What's Hot In Tucson: 2021 - Green Mountain Minerals

[Music] hi welcome back to what's hot in tucson 2021 day 9 of 8. we just saw some incredible specimens when we just visited our friends out in milano mcp they showed us some incredible things but now we're gonna head back to the united states and we're gonna go to beacon new york and we've got dylan stolowitz from green mountain minerals up on deck ready to share some incredible pieces with us also so with that we'd like to welcome dylan to the show lauren it's all yours uh good to see you dylan oh we got a peter mcgawe back good to see you how are you doing and what have you been up to now that you're doing great lauren good to see you too um well we were pleased to announce the and an honor to announce the mark possibility mineral uh collection we just purchased it and uh he was a collector for 40 years many of you know him in the hobby is just a wonderful person he loaned minerals to many museums and fostered many collectors into the hobby just a great guy all around so we're going to share some of his some of the highlights from his collection fantastic yeah he's he's always a hoot and a half to talk to and uh look forward to seeing what what you've got and some of the highlights that you can show us well he collected large cabinet minerals uh mainly uh cabinet as well but also had some very fine miniatures scrolled away for many years so he had everything um so we're gonna we're gonna do a little bit of everything today sounds good i'm gonna read a little quote uh from that johann kentman wrote over 400 years ago to his good friend conrad gessner uh translated by wendell wilson consequently when i'm absorbed and thought about minerals time crumbles away swiftly and my investigations begin with zeal [Music] you know over the centuries and even the millennia something doesn't change minerals being won and also men and women's love passion and fascination of them so you guys ready to look at some rocks is the bear a catholic here we go we're going to start with a smoky and amazonite from the lucky monday pocket that joe doris and his family found they nicknamed it the behemoth it's the largest single smokey quartz ever recovered with amazonite and it's truly truly truly an outrageous specimen the color a little bit closer to it so it fills the screen yeah so how tall is that dylan it's about uh three and a half inches tall four inches max i put my hand in for size oh there we go the termination is so sharp oh the quality of the of the quartz the luster the uh the color the amazonite um so by by leaps and bounds this is the biggest one they've ever found and uh you know joe won the heritage award last week and we can see why finding specimens of this caliber oh yeah what a wonderful farmer what a wonderful family they really are he's a he's a real classic we're actually going to have him on mineral talks live um next wednesday so that's fantastic talk more with joe or hear more of his story tune in that's wednesday uh the 17th i believe it is all right let's stay in colorado right now and we're going to go over to uh cameron cohen where where the doris family found these incredible topaz's champagne unbelievable color and the crystal size is amazing as well oh yeah the pink undertone too it's abs they're absolutely beautiful those are the ones they were calling apricot i i don't know what they were calling them they might have been calling them apricot i think so they brought a really nice exhibit of those uh one year it was fun working with crystal who was quite nervous about the possible thermal effects of the lights on the cases and everything we were able to keep everything under control so that the specimens didn't suffer from being on exhibit that's wonderful they're light sensitive so you gotta you gotta be very conscious of where you displayed them um mark bought minerals from a woman in the early 90s her name was norma scala and this is a barite stalactite with gorgeous sulfur crystals so he's had this piece for a very long time and it's it's a fabulous thing it's from match out poland the sulfur looks like jimmy's on an ice cream cone there you go it gives us sort of a punk rock attitude there you go so that's a fun piece right there another piece is this heart twin calcite in china nice large gorgeous twin chris yeah and moving along this is from vermont which i happen to love with these gorgeous little garnets on chili poster yeah no not chili parsley eating milk oh sorry that's right eden mills yes yes of course one of those was on our poster one year that's right yep i think bill larson has that piece that's right and look at this beautiful copper and cal state no damage practically glows it's so rich it's so rich with copper it's it's spectacular i love those yeah no me too me too really something special from the phoenix mine and moving along over here to california look at this eagles nest they call this one the seahorse and you can see why it's a famous beast he had that at a museum for a while on loan didn't he probably yeah he had his large gold which uh is not here at the moment um he had a different goal he kept this one at his house wow he has a huge goal that he got from wayne light many years ago i happen to like this one a little bit better i love that one yeah the crystallization is just it's fantastic and it's very easy to anthropomorphize um so you guys were just with mcp