The massive block of Morganite and that giant sized Kunzite with a fracture through it were awesome! It was brave of that vendor to give such easy access to the Kunzite. Thanks for pausing and focusing on the labels/descriptions.
Such a delight to the eyes and heart and spirit. Someday,...I'll make it down there for the show. I better keep saving!😊 Thanks Dave! You are the best at showing the shows.
Wow, thanks for the Rock Currie library tour.....eminent geology knowledge that left us in 2015, just after I began my rock/geology journey.... Awesome to see his books.....felt a bit like flipping through records.....super cool and grateful some are landing in your hands. Cheers....and thanks for the great show tours.
Hey Dave! Great video! I'm a specimen collector so this is right up my alley! So colorful. Those single row gem box displays are cool! Really lays them out nicely. Can't wait to hear your original scores! Thanks again for all your hard work! Keep Jammin!
That mindat guy was awesome! I had a good conversation with him when I was there. They are no-nonsense and I love it. I didn't have time to go through all the books but I did end up walking away with a T-shirt hahaha.
The first 1:50 of this is basically shiny rock porn. These are all so stunning! Thank you for bringing us along with you, and for your knowledge. And Sprite just makes me laugh. :)
I would love to read some of this material. People and their passions are the best kind of teachers. Learn geology! You may find something priceless one day!
Man you are awesome! Snowbound where I live and watching your tours of shows I can't get to is awesome, many thanks from all of us who can't be there in person. A true credit to the love of minerals and lapidary, you show us all the gems without ever pointing out that of all the gems you show us you are one of the true gems. Love ya Bro!
@@lapidarydave Thanks man, you've made a looooong Winter much better, theres a great agate,jasper, fossil wood and opal area 2 miles from my house...buuut 4 to6 inches of frozen snow and ice are keeping me away! I don't want to end up a weird story in the local news..''Local Man Dies while Rockhouding" is not the headline I want to be my epitaph. Thanks again bro you ROCK!
Excellent video! If I could like this video twice I would. I'm always surprised that at shows where people are attempting to high priced minerals in the $500 to $10k range and they don't put labels out with them. It always feels like someone is attempting to sell a car online without a photo. I really just shake my head at the practice. 23:18 Thanks for showing that copy of Gem Cutting Shop Helps Best Selected Lapidary Journal, I just scooped up a copy on ebay. The collection of thumbnails at the end of the video was impressive.
Those books are fantastic! And you can't beat the price of them! I would have done the same thing and bought them all! Those prices were fantastic! Wow! I'm jealous! Lol!
Thank you so much for this great video. You do a great job with just the right amount of time looking at the different items. Good thing I was not there it would have cost me a dollar or two.
those green kunzite at 3:35, I always knew those as Spodume var. Triphane. Looks like form the Pala Cheif mine in So cal. Just found your channel. Lived in az for many years, and always loved going to the Gem shows every year. Hated missing it this year. Happy hunting
The prices on most of these gems and crystals are ridiculous. They have a sandwich calcite in their display for 350$. I buy wholesale and that thing wouldn't be no more than 50$.
I don't suppose the gentleman from mindat had a card/contact info other than via mindat somehow? There was a book you panned by at the end that I'd love to get my hands on if he still has it.
unfortunately, I do not get his contact information but he would be very easy to get a hold of through contacting mindat and asking for the information of the gentleman selling the books at mineral city
i decided to google and found that lapis lazuli is a composite rock that contains calcite, pyrite, lazurite, and other sodalites. lazurite is just specifically one of the deeper blue mineral components and makes up the bulk of lapis lazuli. the more ya know
@@nobodysbaby5048 Yes, I have actually. Granted they have the best singles donated BUT 80% - 90% is hidden away in drawers in the back only accessible by researchers. The gem shows are loaded with dealers and also a lot of the actual miners with trays or tables of affordable examples to gawk over the fine details. That's like the GIA who does not photograph what all they have in the vault for anybody to see online. Most Virgin Valley is in the diggers houses in a dome.
I’m a little surprised that sprite doesn’t but don’t be surprised with me and my friend I am actually pretty ignorant about most of the stuff at the Gemshow. Sometimes I feel a little bit unqualified, but then again, I never claim to know anything I just love it.
Dave, I’m enjoying watching your videos; you have so much energy and know your rocks and minerals. Really like your comments to vendors and your subscribers.. I’m sure you get this question a lot.. what happened to your left hand? Do you have any lingering issues? Last year I hit my right hand against a piece of metal inside my rock saw while it was turned off, and with thumb osteoarthritis already bad, I damaged a nerve and vein...resulting in hand surgery in September 2022. I still experience ALOT of pain. It’s slowed my rock work some but I still get some rock and gem therapy! Will check back to see more of your content. Thanks again for your work!
hey, thanks so much for watching. I really appreciate it. I wish I had some kind of glamorous story about how I fight off a gator while mining some crystals but what happened is I got drunk at my aunts house when I was taking care of my mother who was in hospice at the time I slipped and fell and hit my hand on a toilet, which then exploded it. Cut me to the bone and they didn’t do a very good job of stitching me up, I think they gave me three or four stitches for the whole wound. Anyway, I did have nerve damage for a while. I did a lot of massage for it and I’m a musician so high have pretty good coordination in my hand so I think that helped her to heal my pointer finger still goes numb if I play music without stretching it, but it goes away after a few moments I got really lucky I could’ve damage myself to where I couldn’t play again. Time will tell if the damage gets worse as I get older, but in the meantime, I’m super thankful.
