FINE MINERAL COLLECTION AUCTIONS featuring historic Minerals - Ends May 20, 2021

This week we strived to give you another random mix of species, locations, and historic oddities, but especially emphasizing interesting locality classics and California treasures mostly from the lifelong collections of Dr. Bob Reynolds, long the curator at the San Bernardino County Museum; and Bill Larson (longtime owner of the Himalaya mine and a famous San Diego collector). So many items in these collections we simply never see on the market today – and yet here they are, up for auction! Nobody has picked over our stock during COVID, and these are NOT show leftovers, but are being released FIRST to the internet as with the majority of both collections.

Also included here are some very special prizes being deaccessioned from friends’ collections, including what are certainly $5-10,000 specimens of Rhodochrosite, Malachite, Cerussite, and Tourmaline up for auction at No Reserve  

Highlights:

 1. Large old WULFENITE from the Hilltop Mine

2. TOURMALINES including SAN DIEGO GEMS!

3. PYROMORPHITES from rare localities

4. Old Michigan SILVER-COPPER halfbreed

5. AQUAMARINE from a NEW FIND

6. SUPERB TSUMEB CERUSSITE AND MALACHITE SPECIMENS!

7. NEW FIND of YTRROFLUORITE on CALCITE from China

8. RHODOCHROSITE !

 

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superb rare Wulfenite (old classic circa 1900) ex Reynolds Coll.
Hilltop Mine, Rustler Park, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
10.8 x 8.2 x 5.5 cm
Winning Bid: $1,000
Pyromorphite (rare Idaho) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Mullan, Hunter Mining District, Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA
10.2 x 10.1 x 6.7 cm
Winning Bid: $270
Gemmy bi-colored Tourmaline & Smoky Quartz (Bill Larson Coll.)
Malkhan pegmatite field, Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
4.4 x 4.2 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $651
Corundum var. Sapphire (Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Soboba Hot Springs, San Jacinto Mts, Riverside Co., California, USA
10.2 x 6.5 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $592
Spinel-twinned Copper (New Find)
Rocklands Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
5.0 x 1.8 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $303
Doubly terminated Quartz w/ Hematite (unusual locale)
Porphyry quarry, Bierghes, Rebecq, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium
6.3 x 1.7 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $150
Crocoite (Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia
6.1 x 4.3 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $279
Polished polychrome Tourmaline slice (Bill Larson Coll.)
Malkhan pegmatite field, Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
5.3 x 4.6 x 0.4 cm
Winning Bid: $650
Phosphosiderite (RARE - California) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Stewart Mine, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
11.0 x 5.8 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Gem , doubly terminated Indicolite Tourmaline
Pederneira mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.6 x 1.0 x 0.8 cm
Winning Bid: $275
Olmiite (Type Locality)
N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
6.3 x 5.1 x 4.5 cm
Winning Bid: $40
Quartz ps. after Hemimorphite w/ Calcite (RARE CA) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Mohawk Mine, Clark Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA
11.6 x 7.7 x 6.5 cm
Winning Bid: $195
Gemmy Aquamarine xls (NEW Find)
Nagar, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
10.2 x 7.7 x 6.7 cm
Winning Bid: $395
Silver & Copper halfbreed nugget (old classic)
Copper Country, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan
6.1 x 3.3 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $652
Ruby ps. after Spinel (NEW FIND - fluorescent)
Mahenge, Morogoro Region, Tanzania
5.8 x 4.0 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $110
polished Cady Agate slab
Baxter's Wash, Cady Mts., San Bernardino Co., California, USA
8.1 x 4.5 x 0.8 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Botryoidal Malachite (OLD classic)
Burra Burra Copper Mine, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia
7.0 x 5.3 x 4.5 cm
Winning Bid: $232
Sapphire in Mica schist (Will Heierman Coll.)
Koksha Valley, Kuran Wa Munjan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
6.7 x 4.3 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $592
Rhodochrosite on Quartz (rare - rich, classic NC) Jack Eaker Coll.
Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA
6.5 x 4.3 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $486
Dendritic Silver w/ Nickeline slab (Art Soregaroli Coll.)
Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Ontario, Canada
11.4 x 6.9 x 0.7 cm
Winning Bid: $75
Apophyllite (old classic PA) Kay Robertson Coll.
French Creek Mines, St. Peters, Chester Co., Pennsylvania
9.6 x 8.2 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $217
Rhodochrosite, Galena, Calcite & Arsenopyrite (rare combo - classic locale)
Trepca complex, Mitrovica, Mitrovica District, Kosovo
7.3 x 7.2 x 7.0 cm
Winning Bid: $150
Fluorite w/ Sphalerite (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
Denton Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA
18.0 x 6.2 x 4.7 cm
Winning Bid: $287
Pyromorphite (2 generations) on Quartz (rare Idaho piece)
Sherman Mine, Lelande Mining District, Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA
9.5 x 7.0 x 5.7 cm
Winning Bid: $614
Spinel (NEW Find - fluorescent)
Mahenge, Morogoro Region, Tanzania
4.7 x 4.2 x4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $415
Spessartine & Smoky Quartz on Microcline
Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian, China
12.1 x 7.9 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $630
Neptunite on Natrolite (classic locale)
California State Gem Mine (Dallas Gem MIne), San Benito Co., California, USA
7.1 x 5.3 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $410
"Electric-blue" Azurite w/ Malachite & Olivenite (old classic)
El Cobre Mine, Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico
9.3 x 3.8 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $775
Amethyst & Quartz (classic locale)
Piedra Parada (Las Vigas), Veracruz, Mexico
7.0 x 6.2 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $140
Baryte (2005 find) ex Lemanski
Cerro Warihuyn, Miraflores, Huamalies Prov., Huanuco, Peru
4.2 x 4.0 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $90