Grand Tour of America | Summer 2020 MinSanity

July 21, 2020

Day 1 – Wild Turkeys greet us in Kerrville

Day 1 – Wild Turkeys greet us in Kerrville

Moca poses with mineral art

Juicy combo

Balance, color, luster

One of the best UK purples we’ve seen

Miles long view – the Texas hill country, ahhh

Temps rising, but not done yet…

Long stretches of wind power

Maria stuffed our belly in Midland, TX

With my adopted Aunt Monica in El Paso, TX oh and Moca, her real niece!

Day 2 – Catalina Foothills on fire

Marshall – the man, the myth, the legend

Cute factor 10/10

Tire Melting Tucson at 4pm

Sir Peter Megaw, ESQ

Megaw Silver, The Octopus, oh my

Sculptural much? Yeah, Gypsum

Megaw hoppered acanthite

Megaw cupro-adamite

Old school Ojuela beauty

Finest known rosasite after copper wires

Look Robin! The Bat Signal!!

Aragonite after snake

Visit to Tony G

Rare and beautiful

Love the contrast

Very choice

Ed Over Wulfie! Yes Please!

Saturation overload

Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air

Best Scorodite I’ve seen from Mexico

Super Cute

The Nuclear Reactor Core

The Cruller was actually invented in India

Just Pretty, Just Cute

Green glass

Catalinas burning night shot

Masked Evan in Phoenix

Dr. K in Phoenix

New Khazakistan Copper available

Who is that masked Les!

New Guanajuato Amethyst available

25cm Cuprian Adamite available

Visit to Mark Hay for Arizona delight

The azure city

Too much quality

Roses with no thorns

Glove me baby

Contrast and velvet

I defy you to find a better Defiance

79 that stole my heart

Super aesthetics

Mother linarite

Rowley Magic, love these combos

Grandaddy Finch

Off to Dinner and rest at Dr. K

So Bubbly we shall call him Michael

This is a smoker

Am I blue? yes/yes

Excellent pyro

Super choice Mexico blue hemi

Fun and Fine Iridescents

Goethite From Ojeula

The Rainbow Towers

Stripes and stripes of color

Strong strong color

Some beautiful new consignments, available now

Some beautiful new consignments, available now

North Geronimo Wulfie – SOLD

Arizona Pseudomorph available

Glove available

79 mine available

Czar shaft azurite with euhedral edge and great luster on matrix – available

Malachite on matrix available

If Covid was a mineral

Arizona Pyrite available!

Old Dominion Copper avialable

Juicy Grapes from Indonesia available

Flat Top views between AZ and CO

Pristine Denver Scenery

The Masked Mad Scientist Mini Mogul

Spinel

LeGrandite with Smithsonite

Scheelite so good make you say Sheesh!

Sapphire

Sixling Magic

Diaspore

Broken Hill, not bunker

King of the Dioptase

Elmwood DT jewel

Super Choice Amazonite

Hematite Rose

Aqua from Vietnam

Azurite Jewel Pocket

Pargasite

Matto Grosso Gold

Paki Pinky

Brazilianite

View in Estes Park, not too shabby

Check out the photo skills for Tom E after just 2 months

Off to Breckenridge

Hummingbird Dancing

Breck Gold!

Off to Sweet home

Sign at Alma

Safety First

The real Alma King

Graham at The Detroit City Entrance

Let the Mining Begin, got to see a pocket in action with Dr. Lees

Random things seen on the road

Jeep Backpack, far out

Visit to the Wisconsin Billiards Champions

Two Habits, We love this

Chicago Traffic 2pm

Cue Guitar Willy….On the road again

‘Merica

Best bite of the trip – green tomato pie

Andy and Chef Jenny have cracked the code

Smoker Collection

Barra Beauty

The Emerald Ridge

Two Feathers

Little Illinois Aquariums

Pederneira

Striking Aqua

Jewel Heliodor

Stunner Ped

Illinois Dreams

George Washington’s Wig

Magazine Cover Rock

Japan Topaz

Aquarium fluorite from Penfield Quarry

Ohio Royalty – Mike and Cindy

Elmwood Combo with Great Focal Crystal

Neat inclusions

Nice Elmwood combo

Spruce

Fun to see what else minerals people collect

Amazing pottery

Back to the rocks

Sculptural in spades

Skunky stripes

Flower barite

Carthage corners fascinate me

Best fishtail twin from here I’ve ever seen

Silver Smithy

Bolt of blue from Arizona

Master Keto Chef Jim made kings FEAST

Look at this choice baby

Daaa Fish

German Fluorite Stunner

Elmwood

Best in Show from Denton Mine

Mushrooms?

The color play on this is hypnotic

China produces some fine stuff

Another Chinese beauty

Charelle met me at Dr. Neely’s

Pink Elmwood

Jewel on Matrix

The two flawless cousins

Paradise city scape

So much beauty

Calcite grew inside etched fluorite, crazy!

The Dragon

Check the phantom, Calcite in Calcite

The candy cane

Perfect miniature

Transparent mini killer

What a combo

Off to see Jim & Gail

Unicorn horn for sure

Phospho

What color!

Amazing apatite

The other amazing apatite was crushed by Chef Gail

Trigon anything, yes!

San Fran smoker

Daaa Poodle!

Amethyst Starburst

Amazing Brochantite

Euclase and Apatite, 10! from the Italian judge

Wonderful La Morita

Best Joe Larkin’s ever

The Lawn Mower rock

Close up

What a cool rock with Game of Thrones vibe

Bluest Euclase

Wheat Sheaf

Spray of Aqua

Mineral Collectors love Dreher

Dreher Gecko

Yipes stripes!

Inclusion looks like a worm

Mjolnir Perhaps

Tsumeb does it well

Grandfathered Ivory

More elmwood delicious combos

Rutile….youre a star baby!

“The” Greenbank cover rock

Love the sea-foam smithys

Fine kammererite

Outstanding neudor galena and siderite

Fantastic sweet home combo

Good luck pocket…good luck finding one of these for sale!

Bi-Color Bunker Hill

Lady Slippers x2

Pyro on plumbo, hypnotic

Alluring Elura

Hilltop yellow on white

Exceedingly nice garnet from Jeffrey Mine

Don King Stibnite

The Horny Toad

The Cobra

The infiniti stone, aka Figure 8

Dear Fine Folks in Coppel

Dog tooth Calcite

One loves Mexico

The other Arizona

Juicy Mammoth St Anthony

Wet look luster

The force is strong with this one

Very fun feather from Batopilas

I love this Naica Piece

Sculptural

Nice Mexico rhodo

Showroom in Dallas at the Doubletree

The Ice Cream Cone – available

Larry Favorite Ironwood Boxes

Keith and Diane are fine folks!