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Gem Show Overview
Background. The Four Corners Gem & Mineral Gem Show has been an ongoing event for 73 years. The Show is typically the first Friday thru Sunday after the 4th of July. Attendance is generally four to six thousand shoppers. The Gem Show supports and promotes membership in the Club, raises money for a new building and for an annual Fort Lewis College Earth Science Student Scholarship, and supports other outreach to the Four Corners region. Public admission to the show is $5 per day for adults. Children under 14 accompanied by an adult will be admitted free.
How To Get in our Show. Most Gem Show dealers return year after year, and there are vert few openings each year. To get on our Waiting List, please Click Here to Visit the Dealer Request Page.
Gem Show openings for new participants are almost always in an outdoor area called the South Lot. This lot is the second public entry point to our show. Once you are in the Show then you may request a booth to move indoors or to another outdoor location.
2027 Show Dates and Hours.
Set up - Thursday July 8 from noon to 7:30 pm, and 8 - 10 am on Friday morning.
Friday, July 9 from 10 am to 6 pm
Saturday, July 10 from 10 am to 6 pm
Sunday, July 11 from 10 am to 4 pm.
Allowed Merchandise. Dealers must sell items associated with the Club's earth science and lapidary art educational mission, meaning gems, minerals, fossils, crystals, meteorites or other geology and lapidary pursuits. We also admit jewelers but please note sellers of stone, fossils, meteorites, and earth science related goods receive priority. This priority ensures the Show will continue to live up to its name as a Gem and Mineral Show, rather than becoming a jewelry show or art fair. Art fairs are great! But our Show has an Earth Science focus.
Sales Tax. Dealers are required to collect 9.4% sales taxes on any merchandise sold during the Gem Show.
Exempt Sales. Dealers who plan to purchase goods for resale should bring multiple copies of their current, valid sales tax license to submit to the seller at the time of purchase. The copy may be a reduced sized so long as the State name, sales tax license number, and expiration date are all legible. Many people make "dollar sized" copies and keep them in their wallet. A current, valid license from any U.S. state is allowed for tax exempt dealer-to-dealer transactions by Colorado State Law. Sellers who conduct wholesale transactions are responsible for obtaining proper documentation from Dealer buyers. Transactions without proper documentation will be subject to sales tax.
NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES OR FIREARMS WILL BE ALLOWED ON THE PREMISES AND NO ANIMALS WILL BE ALLOWED WITHIN THE EXHIBIT HALL OR COUNTY OFFICE BUILDINGS.
At the Dealers own expense, the Dealer may insure against damage, loss or any other injury arising from claims by the public or the injury to persons or property. The Dealer agrees to hold the Club, the Club’s officers and members, and the Fairgrounds blameless and harmless from all liabilities arising out of or concerning the Dealers participation in the Gem Show.
The Club solicits the donation of items to be used at the Club's silent auction. Donations to the club, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit corporation are tax deductible.
Gem Show Spaces. There are four types of Dealer spaces at the Gem Show: inside the Exhibit Hall, inside the Extension Building, on the enclosed outdoor Patio, and on a South lot adjacent to the Patio.
Gem Show Space Request
Please complete the Dealer Request Page by clicking here if you would like to be a Commercial or Member Dealer at the Gem Show. If openings are available you will receive a reply and be mailed and/or emailed a dealer contract. Also download the gem show dealer policies by clicking on the button below to better understand the requirements of the State, County, City, and Fairgrounds venue for our Show.
Background. The Four Corners Gem & Mineral Gem Show has been an ongoing event for 73 years. The Show is typically the first Friday thru Sunday after the 4th of July. Attendance is generally four to six thousand shoppers. The Gem Show supports and promotes membership in the Club, raises money for a new building and for an annual Fort Lewis College Earth Science Student Scholarship, and supports other outreach to the Four Corners region. Public admission to the show is $5 per day for adults. Children under 14 accompanied by an adult will be admitted free.
How To Get in our Show. Most Gem Show dealers return year after year, and there are vert few openings each year. To get on our Waiting List, please Click Here to Visit the Dealer Request Page.
Gem Show openings for new participants are almost always in an outdoor area called the South Lot. This lot is the second public entry point to our show. Once you are in the Show then you may request a booth to move indoors or to another outdoor location.
2027 Show Dates and Hours.
Set up - Thursday July 8 from noon to 7:30 pm, and 8 - 10 am on Friday morning.
Friday, July 9 from 10 am to 6 pm
Saturday, July 10 from 10 am to 6 pm
Sunday, July 11 from 10 am to 4 pm.
Allowed Merchandise. Dealers must sell items associated with the Club's earth science and lapidary art educational mission, meaning gems, minerals, fossils, crystals, meteorites or other geology and lapidary pursuits. We also admit jewelers but please note sellers of stone, fossils, meteorites, and earth science related goods receive priority. This priority ensures the Show will continue to live up to its name as a Gem and Mineral Show, rather than becoming a jewelry show or art fair. Art fairs are great! But our Show has an Earth Science focus.
Sales Tax. Dealers are required to collect 9.4% sales taxes on any merchandise sold during the Gem Show.
- City Taxes. Dealers must obtain a City of Durango Business License and remit their own City Sales Tax. The City's sales tax application form can be downloaded by clicking here.
- State Taxes. State sales tax may be remitted on your own Colorado Sales Tax License, OR you may remit your sales tax at a sales tax table at the end of the Show and the Club will remit on your behalf.
- Both the City and State require dealer lists with contact information after our Show. If you paid your State taxes at our Show, we will notify the State that you were in compliance.
Exempt Sales. Dealers who plan to purchase goods for resale should bring multiple copies of their current, valid sales tax license to submit to the seller at the time of purchase. The copy may be a reduced sized so long as the State name, sales tax license number, and expiration date are all legible. Many people make "dollar sized" copies and keep them in their wallet. A current, valid license from any U.S. state is allowed for tax exempt dealer-to-dealer transactions by Colorado State Law. Sellers who conduct wholesale transactions are responsible for obtaining proper documentation from Dealer buyers. Transactions without proper documentation will be subject to sales tax.
NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES OR FIREARMS WILL BE ALLOWED ON THE PREMISES AND NO ANIMALS WILL BE ALLOWED WITHIN THE EXHIBIT HALL OR COUNTY OFFICE BUILDINGS.
At the Dealers own expense, the Dealer may insure against damage, loss or any other injury arising from claims by the public or the injury to persons or property. The Dealer agrees to hold the Club, the Club’s officers and members, and the Fairgrounds blameless and harmless from all liabilities arising out of or concerning the Dealers participation in the Gem Show.
The Club solicits the donation of items to be used at the Club's silent auction. Donations to the club, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit corporation are tax deductible.
Gem Show Spaces. There are four types of Dealer spaces at the Gem Show: inside the Exhibit Hall, inside the Extension Building, on the enclosed outdoor Patio, and on a South lot adjacent to the Patio.
Gem Show Space Request
Please complete the Dealer Request Page by clicking here if you would like to be a Commercial or Member Dealer at the Gem Show. If openings are available you will receive a reply and be mailed and/or emailed a dealer contract. Also download the gem show dealer policies by clicking on the button below to better understand the requirements of the State, County, City, and Fairgrounds venue for our Show.