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2021 Chicagoland Gem and Mineral Show


Nimravis

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Today I stopped at the 2021 Chicagoland Gem and Mineral Show that is being held today and tomorrow at the Kane County Fairgrounds. This is the first show that I have been able to attend in about 18 months. The show was not as big as it normally is, but it was pretty close. At the beginning there were not a lot of attendees, but with in 1 hour, the place was packed.

 

Here are a couple random pics of the show.

 

The line to get in-

 

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The crowd-

 

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Some pics of the various fossils that were for sale. I did not take the amount of pictures that I normally would have because it is a lot of work to block out prices, as the admins request.

 

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I did buy 2 flats of fossils for $40 each, this first flat contained various items and I got it because I liked the first item pictured below. I will include the id that came with each piece.

 

Cassie fimbriata

Middle Eocene 

Roe Plains, Madura

Western Australia 

 

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Giant Tortoise Shell

Geochelone sp.

Withlacoochee Formation 

Florida

 

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Exogyra ponderosa 

Taylor Formation

Cretaceous

Ladonia, Texas

 

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Lyticoceras

Lower Albian 

Lower Cretaceous 

Huanzala, Peru

 

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Leptosolen

Cretaceous

McNairy Co., Tennessee 

 

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Conus spurus 

Pliocene

Desoto, Florida 

 

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Knightia

Green River Formation 

Wyoming

 

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Unknown Gastropods 

Unknown Location 

 

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Amethyst

 

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The next flat contained something that I really like fossil echinoids from Texas. This flat contained 232 pieces which came out to about 17 cents a piece. It looks like there are two different species, I have to figure out what they are. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

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If I am bored tomorrow, I might take a drive out to check it out again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Looks like a nicely laid out "get broke quick" scheme. At least it would be for me. :D Nice haul though. 

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Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

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I adore that Leptosolen. 

Looks very busy, bit nice things to look at.

Hope you get bored tomorrow. :BigSmile:

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Tortoise Friend.

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Looks like you get a lot more variety of fossils than I have seen at Atlanta area shows.

 

Don

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6 hours ago, FossilDAWG said:

Looks like you get a lot more variety of fossils than I have seen at Atlanta area shows.

 

Don

Yes- there was Dino stuff and a lot of other fossils, plus tons of cool minerals, if you are into that.

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I wish I could find flats full of nice fossils like that, for an affordable price, at the shows around here.

Any indication if those echinoids are from Florida, Texas or what?

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8 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

I wish I could find flats full of nice fossils like that, for an affordable price, at the shows around here.

Any indication if those echinoids are from Florida, Texas or what?

They are all from Texas, I just need to find an id on them, it looks like there are only 2 different species represented. Btw, thanks for asking, I thought I put it in the description, but I did not, I just fixed that.

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I also stopped by the show yesterday. Below are a few of the pictures I took. 

 

 

1 me.jpg

2 floor.jpg

3 floor.jpg

4 floor.jpg

5 jane.jpg

6 ant.jpg

7 ammo.jpg

8 meg.jpg

9 ammonite.jpg

9 crinoid.jpg

10 stuff.jpg

11 mosa.jpg

12 mosa.jpg

13 mosa.jpg

14 morocco.jpg

15 stuff.jpg

16 whale.jpg

17 shark.jpg

18 edestus.jpg

19 bones.jpg

20 meg.jpg

21 struthio.jpg

22 dino.jpg

23 claw.jpg

24 toof.jpg

25 plant.jpg

26 keich.jpg

27 bronto.jpg

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29.jpg

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Looks like a nice show with lots of variety to please every collector.   Thanks guys for posting the photos

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Nice pictures!  I must have just missed you as I got there around 11 and stayed most of the day.  It was a good show and it was great to get out to some degree of normalcy...

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

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