyone loves thank you very much we'd love to have you talk a little bit about the case how did you get the idea to enter for the desertel trophy oh i think that we uh we just love to put exhibits in this kind of forced us into um really thinking hard about what we wanted to put in for an exhibition case this year and for competition we wanted to uh make a statement also and that not everything has to be glitz and glitter right but there's a lot of really uh sharp smart minerals and uh whether they'd be black uh right good for you in a variety of different rarities so we mix it up and put together a case that doesn't have a lot of tourmalines there's only one in there yeah but it's got great balance great variety yeah jim do you have a favorite specimen well you know it's interesting i have several of my favorites are in here uh it almost depends on what day you asked me the question oh okay my favorite uh today is this millerite uh from i'm just gonna question you about that yeah that's a really old timer it is it came out around 1880 we had the legacy and the labels right back to the original owner it turned out he was the captain of the mine he managed the mine in the mid-1800s his name was cox with an e and he was actually the founder of what is today the largest mining engineering association in the world really and that was uh one of his pieces that came out i know you have a very high interest in the provenance of specimens as well as you know you love their them for their beauty but the provenance is important to both of you yes gail what's your favorite today there's i'm going to do two but okay the tripod uh propeller as i call it which is the aquamarine and the reason is that i had seen it and dreamed one day of owning it and eventually it came before me and jim and i uh both had fallen in love with it so that's always just been one of my favorites how do you negotiate to buy a piece when everybody in the world knows she'll pay anything to get it necessary and my second is this copper down here at the bottom the copper skull as we call it um i just fell in love with that yes and was that in the uh it was in the auction and it was on the cover and i thought that just really hits home with yeah and so we uh we got it i'm happy to have a lot of people have come up and said to me i know that piece that's already famous which of these specimens if you can tell us which of these specimens was the most difficult for you to obtain to obtain yeah no for me well you mentioned the propeller up there that you saw it you didn't you dreamed about it that may be i'm going to say for me it was the facility okay because i had to pry that out of dan weinrich's finger to get that but uh we had gone and i asked him at his home one time can i see my facility and he said you're facility and i said please my facility and they gave it to me and put it in my hand and i said hello little facility one day you shall be mine yes we're talking about this case with all your great specimens but there's another display that you brought here i do we do that's very personal yes let's go look at it okay in january of this year i had a double mastectomy for breast cancer and it changed my life and it changed my appreciation for people and for many things and so i was thinking about an exhibition case that jim and i could put in and a couple of nights before we came i said let's put in a tribute to breast cancer survivors and do pink and so this is what we came up with um as a great tribute and it's it's been a huge success because so many people have come and talked to me about being a survivor of breast cancer it's been amazing how many have had the similar experiences that you would never yeah and have kept quiet to themselves and and i get the sense that many of them almost feel relieved that they've had a chance to share that with folks and say yes me too they often say welcome to the sisterhood oh i admire your courage and i admire your support right here it's wonderful thank you very much very very significant challenge for both of us for sure sure and uh a lot of brave people to bring attention to the uh to the disease and there's a need for that kind of publicity it actually is wonderful a lot of people are very shy about talking about it but i believe in education and prevention if possible early detection is huge you've done a great thing here you really have thank you this case at the show is a superb example of what monmier had in the way of gold and silver beautiful leaf gold from california beautiful silvers from several different places in the world kongsberg germany and michigan and most remarkably to me is the platinum nugget that is in the lower part of the case next to it is a wonderful venezuelan gold crystal so there are very very fine specimens in this selection and this collection was valued at about seven million dollars when it was donated to the university of arizona mineral museum and that really gave the museum the visibility and the high resolution value that it needed and with this collection they have been able to strengthen the entire museum situation there at the university so that now it represents really the cornerstone of the state and if you ever get a chance to come to the tucson show make sure you make a side trip over to the universities easy to find and uh see the collection that is on display there it is superb you know wayne you and i have known each other for a long time you know what's going on over 40 years or something like that good grief this is so different from what i remember every time i see you at the show you've got your booth rearranged beautifully it's more like a wonderful mineral store then thank you thank you thank you i'm glad to the show it's really great top-notch