I’m sorry for mentioning it before Dave I don’t mean to be a dick. I just find it disrespectful that your clinking those amethyst Scepters together, especially when you hit that kunzite Crystal against the tips of those two amethyst Scepters. Very disrespectful in my opinion not only to the crystals, but to the seller. Those crystals took millions of years to form in the Earth, and come out without damage your clinking them together like an a hole.
Matthew, you’re a bad ass you don’t have to be sorry for anything you’re super right about what you said I appreciate everything you comment your brilliant
So cringe to hear the clinking together of the crystals when you’re picking them up and putting them down, not very carefully and letting them clink in toeach other. Come on Dave have a little bit more respect for the crystals than that please. You clinked that green Kunzite Crystal, right into the tips of those amethyst Scepters, not very nice
The massive block of Morganite and that giant sized Kunzite with a fracture through it were awesome! It was brave of that vendor to give such easy access to the Kunzite. Thanks for pausing and focusing on the labels/descriptions.
Thank you Dave for these splendid stones that embellish our screens only for a fleeting moment
. Good day to you and those who follow you.
Thank you for the great tour of that gem show, it was wonderful!
Such a delight to the eyes and heart and spirit. Someday,...I'll make it down there for the show. I better keep saving!😊 Thanks Dave! You are the best at showing the shows.
thank you my friend
I'm glad I didn't miss your Premiere again!
That big old kunzite is to die for
Incredibly beautiful! Wish there were more price tags. Thanks Dave!
Wow, thanks for the Rock Currie library tour.....eminent geology knowledge that left us in 2015, just after I began my rock/geology journey....
Awesome to see his books.....felt a bit like flipping through records.....super cool and grateful some are landing in your hands. Cheers....and thanks for the great show tours.
Hey Dave! Great video! I'm a specimen collector so this is right up my alley! So colorful. Those single row gem box displays are cool! Really lays them out nicely. Can't wait to hear your original scores! Thanks again for all your hard work! Keep Jammin!
DAY AM! I love this stuff. Thanks for taking the time to show it.
That mindat guy was awesome! I had a good conversation with him when I was there. They are no-nonsense and I love it. I didn't have time to go through all the books but I did end up walking away with a T-shirt hahaha.
If I personally cannot go rock hounding. I can enjoy some one else rockhounding .
Wow those are all amazing. I got nervous when you picked up that huge kunzite. Thanks for another great video.
16:00 these are "faden quartz". Beautifull pieces btw!!
I like your videos. It shows all the price. Thank you
I appreciate you watching :)
I see mindat in the title and i click
Think you Dave, great video very enriching !
The first 1:50 of this is basically shiny rock porn.
These are all so stunning! Thank you for bringing us along with you, and for your knowledge. And Sprite just makes me laugh. :)
Oooo,...I loved the Jade and Zeolite books. Any rock book,.. love 'em all.
I would love to read some of this material. People and their passions are the best kind of teachers. Learn geology! You may find something priceless one day!
Omg the old Jade books! I'm drooling! And jelly! I hope you picked up that Agate Book!
Man you are awesome! Snowbound where I live and watching your tours of shows I can't get to is awesome, many thanks from all of us who can't be there in person. A true credit to the love of minerals and lapidary, you show us all the gems without ever pointing out that of all the gems you show us you are one of the true gems. Love ya Bro!
thank you andy i appreciate your kindness
@@lapidarydave Thanks man, you've made a looooong Winter much better, theres a great agate,jasper, fossil wood and opal area 2 miles from my house...buuut 4 to6 inches of frozen snow and ice are keeping me away! I don't want to end up a weird story in the local news..''Local Man Dies while Rockhouding" is not the headline I want to be my epitaph. Thanks again bro you ROCK!
Excellent video! If I could like this video twice I would.
I'm always surprised that at shows where people are attempting to high priced minerals in the $500 to $10k range and they don't put labels out with them. It always feels like someone is attempting to sell a car online without a photo. I really just shake my head at the practice.
23:18 Thanks for showing that copy of Gem Cutting Shop Helps Best Selected Lapidary Journal, I just scooped up a copy on ebay.
The collection of thumbnails at the end of the video was impressive.
Those books are fantastic! And you can't beat the price of them! I would have done the same thing and bought them all! Those prices were fantastic! Wow! I'm jealous! Lol!
Love all those books!!!
The best thing about patience is it costs nothing. More people need to get some.
