#EZGuide - 2014 East Coast Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show Program

View the 2014 Show Program HERE 

East Coast Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show
West Springfield, Massachusetts USA

Show Venue: Better Living Center at the Eastern States Exposition
1305 Memorial Ave.  West Springfield, Massachusetts USA

Show Date: August 8 - 10, 2014
Hours: Friday - Saturday 10 am - 6 pm, Sunday 10 am - 5 pm
(Wholesale closes at 4 on Sunday)
Admission: $6 for adults and seniors; under 12 free with adult;

parking $5 per day. Wholesale and Retail

Contact: Martin Zinn Expositions
Website: www.mzexpos.com

Welcome to the 2014 Show!

(Excerpt from the Program)

East meets West at this year’s East Coast Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show. Nine dedicated mineral collectors from California have cooperated to provide some of the finest specimens from their personal collections for your viewing pleasure. Displays here include Gold, California’s state mineral, and Benitoite, California’s 

state gemstone. Many of the wonderful minerals found in California occur as gem crystals: Tourmaline, kunzite, garnet, topaz, aquamarine, and more. Other displays feature colorful worldwide specimens sized from thumbnails to large cabinet specimens. One collector even produces a line of mineral-themed wines, complete with artistic mineral labels created by Massachusetts artist Fred Wilda.

We hope you will take the time to explore and enjoy the hundreds of fine mineral specimens that have traveled across the US to appear in your own “back yard.” The East Coast Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show has achieved a position as one of the most important natural history events in the eastern U.S. We thank our visitors, dealers and exhibitors for their special interest and dedicated efforts that have enabled us to reach this status. Enjoy the show!

Arizona Mineral and Fossil Show at InnSuites

Arizona Mineral and Fossil Show at InnSuites

Jordi of Faber Minerals

I am slowly but surely recovering photos from my crashed hard drive and came across a great group from the Arizona Mineral and Fossil Show.

This show offers a really wide range of materials – houses some of the finest mineral dealers in the world (in fact it is the home of our friend Jordi Faber) – but what sets it apart is the amazing “hall of fossils”!

Sahara Overland

Shark Teeth (Megalodon no less) from the Miocene Era to paleo goodies like the full skeleton of a Saber-toothed Cat and the tools to collect and clean them from Paleo Tools.

Marine Creatures of all sizes in the Fossil Hall at the Arizona Mineral & Fossil Show in Tucson 2010.

If you want info from this show – maybe you can’t remember the name of a dealer or you found a great Tucson restaurant in the show guide and want to add their info to your trip plans for2011 – remember that you can get a .pdf of the Tucson EZ-Guide on our home page.