It features top mineral dealers that are familiar to many. One of the partners running the Hard Rock Show is Christoph Keilman whom I've known for years. His father started the Munich Show and Christoph has been running that show for years. He is a skilled showman who has brought some of Munich's better ideas to Denver.
As for special exhibits, the Hard Rock Summit Show spares no expense. Each year they choose one high-value special exhibit that is the centerpiece. In 2021, the central theme exhibit was Colorado rhodochrosite in a display named Rhodochrosite Royalty. It held three of the most valuable and eye-appealing rhodochrosite specimens. All three specimens had been mined in Colorado, a fitting tribute to that state's mineral heritage. The specimens now reside in museums that loaned them for the Hard Rock Summit Show.
For 2022, the Hard Rock Summit team chose a stellar theme, gold. Their special exhibit held three of the world's rarest and finest gold specimens. This exhibit ranks in value above anything I've seen outside a museum. Brought together were Gold Horn, The Dragon and The Crystal, a huge single gold crystal, a 17-ounce (216 gr.) octahedron, the largest in the world.
To highlight gold in an entirely different way, they also featured the recovered gold and artifact treasures, worth millions, from two sunken ships.
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