FINE MINERAL COLLECTION and INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 2 of 2) - end May 25th, 2017

Ends Thursday, May 25th, 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. Beautiful rich electric blue AZURITE crystals from Morocco from the collection of Dr. Miguel Romero
2. Fine quality, translucent, greenish-brown SIDERITE with clay inclusions from Machacamarca, Bolivia
3. Superb WATER CLEAR FLUORITE crystals on matrix from the Llamas Quarry, Spain
4. Wonderful, sharp, isolated, aesthetic cubic PYRITE on matrix from the Shangbao Mine in China
5. A cool fossil of BELEMNITE replaced by FLINT sitting on a ball of PYRITE from Russia
6. Rarities include PSEUDOBOLEITE, BRIANYOUNGITE, LUDWIGITE, CARPATHITE, KOSNARITE, BOKITE, ATELESTITE and DENNINGITE
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Smithsonite with Hemimorphite
Level 8, San Antonio Mine, East Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico
10.1 x 7.1 x 4.6 cm
Stibnite
Lake County, California
8.3 x 7.3 x 4.2 cm
Quartz
Minas Gerais, Brazil
14.1 x 4.2 x 3.3 cm
Fluorite
Rosiclare Level, Annabel Lee Mine, Ozark-Mahoning Group, Hardin County, Illinois
3.6 x 2.2 x 1.2 cm
Spessartine on Albite with Microcline
Shengus (Shingus), Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan
5.7 x 3.6 x 2.2 cm
Halite
Wieliczka Mine, Wieliczka, Malopolskie, Poland
7.2 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm
Aquamarine (rare locality specimen)
Hogg Mine (Oxford Mine), La Grange, Troup County, Georgia
5.0 x 4.1 x 2.1 cm
Amethyst
Jackson Crossroads, Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia
2.7 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm
Azurite with Cerussite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Indiana Mine (Homestake Mine), Silver Bell District, Silver Bell Mts, Pima County, Arizona
4.9 x 3.2 x 1.5 cm
Bixbyite
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
1.2 x 1.2 x 0.6 cm
Brianyoungite (very rare)
Lavrion, Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District, Attiku Prefecture, Greece
6.1 x 3.6 x 1.7 cm
Gormanite (rare)
Linopolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.7 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm
Ludwigite (rare)
Ocna de Fier (Vasku-Moravi?a; Vasku-Moravicza; Eisenstein), Ocna de Fier-Dognecea District, Banat Mts, Caras-Severin Co., Romania (Type Locality)
9.3 x 8.1 x 2.7 cm
Carpathite with Cinnabar and Gold!
Picacho Mine (Picachos Mine; Los Picachos Mine), Picacho Peak, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California
5.2 x 5.0 x 3.2 cm
Kermesite (classic material)
Nova Alexander adit, Kolarsky hill, Pezinok, Pezinok Co., Bratislava Region, Slovakia
2.4 x 1.0 x 0.5 cm
Bokite (extremely rare) (ex Josef Vajdak)
The Fish, Gibellini District, Eureka County, Nevada
5.2 x 3.6 x 2.1 cm
Cotunnite (very rare)
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy (Type Locality)
5.2 x 3.7 x 1.8 cm
Denningite (very rare) (ex Josef Vajdak)
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico (Type Locality)
8.0 x 6.2 x 4.1 cm
Scorzalite (rare)
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca, Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash, Peru
2.3 x 2.6 x 1.5 cm
Kosnarite (extremely rare) (named for Rich Kosnar) (ex Rich Kosnar Collection)
Jenipapo district, Itinga, Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.6 x 1.6 x 0.9 cm
Berzelianite with Clausthalite, Boranite and Chalcocite (ex Josef Vajdak)
Bukov Mine, Rozna deposit, Zdar nad Sazavou, Vysocina Region, Moravia, Czech Republic
4.7 x 2.3 x 1.6 cm
Miargyrite (rare)
Silver tunnel, Van Silver Property (Van Silver Mine; Van Silver Claims), Brandywine Creek, Vancouver Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
3.2 x 2.6 x 1.2 cm
Atelestite (extremely rare)
Neuhilfe Mine, Neustadtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany (Type Locality)
3.1 x 2.7 x 1.1 cm
Gersdorffite (rare) (ex Josef Vajdak)
Zinkwand, Obertalbach valley, Schladminger Tauern, Schladming, Styria, Austria (Type Locality)
2.2 x 1.3 x 1.1 cm
Barite with Quartz
Sugarbowl Pocket, Murray Mine, Independence Mountains District, Elko County, Nevada
11.2 x 8.2 x 5.2 cm
Pseudoboleite with "Bindheimite" and Paratacamite (rare) (ex Josef Vajdak)
San Francisco Mine, Sierra Gorda District, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
4.6 x 4.1 x 1.2 cm
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