The Denver Gem & Mineral Show - About the Exhibits

These were a few of our featured exhibits in 2004.

Making the Yule Marble The Official State Rock
by Clare P. Marshall

About two years ago, when brilliant red rhodochrosite became the Official State Mineral of Colorado, I noticed that, with our blue Official State Gemstone, aquamarine, Colorado really needed a white state rock. Although the Yule Marble seemed the obvious and inevitable choice, I had a difficult time convincing anyone to help me make our state's geological colors match the patriotic ones. Until I asked my daughter's Girl Scout Troop... FULL ARTICLE

Pike Petrified Forest: A Tribute to John T. "Jack" Baker
by Mike Ausec

...we will display a "tribute collection" based on the popular Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. In the March/April 2003 issue of Rocks & Minerals, Arthur E. Smith wrote a delightful article about "Rock Shops, Tourist Traps, and Exploited Geological Curiosities Along the Roadside". The proprietor of one such geological curiosity was near and dear to our hearts and this display is presented as a tribute to that fine individual... FULL ARTICLE

Cranbrook Institute of Science displays rare gold
Cranbrook Institute of Science

Bloomfield Hills, Mich. -- Cranbrook Institute of Science will display what is widely considered the finest specimen of crystalline leaf gold in the world during the 2004 Denver Gem and Mineral and Show... FULL ARTICLE

Web-based Green River Paleobotany Project
Denver Museum of Nature and Science

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS) will be bringing their new Green River Paleobotany Project to the Denver Gem and Mineral Show. Developed by the DMNS and funded by grants for the Evolving Earth Foundation and the National Science Foundation, this web-based project showcases the Museum's diverse Green River... FULL ARTICLE

These were our featured exhibits in other years:

2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004