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Here's a display of some fine minerals, that showcase was displayed at the Tuscon convention Center, during the February mineral show, known all around the world.
You have, on the higher level, from left to right :
- a red tourmalin, called elbaïte, from Minas Gerais, Brazil,
- a blue topaz from Itinga, Brasil (garimpo Genipapo)
- hidden, a pink Kunzite, from Pakistan,
- a yellow beryl called Heliodor, from Brazil,
- not easy to view, because of overexposure (sorry, but the light condition weren't easy) a geod of Okenit, from India,
- a green apophyllit with a flower of scolecite, from India, too,
- not sure for this one, but this pink mafes me think about morganite, a pink beryl,
- a malachit from Congo,
- red garnet on smoky quartz (which we don't see, because it's all coated with the garnet) from China,
- the yellow looks like a yellow beryl, but I'm not sure,
- that flashy pink is certainly a rhodonit.

On the bottom level, there are :
- an amesite (rare mineral, not an amethyst) from Russia,
- another green apophyllite from India, this one is with light pink stilbite,
- two dark orange imperial topazes from Brazil,
- a little ruby,
- the big blue is an aquamarine from Gilgit, Pakistan,
- the small green is an astonishing emerald from Coscuez, Columbia,
- a small red beryl from Thomas Range, Utah (these ones are pretty uneasy to find, it looks small, but compared with the current material, it is huge !),
- behind it, there is a pink beryl, called Morganite, and which comes from Pakistan,
- two turmaline (the kind Elbaïte) from Brazil,
- a red long cristal of crocoïte from Dundas, Tasmania, in Australia,
- two cristal of aquamarine from China (but it's the same piece),
- the blue spheres are cavansite from India,
- the dark green cristals behind it are dioptase from Congo,
- two pieces of native silver, one with cubic cristals, one with characteristic wires, both from Konsberg, Norway,
- a native copper maybe from Michigan, or from Arizona, but I don't know,
- 5 pieces of turmalin, four are from Brasil, and the darker one is from Pakistan,
- apatit from Mexico,
- and an amethyst, noted here to be from Vera Cruz, Mexico, but it's from Guerero, Mexico.

I came from France, to see them !