2017年美国图森矿物宝石化石展在一月下旬隆重开幕,整个会场一如以往,井然有序,但新的矿物标本越来越少,来自全球主要矿物出产地如中国、俄罗斯、美国、巴西、墨西哥、巴基斯坦、印度等国的好标本更为珍贵。精品日渐珍稀,催生并增强矿物标本向矿物及矿物文化的开发与利用,这是一种新的现象和趋势。图森现场紫气东来展会现场,多家出售紫晶的展位前货柜堆积如山。行业整体新品发现较少,唯有以乌拉圭为代表产地的紫色水晶大量涌现,图森展一片紫气东来的气象(图1、图2)。 The Tucson Mineral Gemstone Fossil Expo 2017 was grandly opened in late January. As usual, the entire venue was organized but fewer and fewer new mineral samples came from the world’s major mineral producing places such as China, Russia, the United States, Brazil , Mexico, Pakistan, India and other countries is more precious specimens. Increasingly rare products, the birth and enhance the mineral specimens to mineral and mineral culture development and utilization, which is a new phenomenon and trend. Tucson Purple scene east to the scene of the exhibition, a number of amethyst booths for sale before the pile of mountains. The industry as a whole found less new products, only to Uruguay as the representative origin of large numbers of purple crystal, Tucson show a purple eastward weather (Figure 1, Figure 2).