MINERALS BRNO
18.-19.11. 2023
International Sales Exhibition of Minerals, Fossils, Jewels and Natural Products
31st MINERALS BRNO 2014 starts on the third November weekend
The MINERALS BRNO exhibition will take place between 15th – 16th November 2014 for the thirty-first time. Currently, the number of registered exhibitors is over 170, most of them from the Czech Republic, with a large number of exhibitors arriving from Poland, Slovakia and Hungary , and other exhibitors are also coming from Germany, Austria, Italy, India and Romania.
New arrivals and interesting stones to be introduced by the exhibitors
The visitors to the Minerals Brno exhibition can look forward to jewelleries, designer jewels, and worked stoned, as well as collector‘s stones, fossils, natural materials and specialist literature. The visitors can also purchase products, decorations, and home accessories made of precious stones and minerals. What will also be on sale and on display are original tin jewels with minerals, precious stones and jewellery from Peru, jewels made of Larimar stones from the Dominican Republic, jewels with Czech garnets and moldavites, cut jewel stones, agates from Czech and foreign localities, red agates from Argentina, blue Peruvian opals, Gem silica from Peru, deep pink opals from Peru, new orange opals from Madagascar, sugilites from the SAR, vesuvianites from Pakistan, raspberry quartz, nuummites, dinosaur bones and fossilised cones, new material from Russia interesting for the collectors –raspberry-tinted turmaline crystals, danburites and hambergites, investment gold, meteorities, Ethiopian opals and amethysts. The exhibition will offer demonstrations of designer jewel making, such as jewels made using wire-wrapping, fusing and tiffany techniques.
Minerals Brno are also a meeting point and collector‘s exchange for collectors arriving with interesting samples from their collections of minerals that they have found themselves or bought in mineralogical exhibitions.
MINERALS BRNO will also offer inspiration for interior design. For those who like to be surrounded by precious stones and products made of them , the exhibition will offer e.g. amethyst geodes, bowls, cups, vases, clocks and other accessories made of aragonites, candlesticks, statuettes, pictures and clocks made of precious stones.
Supporting exhibition dedicated to minerals of the region of Jeseníky
This year, the supporting exhibition is dedicated to mineralogical riches of Jeseníky. Showcases will display several hundreds of samples of minerals and processed stones. There will be examples from well-known ore deposits such as Zlaté Hory, Horní Benešov, Horní Město, Zálesí, Horní Hoštice and Nová Ves u Rýmařova, contact minerals localities - Žulová, Vápenná, pegmatites - Maršíkov, Vernířovice, and metamorphosed rock minerals found at Zlatý Chlum, Sobotín, Petrov nad Desnou, Nový Malín, Branná, Krásné u Šumperka and the Alps associations - Vernířovice, Sobotín. Besides the region of Jeseníky, the exhibition will also showcase the mineralogical localities of Rychlebské hory and Šumperk.
Interesting exhibits that will be introduced to the visitors will include very rate berlinites and gold plate up 1 cm big. What will also be on display are high quality samples of cerussite, anglesite, pyromorphite and dundasite which is rare in the Czech Republic. Other minerals to be showcased include nickeline, skutterudite, clausthalite and pure silver and rare jordanites and unique examples of brown pyromorphites, along with unique pseudomorphoses of quartz- calcite and baryte. Rare examples of gold and accompanying tellurides will be showcased along with garnets – almandites.
Non-ore minerals that will attract attention will certainly include beautiful large crystals of epidotes, magnetites, garnets and crystal clusters with epidotes, vesuvians and hessonites. There will also be well-known beryls and chrysoberyls and crystals, and examples of malachites and chrysocolla and quartz crystal clusters, together with little known examples of prehnite, rutile minerals and red anatase.
The exhibition dedicates to the minerals of Jeseníky will be complemented by an exhibition focusing on contemporary jewellery stones and examples of jewellery designed by world famous Karel Votipka.
MINERALS BRNO, 31st International sales exhibition of minerals,
fossils, jewels and natural products
15th – 16th November 2014
Brno Exhibition Centre, Hall B
Opening hours: Saturday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Sunday: 9
a.m. - 4 p.m.
Admission fee: 80 CZK, discounted admission fee 40 CZK
