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Post by frane on Oct 18, 2011 8:11:28 GMT -5
Hi Everyone,
The Northern Virginia Mineral Club will have their annual show on November 12th and 13th:
Student Union II Building
George Mason University Campus
Braddock Rd and Route 123,
Fairfax, VA
Sat: 10-6
Sun: 10-4
Adults: $5, Seniors and Teens (13-17): $3, Children 12 and under or in Scouts uniform, and GMU students w/ valid ID are free.
Lots to see and some slabs, not as many as I would like but still enjoyable!
Fran
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Post by frane on Nov 14, 2011 9:52:43 GMT -5
OK, just as a trip report, I went to the show yesterday, all set to buy some rough or a few slabs and boy, was I disapointed! there were a couple polished dyed slabs. Mostly fossils that cannot be worked, a few small hunks of Rhodocrosite for $200-$400 (I mean in the 2-3 oz range at most) a few chunks of AZ pet wood for $2-$4 each and these are the kind that you get in a tumble mix. At one stand there was a box, the size of business cards with little 3/4" pieces that I usually use as grit carrier in my tumble loads being sold as slabs. Not a one looked any good. Being a member, I paid the reduced price of $4 each to get in and I hate to say it, but I sure felt ripped off. Seemed about half the vendors there and mostly fossils and specimines with some finished stone work that was way above my pricerange!
One older guy had a rock sitting there with a little bit of shimmer to it as I was getting ready to leave. He said he had gotten it and was told it was from a specific mine in NJ and that it was a subcatagory known as bronzite. Since it turned out that it was not from the mine he had thought it was from, he offered it to me for the price of $1 because it would not work in his collection. It was my only purchase and hopefully, I can work some cabs out of the material but at least it was only a $1 so I couldn't go wrong.
Maybe it will get better next year...
Fran
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