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Day 1 report... Awesome! One more day, don't miss it!
Here are some photos! Lots of smiling faces at the welcome tables!
Cuddle up with a Tully Monster...
Charlie Shabica stopped by to say hello.
Jack Wittry with Rich and Pete Rock
Lots of books!
Eric at the Junior tables
More similing faces!
Don busy at work on a masterpiece!
Today is the day! Come on out!
Photos from setup day...
Live Auctions
Displays
This is the preview post #28 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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If you love trilobites, here's another... Dalmanites limuloides from the Devonian of New York. This guy will be up on Saturday.
This is the preview post #27 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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A beautiful Leonapis trilobite will be auctioned on Saturday. These trilobites were found worldwide in the Devonian.
This is the preview post #26 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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This large Galena crystal will be auctioned off on Sunday. Come check it out!
This is the preview post #25 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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A gorgeous Spiropteris from Mazon Creek is our next preview specimen. This is a fairly large fiddlehead.
This is the preview post #24 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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A very nice ammonite from Germany is next up. This is a Zugodactylites braunianum. Come on out on Saturday for the second auction to get this one!
This is the preview post #23 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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Another Tully Monster is up as Preview #23. Come on out and you can own a specimen of the Illinois State Fossil!
This is the preview post #22 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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A detailed specimen of Kallidecthes richardsoni is our Preview #22 for the Live Auction at the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. To learn more about this shrimp, see Mazon Monday #48.
This is the preview post #21 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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A Mazon Creek Cyclopteris obicularis is the next Live Auction Preview. For more information, see Mazon Monday #59. This gorgeous fossil will be part of the second auction on Saturday.
This is the preview post #20 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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A stunning piece of yellow fluorite from the Cave-In-Rock area of southern Illinois. This was collected by an ESCONI member many years ago.
This is Throwback Thursday #256. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc ...), please sent them to [email protected]. Thanks! email:[email protected].
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Here are some scenes from the 2018 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show, which was held on March 25th and 26th, 2018.
Nice view of the floor
Hello, come on in!
What do you have there, Marie?
Andy and Bryan
Bruce, where's the Ginkos?
Don demonstrating lapidary... does he ever age?!?
Jeff cracking geodes
Display case from the Field Museum
Auction specimens
This is the preview post #19 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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A Riker mount of South Dakota Oligocene fossils is preview #19 for the live auction. This will be part of the auction on Sunday.
This is the preview post #18 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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A beautiful piece of green fluorite with calcite from Xianghualin, Hunan Providence, China is our specimen for preview #18. This is a gorgeous piece. You need to see this one in person! This will be part of our first live auction on Saturday.
This is the preview post #17 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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We have a very rare Mazon Creek fossil to show you today. This is a Glaphurochiton concinnus, which is a mollusk, belonging to the same Phylum as oysters, clams, cephalopods, snails, and gastropods. They always have eight ornamented segments or valves. Glaphurochiton concinnus was one of the first animal described by Dr. Eugene Richardson, Jr. He named it Helminthochiton concinnus. It was later reassigned as Glaphurochiton in 1986. For more information, see Mazon Monday #175.
This is the preview post #16 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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This is a Mazon Creek insect in the order Protorthoptera. It will be part of the second auction on Saturday March 15th, 2025.
This is the preview post #15 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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A beautiful chunk of calcite is preview #15. This is a very nice piece!
This is the preview post #14 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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Preview #14 is the first of a few Fluorite specimens we'll have at the live auction. This one has quite beautiful woith more than a bit of color! This one was collected from the Minerva Mine in southern Illinois.
This is the preview post #13 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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An Acanthodes fish from Mazon Creek is our 13th preview for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. This fish was collected a few decades ago. Read more about Acanthodes in Mazon Monday #9.
This is the preview post #11 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.
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A beautiful specimen of Malachite from the famous copper mines in Bisbee, AZ is preview #11. This is a gorgeous piece! Come out and see it in person for the Saturday afternoon auction.
