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This was my first year
at the Inn Suites for the Tucson show. Rob Lavinsky and I were sharing
a room, set in the beautiful and tranquil courtyard of this majestic
hotel. I have to say that this is a heck of a lot better view
than what I had at the Executive Inn!! Also, Parking is *MUCH* better
here.
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Having these views
and being right next door to Brian Lees of Collector's Edge and Stuart
Wilensky Fine Minerals, I felt like I was in paradise! If you
have never been to the Inn Suites, I highly recommend it!
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My friend Patrick,
from the room next door.
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The entrance to our
room
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My main display case,
full of all sorts of mineralogical treasures!
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Here are some shelves
of very fine Bisbee aurichalcites, fine Russian orpiments and superb
Virgin Valley (Nevada) fire opals!
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Fine specimens of Olinghouse
gold, California golds, a stunning Chinese azurite, Cave-in-Rock strontianite
spray, Chinese spessartine-on-quartz-crystals, Paki aqua scepter, and
more!
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A truly exceptional
triple Japan-Law twin quartz small cabinet specimen from Peru, along
side one of the finest small cabinet specimens of Moroccan vanadinite
I have ever seen!
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Superb cabinet specimens
of Meikle mine barite!
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A stunning array of
intense fire opals from the world-famous Rainbow Ridge opal mine in
Virgin Valley, Nevada.
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