they did the work hats off to them on the king of cashmere yeah this is the aquamarine that he got over a decade ago and the only thing that would make this better is it was absolutely gem with this color but at the same time that deeper blue towards the bottom really makes the termination pop right it gives that contrast within the the crystal and ah i like that piece a lot yeah i like the feldspar as well it's got a little motion and play to it that's a good way of describing it exactly and then look at this i i call this piece the medusa look at the this is halite with selenite from germany i was going to call it bullwinkle with those horns oh yeah i love the late stage there on the the the halites the golden sort of halos that's created around uh bullwinkle space there it's a beautiful one nice large cabinet let's go over to this gorgeous little emerald here with quartz crystal great color on that look at the little jewels shooting off yeah it's rare to get them with quartz it looks like that bottom crystal that everything's perched on is rather robust it's a big large crystal and then there's uh some gemmy crystal right on the bottom as well huh it's an interesting piece unique you know the guy i got her from he called it the swiss army knife of emeralds because it has so many it has everything going around for it uh check out this bisbee with malachi this was in the phelps dodge collection he got three pieces from the phelps dodge this being one of them luster is beautiful it's not a little mallet which is wonderful gotta love bisbee material me too now we're gonna move over to this cabinet and we'll start over here with this pettinera from the grand dawn pocket mark got he got a good example from many of the different pockets at patonera this one on a citrine with a beautiful little perched on elbite i love the wow stepped colors you know transitioning from that blue which contrasts great with the citrine and then you've got this big bunch of bright green classic pedinaires in the back that really gives it a good visual movement draws your eye and also the clarity of the tourmaline it is all the pockets are so different that it's not sufficient to just have one veterinary you can create a whole collection just on the one locale it's so true and so true so he had he had probably six different pockets uh represented and a fine example for most of them this being his grand on green which is just it's a tremendous piece really it's beautiful very eye-catching this cal site was one of five orange calcite on amethyst so unique it's really orange it's not iron oxide staining calcite it's just beautiful saturated orange but it pops even more because of the the purple from the amethyst and you've got that texture difference as well that's a that's a smoker yeah i love this piece i love this piece it's possible to remove some of the amethyst at the top but at the moment we're going to leave it as is mark had a wonderful what's that it almost looks like a crashing wave coming on top of the uh yeah about to crush the surfer that's a great description uh mark had a wonderful collection of tri-state almost 50 pieces in total um luster is wonderful this one's from joplin with two calcites a little sphalerite and some pyrite so it's a nice example from this locality pirate cubes from spain i love when they get multiple and they're sort of interground like that i i me too me too here's this these mushrooms of mangano calcite with a little matrix there's four of them it's like a brain beautiful piece right here kunzite from the urkel line the color is just insane yeah position there on that c-axis too really good you really need it yeah the color is just so stunning it eye grabber from across the room beautiful barrel it's etched from brazil love these etch barrels they tell a very interesting story about the deposit they come from indeed the acid-etched barrels and this is a gorgeous chinese rhodochrosite rhombohedral with associated fluorite yeah the the preferential deposition on those uh the right top sides of those crystals also really make the the red stand out and gives color you know give crystal definition as well l creek south dakota really super gemy just a lot of fun it's got this elongated crystal here on the calcite a lot of color right there and great great quality i don't know if you can see the champagne in there that we see in that one very thick now uh here's baby blue and big blue let me guess which is big blue this is our baby this is big big blue he bought in 1996 at the discovery store in dallas and it's a it's a it's a monster this thing is really something else it's a real museum display style specimen it's got the purple phantoms and the blue and the blue uh rim i can really see how uh deep purple that is in the core there and you get those late stage almost um freckling of that deeper blue at the the the end there too that gives it that surface texture almost although it's not the true texture that's right lauren it does that is correct and baby blue this was on raw slowly show poster i got this from irv this was not part of the pasta soul collection he's coming up next his eye is just immaculate everything irv has is spectacular the phantoms in that are really cool yeah this is just beautiful this one has a whole different luster to it a wonderful dioptase on cal state you gotta love these they're hard not to sooner mm-hmm slightly different