Denver Show 2007

摘要

I'm pleased to report that 2007 was the first year since 2001-the year of 9/11-when attendance at the Denver Show increased over the previous year's. Sure enough, at the hotel and "Main" shows alike the crowds seemed thicker and busier than before, and by Show's end most dealers were saying that they'd had excellent sales. The harvest of what's-new mineral occurrences was merely medium-sized, but strong buzzes about important developments ongoing even now in Brazil, Mexico, China and other pinata-lands where those who swing sticks might always cause cascades of mineral riches, kept excitement high. Meanwhile, autumnal Denver offered its usual gently cool, yet inspiriting, weather. And inside the Main Show, if you knew where to look, there was likewise comfort and ease: anyone, and any conversational gaggle of folks, was free to slouch on either of two soft, deep, brown leather couches facing each other across a coffee table in the booth shared by Rob Lavinsky's Arkenstone and Brian and Brett Kosnar's Mineral Classics. The civilized idea of such a take-a-load-off lounging station had never before been seen at the Denver Show, and I'd nominate Rob and Brian/Brett for some sort of Peace Prize for their thoughtfulness.