Thank you so much for this great video. You do a great job with just the right amount of time looking at the different items. Good thing I was not there it would have cost me a dollar or two.
those green kunzite at 3:35, I always knew those as Spodume var. Triphane. Looks like form the Pala Cheif mine in So cal. Just found your channel. Lived in az for many years, and always loved going to the Gem shows every year. Hated missing it this year. Happy hunting
Let me think..should I but a car or crystals? Yep, crystals!
😮❤❤❤❤Amazing, Awesome salam from.indonesia bro
Some of these prices would gag a maggot!
Awesome vid 💗
Thank you Dave. What a load of treasures. I’m off to go change my drool soaked shirt🫶
Some of those prices seemed a little ridiculous.
Very nice!
The prices on most of these gems and crystals are ridiculous. They have a sandwich calcite in their display for 350$. I buy wholesale and that thing wouldn't be no more than 50$.
They greedy
Who do you buy from or what’s your store?
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Beautiful 😍 fluorite
These were in usd right?😮 i am starting to sell my collection and i have not learned prices, especially show prices
I don't suppose the gentleman from mindat had a card/contact info other than via mindat somehow? There was a book you panned by at the end that I'd love to get my hands on if he still has it.
unfortunately, I do not get his contact information but he would be very easy to get a hold of through contacting mindat and asking for the information of the gentleman selling the books at mineral city
Hello Brother, 3 more hours lol if I don't see during I'll catch up My Friend... 😊
Jems stone hunter useful video sir
13:18 is this lapis or lazurite? i think they might be the same thing in different forms so maybe im being pedantic, just unsure of the distinction
good question i’m not sure
i decided to google and found that lapis lazuli is a composite rock that contains calcite, pyrite, lazurite, and other sodalites. lazurite is just specifically one of the deeper blue mineral components and makes up the bulk of lapis lazuli. the more ya know
I can charge every stone with positive energy

sweet deal
I have lots of that kind of kunzite
Could someone facet that kunzite for jewelry? I don't know it's hardness.1
they facet it often
The gem shows offer more eye candy than the biggest museums in the world. Make a date and go enjoy.
You ain't seen the Smithsonian collections.
@@nobodysbaby5048 Yes, I have actually. Granted they have the best singles donated BUT 80% - 90% is hidden away in drawers in the back only accessible by researchers. The gem shows are loaded with dealers and also a lot of the actual miners with trays or tables of affordable examples to gawk over the fine details. That's like the GIA who does not photograph what all they have in the vault for anybody to see online. Most Virgin Valley is in the diggers houses in a dome.
Hello Dave looking forward to 4 pm See you Dave at 4 0lease have a great afternoon.
you too my friend
@@lapidarydave Thank you Dave
Good wark ❤
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Can’t believe you or Sprite don’t know what a Faden is. Those tablature crystals are Fadens.
I’m a little surprised that sprite doesn’t but don’t be surprised with me and my friend I am actually pretty ignorant about most of the stuff at the Gemshow. Sometimes I feel a little bit unqualified, but then again, I never claim to know anything I just love it.
Dave, I’m enjoying watching your videos; you have so much energy and know your rocks and minerals. Really like your comments to vendors and your subscribers..
I’m sure you get this question a lot.. what happened to your left hand? Do you have any lingering issues?
Last year I hit my right hand against a piece of metal inside my rock saw while it was turned off, and with thumb osteoarthritis already bad, I damaged a nerve and vein...resulting in hand surgery in September 2022. I still experience ALOT of pain. It’s slowed my rock work some but I still get some rock and gem therapy! Will check back to see more of your content. Thanks again for your work!
hey, thanks so much for watching. I really appreciate it. I wish I had some kind of glamorous story about how I fight off a gator while mining some crystals but what happened is I got drunk at my aunts house when I was taking care of my mother who was in hospice at the time I slipped and fell and hit my hand on a toilet, which then exploded it. Cut me to the bone and they didn’t do a very good job of stitching me up, I think they gave me three or four stitches for the whole wound. Anyway, I did have nerve damage for a while. I did a lot of massage for it and I’m a musician so high have pretty good coordination in my hand so I think that helped her to heal my pointer finger still goes numb if I play music without stretching it, but it goes away after a few moments I got really lucky I could’ve damage myself to where I couldn’t play again. Time will tell if the damage gets worse as I get older, but in the meantime, I’m super thankful.
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I’m sorry for mentioning it before Dave I don’t mean to be a dick. I just find it disrespectful that your clinking those amethyst Scepters together, especially when you hit that kunzite Crystal against the tips of those two amethyst Scepters. Very disrespectful in my opinion not only to the crystals, but to the seller. Those crystals took millions of years to form in the Earth, and come out without damage your clinking them together like an a hole.
Matthew, you’re a bad ass you don’t have to be sorry for anything you’re super right about what you said I appreciate everything you comment your brilliant
So cringe to hear the clinking together of the crystals when you’re picking them up and putting them down, not very carefully and letting them clink in toeach other. Come on Dave have a little bit more respect for the crystals than that please.
You clinked that green Kunzite Crystal, right into the tips of those amethyst Scepters, not very nice
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