FINE HISTORIC MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - Ends Thursday March 19, 2020

This week's special auction set features great selection of minerals including MANY historic classics, only available from old collections!

 

Highlights this week include:

 

1. Rare large South Korea CALCITE

 

2. Selection of large specimens

 

3. TOURMALINES

 

4. Rare New Mexico WULFENITE from the Juanita Mine 

 

5.Classic, old-time ex Obodda, MANGANOAN CALCITE from St Andreasberg

 

6. Superb DIGENITE on CHALCOCITE from Butte

 

7. Large Goboboseb matrix AMETHYST from the Charlie Key Collection

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Color-zoned Fluorite (New Find)
Qinglong Mine, Dachang Sb ore field, Qinglong Co., Guizhou, China
14.7 x 8.6 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $470
Mohawkite (large, polished slab)
Mohawk Mine, Mohawk, Keweenaw Co., Michigan
10.7 x 5.7 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Large Apophyllite on Stilbite
Ahmadnagar District, Maharashtra, India
13.1 x 8.8 x 7.3 cm
Winning Bid: $157
Large Calcite & Stilbite on Chalcedony
Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India
17.3 x 12.6 x 8.6 cm
Winning Bid: $135
Calcite xl (classic PA) George Feist Coll.
York Stone Quarry, York, York Co., Pennsylvania
8.7 x 6.0 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Gemmy DT purple-cap Indicolite Tourmaline (circa 2010 finds)
Pederneira mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.1 x 1.5 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $210
Monazite (RARE Norway locale) Kay Robertson Coll.
Starengen, Rade, Ostfold, Norway
1.3 x 1.1 x 0.5 cm
Winning Bid: $37
Tektite (meteor-related glass)
Maoming, Guangdong Province, China
9.3 x 3.7 x 2.9 cm
Winning Bid: $210
Fluorite w/ Dolomite, Calcite & Marcasite floater
Moscona Mine, Solis, Asturias, Spain
9.5 x 6.5 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $420
Unusual BARITE (rare NM loc.) Willard Wulff Coll.
Juanita Mine, Magdalena District, Socorro Co., New Mexico
6.7 x 6.0 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $269
Dolomite on Siderite (Karl Warning Coll.)
Cavnic, Maramures, Romania
7.3 x 7.2 x 3.4 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Limonite on Psilomelane stalactites (old - classic locale)
Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia
10.8 x 3.0 x 2.6 (largest of 2)
Winning Bid: $143
Gemmy Spessartine Garnets on Microcline
Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian, China
9.7 x 8.0 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $212
Calcite on color-zoned Fluorite w/ Chalcopyrite
Denton Mine, Harris Creek Mining Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois
7.2 x 6.0 x 4.6 cm
Winning Bid: $145
Large Prehnite (classic CT)
O & G Southbury Quarry, Southbury, New Haven Co., Connecticut
17.0 x 15.1 x 10.2 cm
Winning Bid: $105
Baryte, Calcite & Goethite on Limonite
Jebel Ouichane, Nador Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
11.2 x 11.1 x 6.7 cm
Winning Bid: $255
Large Manganoan Calcite (fluorescent!)
2nd Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
19.6 x 17.0 x 8.2 cm
Winning Bid: $87
Large Sphalerite w/ Chalcopyrite & Galena (old classic) Feist Coll.
Barr Mine, Treece, Picher Field, Tri-State Dist., Cherokee Co., Kansas
13.9 x 11.4 x 9.5 cm
Winning Bid: $87
Limonite on Fluorite & Calcite (Dr. B. Phillips Coll.)
Kamariza mines, Lavrion, Attica, Greece
9.0 x 6.9 x 6.5 cm
Winning Bid: $61
Color-zoned Fluorite w/ Chalcopyrite
Denton Mine, Harris Creek Mining Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois
12.8 x 8.2 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $190
Wulfenite & Descloizite on Mg-oxide (Gary Weaver Coll.)
Erupcion Mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
10.5 x 9.8 x 6.8 cm
Winning Bid: $166
Calcite on Quartz (Gary Weaver Coll.)
Valenciana Mine, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
12.0 x 11.7 x 5.4 cm
Winning Bid: $165
DT bi-colored Tourmaline w/ Cleavelandite & Muscovite
Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
4.8 x 3.7 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $42
Prehnite on Graphite
Merelani Hills, Manyara Region, Tanzania
5.9 x 4.7 x 3.4 cm
Winning Bid: $30
Amethyst w/ Calcite (classic locale)
Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
13.1 x 10.1 x 5.5 cm
Winning Bid: $111
Malachite stalactite on Heterogenite? Ex Obodda
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi mining district, Lualaba, DR Congo
7.9 x 7.7 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $102
Large rare Calcite w/ Fluorapophyllite-(K) (fluorescent!)
Palabora mine, Loolekop, Limpopo, South Africa
12.7 x 11.5 x 9.3 cm
Winning Bid: $160
"Pumpkin" Calcite (NEW FIND 2019)
Daye County, Huangshi, Hubei, China
11.3 x 7.4 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $135
Pumpellyite-(Mg) var. Chlorastrolite (Univ. of Delaware)
Isle Royale National Park, Lake Superior, Keweenaw Co., Michigan
3.2 x 3.0 x 1.1 cm (Largest of 3)
Winning Bid: $459
Large Calcite (rare, from KOREA! )
nr. 38th Parallel, Gangwon Province, South Korea
11.0 x 10.2 x 4.5 cm
Winning Bid: $290