calcite from what you know a lot of times you see those uh sharp roms this is sort of that uh more snow drift esque style it's just it's a beautiful one it's it's got nice coverage the crystals are a decent size now dylan do we know when that came out of sumab we don't know the exact year but it was around when the heyday of when they were being found um peter were you were you uh in tune with the years that these were being found exactly mid 70s i think so yeah yep a little before a little bit just a little before my time too actually yeah so who who brought these in did we were there was it prospered williams brought in some the zweibel's brought in some sure clive hewitt probably brought in a bunch look at this snow cone of aragonite with just beautiful lobster i i think snow cone is definitely how you would have to describe that tasty freeze i'm ready looks like the best thing you could ever get out of dairy queen that's a fun rush and then moving over here this is dylan back to that coming close on it so that and then uh kind of uh pan up and down so we can see the whole thing yeah look at that chatoyancy on the top it's just great and then pan down the body if you could this is from china such a sculptural piece yeah it really is it's beautiful i love the chatoyance of the little micro crystal and aragonite on the top it looks like it's clean as well it's it's beautiful nearly pristine this has got a great story mark kelbaso brought this out in the diaper he found it in and he sold it to pasta cell in the diaper i call this the diaper on but it's a it's a beautiful elmwood football on a matrix of sphallery and two fluorite crystals i love how the the top floor right there is perched against the the calcite and so you really get that snappy color transition yeah i agree and the luster is wonderful all around on all three minerals like one of those alexander calder pieces that defies gravity with the center of gravity up high and the gorgeous base at the bottom well said peter well said i'm moving along we've got this erica morganite two crystals from brazil on a matrix with a little bit of associated tourmaline generally you don't see them with two crystals or on matrix and that's that's a the combination oh wow it's jemmy too look at that you can practically uh really see those uh your fingers fancy yep you can see the phantoms right there it's a fun piece cool nice color nice rich rich color lovely moving along here you know this is an amazing way to do tucson i have to say [Laughter] uh the fact that i get a snuggle every night with my wife i agree with you well you can't beat that brian you cannot beat that this selenite from zaragoza was in luis miguel's this is uh understandably the finest single one recovered you can literally see the malachite perfectly through that i mean that's that's a cool combination with the malachite in the background there yeah you got this incredible prism effect with that that is just optically fantastic this is a killer i mean this is a true killer piece right here i wish you could see it in person uh maybe one day this is just it's outrageous well you're welcome to to save it for your exhibit at tucson next year dawn there you go that's a fine i deleted this you put in that great case for men record last year you can put in another one next year without any problem we'll do something fun yeah there's going to be some good rocks for the displays for next year this is just a gorgeous velvety seashell of malachite from china i just love the way that it just kind of it's like one big wave it's incredible you have the kind of coronas of the uh chatoyancy i guess corona is a bad word to use these days but i mean you get what i wrote the little uh no it is it's it is the crowns yeah the the little eyes in a way they're these yeah it's a beautiful play of light and it's very three-dimensional as you can see uh here's another this is a museum specimen it's a big green tourmaline on elba very architectural hard to capture how beautiful this is unless you see this in person it really is a gorgeous piece so so the top crystal i don't know if this is a an aspect of the the phone but it looks practically you know the way that the lights catching it and i guess sort of the the the way that the crystals have formed it looks practically chartreuse like in terms of optical it's a chatoyan green and they call this the black pocket uh um it's a chatoyan green tourmaline with little black it almost looks like shurl out of the light but you can see the size it's this is bigger than a basketball it's it's it's massive and he had this displayed at yale it was absolute the peabody everyone loved it the the way that the the matrix there kind of forms this almost igloo with the the lower crystals sticking out of it is pretty neat i want to just talk about this rock right here just for a sec because it is the heaviest mineral i've ever lifted it takes two people to lift two two well-abled people and it's a giant massive galena crystal with with the with cows not the most beautiful but if you were to drop this piece it may go right through the center of the earth and come out the other side this thing is ridiculously heavy you'll break your back lifting that well we know that mark was supremely fond of his galena so uh great very interesting piece it didn't this calls himself galena man doesn't he or something like that that's right galena man