{"id":10398,"date":"2018-08-24T22:26:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T22:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2018-08-24T22:27:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T22:27:24","slug":"clement-mineral-show-in-marion-kentucky-june-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/?p=10398","title":{"rendered":"Annual Clement Mineral Show & MVA on I-24 Western Kentucky June 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Onyx and I made a quick drive down to Marion, Kentucky early Saturday morning, June 2nd, to take in the Ben Clement Mineral Show and visit with friends at the museum as well. It was a nice drive down on a nice day, not too warm at all. We arrived about 10 am and as I walked up to the museum, I spotted Ed Clement in front and visited with him for a few minutes before he was whisked away\u2026I then had a few minutes to talk to Tina and Sherry, then found Bill Frazer inside and sat down to visit with him a few minutes before Russ brought him a taco pizza. We visited a few minutes more while they both chowed down on the pizza. Bill brought me up to date on some issues with the mine and museum before I walked over to check out the show. One of the main reasons I wanted to drive down there was to visit with everyone, including Gary Griffith and his son Walter, who are always set up with a fluorite booth at the show\u2026they are great people and also donate a dumptruck load of rocks full of fluorite chips for the kids to dig thru outside the museum building each year. Gary lost his Dad Guy Griffith to cancer earlier this year\u2026I always enjoyed talking to his dad whenever I stopped by their place to purchase great Southern Illinois Fluorite from them. I found Gary and Walter just inside the door this time\u2026.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2026this time they had not only a couple of tables covered in fluorite specimens and octohedrons they chipped out, but they had one end of one table covered with fluorite jewelry\u2026made by Walter`s wife\u2026.I purchased a couple of them as well, very pretty stuff. They also had discovered some neat stuff in their calcite pile at home recently\u2026they normally separate the calcites from the fluorite, so they have a good sized pile of it and were going thru it recently and discovered fluorite cubes on the calcites, so they cleaned it up and brought it to the show\u2026I purchased a few of them as well\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I sat on a milk crate they had behind the table and visited with them for quite a while, found out his Dad had cancer which slowly got worse and the pain finally became too much for him to handle at home, he had to be hospitalized to bring it under control. Def gonna miss talking to him as I am sure Gary and his family are as well. Gary told me a few stories about his Dad helping him and Walter when they were mining and Sherry told me a few about Guy as well.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eventually I drifted down into the old school gymnasium to check out the vendors there\u2026.found Phil Daly up on the stage where Alan Goldstein is usually set up\u2026Alan didn`t make it to the show this year\u2026so I visited with Phil a bit and purchased some of his Kentucky minerals from his collection, which he is selling off\u2026..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The dealer on the right in the photo above, had a beautiful cluster of smokey quartz crystals on the corner of one of his tables, sitting on a paper that stated the cluster was found in the Old Leatherneck Mine of Arkansas\u2026which was the old mine that later became the Arrowhead Mine, both of which are now closed to the public\u2026.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2026estimated retail price of $ 2300 only\u2026.lol\u2026and no, I did not purchase it, but it sure is pretty.\u00a0?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Around 1:30 pm, Onyx and I headed for home and soon after turning west on I-24, traffic began slowing down and a few miles down the road we discovered why\u2026.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2026and no, it wasn`t due to road construction\u2026take a closer look ahead on the EB side\u2026<\/em><\/strong>.\u2026as we approached slowly, I thought at first it was two tractor trailer rigs involved in a serious accident, could see the medical transport helicopter in front of all traffic and then saw the firefighters scrambling around\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2026and then as we finally drew alongside the scene, I could see it was a tractor trailer pulling a pup trailer, the pup trailer appeared to be rear-ended by a trash truck, and it appeared the driver of the trash truck required extrication by the Calvert City Fire Department, who has at least seven trucks on the scene and were helping with traffic control further back in the eastbound lanes that were backed up for miles\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2026hopefully no one was seriously injured\u2026thankfully we did not see anything else like that on the way home\u2026this time I decided to drive straight in on I-64 and cross the Mississippi River by the Arch\u2026.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2026always a great view\u2026.was great visiting with everyone in western Kentucky once again. Here are a few of those calcites with fluorite cubes attached, closer up….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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