Fine Mineral Auctions from the depths of our Warehouse ! - ends June 25, 2020

One unexpected bonus to being stuck in Dallas through the hot summer and able to go to  work all day, is there is more time to go looking for old classics and treasures in the back rooms....here is yet another set featuring a mix of beautiful and important classics from our storage areas of old collections, and things that needed to be processed and cleaned. Enjoy!

HIGHLIGHTS:

1. Gem AQUAMARINE xls w/ MUSCOVITE

2. Many LARGE CABINET DISPLAY PIECES this week!

3. Classic, gorgeous WILLEMITE & CALCITE from Franklin

4. Elmwood specimens from the Consie Prince Collection

5. Superb GEM PERIDOT xl and a large PERIDOT BOMB

6. Rare large floater QUARTZ shard from San Diego County and rare large DIOPTASE plate from Morenci

7. Large gem INDICOLITE TOURMALINE from the Pederneira Mine

8. Very rare large AXINITE from Fresnillo, Mexico

9. RARE, old spinel-twinned GALENA from Neudorf

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Gem Aquamarine xls w/ Muscovite fine large matrix specimen
Nagar, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
13.0 x 9.9 x 7.7 cm
Winning Bid: $360
Pyromorphite (old classic) Kay Robertson Coll.
Bad Ems, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
2.4 x 2.0 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $80
Laumontite & Apophyllite on Prehnite ps. After Anhydrite
Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic Co., New Jersey
5.1 x 4.2 x 3.4 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Manganoan Calcite (rare - fluorescent) Tom Wolfe Coll.
Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico
8.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 cm
Winning Bid: $135
Large polished Copper glacial drift slab (6.3 pounds mass)
Ontonagon County, Michigan
36.5 x 14.4 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $211
Large Hemimorphite (old finds)
Wenshan Mine, Wenshan, Yunnan, China
14.8 x 11.2 x 4.7 cm
Winning Bid: $502
Chalcocite on Pyrite xls (rare old classic - ex Art Soregaroli Coll.)
5750 Level, South Pit, Chino Mine, Santa Rita, Grant Co., New Mexico
2.8 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm (Largest of 11)
Winning Bid: $71
Spinel-twinned Galena xls (RARE & old classic) ex. Robertson Coll.
Neudorf, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
7.7 x 6.5 x 4.4 cm
Winning Bid: $525
Malachite with Calcite
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi mining district, Lualaba, DR Congo
6.1 x 5.1 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $45
Fluorite octahedrons
Xiefang Mine, Ruijin Co., Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
9.3 x 8.2 x 6.1 cm
Winning Bid: $110
Hyalite Opal (strongly fluorescent!)
Valec Hyalite occurrences, Valec, Karlovy Vary District, Czech Republic
8.1 x 6.2 x 5.5 cm
Winning Bid: $112
Fluorite cuboctahedrons w/ phantoms (fluorescent)
Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China
9.1 x 6.3 x 5.1 cm
Winning Bid: $90
Sphalerite & Dolomite (Consie Prince Coll.)
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee
13.2 x 8.5 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $95
Pyrite concretion
Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China
9.7 x 9.3 x 8.3 cm
Winning Bid: $76
Large Calcite w/ Baryte (Consie Prince Coll.)
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee
14.3 x 11.0 x 6.3 cm
Winning Bid: $213
Huge Dioptase plate ex (Dick Hauck Coll.)
Morenci Mine, Copper Mountain Mining District, Greenlee Co., Arizona
18.4 x 12.9 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $166
Weloganite (Type Locality) Bob Hauck Coll.
Francon quarry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
7.8 x 7.0 x 6.8 cm
Winning Bid: $388
Fluorite octahedrons
Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
6.0 x 4.4 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $164
Wavellite (good color!)
Avant, Garland Co., Arkansas
6.1 x 4.5 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $220
Pyromorphite (2 generations)
Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Shoshone Co., Idaho
5.5 x 3.5 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $303
Faden Quartz (unsual style) ex Obodda
Wana, South Waziristan Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
6.8 x 3.0 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $150
Malachite w/ Quartz (RARE Mexico - old) Kay Robertson Coll.
San Carlos Mine, Mezcala, Guerrero, Mexico
8.5 x 5.3 x 5.1 cm
Winning Bid: $73
DT floater gem Kunzite (2018 find - 121 grams)
Mawi pegmatite, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
8.6 x 5.4 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $208
large Arizona Peridot (classic AZ) Gary Weaver Coll.
San Carlos Indian Reservation, Gila Co., Arizona
11.7 x 7.9 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $191
large Calcite - classic style
Xianghualing Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan, China
15.6 x 10.6 x 5.1 cm
Winning Bid: $375
Native Copper (rare style) w/ Chrysocolla (Pennsylvania!)
Blue Ridge summit, Adams Co., Pennsylvania
9.8 x 7.3 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $129
large Hematite-tinted Calcite knob (old - classic locale)
West Camp, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
21.5 x 9.7 x 9.0 cm
Winning Bid: $195
Large Quartz xl plate (RARE Idaho loc.) Gary Weaver Coll.
Silver City Mining District, Owyhee Co., Idaho
26.5 x 17.2 x 6.9 cm
Winning Bid: $232
Large Quartz "icicle"
Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
24.0 x 5.6 x 5.5 cm
Winning Bid: $256
Azurite w/ Malachite (Gary Weaver Coll.)
Morenci Mine, Copper Mountain Mining District, Greenlee Co., Arizona
12.5 x 7.5 x 7.4 cm
Winning Bid: $101