MINERALS BRNO
18.-19.11. 2023
International Sales Exhibition of Minerals, Fossils, Jewels and Natural Products
MINERALS BRNO November sideline exhibition will be dedicated to mineralogical attractions of the former Soviet countries
The 33rd International Sales Exhibition of Minerals, Fossils, Jewels and Natural Products, MINERALS BRNO, will be held from 14th to 15th November 2015. The autumn exhibition will feature a sideline exhibition, which this year will focus on the vast territory of the former Soviet Union. Visitors will learn about the geology of this area and the mineralogy of individual most important sites and deposits of minerals, from which originated world-level minerals. A number of sites are known for a lot of minerals completely new for the mineralogical system.
The exhibition will present the most interesting, and often scientifically extremely valuable mineralogical material that these sites would provide in the past. The exhibition is conceived regionally and the indeed richest regions will often be represented by several dozen examples of interesting minerals.
The most extensively represented regions are:
The Kola Peninsula – the Khibiny Mountains, the Lovozero and Kovdor Massives, including the Keyvy Range, whence come beautifully coloured crystals of amazonite or samples of luxury staurolites, which still do not have a competition on the mineralogical market.
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staurolite, Keyvy Range, Kola Peninsula, Russia |
amazonite, Parusnaya, Keyvy Range, Kola Peninsula, Russia |
Murun Massif in Yakutia – sites of charoite and its
accompanying minerals
Dalnegorsk – rich polymetallic ore and borate deposit in the Far East
Sinerechenskoye – skarn site near Dalnegorsk – excellent examples of garnets and green (Prasem) quartz
Vodinskoye – location, where
beautiful examples of pure sulphur
crystals come from – often in gemologically absolutely pure quality,
coupled with calcite and blue celestine crystals. At the moment these are clearly
the finest samples of pure sulphur
(crystals over 5 cm in length) on the mineralogical market.
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sulphur, Vodinskoye |
sulphur, Vodinskoye |
Urals deposits and locations – will be represented by a
site in the Pripolarny Urals region with excellent shiny crystals of crystal, smoky quartz, titanite, anatase
and others, or Middle Ural occurrences of zircon,
emerald, tourmaline, amethyst, topaz and many other minerals.
From the former Central Asian republics:
Kazakhstan – agates from the
Semipalatinsk region, and different varieties of quartz
Sokolovsko – Sarbaiskoye – ore deposit with high
quality zeolite and pure silver
Dzhezkazgan – a very rich location with exceptional
examples of crystallized bornite, chalcocite, transparent gemological sphalerites (cleophanes) and excellent rich samples of pure copper and silver.
Also other Central
Asian countries will be presented by the best of what they supplied in the
past, such as the Turkmen celestine,
Kirghiz stibnite, cinnabar, wakabayashilite, getchellite
and more.
Tajikistan will mostly present samples from madder occurrence
of many rare or for the first time described minerals such as baratovite, hejtmanite, turkestanite, tadzhikite,
miserite, etc.
Caucasian republics will be mostly represented by the Dashkesan
skarn deposit – crystallized magnesite, amethyst, epidote, apatite and typical
examples of obsidian. The North Caucasian (already Russian) region will
certainly attract with its beautiful crystallized
auripigment as well as large
clear brownish barite crystals in gemological
quality.
Even other former Soviet Union regions will be presented by interesting minerals, typical for local sites.
The sideline exhibition is created again in collaboration with RNDr. Luděk Kráčmar, partner of the MINERALS BRNO exhibition.
Photo by: Radek Votava
