Euromineralexpo Milano 2024!
Last Updated: 27th Apr 2024By Riccardo Modanesi
Hi to everybody!
On last April 19th, 20th and 21st the Euromineralexpo came to Milan for the first time! It's the same event which takes place every year in Bologna, Turin and Florence!
Here you are some photos I made there.
On last April 19th, 20th and 21st the Euromineralexpo came to Milan for the first time! It's the same event which takes place every year in Bologna, Turin and Florence!
Here you are some photos I made there.
Welcome to Milano! Here you are our cathedral, the Duomo!
And here you are our "living space", the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele!
And the Scala Theatre!
Almost ready for the Winter Olympic Games, in 2026!
Palazzo Marino, the seat of our municipality mayor!
The Madonnina, Our Beautiful Lady! It is our symbol and ALL the buildings within the municipality of Milan MUST be lower than Her!
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II !
The Castello Sforzesco!
Piazza Affari, the seat of the Italian Stock Exchange, i.e. our House or Wall Street!
The Piazza Mercanti well!
The Piazza Mercanti Arcade! It is built so that business-men could exchange secret information about the market by speaking in a corner and listening from the opposite one!
The Ice Palace! The mineral show took place here!
Not too bad as a welcome! It was found in Asti, near Turin!
famous diamond copies displayed at the entry!
more "diamonds"!
Grand Mogol and Centenary!
Cullinan!
Millenium Star and more!
The Jubilee and the Star of the South!
Tiffany and Eureka!
Not only "white"! Coloured too!
The Koh-I-Noor and the Light Of Peace!
The Taylor-Burton!
The Pigot and more famous "diamonds"!
Here you are the show!
Some friends of mine, Alessio and his mother Nuccia, 85 years old! She had been working in a jewellery for many years and knows many stone cutters!
A pupil of mine, Alona, together with her son, Bogdan, 7 years old! He is starting to be a mineral collector, and mineralogy needs young people! They are from Ukraine, but have been living in Italy for 11 years!
Rama, 6 years old, together with his father Roberto! Roberto was an university-friend of mine some 30 years ago, and Rama is more and more improving his skillness in recognising minerals and crystals! He already has a more than 100 pieces collection!
Fossils from the Asti valleys, near Turin!
More fossils from Asti!
More fossils from Asti! Complete fossil whale skeletons were found there!
These valleys are a paleontological park now!
What??? A T-rex walking through the show!
Amethyst and crystals from all over the world!
fluorite crystals from Italy and from all over the world!
Big pyrite crystals and more!
Quartz crystals, big and small, mainly from the Alps!
A tourmaline display! There were over 120 displays at the show!
Beautiful crystals!
beautiful quartz crystals!
big and beautiful variously coloured fluorite crystals!
Big and nice crystals, from all over the world! Several species are displayed here!
Sulphur from Sicily and more!
Big and nice crystals! Beryl, tourmaline and more!
Amethyst from Mexico and more crystals!
malachite, siderite, spinel and more!
more crystals, mainly from the Alps!
Malachite with chrysocolla, fluorite, copper and more!
Tanzanite, fluorite and more!
more crystals, mainly from Italy and Latin America!
Tourmaline, apatite, topaz and more!
Dioptase, fluorite and more!
Topaz, tourmaline, calcite and more!
Copper, quartz and more!
Celestine, calcite and more!
Aquamarine, celestine, Italian amethyst and more!
Alpine crystals, Colombian emeralds and more!
More crystals, mainly from Pakistan!
Celestine. fluorite, tourmaline, bicolour beryl and more!
Many more crystals belonging to several species! Even Italian gold is shown here!
Scheelite, amethyst and more!
Aegirine, amethyst, tourmaline and more!
Malachite, prehnite and more!
Sulphur, smithsonite and more!
wulfenite and more!
Dioptase, prehnite, spessartine and many more!
Ruby from Afghanistan and Tanzania, wulfenite and more!
Kammererite, brasilianite and many more!
Aquamarine from Pakistan, rhodochrosite, sulphur and more!
Fluorite, pyrite, quartz and more!
Cassiterite, tourmaline, quartz and more!
Beautiful Italian crystals!
Wulfenite, morganite and more!
Aragonite, fluorite and more!
Big and small quartz crystals, mainly from the Alps, and a Chinese baryte!
A nice topaz crystal, from Pakistan!
Big and beautiful crystals, from all over the world!
