2024 Tucson Auction!

In recent years we’ve hosted a series of special auctions involving some of the minerals we already carefully selected for our retail sales venue in Tucson so that our Internet and social customers can have a chance at some of the good things we have saved up for the show!

To start the new year with a bang, we are therefore pleased to present one of the finest sets of beautiful fine mineral specimens and associated lapidary objects, that we have ever offered for online auction. Look for numerous beautiful specimens from new finds and old discoveries! We've had many specimens from older collection purchases out for cleaning during the last several years that are up for auction now. 

These special auction items will be available for viewing at the Tucson show, but they will only be available for bidding online at mineralauctions.com!

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Rubellite on Cleavelandite
Jonas Mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ex. Jonas family
9.2 x 8.7 x 6.4 cm
Winning Bid: $7,600
Nantan meteorite (iron nickel)
Lihu-Yaochai area, Hechi, Nandan Co., Guangxi, China
Ex. Rob Sielecki
5.3 x 4.2 x 2.8 cm, 170 grams
Winning Bid: $675
Opal
Quilpie, Queensland, Australia
6.9 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm, 310.90 cts
Winning Bid: $417
Copper inclusions in Datolite
Ridge Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon Co., Michigan, USA
Ex. Carl Acosta
2.5 x 2.2 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $310
large Fluorite Gemstone
Rogerley Mine, Frosterley, Weardale, Co. Durham, England, UK
Ex. Tim Sherburn
2.6 x 1.7 x 1.1 cm, 37.9 ct
Winning Bid: $1,401
Zoisite var. Tanzanite
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mtns., Simanjiro Dist., Tanzania
4.4 x 3.0 x 0.9 cm, 36 grams
Winning Bid: $780
White Cap Amazonite and Smoky Quartz on Cleavelandite
Hole In The Wall Pocket II, Smoky Hawk Mine, Teller Co., Colorado, USA
16.0 x 8.5 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $4,050
Beryl var. Heliodor with Aquamarine on Schorl
Erongo Mtns., Karibib Con., Erongo Region, Namibia
Ex. Bill Larson
6.8 x 4.6 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $460
Quartz (Japan Law Twin)
De Linde Mine, Montgomery Co., Arkansas, USA
Ex. Doug Wallace (self collected)
10.4 x 6.3 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $575
Rutile (twinned, 1 pound crystal)
Graves Mtn., Lincoln Co., Georgia, USA
Ex. Doug Wallace (self collected)
7.5 x 5.8 x 4.3 cm, 456 grams
Winning Bid: $1,200
Fluorite on Quartz (circa 1990s)
Pasto Bueno, Pampas Dist., Pallasca Prov., Peru
Ex. Raul and Helen Madrid
15.5 x 12.2 x 10.1 cm, 1900 grams
Winning Bid: $4,040
Vanadinite
ACF Mine, Mibladen, Khenifra Prov., Morocco
3.4 x 3.3 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $266
Calcite on Calcite, on Calcite over Drusy Quartz
Nasik, Maharashtra, India
Ex. Matt McGill
8.0 x 5.7 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $590
Rubellite Tourmaline in matrix
Mawi, Nuristan, Laghman Prov., Afghanistan
6.4 x 4.4 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $4,051
Fluorapophyllite with Stilbite
Aurangabad, Maharashtra State, India
11.6 x 9.0 x 6.6 cm
Winning Bid: $295
Fluorite - Rough and Cut Gem Set
Muzo Mine, Boyaca Dept., Colombia
Ex. Tim Sherburn
3.9 x 3.6 x 2.9 cm
Winning Bid: $802
Quartz var. Amethyst (rare Swiss locality)
Fieschergletcher, Bieligental, Gons, Wallis, Switzerland
17.1 x 11.6 x 7.2 cm
Winning Bid: $170
Pyrite on Pyrite ps. Baculites (fossil)
Eagle Co., Colorado, USA
11.6 x 6.2 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $1,582
Cavansite on Stilbite
Wagholi Quarries, Pune Dist., Maharashtra, India
9.9 x 8.5 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $575
Calcite with Hematite Inclusions (mid 1800s)
Stank Mine, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
Ex. Wilhelm Leithauser
8.0 x 5.6 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $1,300
Rhodochrosite (found 1977)
Hotazel Mine, KMF, Northern Cape, South Africa
Ex. Ed Ruggiero
4.2 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $2,110
Fluorite with Dolomite
Wolsendorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Ex. Christian Weise
11.6 x 10.2 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $875
Carved Orchid, Amethyst on Quartz
carved in Idar-Oberstein
Ex. Kerith Graeber
4.4 x 4.4 x 1.8 cm, 63 ct
Winning Bid: $1,911
Grossular var. Tsavorite with Graphite
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mtns., Simanjiro Dist., Tanzania
3.3 x 3.3 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $2,550
Iridescent Andradite garnet
Kohse Mine, Yoshino Dist., Nara Pref., Japan
Ex. Tim Sherburn
5.5 x 3.6 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $2,594
Morganite, Quartz, Tourmaline, Lepidolite on Albite
Stewart Mine, Pala, San Diego Co., California, USA
Ex. Bill Larson
10.8 x 6.9 x 6.6 cm
Winning Bid: $2,958
Calcite
Malmberget Mine, Lappland, Sweden
Ex. Peter Lyckberg, Cynthia Payne
6.7 x 3.3 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $1,150
Elbaite
Goma, North Kivu, DR Congo
10.1 x 2.8 x 2.7 cm, 136.2 grams
Winning Bid: $1,950
Romanechite
Haiti Mine, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
6.7 x 6.0 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $220
Dioptase with Calcite (rare locality)
Christmas Mine, Christmas, Gila Co., Arizona, USA
Ex. Tom Hales, Alex Neufeld
8.0 x 4.9 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $298