Denver Gem & Mineral Showcase

For 14 days in September, Denver, Colorado, hosts 12 separate shows featuring hundreds of vendors and exhibitors displaying and selling rocks and minerals rough or handsomely prepped, sleek gemmy treasures, crystals crying out to heal all that ails ya, zillion-year-old fossils, and brazen beads. They're all here in every color on a peacock's plumy train!

Denver is a global hub for gem, mineral, fossil, and jewelry events, the second largest such showcase in the world after Tucson. For starters, Sandra Gonzales's RMGM Promotions' longstanding Colorado Mineral & Fossil Show is back at a new location, the Delta Hotel in Northglenn.

Hart Events' Denver Gem Show at National Western Complex along with Denver Expo Gem Show on the NWC second floor comprise the largest single-venue gem show in the world, with over 500 vendors. 

Across I-70, Denver Coliseum is home to a first-year event called Colorado Minerals, Fossils & Gems Show. Joined by the Miner's Co-op Show, you'll find nearly 200 vendors at the Coliseum this year. 

Hardrock Summit, owned by promoters of huge shows in Tucson and Munich, in its fifth year (its second at The Westin Hotel in Westminster), is also home to exhibitors of the original Denver gem show, Denver Gem & Mineral Show. 

Be sure to have a resale license when visiting Colorado Independent Warehouse Show in Lakewood, JK Stone Warehouse Show near I-25 and I-70, and for all things gems and jewelry, Intergem Denver Wholesale Gem & Jewelry Show. 

High-end specimen collectors can also shop for some of the finest minerals and crystals by visiting 16 dealers at Just Minerals & Crystals Event at its new location at Doubletree in Thornton and 20 dealers at Denver Fine Mineral Co-op Show at Drury Plaza Hotel in Westminster.

Also new in Denver this September — Denver Whole Bead Show at the Lowry Conference Center.