[meteorite-list] China Now Hosts The World's Largest Gem and Mineral Show

[almitt2 at localnet.com]

Greetings all,

Wondering what the attendance of the Tucson show was in the 1990's.
If I had to guess I'd say 200,000 or more. I can remember it being so
much larger than past years I have been able to attend. I remember
trying to find parking spots for a half hour or more. You learn to
walk to places rather than drive down the road a bit or you would hunt
for another parking spot for quite a while. 9-11 changed all of that.

--AL Mitterling
Mitterling Meteorites

   Quoting Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list
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> Dear List Members,
>
> I was shocked to hear that the Tucson Gem and Mineral show is no 
> longer the world's largest.  It looks like China is in first place 
> with attendance figures of over 380,000 for a four day event in 2015 
> compared to less than 40,000 for Tucson.
>
> http://www.friendsofmineralogy.org/newsletters/2015_Jul.pdf
>
> Maybe I should attend this year to add support for this American show 
> that has been running since 1955 while the Chinese show has only 
> existed for a mere 3 years.
>
> Adam
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