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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Calcite, Fluorite, Quartz & Arsenopyrite (New Find)
Huanggang Mine, Hexigten, Inner Mongolia A.R., China
8.4 x 8.0 x 7.2 cm
Color-zoned Fluorite and Calcite (Dick Heck Coll.)
Denton Mine, Harris Creek District, Hardin Co., Illinoi
6.8 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm
Luzonite ps. After Enargite xls (rare)
Pen-Shan Ore Body, Chinkuahshih Mine, Taiwan
4.8 x 4.5 x 1.9 cm
Large floater Benitoite xl (Ed Bancroft Coll.)
Dallas Gem Mine, San Benito Co., California
2.8 x 2.6 x 1.4 cm
Cuprite var. Chalcotrichite (Belsky Coll.)
Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona
2.6 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm
Cobaltoan Smithsonite (Jaime Bird Coll.)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
2.5 x 2.0 x 1.4 cm
Brazilianite (Jaime Bird Coll.)
Linopolis, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.4 x 2.3 x 0.9 cm
Dioptase (California - rare locale) Jaime Bird Coll.
Alvord Mts., San Bernardino Co., California
4.3 x 3.0 x 2.1 cm
Wulfenite and Mimetite (classic combo) Jaime Bird Coll.)
San Francisco Mine, Cerro Prieto, Sonora, Mexico
4.2 x 3.9 x 3.0 cm
Azurite (excellent) Urish Coll.
Morenci Mine, Greenlee Co., Arizona
5.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm
Cavansite on Stilbite (Ed Bancroft Coll.)
Wagholi Quarrry, Pune, Maharashtra, India
7.5 x 5.8 x 3.5 cm
Albite var. Pericline with Chlorite (Ed Bancroft Coll.)
St Gotthard Massif, Ticino, Switzerland
5.5 x 4.0 x 3.9 cm
Gypsum (Jaime Bird Coll.)
Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico
6.9 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
Cuprian Smithsonite
El Refugio Mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico
9.9 x 6.3 x 4.0 cm
Aragonite on Calcite (old classic) Ed Bancroft Coll.
Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona
6.0 x 3.4 x 3.0 cm
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Guilin Prefect., Guangxi Zhuang A.R., China
8.4 x 4.2 x 3.4 cm
Galena on Fluorite (rare large combo) Dick Heck Coll.
Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois
14.5 x 12.0 x 9.9 cm
DT Smoky Quartz (outstanding)
Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
15.9 x 8.4 x 7.5 cm
Tourmaline (new find, 2012)
Jos Plateau, Nigeria
7.8 x 4.0 x 3.0 cm
Diopside (Alpine Type) ex Obodda
Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan
6.2 x 2.4 x 1.4 cm
Galena and Siderite (superb old classic)
Neudorf, Harzgerode, Harz Mts, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
4.2 x 3.5 x 1.9 cm
Prehnite casts after Glauberite
Fanwood Quarry, Watchung, Somerset County, New Jersey
12.8 x 7.9 x 5.0 cm
Amethyst scepters on Smoky Quartz
Santa Maria do Jetiba, Espirito Santo, Brazil
7.8 x 6.4 x 4.5 cm
Electric-blue Azurite (classic Bisbee)
Czar Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona
7.6 x 5.0 x 2.8 cm
Rutilated Quartz w/ Anhydrite cast? (Schlichter Coll.)
Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.5 x 4.4 x 3.5 cm
Polished Silver ore w/ Smaltite (old - rare) Belsky Coll.
Cobalt-Gowganda region, Ontario, Canada
8.4 x 5.1 x 2.5 cm
"Invisible" Fluorite & Quartz (Ed Bancroft Coll.)
Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk, Russia
3.3 x 2.7 x 2.1 cm
Superb Malachite ps. After Azurite (Belsky Coll.)
105 Stope, 1900 Level, Campbell Shaft, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona
2.5 x 2.3 x 2.0 cm
Color-zoned phantom Fluorite (fluorescent)
Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo Dist., Namibia
8.9 x 5.9 x 2.2 cm
Prehnite ps. After Anhydrite (classic locale)
Prospect Park Quarry, Passaic Co., New Jersey,
6.4 x 5.0 x 3.8 cm