FINE MINERAL COLLECTION and INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - End Sept 19

A great selection this week with lots of attractive, good quality, rare and unusual specimens.  Look for new discoveries that we picked up at recent shows or direct from the source, plus we have plenty of pieces from a newly purchased prominent worldwide collection from the Midwest along with Geary Murdock and dealers' inventories, plus Kay Robertson!  You might even find the occasional fossil, lapidary or gem item from time to time.   Look here for the not so typical mineral specimens along with plenty of your favorites.  We don't just offer the "standard 20 species", but an eclectic mix of specimens that appeal to everybody!
 
Some of the highlights from this week’s auction include:
 
1. Rare "Trapiche" habit RUBY crystal from Myanmar
2. Beautiful gemmy natural purple and yellow AMETRINE slice from Bolivia
3. An unusual natural "etched" PYRITE crystal from King County, Washington
4. A very hard to find 100 year old GOLD specimen from Gold Fish Group, South Dakota
5. Newly mined "BLOOD VESSEL OPAL" ("Hyalite") specimen from Mexico
6. A wonderful multi-terminated EPIDOTE "Faden" specimen from Pakistan
7. Rarities include LUZONITE, KONGSBERGITE and a SAFFLORITE pseudomorph after NATIVE SILVER
8. Plenty of cool US and European minerals and various rarities from the collection of Kay Robertson
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Fluorite on Sphalerite
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee
3.1 x 3.0 x 2.4 cm
Copper ("leaf") (unique locality specimen)
Corocoro District, Pacajes Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia
8.7 x 6.6 x 1.3 cm
Ametrine (polished slice) (276.05 grams)
Anahi Mine, La Gaiba District, Sandoval Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia
11.1 x 8.7 x 1.3 cm
Vivianite pseudomorph after Belemnite Fossil
Mullica Hill, Harrison Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey
8.2 x 1.5 x 1.0 cm
Andradite Garnet (var: Demantoid)
Ghazni Province, Afghanistan
5.7 x 3.8 x 3.4 cm
Microlite Group
Ipe Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.7 x 4.8 x 4.2 cm
Prehnite (new find)
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mts, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
9.3 x 6.7 x 4.3 cm
Rhodochrosite (good color) on Quartz (classic material) (ex Geary Murdock Collection)
Sunnyside Mine, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, Eureka District, San Juan County, Colorado
7.6 x 4.1 x 2.8 cm
Gold (100+ year old specimen)
Gold Fish Group, Unorganized mining district, Custer County, South Dakota
3.1 x 1.5 x 0.9 cm
Azurite
Touissit, Touissit-Bou Beker District, Jerada Province, L'oriental Region, Morocco
3.6 x 2.0 x 1.8 cm
Quartz (unusual locality specimen)
Akchatau Mine, Akchatau, Shet, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
5.7 x 3.4 x 3.3 cm
Adamite (classic material)
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
8.1 x 5.6 x 2.7 cm
Andradite Garnet (Geode / "Coconut") (new find)
Pampa Blanca District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru
5.3 x 4.6 x 3.6 cm
Ruby (rare "Trapiche" form)
Mong Hsu, Loilem District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma)
0.4 x 0.3 x 0.1 cm
Opal-AN (Hyalite Opal) ("Blood Vessel Opal")
Étienne Mine, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
4.7 x 4.4 x 3.6 cm
Analcime
Wasson's Bluff, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada
8.2 x 5.8 x 3.8 cm
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
7.2 x 4.6 x 3.7 cm
Fluorite on Muscovite
Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan Province, China
5.8 x 4.2 x 2.3 cm
Epidote ("Faden")
Hashupa Epidote Locality, Hashupa, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
7.2 x 2.1 x 1.1 cm
Halite (skeletal crystals)
Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California
16.6 x 8.8 x 3.9 cm
Pyrite (octahedral)
Milpo Mine, Atacocha Mining District, Cerro de Pasco, Pasco Province, Pasco, Peru
4.4 x 3.3 x 2.8 cm
Quartz (var: Chalcedony) (2017 find)
Smara, Es-Semara Province, Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra Region, Morocco
5.2 x 4.1 x 3.1 cm
Azurite with Malachite and Gypsum
Bou Bekker, Touissit, Oujda-Angad Province, Morocco
8.8 x 3.0 x 1.6 cm
Quartz on Petrified Wood (approx 35 million years old)
Brown Coal Open Pit, Zwenkau, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
2.5 x 1.1 x 0.4 cm
Ruby (good quality) on schist
Mysore District, Karnataka, India
4.8 x 4.7 x 2.7 cm
Hematite pseudomorph after Marcasite (classic material)
White Desert, Farafra Oasis, New Valley, Egypt
7.5 x 4.7 x 3.7 cm
Vanadinite (classic material) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco
9.6 x 8.2 x 5.3 cm
Silver (var: Kongsbergite) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Glasberg quarry, Nieder-Beerbach, Mühltal, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany
0.8 x 0.8 x 0.3 cm
Fluorapatite (2 crystal set) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal area, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
3.2 x 1.7 x 1.1 cm and 2.6 x 2.1 x 1.5 cm
Marialite (Scapolite) (GEM) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Rubeho Mtn, Mpapwa, Mpwapwa District (Mpwampwa), Dodoma Region, Tanzania
0.8 x 0.7 x 0.4 cm