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MICHIGAN MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY'S GREATER DETROIT GEM, MINERAL, FOSSIL & JEWELRY SHOW
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GREATER DETROIT GEM, MINERAL, FOSSIL & JEWELRY SHOW - OCTOBER 10, 11 & 12, 2003
Every year the Michigan Mineralogical Society puts on their annual show at Macomb Community College, South Campus - Expo Center, Bldg. P, 12 Mile & Hayes, Warren, Michigan.
The show is rated one of the PREMIER SHOWS in North America with excellent displays of beautiful minerals and crystals, carvings, gems, beads, and jewelry, interesting fossils, educational displays and lectures by the experts in these fields.
THIS YEAR's THEME WAS "RED, WHITE and BLUE".
Thanks Pat & Andy for the nice photographs!
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Nearly a hundred display cases are setup every year for exhibitors and museums & universities; Smithsonian Institute, A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Carnegie Museum, Cincinnati Museum, Cranbrook Institute, Royal Ontario Museum, University of Waterloo, Wayne State University, Midland Museum, Kent State University, LaFarge Quarry, Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, Import Specialist and many more.
There was awards given to the BEST OF SHOW, COMPETITIVE TROPHY, CLUB ALLEY TROPHY, MMS TROPHY, DETROIT CHALLENGE CUP, BIG WHEEL TROPHY and NON-COMPETITIVE EXHIBITORS. We would like to thank everyone who displayed their collections. Start thinking what you would like to display at next year's show.
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This CAVE BEAR from the Pleistocene Ice Age looked like it was going to attach anyone who was brave enough to stand next to it.
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MAMMOTH TUSKS
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These mammoth tusks were unbelievably large, 10 feet in length. It is hard to image these animals roaming across North America.
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Every year the Show attracts over 40 dealers from across the country.
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GOLD from Cranbrook Institute of Science
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This was the first time this BEAUTIFUL GOLD SPECIMEN has been publicly displayed off the grounds of Cranbrook.
This is one of the world's finest samples of leaf crystalline gold. The specimen was collected from the Red Ledge Mines in the northern mother load district of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1914. The specimen was donated to the Institute in 1937 by its founder, newspaper magnate George G. Booth.
This was one of the most SUPERB specimen the GREATER DETROIT GEM, MINERAL, FOSSIL and JEWELRY SHOW has ever displayed. We hope you don't miss seeing this once in a lifetime display.
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Renowned soapstone carver and demonstrator Sandy Cline was be one of the many SPECIAL FEATURES at this year's SHOW.
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