NEW YEAR'S FINE MINERAL COLLECTION and INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 2 of 2) - FEATURING SPECIMENS FROM THE KAY ROBERTSON COLLECTION - end Thursday January 4th, 2018

Ends Thursday, January 4th, 2018
at 6:45 PM (Central Time Zone)

ATTENTION: This auction will run longer than the normal period of time, so as not to interfere with Christmas and New Year's. Please note the closing date is January 4th, 2018. This auction will be combined with the auction that closed on December 21st into one billing cycle, and will start to ship after January 4th.

This week's auction is filled with new material 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, carvings / lapidary items and gemstones mixed in every now and then. Look for pieces mixed in from various collections we've obtained including Willard Wulff, Kay Robertson, Francesco Bedogné, and Paul Zerfass, along with 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. Beautiful rare, purple and yellow bicolor GEM crystal of Ametrine with a rare "c" {0001} face from Bolivia
2. Excellent and attractive "bent" crystals of bubble gum pink TOURMALINE on QUARTZ from the Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, California
3. Classic, gemmy, rich orange colored DOUBLY-TERMINATED IMPERIAL TOPAZ crystal from Brazil
4. Rarities include species such as TONDIITE, SPHAEROCOBALTITE and BOULANGERITE
5. SUPERB quality, GEMMY cubic crystals of FLUORITE with GALENA from the Stotfield Burn Mine, Weardale, England
6. An aesthetic CALCITE specimen from the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray Co., Colorado (ex Dave Bergman Collection) 7. Assorted specimens from Brazil from the collection of Rolando Gioia
8. PAGE 2 features assorted minerals from the Kay Robertson Collection!
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Calcite (ex Dave Bergman Collection)
2100' level, Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado
9.0 x 7.2 x 6.7 cm
Chrysoberyl (twin) (2013 find)
Ambatondrazaka District, Alaotra-Mangoro Region, Toamasina Province (Tamatave), Madagascar
1.3 x 1.2 x 0.5 cm
Gold with Quartz (14.28 grams)
Homestake Mine, Lead, Lead District, Lawrence County, South Dakota
3.1 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm
Fluorite (new find)
Koh-i-Maran, Kalat District, Balochistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan
7.8 x 5.2 x 2.8 cm
Morganite (293 grams) (ex Rolando Gioia Collection)
Conselheiro Pena pegmatite district, Minas Gerais, Brazil
7.7 x 5.5 x 4.0 cm
Babingtonite with Prehnite and Quartz (ex Francesco Bedogne Collection)
Hongquizhen Quarry, Meigu Co., Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China
7.1 x 4.3 x 4.0 cm
Rubellite Tourmaline (ex Rolando Gioia Collection)
Santa Rosa Mine, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.0 x 1.6 x 1.3 cm
Andorite (large, very lustrous crystals)
San Jose Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia
5.5 x 4.1 x 1.2 cm
Red Beryl (ex Dave Bergman Collection)
Wah Wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah
0.7 x 0.4 x 0.4 cm
Spodumene (var: Triphane) (37.80 grams) (classic locality)
Pala Chief Mine, Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala District, San Diego County, California
5.3 x 2.3 x 1.3 cm
Opal (highly colorful)
Tsehay Mewcha, Wegeltena, Delanta, Wello (Wollo), Afar Province, Ethiopia
0.8 x 0.8 x 0.5 cm
Linarite on Anglesite on Galena with Quartz and Fluorite
Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico
4.6 x 3.5 x 2.3 cm
Cinnabar (ex Francesco Bedogne Collection)
Almaden Mine, Almaden District, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
7.8 x 4.2 x 4.1 cm
Adamite (ex Rolando Gioia Collection)
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
3.7 x 2.3 x 1.1 cm
Hydroxylherderite (ex Rolando Gioia Collection)
Xanda Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.2 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm
Azurite with Cerussite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Indiana Mine (Homestake Mine), Silver Bell District, Silver Bell Mts, Pima County, Arizona
2.7 x 2.2 x 2.0 cm
Tourmaline (ex Rolando Gioia Collection)
Pederneira claim, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.7 x 1.1 x 0.7 cm
Fluorite with Galena (classic material)
Stotfield Burn Mine, Rookhope District, Weardale, North Pennines, Co. Durham, England, UK
10.7 x 5.7 x 4.5 cm
Andalusite (crystallized)
Jenipapo, Itinga, Jequitinhonha valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.7 x 2.3 x 2.1 cm
Galena
Brushy Creek Mine, Greeley, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri
11.7 x 10.3 x 4.2 cm
Calcite with Dioptase inclusions (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
6.6 x 5.2 x 2.7 cm
Vesuvianite (classic material) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy (Type Locality)
6.2 x 2.9 x 1.7 cm
Actinolite in Talc (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
El Cerrito Quarry (Stege Hutchinson), El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California
5.4 x 3.7 x 3.2 cm
Orthoclase (rare locality) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Miyamoto, Naka-Koma, Yamanashi Prefecture, Chubu Region, Honshu Island, Japan
5.7 x 5.7 x 4.2 cm
Quartz with Barite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Piz Beverin, Mathon, Schams, Hinterrhein Valley, Grischun (Grisons; Graubunden), Switzerland
6.3 x 5.7 x 3.2 cm
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