Gem and Mineral show

I'm having too much fun this summer. We "rock"ed with The The Band Band yesterday. Anyone else remember the Music from Big Pink & Woodstock NY & The Last Waltz? The concert venue only held about 50 people so we all had fun & sang along. Here's my souvenir:



We started the day at the Liberty Coin Show but left there empty-handed.

 

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Don't ya just hate that?

 

The hands might be empty, but the hearts were full of joy. I suppose it was a happy dancing.. all the way.LOL

 

Well I was hoping to to find some more coins this year but the dealer that sells them at the Gem and mineral show was sick. I did manage t find a couple fossils I liked though and took my mom and niece along.


A large ( 3.5" inches) rolled up trilobite




Another, slightly smaller one. The detail is awesome but the tail is missing/broken off, which is why the price was nice.


A small ( about 2" ) Megalodon shark tooth. The big ones start at $200+ so I got a baby tooth.



Pyritized ammonite section. I couldn't find a whole specimen for sale, that I could afford. The pyrite doesn't show well in the pic though.

 

My mom grabbed me these.



and my niece got a nice haul

 

Great additions, randy.

 

@randygeki Coincidentally, my father just received a Megaladon tooth in the mail, yesterday. He bought it off a guy on a rock hound facebook group.


I have some fossils. Mostly trilobites and crinoids.

 

That one's awesome

 

Thats great!

 

My wife continually looks for them at the Beach. I have seriously thought about going to a local store, buying one, and salting the beach for her...

 

Great, just googled around and see they have a gemstone show here in NY later this year, thanks for making me spend more money guys.

Not sure if I would buy anything or just look around... knowing me I would buy at least one cool thing tho.

 

Just don't but the metaphysical stuff. They carry a higher premium, kinda like slabbed ancients.

 

Aragonite

 

Thanks!

 

You mean the stuff they call "new age" which is supposed to be magical or something? If so, I actually don't mind. When I was a kid I was fascinated with those gemstones, of course as I grew older all those things went out the window. But I will try to stay away from them if I see them.

 

Im just saying its more expensive. Still neat stuff

 

I am an old Rock hound and did I ever enjoy this thread.....and the Red Beryl, wow, I was looking at the first picture and thinking corundum of the red variety and then the 2nd picture I was like "what the heck?" never occurred to me as Red Beryl. That is a serious piece that would require a good chunk of change to get...


Thank you.

 

man, this is a pretty cool thread, eh? .....

=> thanks for posting your awesome stuff!!

 

Very cool specimens Randy! Looks like we collect some of the same things. I haven't taken pictures of my minerals yet but here are a few fossils.


4" Spinosaurus Tooth
Spinosaurus (meaning "spine lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in what is now North Africa, from the lower Albian to Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period, about 106 to 93.5 million years ago. This genus was first known from Egyptian remains discovered in the 1910s and described by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer. These original remains were destroyed in World War II, but additional skull material has come to light in recent years. It is unclear whether one or two species are represented in the described fossils. The best known species is S. aegyptiacus from Egypt, although a potential second species, S. maroccanus, has been recovered from Morocco. Spinosaurus is often postulated as a piscivore, and work using oxygen isotope ratios in tooth enamel suggests that it was semiaquatic, living both on land and in water like a modern crocodilian.

2-3/4" Megalodon tooth.
Megalodon Shark Tooth Fossil from Cape Fear river basin, North Carolina. Dark black root with nice blue-grey enamel. lived approximately 28 to 1.5 million years ago, during the Cenozoic Era (late Oligocene to early Pleistocene).


Blastoid
Blastoids (Class Blastoidea) are an extinct type of stemmed echinoderm. Often called sea buds, blastoid fossils look like small hickory nuts. They originated, along with many other echinoderm classes, in the Ordovician period and reached their greatest diversity in the Mississippian subperiod of the Carboniferous period. However, some blastoids may have come from the Cambrian. Blastoids persisted until their extinction at the end of Permian, about 250 million years ago.

 

Love the blastoid...want!