By Helen Serras-Herman - 6/23/2022
The Bachelor Syracuse Mine in Ouray, Colorado By Helen Serras-Herman The Bachelor Syracuse Mine is located in Ouray, in the heart of the San Juan Mountains and the San Juan Mining District of southwestern Colorado. What better place to learn the rich local mining history than visiting a real gold m...
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Xpo Press - 1/23/2022
The 172-page 2022 Tucson EZ-Guide was posted online today and can be viewed here. The printed hard-copy guide will arrive in Tucson on January 21, where they'll start being distributed at Tucson International Airport, local hotels and restaurants, and at each of the 40+ shows a few days before they ...
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Brad Hicks, Xpo Press Publisher - 1/21/2022
A new book hot off the press will be premiering at two shows in Tucson next month — AGTA GemFair™ Tucson and the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show®. The book is titled Carved Gems: Inspiration and Expertise by Helen Serras-Herman, an award-winning gem and jewelry artist and National Lapidary Hall of Fame in...
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Brad Hicks, Xpo Press Owner & Publisher - 1/18/2022
With just eleven days remaining until the official opening of the 2022 Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase, here's an update of show closings and new shows that are premiering in Tucson in 2022. A few shows have cancelled their 2022 Tucson dates — Best Bead Show, Grant Gem & Jewelry Show, and Whol...
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Rachel Ford, Director of Xpo Press Social Media - 1/15/2022
Are you following Xpo Press yet on social media? You can find us @gemshowinsider on both Facebook and Instagram. Stay up-to-date on the latest 2022 Tucson Showcase news as well as news and happenings about gem shows around the U.S. and Canada. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GemShowInsider Instag...
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Brad Hicks, Owner of Xpo Press & Founder of the EZ-Guides - 1/7/2022
Several weeks after the infamous month of September 2001 my career path took a topsy-turvy turn. Just before Christmas that year, I was fired from my corporate data/telecom job for which I was a sales manager. The next month, I started Xpo Press and incorporated it in Colorado on February 1, 2002. L...
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AAPS - Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences
11/20/2021
Our 2022 Meeting, Dinner and Auction are scheduled at the University of Arizona Student Union, North Ballroom during the Tucson Gem, Mineral and Fossil Shows. The meeting will be held on Saturday February 5th, 2022 at 7:00 PM, doors to the ballroom open at 6:30 PM. The general public is invited to ...
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11/19/2021
This press release was sent this week to former advertisers of the Tucson Show Guide, a publication of Interweave, a subsidiary of Golden Peak Media. It was written by Diane Kocal, advertising sales manager for Golden Peak Media. Thank you for your support over the years and your inquiries about thi...
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Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase
11/17/2021
The Tucson Gem, Mineral, & Fossil Showcase is coming up fast — Jan. 28 - Feb. 13 — and Xpo Press can't wait to launch the 2022 Tucson EZ-Guide, which is in production right now! The ever-popular Tucson EZ-Guide is a full-color guide distributed at local hotels and restaurants in Tucson, on the gem ...
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Helen Serras-Herman - 11/11/2021
The much-anticipated opening of the newest museum in Tucson, the University of Arizona Alfie Norville Gem and Mineral Museum (ANGMM) happened this past summer, first with limited ticketed guided tours. The museum then opened to the public in August 2021. A Grand Opening event will probably happen du...
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