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The Fallbrook Village News | villagenews.com | August 4, 2016
Rose earns pair of special awards at fair Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent
Mary Rose entered two stones in the San Diego County Fair’s gems, minerals, and jewelry exhibition and won special awards for both of them. “I was quite happy,” Rose said. Rose’s amethyst quartz crystal won the A. Leo Horensky Cup for the best single mineral worldwide as well as first place in the One Mineral, Not From San Diego, Beginner category. Her elbaite tourmaline was given the Jim and Mary Fong Walker Award for the best single gemstone mineral worldwide and also won second place in the South American Minerals: One Specimen class. “I think it’s pretty awesome to be recognized that I do have significant mineral specimens,” Rose said. “It makes me very happy.” Rose won the A. Leo Horensky Award, which is named for a
noted collector, along with her first-place category honor for her quartz mined in the Gobohoseb mountains in Namibia. “I’m delighted,” said Rose. “It’s a special award.” Jim and Mary Fong Walker are mineral and fossil dealers and natural history consultants who were members of the Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society before moving to Texas. The tourmaline which won this award was found in the Cruzeiro mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil. “I’m ecstatic,” said Rose. “I was surprised.” Both of Rose’s stones were acquired in February during the annual Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase, which is a two-week exhibition beginning in late January and running through mid-February. The beginner category is for exhibitors who have never won first place in that class; an advanced equivalent is for collectors who
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have won in the beginner category and the master class is for those who have won at the advanced level. “I’m not really doing it for the awards,” Rose said. “I get appreciation by just sharing my minerals and letting people view them.” Rose has been exhibiting her gemstones at the San Diego County Fair for 16 years. “It’s nice to see them on exhibit,” she said. “It’s just kind of nice to see them in a different light when they’re with other minerals and other people who share the same passion.” The gems, minerals, and jewelry exhibition attracts fair visitors other than collectors. “People can enjoy them and see them,” Rose said. “I hope they enjoy them as much as I do.” Rose, who was an ornamental horticulture major in college, married into the gem and mineral hobby. “I didn’t know anything about minerals or gems,” said Rose. Rose met her husband, Allen, in high school in Linden, Mich. and they were married in 1980. They began digging in Arkansas. “That was the start of it,” said Rose. “There’s something to dig in every state, so we’ve been having a lot of fun with it.” Their son, Erik, is now 23. His parents first took their child into gemstone fields when he was three months old. The Rose family moved from Colorado Springs to Fallbrook in 1999. Allen Rose gave the Rose family two first-place category awards with a smoky quartz and amazonite which placed first in the One SelfCollected Mineral competition. Rose field collected the stone from Crystal Creek in Teller County, Colo., in spring 1998. Erik Rose took third in the One Self-Collected Mineral class. He field collected a garnet from the Southern Pacific Silica Quarry in Nuevo’s Lakeview Mountains in fall 2015. Allen Rose had two other entries which both took third place. His Fossils of the Ice Age: One Specimen entry was a fossil tooth from a mastodon which was found on Hoetop Farm in Perry County, Mo. The fossil is believed to be from the Pleistocene era 1.7 million years ago. Rose field collected that fossil in winter 1984. Rose’s third-place Petrified Wood: Single Piece artifact is a Tietes Singularis petrified fern from the town of Araguaina in the Brazilian state of Tocantins. Erik Rose did not place in the One Mineral from San Diego County category for his citrine quartz obtained from the Stewart Mine in Pala. To comment on this story online, visit www.thevillagenews.com.
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Erik Rose’s field collected garnet placed third in the One Self-Collected Mineral class.
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Mary Rose’s amethyst quartz crystal won the A. Leo Horensky Cup for the best single mineral worldwide.
Mary Rose’s elbaite tourmaline won the Jim and Mary Fong Walker Award for the best single gemstone mineral worldwide.
Allen Rose’s smokey quartz and amazonite won the One SelfCollected Mineral competition.