Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
Gem and Mineral Show 090118
Gem and Mineral Show 090118
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Susan Abbott behind dreamcatchers and bolo ties
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Marty Crawford with a specimen of Rhodocrosite from Argentina
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Kathy Quinn looks at Karen Blisard's jewelry
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Marj Gibboney holds a necklace of stones
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Linda Boatwright holds polished spheres of stone
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Alex Nunez holding a piece of vanadite and Jorge Nunez holding aragonite
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shiny and pretty
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Raw copper from Santa Rita mine
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"Miner's dollar" from the top of a coal seam
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Bryan Sanchez shows a hunk of tri-color calcite
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chockful of tiny fossils
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wonder what it says in Chinese characters?
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Laurie Arella and Al Fairweather of High Rolls, NM, check out items shown by Ramon Olivas
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Rebecca Dow and partially hidden Lisa Baker look at items shown by Sylveen Robinson-Cook and Kevin Cook
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Paula Cooley and Sue Fischer show items to Nancy Silman and Margie George-Scott
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Brandi Bateman of Rimrock, AZ, shows items to Homer Hamby
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Ray Merritt talks jewelry with Dan Harold and Sam Grimes
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Karen Muller shows one of her hand-crafted necklaces
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Henry Andazola shows a bolo tie to Mary Lou Hutto and Barbara McLain
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Sarah Pineda checks out beads.
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Ann Alexander chooses stones for her artwork
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Mohamed Barkoui of Berber Minerals in Tucson holds a colorful specimen
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Brandon Smith of Cottonwood, AZ, holds up a sample. He helps his grandfather in his rock business.
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Trina Cornell demonstrates wire wrapping.
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Antonio Mendoza tries out the Wheel of Fortune, which he helped man.
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A colorful slice of a large geode
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Yassine Rahmoun of Morocco and Ada Haro of Tucson hold fossils from Morocco
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Deborah Leigh holding one of the works created by her and Clay Collins of Tronic Rocks in northern Arizona.
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Emil Yatsko discussing items with Gary Gasparich and Melissa Stewart
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Macro photographic image of a stone held by Rusty Fairey from Elkhorn Trading Co., Monticello, NM, and created by his wife.
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Suzanne Bell, Susan Shunny and Rev. Azima Lila Forest check out the stones Forest chose for shamanic rituals.
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