Home Tucson Show Reports Email List Bob's Rock Shop

TucsonShow.com Under Construction
By Bob's Rock Shop

Subscribe to the Tucson Show Email List to receive notification when I've posted new reports from the Tucson Show and messages regarding updates to this site.

I have yet to see a show report that managed to fully convey the overwhelming and boggling experience for rockhounds that is Tucson. Minerals, gems, fossils, meteorites, paleo artifacts, lapidary work, equipment and rough, mineralogical and mining literature, jewelry, beads, metaphysical healing crystals, African masks, mounted butterflies - you name it and you'll find it at Tucson. Thousands of dealers and vendors from all over the world exhibit and do business at these various shows. It is the ultimate gathering of the clan, and the rocks. Every rockhound owes it to themselves to make the pilgrimage to Tucson at least once in his or her life. If you've yet to make it to Tucson, or just need a fix, this virtual tour and chronicle of the Tucson Show is for you.

Snapshots from the 2008 Tucson Show

Snapshots from the 2007 Tucson Show ~ Report Highlights

Warming Up

Bone Building Books

Fossil Books (Under Construction)

Real Beads

Jewelry and Carving Idea Gallery (Under Construction)

Montana Agate (Under Construction)

Outback (Under Construction)

OPLC Faceters Hobnob

The Last Supper (Under Construction)

Then and Now (Under Construction)

Oh My God (Under Construction)

Picture Rocks (Under Construction)

Snapshots from the 2006 Tucson Show ~ Report Highlights

Eluvium at the Executive

Conglomerate at the Clarion

Stones at the Inn Suites

A Macaw for Laura

Some New Mexico Rocks

The Monster Faceting Machine

The Main Event I

Roughing It

Jewelry Scrapbook

Snapshots from the 2005 Tucson Show ~ Report Highlights

Just Bad to the Bone

Bead Rough

Intimidating Elements

New Moon Rock

Clams with Calcite

Birds for Laura

Conglomerate from the Clarion

Tucson Show Articles

On Hunting Faceting Rough in the Backwater at Tucson

Snapshots from the 2004 Tucson Show ~ Report Highlights

Roughing It I

Elementary School

The High Ground

Checkmate

Roughing It II

The High Ground II

A Rose and a Doodleysquat

Roughing It III

Birds of a Feather

Gold Fever

The Platonic Realm

Snapshots from the 2002 Tucson Show ~ Report Highlights

Ammonoidea 2002 I

Ammonoidea 2002 II

Ammonoidea 2002 III

Silicon Dioxide

The Faceters Hobnob - Freeware Faceters Companion CD Download!

Chicken Little

Rock Art

Lapis Sprechen ze English!

Danburite: It's What's for Dinner...

Executive Action

Crème de la Crème

Snapshots from the 2002 Quartzsite Show

Don't Eat Blue Mushrooms

The Photo-Atlas of Minerals DVD - New Version 2.0 Available!   This is the ultimate computerized mineralogical reference for Windows users, providing descriptive data, Dana and Strunz classification for all the known minerals, nearly 16,000 high-resolution specimen images, cross-indexing for searching and specimen ID, a hyperlinked glossary of mineral terms and much more! So, can you say widgiemoolthalite? The Photo-Atlas can... Further Details

Snapshots from the 2001 Tucson Show ~ Report Highlights

Ammonoidea

Executive Potpourri

Superb Minerals from India

Fairy Stones and Shivalingams

Godzilla in the Fish Bowl

Lucky Buddies

Macovich Meteorite Auction

Agate, Jasper and a '48 Nash

Australian Outback Mining

The Main Event I - So Where's the Eggs?

Arthur Roe Micromount Symposium

The Main Event II - A Bola Round-Up, Tucson Style

A Big Piece of Blue

The Main Event III - Going for the Gold

The Saturday Night Dinner

The Main Event IV: Détente

Tucson Show Screen Saver V2001

Snapshots from the 2000 Tucson Show ~ Report Highlights

Raising the Tents

V-Rock Shop Rolls Out the Barrels

Art by God - Fossil and Mineral Co-op

The Hundred Dollar Room - Ron Coleman Crystals

Japan Law Twins - Early Birding at the InnSuites

Raven's Skulls

The Hundred Dollar Picture

Feeding Frenzy at Top Gem

Gone But Not Forgotten I

Gone But Not Forgotten II

Gone But Not Forgotten III

Roughing It I

Roughing It II

Lunarite

The Main Event I - Oh My God...

The Main Event II - Micromounters

Making Little Rockhounds

Snapshots from the 1999 Tucson Show ~ Report Highlights

Browsing at the Congress Street Expo I

Crash Site Debris

Rockhound Barbie

Dinosaur Teeth, Gold Crystals and Other Cool Stuff

The Main Event I

Snapshots from the 1998 Denver Show ~ Report Highlights

Seen at the Holiday Inn

Preparations at the Merchandise Mart

Much To-Do Over Manganese Carbonate

The Dragon Gold and a Blue Elbaite Tourmaline

Conglomerate from the Show

Seen at the 1st Annual Colorado Fossil Exposition

Snapshots from the 1998 Tucson Show ~ Report Highlights

Progress

Gone Fish'n

On with the Show

Jump Start at the Rodeway

Emerald City

It's a Dry Heat... (Disaster at Congress Street Expo)

'Till Death Do Us Part

The Micromounter's Swap Room (Day II at the Main Event)

Snapshots from the 1997 Tucson Show ~ Report Highlights

Scouting Party

Browsing at Boatner's

Congress Street Expo

Bob's Martian Touchdown

Congress Street Expo Day II

Snapshots from the 1996 Tucson Show ~ Report Highlights

Getting Ready

More Preparations

Showtime!

Seen Along the Strip

Love It and Leave It - Death of the Desert Inn

The Rodeway Inn, More Along the Strip

More Along the Strip

More Along the Strip Continued

The Ramada Inn

The Ramada Inn Continued

The La Quinta Inn, Back on the Strip, The Executive Inn

The La Quinta Inn, Back on the Strip, The Executive Inn Continued

Local Papers Report on Alleged Gem Theft by Eye Surgeon

The Days Inn, Convention Center, Executive Inn

The Main Event at the Convention Center Begins

The FMS Fluorescent Room

Another Visit to the Executive Inn

The Executive Inn, Pueblo Inn, Convention Center

Striking the Tent

Home Tucson Show Reports Email List Bob's Rock Shop