By Melisse For two weeks in February each year people come from all over the world to sell and buy gems, minerals and all sorts of other exotic goods at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. Booths are set up all over town, filled with amazing amounts of amazing stuff. Walking through the grand, labyrinth-like bizarre can be either delightful and/or overwhelming, depending on your state of mind and purpose. Acres of gems, fossils, jewelry, beads, and much much more, from the tiny and refined to huge and raw, from the inexpensive to the pricey, every color and form are spread out for perusing and buying, should you choose. The variety and beauty is mind blowing!! So is the realization that these earthly wonders have been dug out of the earth’s crust, all over the planet,
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