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I confess to being an absolute garnet wonk This is an uncut 10ct cinnamon from Mali that I had for about an hour last year. I spent 1 hour going through a parcel for this and 2 other ones. Spent another hour or so taking the photo's and listing them and another 15min waiting until they sold. Shoulda...

Some I will be cutting but most of them will be sold in the rough. The sizes range from a little over one gram to one that's 82ct that I'm thinking about keeping. As far as the miner goes, I've been dealing with him for about 13-14 years now and never have shown him anything but respect for his work...

I've been taking pics of the Mexican Opal for my website and I promised I'd post some of them so here they are. I'd like to express my gratitude to the mine owner and his family for letting me paw through the ones on display and even the ones that were in the "Secret" bag that only comes o...

You may regret asking for pics. The owner of the mine opened up his "Special" bag and cut me some smokin' deals. But yes, I'll be posting some along with the Ethiopian ones I bought

Oops! Big honkin Rose Quartz crystal. Think of all the cabs or faceted stones you could cut from that puppy

For some reason that X isn't showing up that I can see on my posts Alicia. Tried to find something in the "edit" where I could delete but no such luck. Go ahead and delete those two posts please and thanks for the compliment on my pics. I try to get them right but really, all I can say is ...

Thanks and I'm glad you all enjoyed it. I hope to do it again next year Now that Leslie and I are back, unpacked and things have settled down to a dull roar here, I'll take a little bit to put up some general observations about this years show. First, the weather. Most Tucson shows have very mild we...

Thanks Robert and all who've commented. I'm already looking forward to next year and will be at your service if you need some more walking tour help. This was our last day here in Tucson. We'll be flying back to Seattle and our dogs in the morning so I'll do a wrap up Sunday or Monday on impressions...

Ok, next set http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff324/wurthguy/tta7_zpsrgengej0.jpg Another piece of Sweet Home Rhodochrosite. This one's about 10x the size of the last one I showed and costs about half. The reason is that the Rhodochrosite crystals were smaller and more pale than on that first one....

Thanks for the comments all. You're the reason why I do this each night. It's a blast being in Tucson for the show and even for me it can get overwhelming sometimes. There's so much to do around here so I'm only scratching the surface. I haven't done zip on the fossil shows which are here in abundan...