FINE MINERAL COLLECTION AUCTIONS - ends Aug 16, 2012

Ends Aug 16, 2012
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone) Three pages of mineral specimens from our inventory plus special selections from recent collection acquisitions. This week features many rare and classic specimens from old mineral collections.
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Malachite ps. After Azurite (ex Graeme & Stoudt Coll.)
1900 level, Campbell Shaft, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona
8.5 x 8.5 x 4.0 cm
Lepidolite (2008 find)
Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.9 x 5.9 x 3.8 cm
Dravite Tourmaline scepter (rare) Schlichter Coll.
Aletai County, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China
4.1 x 4.1 x 3.3 cm
Calcite on Calcite (Ed Bancroft Coll.)
Cavnic, Maramures Co., Romania
5.4 x 3.5 x 3.0 cm
Apophyllite w/ Stilbite stalactite
Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India
8.7 x 7.6 x 5.5 cm
Fluorite (fluorescent) on Quartz
Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
5.0 x 2.8 x 2.0 cm
Manganoan Calcite (New Find)
Huanggang Mine, Hexigten, Inner Mongolia A.R., China
8.4 x 3.7 x 2.8 cm
Fluorite, Smoky Quartz & Feldspar
Pointe Kurtz, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France
5.5 x 5.0 x 2.5 cm
Calcite incl. w/ Plattnerite (Schlichter Coll.)
Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
9.8 x 6.5 x 3.3 cm
Gold on Pink Granite (rare)
St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
3.1 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm
Clinohumite (rare) & Spinel ex Obodda
Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
5.5 x 5.3 x 2.5 cm
Cubic Cuprite xls (rare) Rob Smith Coll.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
10.5 x 8.2 x 7.5 cm
Chrome Muscovite (gemmy)
Shelby, Cleveland Co., North Carolina
8.7 x 6.5 x 6.0 cm
Lazulite & Quartz (excellent) Ed Bancroft Coll.
Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada
5.0 x 3.5 x 1.6 cm
Iridescent Pyrrhotite on Calcite (rare - classic locale) ex Obodda
Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic
5.4 x 5.4 x 4.0 cm
Unusual Calcite on etched Fluorite (Heck Coll.,)
Minerva # 1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois
10.8 x 7.5 x 6.7 cm
Gemmy Tourmaline (Bill Larson Coll.)
Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, California
3.9 x 1.8 x 0.9 cm
Gemmy Aquamarine (Vietnam)
Doi Ty Mine, Thuang Xuan, Thanh Hoa Prov., Vietnam
5.4 x 1.2 x 1.1 cm
Spessartine and Smoky Quartz
Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian Province, China
7.0 x 5.2 x 4.5 cm
Olivenite (Urish Coll.)
Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing Co., Nevada
9.0 x 7.1 x 3.1 cm
Specularite on Hematite (Sutcliffe Coll.)
Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria, England
5.9 x 4.0 x 1.9 cm
Calcite xl "cup" (Dick Heck Coll.)
Denton Mine, Harris Creek District, Hardin Co., Illinoi
6.2 x 5.0 x 3.1 cm
Goethite
Dreamtime Mine, Teller Co., Colorado
7.9 x 4.7 x 4.0 cm
Sphalerite w/ spinel-twinned Galena
Madan, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
7.4 x 5.8 x 4.5 cm
Bi-colored gem Tourmaline w/ Lepidolite (old classic)
Santa Rosa Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
6.2 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
Gem, DT, floater Orthoclase xl (Belsky Coll.)
Itrongay, Betroka Dept., Madagascar
2.1 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm
Morganite on Cleavelandite
Pech, Chapa Dara District, Konar Province, Afghanistan
10.0 x 9.5 x 5.0 cm
Smoky Quartz & Specularite (Sutcliffe Coll.)
Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria, England
10.5 x 6.0 x 4.0 cm
Galena on Siderite (old classic) Belsky Coll.
Neudorf, Harzgerode, Harz Mts, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
7.4 x 6.0 x 4.0 cm
Hidalgoite (rare arsenate) Belsky Coll.
Gold Hill Mine, Tooele Co., Utah,
4.8 x 4.1 x 1.5 cm