is his email what a wonderful person mark is um call this one the elephant trunk it's from bisbee from the new mountains so cool i love the little baby rosettes like sprinkled along there oh that is a cool specimen and you know the color of the azurite is is very very bright and you can see a little primary malachite in the back yeah the the color the texture the tone contrast there this was uh this was um also part of the phelps dodge collection it's a nice considerate right here a matrix two beautiful crystals very lustrous easily the world's best considerates that locality yeah there's almost a little reddish coming through uh which is considered can be red yeah yeah this is this has got a little transparency to sent to the tips of the crystal so this is this beautiful ramshorn from chihuahua so aesthetic just beautiful just just so much fun i love that piece and it's a long wow it's a long crystal look at that [Music] is that from the same pocket and zone that you're you're rams horns from dead um probably not but it's from the same general part of the district it's from the west camp one of the upper mines this is an old one he's owned this a long time again he got that from norma um moving along over here we have this big plate of specialty and smoky quartz from tong bay i mean there's the coverage of uh of course is really the the garnet rather the color on those garnets is always just so striking especially with the the smoky tips um yeah it's a beautiful piece it really is a beautiful piece and then here's a big old glove mine large crystals here and the edges have this that nice uh yellow that sort of gives those crystals a little extra definition nice fluorite from ping boo um micah and then this i call the iron man this is an arsenal pirate with two arms shooting off huh look at that habit too there's sort of the the rounded aspect um gives it a different yeah i won't say feel but it has a distinctive character absolutely distinctive from that locality that's just an unbelievable scarn system i love this thing it looks alive it is alive and here's this bisbee um which is just spectacular also that must also be from the pd collection yep from phelps dodge as well yep the the blue of the azurite is just such a true bright cobalt it's not that deep blue that kind of goes blackish it is just smack you upside the face blue hey dylan could you get close to into that so that we can see some of the azurite closer that's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna hold on one sec let me open up the cabinet for us so we could get in there and that i will do oh yeah huh this is a really beautiful piece i mean it's just tremendously pretty it's the kind of piece that's really approachable to someone who maybe doesn't know minerals it's one of those ones where you gravitate towards it because of the the color and the form and the way that it sort of has almost a monet aspect when you're far away it's sort of a teal color and then you get closer and you really see sort of the little points of color there it is such a beautiful rock yeah really really really pretty so it's so attractive i like how you used monet because it is almost a monet it's one of the best ones of these i've ever seen moving along we have this veracruz beautiful arrangement nice little bit of green in the background to set off the purple yep yes there is and especially with the the clear courts kind of forming this uh you know backing to the the purple as well that very center there's that little teeny tiny one sticking up at the top and just drawing your eye through the specimen past the big crystal and sort of that larger almost looks like a sceptered spray and then adorable little guy up top that's a cute specimen that's a beauty yup this is a giant butterscotch elmwood on a little matrix double terminated pretty rocks yeah what a great color that is yeah that's that rich rich from i think that's cumberland rather open up the cabinets here it's another big rock of course mark loved his big minerals um let's start with this this is what they call true carthage corners yeah you can see it half an inch almost three quarters of an inch into that corner that's great and you can see the zoning there too when you when you kind of because they're so gemy they give you sort of this picture into the the specimen yeah and it sits on a little matrix you know what's really cool is uh when we saw steve neely's collection you you can uh he collects you know he's got the corners and the corners are actually you know sometimes the rest of the specimen will be etched out and then you've got those corners standing out there and such an interesting habit and the contrast and the the way that it kind of gives you a little window pane inside there he got this in 1991 so he's on this a couple of years yeah oh peter cobras uh-oh you know what peter mark wanted you he actually specifically mentioned your name for this mineral he said i'd like peter to have a chance at this so this is the cobra calcite also known as cobraheads it's a beautiful piece oh i remember it from his collection very well when were you last year oh it's got to be four or five years ago maybe even more than that so i'll set this one aside for you peter okay you don't have to twist my arm you have to put it in with the uh ramshorn from san diego uh there you go yeah this this one is also has a living feel to it the way the calcites