Park Hills Mineral Show 2019

Had some problems with my website for a few weeks, that stretched into a couple of months before I was able to get them resolved with the help of a good photographer friend in Arkansas…at this point we think it`s resolved now, so I will be posting on a regular basis again soon.

I drove down to the Park Hills Show on Saturday morning, the second day of the show, to see what they had this year. I always make it a point to stop and visit with my friend Johnny B from Mt Ida…..

….who is always on the second row near the info booth gate. Johnny usually has his green carved dragons and some new stuff…he did not disappoint again this year…the new stuff this year included a few flats of the last of a new discovery of creedite balls with multi-colored fluorite cubes attached to the balls. He allowed me to look through a flat or two so I could make a selection…he had some on display in a glass case on the table too….

and here is the one I selected, with a nice smattering of multi colored fluorites on it…


Afterward, I visited with my geode hunting buddy, Ken Vaisvil, he was also on the second row but further to the south east end of it, selling and cracking geodes as he does each year, and beautiful ones at that. I picked up a few more special ones from him, he always has some gorgeous ones….

Great talking to ya again Ken, see ya at Geodefest 2019 !!

From there I wandered over to the back row to see the new dealers and what they were selling, ran into some friends of John Oostenryk from Iowa, that were down to buy some druse quartz…the gal they bought some from didn`t even have the decency to clean them up before she brought them to the show. I let them know I had some much prettier stuff and would be happy to sell it at wholesale prices, as I normally do, and she said they would be in touch soon. From there I wandered on down the row and came upon my miner buddy Josh, who had some great chalcopyrite pieces with bladed barites attached in the snow white colors, as well as some new finds…galena cubes with double terminated golden calcites attached to them….

…large calcite crystals and the nice sphalerite balls attached to the chalco pieces…

…I plan to drop by his residence next week and see if he has some more nice stuff for sale, to take to Kentucky with me in a couple of weeks. Will see if anyone else down there likes it too. 🙂

Hope everyone is staying cool this summer, so far we cannot complain too much about excessive heat here in Missouri. 🙂

Fletcher Mine Additions to My Collection

I picked up some beautiful calcites and chalcopyrite to add to my collection back in May from my friend Dave….

01 Yellow Calcites With Chalcopyrite

02 Yellow Calcites With Chalcopyrite

08 Calcite XLS in Dolomite & Chalcopyrite

 

 

12 Calcite XLS in Dolomite & Chalcopyrite

14 Calcite XLS in Dolomite & Chalcopyrite

15 Calcite XLS in Dolomite & Chalcopyrite

17 Dbl Terminated XLS

 

20 Calcite XLS in Dolomite & Chalcopyrite

22 Calcite XLS in Dolomite & Chalcopyrite

 

…then a few weeks later, he let me know that he had some stuff in that was even prettier, double terminated calcite crystals many of them three to four inches in length, and surrounded by, even embedded in clusters of gorgeous pyrite !!  I had to go take a look and to say I was astounded would be an understatement….

38 Dogtooth Calcites In Marcasite & Chalcopyrite

05 Dbl Terminated Calcite & Marcasite

06 Dbl Terminated Calcite & Marcasite

40 Dogtooth Calcites In Marcasite & Chalcopyrite

41 Dogtooth Calcites In Marcasite & Chalcopyrite

…so here is what my collection from the Doe Run Mines looks like now…well should say this is one countertop out of five now….

01 Calcites With Marcasite

…then there is this shelf as well…..

06 From Pocket 31

…as this one….

12 Pyrite & Chalco Calcite Pieces

..and then I changed the first one around a little….

14 Pyrite & Chalco Calcite Pieces

…hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I do…I picked up another batch of them from him on Friday, do not have them photographed just yet, not even unwrapped yet…but I will get there eventually. 🙂

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