FINE MINERAL COLLECTION and INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 2 of 2) - end July 3rd, 2017

Ends Thursday, July 3rd, 2017
at 6:45 PM (Central Time Zone)

This week's auction is filled with plenty of new discoveries we picked up over the last few months along with rarities, unusual pieces, gem crystals, classics and display specimens. You'll even find a few fossils, carving and gemstones mixed in every now and then. Of course we have plenty of pieces from the famous and historic Willard Wulff collection, along with dealers' inventories and other private collections that we're liquidating. 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 include:
1. GEM quality, prismatic sherry / golden colored TOPAZ from Pakistan!
2. Big, beautiful, gemmy radial AMETHYST FLOWER from Brazil
3. Fine emerald green DIOPTASE on CERUSSITE from Namibia
4. Showy large cabinet three-dimensional COPPER specimen from Arizona
5. Gemmy, "flame" red colored "phantom" BROOKITE Crystals on Quartz from Pakistan
6. Fantastic "floater" plate of gorgeous GEM color change FLUORITE from China!
7. Rarities include, Sussexite, "Kasparite", Cuprian Austinite, Hotsonite from the Type Locality along with Plumbophyllite from the Type Locality
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Vanadinite on Barite
Mibladen, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Meknes-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
3.0 x 2.7 x 2.2 cm
Montebrasite (rare)
Fazenda Pomarolli, Linupolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
7.2 x 3.4 x 3.2 cm
Gypsum (hard to find material)
Salar de Uyuni, Nor Lipez Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia
12.6 x 6.3 x 5.2 cm
Azurite with Malachite
Liufengshan Mine, Anqing-Guichi Mining District, Guichi District, Chizhou Prefecture, Anhui Province, China
9.2 x 7.2 x 5.2 cm
Titanite with Diopside and "Byssolite"
Hashupa, Shigar Valley, Baltistan, Nortern Areas, Pakistan
2.5 x 1.6 x 0.8 cm
Moldavite
Besednice, Cesky Krumlov, Bohemia, Republic
1.8 x 1.2 x 0.4 cm
Bivalve Fossil
Jherruk-Lakhra-Bara Nai (Sind), Salt Range (Punjab) and Samana Range (N.W. F. P.), Pakistan
6.3 x 6.1 x 3.7 cm
Fluorite
Dreamtime Mine, Crystal Peak, Teller County, Colorado
5.3 x 3.7 x 2.4 cm
Bixbyite
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
2.7 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm
Barite with Hematite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Frizington, West Cumberland Iron Field, Cumbria, England, UK
4.2 x 3.3 x 1.3 cm
Bastnasite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
St Peters Dome, Cheyenne District, El Paso County, Colorado
3.5 x 1.8 x 1.6 cm
Malachite pseudomorph after Azurite
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Mun. de Cananea, Sonora, Mexico
7.3 x 4.8 x 2.7 cm
Quartz ("Faden") (ex Obodda)
Tole (Tui), Wana, South Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Pakistan
4.2 x 3.2 x 1.4 cm
Stilbite on Hedenbergite
Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey
2.2 x 1.9 x 1.3 cm
Ammonite (var: Ammolite)
Ambato-Boeni District, Boeny Region, Mahajanga (Majunga) Province, Madagascar
3.1 x 2.5 x 0.8 cm
Prehnite ("cast" after Anhydrite)
Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey
7.3 x 5.7 x 5.2 cm
Ruby Spinel
Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay Division, Burma
0.4 x 0.3 x 0.3 cm
Sussexite (ex Richard A. Kosnar Collection)
Franklin mine, Sussex County, New Jersey
1.3 x 0.4 x 0.4 cm
Kasparite (Co-bearing Pickeringite)
Dubnuk, Cervenica, Presov Co., Slovakia
3.3 x 2.7 x 1.8 cm
Cuprian Austinite with Conichalcite (ex Clay Williams Collection)
Middle Pit, Gold Hill Mine, Gold Hill, Gold Hill District, Deep Creek Mts, Tooele County, Utah
9.7 x 6.8 x 3.3 cm
Plumbophyllite (ridiculously rare) (ex Matioli)
Blue Bell Mine, Zzyzx Mineral Spring Resort, Soda Mts, Silver Lake District, San Bernardino County, California (Type Locality)
3.7 x 2.7 x 2.2 cm
Brewsterite-(Sr) (very rare)
Yellow Lake, Olalla, Osoyoos Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
2.6 x 1.6 x 1.3 cm
Rosasite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Ojuela Mine, Mapimu, Mun. de Mapimu, Durango, Mexico
2.8 x 1.6 x 1.3 cm
Calcite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Howard Quarry, Howard, Fremont County, Colorado
5.7 x 3.8 x 3.2 cm
Kryzhanovskite (rare)
Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada
4.7 x 2.3 x 0.7 cm
Brookite (gemmy) on Quartz
Kharan, Baluchistan, Pakistan
4.2 x 2.7 x 2.4 cm
Fluorite (GEM color changing crystals)
Dayu Co., Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China
7.8 x 4.5 x 2.7 cm
Xenotime-(Y) (ex Obodda)
Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (NWFP), Pakistan
7.2 x 5.2 x 2.9 cm
Hotsonite (extremely rare) with Natroalunite and Sillimanite (ex Matioli)
Hotson 6 Mine, Koenabib farm (Hotson 42 farm), Bushmanland, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (Type Locality)
5.7 x 3.8 x 3.1 cm
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