43th Nautilus Fair - Ghent, Belgium
Last Updated: 18th Mar 2018By Tom Costes
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One of the councellors of the city has paid a visit to our fair - Jean-Claude Costes with Resul Tapmaz
The crowd is getting quite big
Jarislav has come all the way from Poland for our fair and saying hello to everybody. He’s having an online auction at ghe same time - Geotrader
A nice cassiterite from the Czech Republic - Kracmar Ludek
Nice tincalconite from Baker Mine - Silmarils Minerals
A big piece of kidney ore hematite from Florence Mine, UK - PriceDownMinerals
A terrific azurite from Mexico
One of these is not like the other... - Interkristal
We also have a different room for collectors to sell some excess material from their collections and we’ve places them together with the exposition
Let’s go to the exhibition. I am the one who has put everything together and it is all about one quarry in Belgium: Bierghes. The quarry produce a microdiorite and is known for his great quartzes.
Let us look at some Quartzes... a nice Dauphine with a crook.
A 17cm big crystal from Bierghes, Belgium
Some more quartz
A nicely prepared orthoclase from Bierghes
A whole cabinet filled with strage quartzes
A biterminated clear quartz with Chlorite on the back. This is one of the best pieces from the exposition
And this is the most impressing pieces. Sadly it it had to be glued together but it is still extremely good. 30+cm
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And Erin... It is on!