CONSIGNED MINERALS and KOSNAR COLLECTION AUCTIONS - Ends September 13th

Ends Thursday, September 13th, 2012 at 6:45 PM (Central Time)
Consignments from the Kosnar family collections and inventory (with classic minerals, unusual pieces, rarities and Bolivian specimens).
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Amethyst with Calcite* (*Calcite is rare from Bolivia)
Bombori, Potosi Department, Bolivia
10.3 x 9.8 x 8.8 cm
Valentinite (2011 find)
San Jose Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia
1.7 x 1.5 x 1.2 cm
Pyromorphite (rare from Bolivia)
Huari-Hauri, Saavedra Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia
8.7 x 5.8 x 2.1 cm
Cassiterite with Siderite and Quartz (With Smoky Quartz "Phantoms"!)
Viloco mine, Loayza Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia
9.0 x 6.5 x 1.9 cm
Vauxite with Paravauxite and Childrenite
Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Bustillo Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia (type locality for two species)
9.3 x 6.3 x 2.3 cm
Sphalerite pseudomorphs after Wurtzite with Pyrite (new find)
San Jose Mine, Oruro, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia
9.7 x 4.7 x 2.7 cm
Epidote (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)
Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
3.7 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm
Datolite (ex Brian Kosnar collection)
Braen's Quarry (Sam Braen's Quarry), Haledon, Passaic County, New Jersey
5.2 x 2.8 x 1.7 cm
Fluorite (mined 1977) (ex Rich Kosnar Collection)
Sweet Home mine, near Alma, Park County, Colorado
5.7 x 4.7 x 2.2 cm
Amazonite
Pike's Peak area, Park County, Colorado
3.3 x 2.4 x 1.9 cm
Smoky Quartz (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)
Lake George area, Park County, Colorado
4.6 x 3.9 x 3.4 cm
Fire Agate
Aguascalientes, Mexico
3.6 x 3.2 x 1.6 cm
Malachite
Shaba, Congo
7.3 x 5.3 x 4.7 cm
Conicalcite with Gypsum (ex Harold Urish Collection)
Ojuela Mine, Mapimu, Mun. de Mapimu, Durango, Mexico
4.2 x 3.1 x 2.3 cm
Axinite-(Fe)
Puiva Mountain, Saranpaul, Khanty-Mansi Okrug, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Prepolar Ural, Siberia, Russia
2.3 x 2.0 x 1.2 cm
Goldmanite (rare garnet species)
Rybnucek, Pezinok Co., Bratislava Region, Slovakia
7.8 x 7.2 x 4.7 cm
Opal (highly colorful)
Tsehay Mewcha, Wegeltena, Delanta, Wello (Wollo), Afar Province, Ethiopia
1.6 x 1.4 x 1.0 cm
Chromium/Vanadium Uvite (rare)
Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay Division, Burma
0.9 x 0.8 x 0.2 cm
Fluorite (unique color)
Yiyang, Tongbai, Henan Province, China
14.8 x 11.6 x 3.0 cm
Emerald (from the ALPS!) (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)
Pizzo Marcio, Val Vigezzo, Val d'Ossola, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy
4.4 x 3.8 x 3.0 cm
Kipushite with Reichenbachite and Vauquelinite (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)
Kipushi Mine (Prince Leopold Mine), Kipushi, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) (Type Locality for Kipushite)
2.3 x 2.3 x 1.3 cm
Pyromorphite (ex Brian Kosnar and Harold Urish Collections)
Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho
3.3 x 2.6 x 2.4 cm
Romanechite
Pinal County, Arizona
4.2 x 2.3 x 1.5 cm
Aquamarine with Muscovite
Chumar Bakhoor, Nagar, Northern Areas, Pakistan
5.4 x 4.8 x 4.3 cm
Andradite (var Demantoid)
Ghazni Province, Afghanistan
5.3 x 3.2 x 1.6 cm
Scorodite
Hezhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
10.6 x 7.3 x 2.6 cm
Tetrahedrite (ex Harold Urish Coll)
Julcani District, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru
5.2 x 4.3 x 2.2 cm
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