FINE MINERAL COLLECTION and INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 2 of 2) - FEATURING SPECIMENS FROM THE KAY ROBERTSON COLLECTION - end Thursday March 1st, 2018

Ends Thursday, March 1st, 2018
at 6:45 PM (Central Time Zone)



Back from Tucson and we've got 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 Tucson 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 Willard Wulff, Rolando Gioia, Francesco Bedogné, Paul Zerfass and plenty of pieces from Kay Robertson along with 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 newly mined multi-colored "phantom" zoned FLUORITE specimen from Pakistan
2. Attractive DIAMOND crystal from the Miba Mine, Democratic Republic of Congo
3. Unusually compressed doubly-terminated, gemmy green TOURMALINE from Brazil
4. GOLD on QUARTZ from the Timmins area, Ontario, Canada
5. A hard to find pink FLUORAPATITE specimen from the Akzhaylyautas Mts of Kazakhstan
6. CHAMOSITE ("Thuringite") pseudomorph after ALMANDINE from Michgian
7. Doubly-terminated QUARTZ crystals with EPIDOTE from Capelinha, Brazil
8. Plenty of assorted minerals from the Kay Robertson Collection!
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Bournonite (thick crystals) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Les Malines District, Saint-Laurent-le-Minier, Gard, Occitanie, France
4.6 x 3.6 x 1.7 cm
Stibivanite (extremely rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Lake George Antimony mine, Lake George, Prince William Parish, York Co., New Brunswick, Canada (Type Locality)
0.7 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm
Andradite (var: Topazolite) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Hess Quarry, Wurlitz, Oberkotzau, Munchberg Metamorphic complex, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
5.3 x 5.3 x 2.6 cm
Azurite (rare locality specimen) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Filisur, Albula Valley, Grischun, Switzerland
6.2 x 2.9 x 3.0 cm
Calcite with Magnesite (rare locality) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Szklary Chrysoprase Mine, Szklary (Glasendorf), Zabkowice (Frankenstein), Zabkowice District, Lower Silesia (Dolnoslaskie), Poland
4.0 x 2.7 x 2.1 cm
Hydroboracite (ex K. D. Smith Collection)
Kohnstein Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Harz, Thuringia, Germany
7.0 x 5.2 x 2.1 cm
Wiluite (classic material) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Vilyui River Basin (Wilui River Basin), Sakha Republic, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia (Type Locality)
5.3 x 4.1 x 2.8 cm
Albite (var: Cleavelandite) (ex Kay Robertson and Norm Dawson Collections)
White Queen Mine, Pala, San Diego County, California
6.7 x 3.7 x 2.7 cm
Enargite with Tetrahedrite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department, Peru
4.7 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm
"Lepidomelane" (iron-bearing Mica) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Silver Crater Mine, Bancroft, Hastings Co., Ontario, Canada
5.6 x 4.3 x 3.1 cm
Bottinoite (very rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Dornberg Mine, Ramsbeck, Meschede, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
5.3 x 3.7 x 1.6 cm
Fluorapatite (rare material)
Akzhaylyautas Mts, Tarbagatai Range, Eastern Kazakhstan Province, Kazakhstan
3.1 x 1.5 x 0.8 cm
Sanidine (classic material) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Drachenfels, Kuonigswinter, Siebengebirge, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (Type Locality)
9.3 x 4.8 x 3.3 cm
Sphalerite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Picher Field, Tri-State District, Ottawa County, Oklahoma
8.2 x 6.3 x 3.7 cm
Olmiite with Bultfonteinite
N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari manganese fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
2.1 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm
"Grammatite" (Tremolite) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Campolungo pass, Campolungo, Piumogna Valley, Leventina, Ticino (Tessin), Switzerland
4.7 x 3.3 x 2.7 cm
Fluorapatite
Dassu, Braldu Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
2.0 x 1.9 x 1.6 cm
Carpholite (rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Krasno, Horni Slavkov (Schlaggenwald), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia, Czech Republic (Type Locality)
5.3 x 2.7 x 2.6 cm
Scheelite on Zinnwaldite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Cunovec / Zinnwald, Erzgebirge; Krusne Hory Mts, Germany & Czech Republic
5.8 x 5.7 x 3.3 cm
Mixite (rare locality specimen) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Neubulach, Calw, Black Forest, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
6.8 x 4.5 x 4.1 cm
Xanthitane (Anatase pseudomorph after Titanite) (rare locality) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Jones Mine, Zirconia (Tuxedo Station), Henderson County, North Carolina
5.7 x 5.3 x 1.2 cm
Cuprite (good quality) (ex Ed McDole and Kay Robertson Collections)
Chino Mine, Santa Rita, Santa Rita District, Grant Co., New Mexico, USA
2.1 x 1.7 x 1.2 cm
Dioptase (rare locality) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Bouse, Plomosa District, Plomosa Mts, La Paz County, Arizona
3.7 x 2.7 x 2.3 cm
Tourmaline (20.86 grams)
Virgem da Lapa, Jequitinhonha valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.3 x 1.5 x 1.1 cm
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