Pyrite and more, mainly from Italy, but from all over the world too!
fluorite, quartz and more, from the province Bergamo and from Trentino!
Datolite from Emilia, cerussite from Sardinia and more Italian crystals!
crystals from Lombardy, Tuscany and Sardinia!
datolite and quartz from Emilia!
mre crystals from the two biggest Italian islands, Sicily and Sardinia!
fluorite and quartz from Trentino and sulphur from Tuscany!
amethyst and more, from Sardinia!
hematite, amethyst and tourmaline, from the Elba island!
more from the Elba island!
garnets and more, from the Elba island!
quartz crystals and many more, from the Elba island!
epidote, hedenbergite, green quartz and more, from the Elba island!
calcite, sphalerite and more, from the Elba islands!
epidote and vesuvianite, from Piemonte and the Aosta Valley!
analcime, gadolinite and amethyst, from different Italian localities!
vesuvianite from Bellecombe, Aosta Valley!
crystals from Piemonte and from the volcanic rocks close to the Vesuvio and the Etna volcanoes!
pyrite from the Elba island!
more pyrite from the Elba island!
Minerals from Sicily!
Gaetano Di Dio showing his wonderful Sicilian minerals! He has a wide knowledge about mines and quarries in his island!
Not only Italy or Europe: Pakistan too!
Romanian minerals! Quartzes all right, but that rhodochrosite... mmmmhhhh!!!
Francisc Gaspar, from Romania, exhibiting minerals from his country!
A wonderful aquamarine crystal!
aquamarines from Pakistan!
more aquamarines from Pakistan!
actinolite, from Pakistan!
amethyst from Namibia!
amethyst with calcite!
amethyst from Mexico!
apatite with mica, from Pakistan!
apophyllite with stilbite and chalcedony, from India!
aragonite from Romania!
axinite and magnesite, from Northern Italy!
azurite from the UK and from Laos!
baryte from Sardinia!
another baryte from Sardinia!
and one more baryte, from Sardinia!
baryte on quartz, from China!
Colourless beryl, from China!
beautiful calcite gemination!
calcite from the USA and another aquamarine from Pakistan!
calcite and fluorite crystals, from all over the world!
Iridescent chalcopyrite, from the USA! This time it wasn't forgotten to label it!
Celestine, garnet, rhodochrosite and cerussite!
Celestine from Sicily!
celestine from Madagascar!
A beautiful cerussite crystal!
small and big kyanite crystals!
chrysocolla from Congo!
Another chrysocolla from Congo!
demantoide from Iran!
demantoide from Val Malenco, Lombardy!
green fluorite crystals!
Dioptase from Congo!
dioptase from Namibia!
aegirine from Malawi!
another aegirine from Malawi!
One more aegirine, from Malawi! There is a zircon crystal too!
Francesco Vanini, from Varese, Lombardy! He is very fond of Lombard minerals and knows all of the mines and quarries in Lombardy very well!
Almost colourless fluorite!
Fluorite with baryte!
Fluorite and rhodochrosite!
Fluorite with smoky quartz and calcite, from China!
Fluorite, from the province Bergamo! The international airport Orio Al Serio is located in this province!
Fluorite on mica, from Pakistan!
Fluorite from Peru!
Fluorite from the USA and smoky quartz from Brazil!
Quartz from Namibia and fluorite from the USA!
American fluorite!
Pale blue American fluorite!
Green fluorite from South Africa!
Fluorite crystals!
Fluorite from Dalnegorsk!
Nice Italian minerals!
Phosgenite, from Sardinia!
Big amethyst geodes!
A big heart-formed geode! WE ALL LOVE MINERALS!!!
Garnet from China!
Colombian halloysite and more!
Stibnite from China!
Kermesite, rutile, quartz and more!
Kunzite, from Afghanistan!
Liddicoatite, from Madagascar!
Malachite, from Congo!
Mesolite, from Pune, India!
Emerald from Pederneira, Brazil, ruby from Tanzania and more!
The minerals of Francesco!
A big morganite crystal!
Morganite with quartz, from Pakistan!
A nice morganite crystal!
Opal from Oregon, USA!
These big orthoclase and quartz crystal seem to protect this small fluorite one!
These big crystal seem to be bodyguards for the small green fluorite one!
Pezzottaite and baryte!
Pyrite, amethist and calcite!
Pyrite, from China!
Hematite with pyrite, Elba island!
