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  14 November

The exhibition-fair "Mineral-Show" is located in the Recreation Centre “Uralmash” (12, Festivalnaya str., Ekaterinburg, Russia).

Ground floor:
On the ground floor you can look at minerals of Urals and others regions of Russia and other countries and buy samples of minerals and rocks which become a fine ornament of an interior of your apartment, houses or office.
Nowadays it is known more then 3000 thousand kinds of minerals in the world. About 1000 of them there are in the Urals.  Certainly it is really impossible to see all the minerals, founded in the Urals, but you have a unique opportunity to see simultaneously in one place the most beautiful ones of them.
Among the collection minerals you can see druses of quartz, amethyst, uvarovite, tourmaline, crystals of pyrite, apatite, calcite, epidote, crocoites etc.
Visitors of the exhibition can see paleontology remains and know about geological development of the Urals region .
You can see the unique stromatolites - original carbonate out-growths formed as a result of vital activity of the lowest (blue-green water plants). The age of these formations is about 2-1,5 billion of years. They are the most ancient sedimentary rocks of the Earth with colonies of the ancient organic remains.
Undoubtedly the samples of brachiopods and other fossils, fossilized remains of tree trunks of Carbon period, fossil flora from coal deposits, teeth of ancient sharks, and fossil shells of ammonites draw attention of visitors of an exhibition. 
For stone-cutters there is a raw material of different rocks on a ground floor: jasper, dolerite, “moss” agate, malachite, a charoite, sard, rhodonite, onyx, lazurite, serpentine, nephrite, etc.
Besides there are several projects of activity on a ground floor, which, undoubtedly, will be interesting both to children, and their parents, among them the pavilion “The Garnet mine” and the pavilion “Visiting of the Master Danila”.

Second floor (the Marble Hall):
On the second floor of our exhibition - in the Marble hall caskets, clocks, vases, candlesticks, carved products from a stone and bones, panels and other goods from different stones - jasper, rhodonite, serpentine, charoite, a selenite (satin-spar), nephrite, etc are exhibited.
Having visited the Marble Hall and the “Gold Balcony” you can see the faceted precious and semiprecious stones from the Ural deposits – beryl, an emerald, alexandrite, aquamarine, a topaz, etc.,
It is necessary to note that for processing a natural stone in the Marble Hall you can get special tools for stone-cutters and jewelers (detachable disks, faceplates, face mills, diamond drills, etc.).
Besides you can buy account materials, wax models and sets for rings and brooches (citrine, amethyst, demantoide, aquamarine, etc.).

Third floor:

The pavilions of the “Gold Balcony” are situated in third floor of the Recreation Centre “Uralmash” – the balcony of the Marble Hall. Project “Gold Balcony” has been working from December of 2004 year.
There are a few enterprises - manufacturers of jewels from gold and silver with sets from natural precious and semiprecious stones here. On the «Gold Balcony » you will see new tendencies in development of jeweller art and can buy high quality goods with unique design at the price of the manufacturer.

Also there are several projects on the balcony of the Marble Hall, which, undoubtedly, will be interesting both to children, and their parents, among them the petrography show  “Travel Deep into the Stone”, where you will learn about ancient fossils - unique samples from the collection of the Ural Geological Museum and  see what “the stone universe” hides from view, by the use of a professional microscope as well as the photo exhibition: “Many-sided Urals”, an exposition of photos of the Urals’ nature, from a collection  “Ural Expeditions and Tours”.

Besides it on the third floor:
- Consultation with master jewelers – valuations and appraisals of your private treasures;
- Display, featuring handicrafts from the Urals and other parts of Russia;
- Exhibition of specialized geological literature;


 

 

 

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