18. 2007 Tucson Gem & Mineral Show Report

"Colorado Classics"
(A Very Special Exhibit) Featuring 36 Exquisite Mineral Specimens
from Colorado

Guest Exhibitors; Bryan & Kathryn Lees
A Collector's Edge Tucson Show Press Release

Bryan and Kathryn Lees' collection of over 2,000 specimens was built up over 20 years. It contains some of the finest know Colorado mineral specimens from classic localities. For color, luster, aesthetic geometry and perfection, the collection establishes new standards of quality for Colorado gold, rhodochrosite and amazonite, as well as for a sepctrum of other mineral species. Visitors to the 2007 Tucson Gem & Mineral Show were treated to a display of 36 pieces from this incredible collection, some of which were being shown publicly for the first time ever.

Extraordinary rhodochrosite, amazonite and gold, as well as other species not as well known from Colorado were included. For example, a V-shaped cluster of aquamarine beryl crystals from Mt. Antero shows exquistie color, luster and overall aesthetics. There were beautiful wire and crystalline silvers from the Bulldog mine, and the Caribou mine respectively. A superb pink manganese-rich calcite, water-clear barite, gemmy emerald-green fluorites, transparent green sphalerite crystals, richly colored chalcopyrite in sharp octahedrons, wonderful and unique quartz specimens, a miniature enargite with exceptionally lustrous crystals, an ice-blue, totally gemmy topaz cryatl, and an outstanding huebnerite and scheelite specimen were included in this world-class display.

Bryan and Kathryn Lees, both graduates of the Colorado School of Mines, are residents of Evergreen, Colorado. They have owned and operated Collector's Edge Minerals, Inc. since 1984, and becaome famous in the "Mineral World" through their spectacularly successful specimen-mining operation at the Sweet Home Mine in Alma, Colorado, an occurrence world-famous for large, lustrous, cherry-red, rhodochrosite crystals. They specialize in the finest mineral specimens, obtained through extensive worldwide exploration and proprietary mining projects.

Below is a gallery of some of the highlights on display at the
2007 Tucson Gem & Mineral Show

Mineral:
Amazonite and Smokey Quartz

Size:
10cm x 8cm x 5cm

Location:
Tree Root Pocket, Teller County, Colorado

Photo by:
Kevin Dixon

Mineral:
Amazonite

Size:
11.4cm x 11.4cm x 7.6cm

Location:
Wigwam Creek, Jefferson County, Colorado

Photo by:
Kevin Dixon

Mineral:
Gold

Size:
7.9cm high

Location:
Breckinridge, Summit County, Colorado

Photo by:
Jeff Scovil

Mineral:
Quartz on Quartz

Size:
12.9cm high

Location:
Fischer Claims, Park County, Colorado

Photo by:
Jeff Scovil

Mineral:
Silver

Size:
6.1cm high

Location:
Bulldog Mine, Creede, Mineral County, Colorado

Photo by:
Jeff Scovil

Mineral:
Rhodochrosite

Size:
4cm x 3cm

Location:
Blue Moon Pocket (1996), Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado

Photo by:
Van Pelt

Mineral:
Rhodochrosite

Size:
18cm x 19cm

Location:
Corner Pocket, Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado

Photo by:
Van Pelt

Mineral:
Rhodochrosite on Quartz

Size:
7cm x 7cm

Location:
Hedgehog Pocket, Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado

Photo by:
Van Pelt

Mineral:
Aquamarine

Size:
7.6cm x 8.9cm x 4.4cm

Location:
Mt. Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado

Photo by:
Kevin Dixon

Mineral:
Barite

Size:
11.4cm x 11.4cm x 10cm

Location:
Book Cliffs, Mesa County, Colorado

Photo by:
Kevin Dixon

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