Fine Mineral Auctions from the depths of our Warehouse ! - ends June 4th

Needless to say, we have all been catching up on cleaning projects. Nearly all of these minerals were found still in boxes and drawers in the back warehouse, from long-ago acquisitions, and never seen by a customer since we acquired them. This week is another grouping of a wild diversity of beautiful mineral specimens! Old classics, new finds, and new material...

HIGHLIGHTS:

1. Gem Tourmaline cross

2. aesthetic large MALACHITES from DR Congo

3. Large purple AGATE slab from Mexico

4. Rare ANGLESITE on DESCLOIZITE

5. Bunker Hill PYROMORPHITE from the Karl Warning Collection

6. Large matrix Utah AZURITE.

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Sulfur on Halite (RARE combo) Dr. B. Phillips Coll.
Sigmundshall mine, Bokeloh, Hanover Region, Lower Saxony, Germany
8.9 x 5.7 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $105
Fibrous Sugilite (rare - 2016 finds)
N'Chwaning III Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
2.0 x 0.9 x 0.5 cm
Winning Bid: $67
Turquoise (Arkansas! - 1960s)
Mona Lisa Mine, Porter Mountain, Gilham, Polk Co., Arkansas
6.9 x 6.7 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $100
exotic Pyrite concretion
Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China
7.5 x 6.9 x 5.9 cm
Winning Bid: $165
Legrandite
Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
1.6 x 1.0 x 0.6 cm
Winning Bid: $102
Calcite on Chrysocolla (rare - classic locale) Gary Weaver Coll.
Boleo District, Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur, Mexico
7.3 x 5.0 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $210
V-twin Calcites (classic find) Gary Weaver Coll.
Mine No. 884, Leiping, Chenzhou, Hunan, China
6.3 x 3.9 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $260
Calcite and Goethite (Tom Wolfe Coll.)
West Camp, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
7.3 x 4.7 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $96
Large matrix Azurite ex Gary Weaver Collection
La Sal, San Juan Co., Utah
17.6 x 9.2 x 8.6 cm
Winning Bid: $343
Large Malachite stalactite
Kolwezi mining district, Lualaba, DR Congo
16.5 x 4.4 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $377
Chrysoprase (new find)
Szklary Chrysoprase Mine, Szklary, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
4.0 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $45
Spinel-twinned Copper (New Find)
Rocklands Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
4.2 x 2.5 x 0.6 cm
Winning Bid: $270
Gem Tourmaline
Pederneira Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.4 x 2.9 x 0.5 cm
Winning Bid: $365
Grossular Garnet xls w/ Diopside (Kay Robertson Coll.)
Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada
2.1 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm (largest of 5)
Winning Bid: $210
Ruby (fluorescent)
Mysore District, Karnataka, India
7.6 x 6.2 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $165
Fluorite carving, Bear
China
7.7 x 4.6 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $113
Synthetic Quartz (Motorola Laboratories )
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
15.5 x 2.2 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $145
Large Manganoan Calcite pagodas (fluorescent!)
Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
15.1 x 12.0 x 9.5 cm
Winning Bid: $77
Millerite, Gaspeite & Annabergite (rare locale)
Pafuri nickel deposit, Vhembe District, Limpopo, South Africa
6.9 x 5.2 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Chalcedony ps. After fossil sponges (2016 find)
Bu Craa, Laayoune Province, Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra Region, Morocco
5.0 x 4.2 x 3.4 cm (Largest of 2)
Winning Bid: $30
2001 Book Auction Catalogue (Joseph Freilich Coll.)
Sotheby's, New York
27.2 x 21.1 x 2.9 cm
Winning Bid: $195
Polished Malachite & Chrysocolla nodule
Kolwezi District, Lualaba, DR Congo
7.0 x 6.5 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $87
Large Fluorite (Arizona - fluorescent) Gary Weaver Coll.
Skinner lode, Silver Creek area, Oatman Mining Dist., Mohave County, Arizona
17.0 x 10.5 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $155
Large Elpidite (classic locale)
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
13.2 x 4.6 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $285
Large purple Luna Agate slab
Chihuahua, Mexico
29.7 x 19.6 x 0.7 cm
Winning Bid: $171
Pyrite ps. After Pyrrhotite (Wouter van Tichelen Coll.)
Herja Mine, Baia Mare, Maramureș, Romania
6.4 x 4.1 x 3.4 cm
Winning Bid: $105
Malachite w/ Cerussite
Brown's Prospect, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, Australia
4.9 x 3.6 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $30
Carbonatecyanotrichite (2018 finds - RARE China)
Qinglong Mine, Dachang Sb ore field, Guizhou Province, China
12.6 x 6.5 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $526
Pectolite (classic New Jersey)
Millington Quarry, Basking Ridge, Somerset Co., New Jersey
8.8 x 5.6 x 2.9 cm
Winning Bid: $162
Pyromorphite (2 generations) Karl Warning Coll.
Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Shoshone Co., Idaho
6.4 x 3.6 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $1,051