Mountain Area Gem and Mineral Association
26th Land of the Sky, Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show
The Spring Show!
March 15th - 17th, 2024
Swannanoa, North Carolina

Photos by: Richard Jacquot, Jessica Fink

Bryan and his great Arkansas quartz.

Ellen and her unique rock art.

Pamela and Steve had some nice Illinois fluorite amongst other stuff.

William and his awesome southeastern coastal fossils.

Andy with some goodies.

Getting ready for Sunday.

A couple of cool lapis pieces I had for sale.

Tony hatching an egg.

Keith, his helper and some cool rocks.

Ben stopped by and gave me a nice piece from his mine.

Bruce and Mary Ann with the best Brilliant, Alabama wood on the market.

Jessica has a great selection rocks and minerals and some nice jewelry pieces too.

Reddeer, the Tourmaline King!

Luther, always ready to make you a great deal.

Rowan and Bob, Morgan's Minerals.

Jolly Carl, the Agate King. (He is smiling, inside)

Jessie and GF stopped in to see us.

Nico and Bruce, goofing around.

Kathy Collins from the ACW site creates awesome paintings of cats and other animals on stones. She also has great taste in books! (She bought my Smokey book and liked it)

Phil and Sandra. Phil has a great selection of North Carolina minerals.

Brenton, always smiling, makes me wonder what he's up to?


My feral cats thank you for your donations.

Amanda and Logan brought some killer wood and polished slabs.

Alex has the best gemstone carvings around.

Mark and Carol have a great selection of handmade silver jewelry.

The happy winners of our March 2024 Gem Show raffle.

Watch out for these two!

Here are a few goodies I brought home. I'm still unpacking and will post more later.

This cool skull was made by one of Jessica's friends, had to add it to my skull collection.

I had to have a piece of Bruce's Alabama wood for my shelf. I like this one because of the many crystals and the two different colors on either side.

Nice Turkish agate gifted to me from Carl.

Carl had taken some of my Brazilian agates home at the September show to polish for me. These are just a couple of the waterline pieces he brought back. I don't understand why they die Brazilian agates, the natural colors are great!

A super nice polished slab of Arizona wood I worked a trade for. Still has almost all the bark attached around the edges.

Super cool piece of Wiggens Fork Wyoming pet wood I traded from Phil.

Vintage Mexican onyx Tony was selling. These are from the 70s. I used to collect this stuff as a kid, so I had to get a set.

Probably my favorite trade of the weekend was getting this very large Needle Peak, Texas agate back into my collection. I acquired this piece from the Ken Kyte collection in 2000. I later sold it to Carl. He kept it several years and then we traded back. It will remain in my collection now.

See you in June!!!

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