My Show & Event Schedule

Thanks to those of you who attended and helped us make the Spring Colorado Mineral and Fossil show the best ever at the Crowne Plaza! After many years at the Crowne Plaza hotel, this show must move, because the hotel has been sold and will be re-purposed, this was the last mineral show to be held here. The September show that has been held here for many years will continue at the Marriott Tech Center at the Junction of I-25 and I-225 in south Denver. The April show will move to the National Western Stockyard Complex on I-70 a few miles west of I-25. I am considering participation in the 2025 show.

In May, we attended the Texas Mineral & Fossil show in Plano and thank those of you who shopped with us. Unfortunately, as we limit our travel to shows, this one will no longer be on our schedule.

The Pikes Peak Gem Mineral & Jewelry Show was June 7-9, in Colorado Springs, CO. was well attended and also set a record for or sales. This is one of the shows that will remain on my schedule. Dennis Beals of XTAL has agreed to work with me there again for the 2025 show.

I'm working on a map locating the Denver shows. It will appear here asap.

Recent Show News ........

Thanks to those of you who visited our venues in Tucson at the Tucson Fine Mineral Gallery and Mineral City.

We missed some of our regulars who stayed away this year and hope to see you in 2025. We understand that travel is expensive, but Tucson is worth whatever it takes! The Pegmatites displays at the Convention Center were amazing. We enjoyed meeting a lot of new customers for our specimens and lab work.

I subscribe to the free Roskin Gem News Reports, (gary@roskingemnewsreport.com) that you might also enjoy. A recent version had a nice discussion of the value of "trade shows". It stressed that although there are good things on the internet (and I would add, seen with traveling dealers), there is nothing like attending shows to get the vibe of what is new, what it costs, and who is the source. Socializing is important. Finding the dealer who shares your taste and learning that many booths have similar items, but at widely varying prices, is really important to educated collectors. Attend shows, visit fun cities, and make new mineral friends!

We remind you that the Tucson Fine Mineral Gallery is open from 10 AM until 4 PM Monday through Friday during the year. Please ask to visit the Graeber & Himes room.

Leonard Himes Dealer in Fine Mineral Specimens

My Show and Event Schedule

This was the second year of special events at the Gallery, first in Spring and another in Autumn. Think of them as symposia. In addition to lectures and social events, The Crystal Classic room and several others, including Graeber & Himes, were open for shopping between lectures. Because the Plano, TX show was the following weekend, Cal Graeber was in charge of our room, as I loaded for the drive to Texas. We always have Southwestern, USA and worldwide specimens priced from $100 to many thousands. Our current displays feature worldwide affordable amethysts & USA and Mexican crystals. If you couldn't make the event, you can still shop in our room year-round. Just visit the Crystal Classics room across the hall and ask to se our room. The CC staff will handle your purchase.

We welcome appointments for showroom visits in Colorado when we are at home.

Next Up ....Denver, Colorado,

the second most important show in the US. Like Tucson there are several shows in diverse locations.

As mentioned above, the Crowne Plaza show had to moved and so has the Hardrock Summit, the major international retail show, and home to the original Denver Gem and Mineral Show. After three years in the Downtown Colorado Convention Center that was not a popular location, we think you will be pleased with the move to the Westin Hotel and Conference Center, in Westminster on Sept. 12-15. It is in the Northwest part of greater Denver, on the freeway to Boulder. Parking is abundant and FREE! In addition to the top dealers inside the building there will be tents in a portion of the parking lot behind the hotel for wholesale and retail dealers. See www.Hardrock Summit.com for more details

On the weekend prior to the HRS there will be several wholesale/retail shows scattered around town. The Rocky Mountain Mineral and Fossil Show, formerly in the Crowne Plaza, has moved south to the Marriott Tech Center on I-25 at I-225 for this year only. But The Just Minerals & Crystals Event was able to stay at the Marriott Gateway Park, where it has been for three years. It opens onSaturday Sept. 7 and closes on Monday Sept 9. Note that some advertising has the dates wrong, but the days are correct. This is a true wholesale show open to everyone. Proof of that is the dozens of retail dealers who will rush in when it opens! They know where the deals are. I'll be there helping Cal Graeber handle the crowd. Parking and admission are FREE.

That begs the question of where Leonard Himes will be set up. I'll have a single Denver venue in keeping with my reduced show schedule. I'll have a booth at the Hardrock Summit, the biggest and best international dealers' show. We have a triple size booth that I will share with Cal Graeber and Geokrazy Minerals in the Cotton Creek room. The room also has Stonetrust and Rocko's Minerals. You can find us easily if you enter through the hotel's main entrance and pass through the Lobby via the Starbucks stand. We will be on the first aisle intersecting the long corridor leading to the Westminster ballroom. Our hall leads to the club show (Denver Gem and Mineral Show) and the hall will be filled with exhibits from the club show. The show management has us listed as Mineral Experts and we are!. The larger Westminster Room has other dealers listed as Fine Minerals. We are Fine Mineral dealers also, but with ones you can afford!