FINE MINERAL COLLECTION and INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - end Thursday June 27th, 2019

Ends Thursday, June 27th, 2019
at 6:45 PM (Central Time Zone)


We have a great selection of material that we picked up over the last few months along with rarities, unusual pieces, gem crystals, classics and display specimens. Look for new goodies from recent shows / discoveries along with new collection acquisitions to appear in the coming weeks. You'll even find a few fossils, carvings / lapidary items and gemstones mixed in every now and then. We'll still have selections from various collections we've obtained including the newly acquired collection of David Burgess, Tom Campbell and Dr. William Logan along with pieces from Willard Wulff and Rich Kosnar, plus plenty of pieces from various dealers' inventories. 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! Enjoy!

Some of the highlights from this week's auction include:

1. A beautiful naturally bi-colored purple and yellow AMETRINE slice from Bolivia
2. Newly mined "Blood Vessel Opal" (Hyalite / Opal-AN) from Mexico
3. Gorgeous and rarely seen PURPLE and RED VESUVIANITE crystals from the Jeffrey Mine, Canada
4. Attractive crystallized GOLD specimen from the Piolho Claim, Brazil
5. Fantastic doubly-terminated, sharp, pinkish-purple colored SAPPHIRE crystal on matrix from Paksitan
6. Gemmy AMBER specimen with MULTIPLE INSECT INCLUSIONS from the Dominican Republic
7. New and unusual MULTICOLOR ANDRADITE GARNET specimen from Peru
8. Eye-catching "butterfly"-twinned crystals of PHOSPHOPHYLLITE from Bolivia
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Purple Quartz (var: Chalcedony / Agate) ("Grape" Chalcedony / Agate)
Mamuju area, Sulawesi Barat Province, Sulawesi, Indonesia
9.3 x 4.8 x 4.4 cm
Pyrite (ex Leigh Price Collection)
Eagle Mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado
8.8 x 6.0 x 6.0 cm
Amazonite with Albite
R. A. Kosnar claim on Yucca Hill, Steven's Ranch, near Lake George, Park County, Colorado
4.3 x 3.7 x 2.8 cm
Phosphophyllite (classic butterfly twins)
Huayllani Mine, Machacamarca District, Saavedra Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia
4.6 x 2.8 x 1.3 cm
Molybdenite (2 piece set)
Wolfram Camp, Dimbulah, Mareeba Shire, Queensland, Australia
2.8 x 2.1 x 1.3 cm and 2.7 x 1.6 x 0.8 cm
Halite (beautiful color)
Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California
11.2 x 11.1 x 4.3 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
Microlite Group
Ipe Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.3 x 4.7 x 2.3 cm
Microcline with Smoky Quartz (ex Fred Milman Collection)
Moat Mountain, Carroll County, New Hampshire
9.3 x 9.1 x 6.3 cm
Smithsonite with Calcite
Sounion Mine No. 6 ("Exi Mine"), Agia Varvara Mines (St Barbara Mines), Sounion Area, Lavrion, Attikí Prefecture, Greece
6.1 x 3.5 x 2.0 cm
Bivalve Fossil
Jherruk-Lakhra-Bara Nai (Sind), Salt Range (Punjab) and Samana Range (N.W. F. P.), Pakistan 
6.6 x 6.2 x 3.8 cm
Turquoise
Zhilandy, Pavlodar Province, Kazakhstan
2.6 x 1.2 x 0.8 cm
Monazite-Ce (color change "butterfly" twin) on Quartz
Contacto Vein, Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Bustillos Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia
4.2 x 3.3 x 2.3 cm
Chromian Muscovite (Fuchsite) (new find)
MQ Granite AS quarry, Gaskkabeaivári, Kautokeino, Finnmark, Norway
3.2 x 2.6 x 2.1 cm
Anapaite (classic material) (ex Fersman Museum Collection)
Kerch peninsula, Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine
9.2 x 5.1 x 3.3 cm
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