Re: [meteorite-list] Enormous Quartzsite Gem and Mineral Show Now Happening in Arizona

2017-01-07 Thread Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
m> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2017 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Enormous Quartzsite Gem and Mineral Show Now Happening in Arizona OH! I remember that! And that was some 10 years ago. You told me about that hotel, and I told you that if you had asked me before going

Re: [meteorite-list] Enormous Quartzsite Gem and Mineral Show Now Happening in Arizona

2017-01-07 Thread Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list
I agree there are good deals on all manner of lapidary equipment and tools there. Sadly the minerals are mostly junk. But like all swap meets and junk shows there are certainly treasures that can be found as well. I always stay in Blythe but it's a craphole too. But less crappy. Just buy your

Re: [meteorite-list] Enormous Quartzsite Gem and Mineral Show Now Happening in Arizona

2017-01-07 Thread Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
: Saturday, January 07, 2017 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Enormous Quartzsite Gem and Mineral Show Now Happening in Arizona OH! I remember that! And that was some 10 years ago. You told me about that hotel, and I told you that if you had asked me before going there, I would have told

Re: [meteorite-list] Enormous Quartzsite Gem and Mineral Show Now Happening in Arizona

2017-01-07 Thread Anne Black via Meteorite-list
tral.com> Sent: Sat, Jan 7, 2017 12:15 pm Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Enormous Quartzsite Gem and Mineral Show Now Happening in Arizona I only live three hours away so cannot speak for the hotel rooms. We discovered a "four star" hotel in Denver (the Ramada) had bed bugs so yo

Re: [meteorite-list] Enormous Quartzsite Gem and Mineral Show Now Happening in Arizona

2017-01-07 Thread Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
I only live three hours away so cannot speak for the hotel rooms. We discovered a "four star" hotel in Denver (the Ramada) had bed bugs so you never know what you are going to run into. It ruined our entire trip so we destroyed our luggage and have never returned since. If you check the bed

Re: [meteorite-list] Enormous Quartzsite Gem and Mineral Show Now Happening in Arizona

2017-01-07 Thread Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list
Quartzite has turned into a horrible giant swap meet filed with trash. The last couple of years I've gone over there for some reason and wasted an incredible amount of time looking at trash. Very few decent mineral dealers there. Hmani is about the only one. 95% is junk. I mean really garbage

[meteorite-list] Enormous Quartzsite Gem and Mineral Show Now Happening in Arizona

2017-01-07 Thread Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
The enormous Quartzsite Gem and Mineral Show in Arizona is up and running. This tiny town gets over 1 million visitors a year and has eight different shows with thousands of gem and mineral vendors so it could take weeks to go through all of the material including meteorites. Vendor show fees