are oh yeah are flowing it's got it's got a great form to it so yeah those cobra heads those cobra heads are really well developed i mean it's it's it's clearly from the same areas the piece behind my head but it's a little bit tighter and whiter this is an innocyte which is the opposite of that galena i described it's one of the lightest minerals i've ever lifted wow that was a delicate piece very delicate and very fragile and very beautiful and also very rare there were not many of these rob has a great one and there's another great one in china this one has the hubei crystals associated it's it has a micro delicate aspect to it that i love despite that sort of in juxtaposition to how large it is kelly mine smith tonight with this secondary growth here nice beautiful blue that's a cool texture contrast there it is no it is because this has luster and this has a mattish luster yeah that's why he purchased this one actually believe it or not that piece probably put some techie through school for two or three years back in those days that's amazing peter and here's this beautiful bear right on fluorite from illinois annabel lee as well very luster is buried these combos are so cool yeah they are these are like somebody hit a collection of fine miniatures with an enlarging ray out of a superman comic book you know uh remember that article you did on texas thighs thumbnails yep these are texas-sized thumbnails um here's this beautiful los lamentos wolfenite with these butterscotch crystals on the on the white matrix this is almost like pumpkin yeah they're they're they're very lustrous and very pretty hard not to love los lamentos it's got a place in my heart that's for sure look at this uh that's another locality you could put together an entire collection out of variations on from one pocket to the next and not get tired of them that's what you're doing right dad it seems to be one rocket at a time mangano cal state china just a big beautiful beautiful spray another chinese mineral unbelievable under an ultraviolet light and if you had one of those those laser pointers the 405 blue ones you could probably write your name on that crystal and it would sit there and glow for a few seconds i'm serious that's cool that's very important that's the interactive display at the tgms show next year you know i i bought my first fluorescent lamp recently because mark had a couple of great fluorescents and uh it's a lot of fun it is a serious rabbit hole if you're not careful i was at his house filming some stuff and he had a big sphere that was um carved out of some material from i think uh sterling mine and so we filmed that rotating and then we kept it rotating and switched on the uv lights and it was such a cool transition to watch oh look at that light that's quite a hedgehog the hedgehog on the stim knight is amazing but also the ilvei that's on the the floor or the the yeah sorry that's this was for this these are similar dylan you're gonna kill me but we only have three minutes left so uh wow that's okay here we go then i didn't realize you were moving all right beautiful fluorite from chris wright we all remember him yes old timer there linwood barrett you gotta love that um this bear right from the parkside mine i don't know of a better one uh what what an outrageously beautiful piece true english english classic um gorgeous morenci mine just wonderful aesthetics this has got the bitumen the hydrocarbons on the bottom this fluoride usually you'd take that off but they didn't one of my favorite pieces is this uh buffalo shaped fluorite that mark purchased at the china show with the bearings and the barriers are so lustrous it's one of the better ones i've seen i happen to really truly truly love this piece and whoever gets it's going to be very very very happy uh the x factor terminally and cruzeiro almost looks living i love that this wrote a proceed from bulgaria from the hopple collection um where are we going anyway these chinese calcites linwoo that's correct they ping rather and this is a giant blue fluorite from yao ganshin hard to capture the enormity of this piece and the quality that is a monster yep great cobalting calcite super color needs to be mounted vertical um beautiful aragonite just so delicate and gorgeous the flow's fairy i love those yeah this one's this one's particularly pretty here's a pyromorphite almost 12 it's huge he got this from jim and gail yeah that's a wonderful piece i love the flow that the crystals had seemed to be moving to the right looks like seagrass under a under a current look at this pumpkin shaped calcite oh okay incredible um hey dylan we're kind of out of time but i'll let you i'll give you a minute or so to show now let me uh let me just uh turn the camera around here and just say thank you to you all for hosting this and making tucson happen well dylan i really want to thank you for coming on the show the things that you've shown incredible as usual and really appreciate it thank you for playing with blue cat productions and believing in what's hot in tucson 21 the live experience and so for all you viewers out there stay tuned we're going to be right back with our 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Keywords: Mineral, collecting, quartz, fluorite, calcite

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Length: 40min 57sec (2457 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 12 2021