MAGMA Land of the Sky Gem Show
20th Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show
September 30th - October 2nd, 2022

Swannanoa, North Carolina

Photos by: Richard Jacquot

Another great show at our new venue in Swannanoa, NC. Despite reports of bad weather, we had a good turnout and show. We had all our regular vendors return and several new vendors set up to offer some awesome deals and nice specimens.


Follow the signs to the greatest gem show in Western North Carolina!


Getting set up.



My educational display was on concretions, conglomerates and cave formations.The featured piece was the big boulder opal from Queensland, Australia. It did not show up well in the photos so I included an extra pic for a better view. A lot of people enjoyed the display and went home with some nice specimens I had for sale.



Some of our outside vendors.

Brad Rapson and Bill Stine.

Sonia (Memaw's Minerals).

Ashley Dunkle

Brad's partner, we called her 'Red'.

Our youngest vendor, Sam.

MPLove booth.

Amaku's booth.

Wayne Robertson and wife set up for the first time. Nice Arkansas minerals.

Always good to see Samantha at our shows.


Sam getting her photo shoot with Mr. Bobcat.

A couple of visiting rockhounds.


Reddeer with a killer selection of fluorite from Nigeria.

Barry Segura with some top quality shark teeth and other minerals.


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