decorators that do this of course they all pulled together yeah axonite from the polar euros yeah this this these are some of the largest and finest axonites that have ever been found and they're sharp they're really there's a low symmetry crystal but it so it exhibits these really sharp knife edges and often they're nicked and chipped and damaged but this one is absolutely in perfect condition you know there's a lot of azure right here at the show but i haven't seen one from this locale yeah from mount hope in australia yeah you know that's that's comparable to anything one found here in arizona it's from australia it's beautiful a very nice uh classy specimen from an old locality probably about was mine maybe 40 years ago okay this mine is no longer active uh so it must be at least that old yeah there's this carl tonight that boggles the mine i can't even say it's kind of a formula it's really rare to find it in any kind of crystal structure generally they're just massive but it's basically a calcium i think calcium sodium calcium potassium silicon silicate that's true that's from mount saint hilaire which is famous for its rare species rare species and that's one of the rare ones especially in crystal form yeah many crystals these are very very old specimens that's even older than i am and the color of it is very characteristic they call it chesalite because it's altering it to malachite it's azurite but it's altering the malachite so you get this sort of blue gray uh blue green color which is characteristic of the specimens from chessy but this is a nice knob with very large images and it's on matrix and it's on makeup that's unusual so this one was purchased almost 12 years ago and then more recently brought back onto the market but that's the crystal should consider right on muscovite that's that's a very very fine in the locality of china china yeah there's been a lot of milpitas around yeah i've never seen anything like this never ever yeah it's just marvelous what a special it's a floater no attachment no matrix just a nice and it's got some a lot of the bigger specimens are perfectly flat at least yeah this has great character contours and some nice character well i've certainly handled a lot of milpia's things thanks to my son yeah this is wonderful this is remarkable yeah it is that and it's really a fine large cabinet museum quality no question about it true a lot of people uh like the the ones from there that are on the malachi oh look at that yeah really super ones on malachi that's delightful my goodness beautiful velvet malachite background two-inch crystal here another larger one there grouper crystals but the contrast between the malachite and azurite is yeah perfect setting makes it pop right no damage just being damaged just absolutely perfect yeah i even have a third thing really might be i can hear the things that just came out of the ground this one just came out of the ground about three months ago okay and it's from a brand new yeah and no no no brand new area in california as you well know i'm a specialist in gold but this was found just a month ago in el dorado county and wayne knows more about california gold than anyone else it's been sort of a specialty of mine but isn't that something basically came out of the ground just like that uh with no restoration no nothing to it just a marvelous elongated octahedrons almost an inch and a quarter long and it's three-dimensional all the way around 360. needs to be on a rotating platform but for its size i can't think of any specimen that has more character and beauty than that one and you've handled thousands of calendars plus i've seen crystallized gold specimens from all around the world and this one's right up there with the best if not the best what a piece marvelous absolutely that's [Music] across the country they're minerals in tow it's tough to make their money flogging rocks across the land reach out to help your dealer with some money in your hand pity the dealer set up tear down again aching muscles in the heat and in the rain running up the mileage on their beat up cars and vans so hard on their bodies every woman and man the dealer the trouble and the strife for the dealer they have the toughest life it's so stressful the money that they make weighs on their conscience huge profits that they take at the end of the day they eat the finest foods and wines it's a way to ease the guilt that plays upon their minds oh the dealer the trouble and the strife oh the dealer they have the toughest life pity the dealer they have to keep the best oh the dealer sells the seconds to the rest the guiltiness weighs heavy the burden is immense their bank accounts are shocking the self-clothing is intense oh the dealer [Music] the trouble and the strike oh the dealer they have the toughest life their mansion back home is a refuge for their souls and a drive out in the cadillac partially consoles fondling their treasures alone down in the vault they are still just people their wealth is not their fault [Music] [Applause] [Music] so pity the dealer what will the market bear oh the dealer what price is really fair plagued by bulging pockets in their personal hell stuck with high-priced specimens that will never sell [Music] oh the dealer the trouble and the strife oh the dealer they have the toughest life hug a dealer they've really got it rough encourage them for their lot in life is tough it'll take a lifetime to sell us our selection for 10 cents on the dollar they'll buy back our collections oh the dealer the trouble and the strife for the dealer they have the toughest life oh the dealer the trouble and the striker they have the toughest life you

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Published: Fri Jul 31 2020