Mountain Area Gem and Mineral Association
32nd M.A.G.M.A. Land of the Sky, Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show
September 19th - 21st, 2025
Swannanoa, North Carolina

Photos by: Richard Jacquot & Mark Veilleux

The 32nd M.A.G.M.A. gem show was a great success as usual. In fact, our show is quickly becoming one of the top gem and mineral club shows in the southeast!

Our shows have something to offer for literally everyone. If you are new to the hobby, we offer gems and minerals of interest and our vendors can educate you about them. Veteran collectors visit us knowing they will find rare and unusual items to add to their collections. We have a variety of dealers, many who specialize in specific areas of the hobby. Science, radioactive minerals, gemstones and minerals from the USA. Space rocks, meteorites, tektites. Historic items, trinitite, artifacts and more. We also have vendors who work with the metaphysical community. Some offer fluorescent minerals, lapidary equipment, old collections, top quality handmade jewelry and much, much more. There is nothing we do not have, and if we discover we need to add something, we do.

Over the past few years, we have been refining our vendors and variety of merchandise offered to bring you the best experience and the opportunity to purchase the best material available. We look forward to many future shows!

Mr. Bobcat watching traffic on the way to the show.

Don and Mark ready for a fun weekend.

Some of Don's goodies.

Early Friday morning, getting in early to work on my pre-show setup.

Bill getting set up. Bill offers some great Virginia fossils.

Adam and a nice selection of self collected material.

Rodney offers some awesome Graves Mountain gems.

Dave and Lauren

Ruth Berner wearing a very nice cut, polished and set in silver stone called Eilat, from Israel (King Solomon Stone). This is a rare material that is no longer available to collect. Doug and Ruth visited Israel several times and mined the material themselves. Doug sold his collection to my friends Stephen and Santana (Natural Born Jewelers) and Stephen made this piece for Ruth.

Dave with all kinds of goodies, including some great larimar.

Steven with his cool cabochons and self collected gems and minerals.

John checking out some of William's fossils.

Patty

Claire and Brad

Andrew and Jessica

The Healys and the Alreds

Two wild and crazy guys!

Alex wins, "shirt of the show."

Jacquot & Son Mining

Thank you to all who made donations and purchases of the Smokey books. All proceeds go to the care and treatment of the feral cats and other animals I care for.

Luther

Don representing Graves Mountain at the M.A.G.M.A. show.

John

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