Natures-Illusions highlights from various tent and displays during the visit to the 2018 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show.
Dead Camel Jasper from Nevada with its brecciated patterns of red, green, beige, white and blue was a new find and photographed quite nicely.
Utah Lace Opal from Milford CO, Utah has a nice variation of white-gray to rose pink and deep red, as well as a mix of various other colors. Hope to get over to their shop on the west slope of Colorado and get into some of their finer specimens to photograph.
Another local western find was with some folks in Utah that had beautiful examples of the Clay Canyon Variscite that had to have at least 15 different minerals and colors in the samples.
Not having a lot of slab cut Amethyst, it was pretty cool to visit a booth from Turkey that had some very nice thin cut slabs of this with Agate mixed in that was a nice highlight to the purple of the Amethyst.
Swamp Bogwood or Gary Green Jasper is a petrified swamp wood that has a unique teal and lime green color from various minerals that transformed the cells over time.