Pyrite and quartz, from Peru!
Pyromorphite from China and epidote from Afghanistan!
Pyrrhotine from Dalnegorsk, and apatite on mica from Pakistan!
Big and small quartz crystals!
Hyaline and smoky quartz crystals!
Hyaline quartzes from Colombia and from all over the world!
Alpine smoky quartzes!
Swiss smoky quartzes, sometimes with byssolite!
Big alpine quartz crystals!
Quartz crystals and actinolite, from the Italian and Swiss Alps
Double-ended quartzes!
Alpine quartz crystal with chlorite!
Quartz with mica, from Switzerland!
Beautiful quartz crystal group, from the Canton Bern, Switzerland!
Smoky quartz, from the Alps!
Smoky quartzes, from Switzerland!
Smoky quartz with tourmaline!
Smoky quartz, from the French side of Monte Bianco!
Smoky (almost black!) quartz, from the Canton Graubùnden-Grigioni, Switzerland!
Hyaline quartz from Brazil!
A big hyaline quartz crystal group, from Colombia!
A big rutilated quartz crystal!
Quartz crystals from the Formazza valley, Piemonte!
Hyaline quartz!
Rhodochrosite from Argentina!
Rhodochrosite from the USA and aquamarine from Pakistan!
Argentinian rhodochrosite, Sardinian baryte, tourmaline from Madagascar and hematite from the UK!
Siderite with pyrrhotine from Brazil and baryte from Sardinia!
Colombian emerald!
Emerald from Pizzo Marcio, Piemonte!
Canadian spessartine, or much more likely grossular!
Chinese stibnite!
Nice tanzanite crystals! According to the exhibitor they weren't heated and their colour is completely natural!
Topaz crystals, from Pakistan!
Topaz and kunzite crystals, from Pakistan!
Colourless topaz, from Brazil!
Topaz with albite, from Pakistan!
Topaz with quartz, from Pakistan!
Topaz with albite, from Brazil!
These big big quartz crystals act as bodyguards to this small topaz!
Nice tourmaline crystal from Afghanistan!
Another tourmaline from Afghanistan!
One more tourmaline from Afghanistan!
A green transparent tourmaline, from Brazil!
Rainbow? Noooo! A tourmaline crystal!
Another green tourmaline!
A big pink tourmaline, from Pakistan!
A big greenish-blue tourmaline!
Colourless tourmalines!
American tourmaline!
Schorl with quartz!
Tourmaline crystals from Pakistan! Nice colour!
Tourmaline crystals from Congo!
Vanadinite, from Morocco!
Green vivianite, from Romania (or from Brazil? A Romanian dealer was selling it)! The colour is very deep!
Sicilian sulphur!
Sulphur with aragonite from Sicily!
Daniele Respino introducing his books "Minerali d'Italia"!
Ksenia Levterova, an Ukrainian painter living in Munich, introducing her pictures!
Some of the pictures of Ksenia Levterova! Very beautiful indeed!
More pictures of Ksenia!
More pictures made by Ksenia!
A scheelite crystal! It seems a photo, but it's a picture by Ksenia!
Another picture by Ksenia!
So many tumbled stones!
Gemstones!
Jade jewels!
More jade jewels!
Butterflies in jade!
Jewels!
More jewels!
Malachite jewels!
Well-known jewels!
Various furnishings!
Turquoise jewels!
Shells and iridescent ammonites!
Shells!
Coral jewels, made in Torre del Greco near Naples!
More coral jewels!
Burmese amber, 100 million years old!
Maybe one of the insects inside these amber pieces contains the DNA of a T-rex!
Ammonites!
Big ammonite!
more ammonites!
Not only ammoites!
Shells and butterflies!
Fossils!
Vertebrate fossils! Warning! Skulls are not a good prediction!
Fossil fish and more!
A big big ammonite! Differently from many other ones, this one is displayed almost in its life position!
Fossil fish and ammonites!
Fossil fish? Mmmmmhhhh...!
A complete tortoise shell!
Antonello Petriccione showing his beautiful meteorite pieces and moonrocks!
Moonrocks and meteorites!
Meteorites!
Rhodochrosite? Mmmmhhhh...! For sure the composition with tourmaline crystals just behind is an artifact!
Ok, a beautiful composition, but it's clear it's an artifact!
Religious icons!
A gemmological lab inside the exhibition!
See you in Turin, or in Scandicci near Florence, or in Bologna next year!
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