FINE MINERAL COLLECTION AUCTIONS featuring OLD CLASSICS - ENDS MARCH 11, 2021

THIS WEEK we are proud to offer you another extra-special set featuring mostly (but not all) old classics from collections we spent the last few months unpacking. Look for first sight of many new specimens from the lifelong collections of:  Dr. Bob Reynolds, long the curator at the San Bernardino County Museum; Chet Lemanski (Lemanskiite and MINDAT fame); and Dr. James Carter’s estate here in Dallas. So many items in these collections, we simply never see on the market today – and yet here they are, up for auction! These are NOT show leftovers, but are being released FIRST to the internet. There are many $1000-5000 specimens here, and a few above that in value if you look carefully....enjoy

Some of the highlights from this week’s auction include:

1. Superb large SCHEELITE & MUSCOVITE

2. PYRITE from the Dr Miguel Romero Collection!

3. Superb VIVIANITE in fossilized molluscs, from Crimea

4. California classics and rarities from the Bob Reynolds Collection including TOURMALINES and WULFENITE

5. AQUAMARINE & MUSCOVITE

6. large rare ADULARIA from the Ed David Collection

7. FLUORITE (red fluorescence!) from the famous 1988 Mexican find

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Cornetite (Type Locality) ex Bob Reynolds Coll
Star of the Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
8.6 x 6.6 x 6.1 cm
Winning Bid: $421
Wulfenite w/ Calcite (classic locale) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Red Cloud Mine, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA
3.0 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Color-zoned Fluorite (Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USA
7.5 x 5.2 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $485
Wulfenite on Dolomite (Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Erupcion Mine, Los Lamentos Mts, Chihuahua, Mexico
7.0 x 4.8 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $489
Pyromorphite (Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Daoping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China
6.0 x 4.0 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $550
Schorl & Muscovite (RARE CALIF locale) Pough & Reynolds Coll.
Mount Thompson Gem Mine, Milford, Lassen Co., California, USA
12.0 x 7.9 x 6.2 cm
Winning Bid: $286
large bent Schorl (1986 find - Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Holiday Hill Pegmatite, Little Cahuilla Mt., Riverside Co., California, USA
13.2 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $276
Tourmaline, Smoky Quartz & Lepidolite (Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Cryo-Genie Mine, Warner Springs, San Diego Co., California, USA
10.8 x 7.9 x 7.0 cm
Winning Bid: $562
Galena (classic locale) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA
6.2 x 5.1 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $232
Smoky Quartz w/ Schorl/Foitite (Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Erongo Mountains, Karibib, Erongo Region, Namibia
12.3 x 9.1 x 5.9 cm
Winning Bid: $185
Calcite casts after ? (RARE - fluorescent) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
14.1 x 8.3 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $119
Aragonite var. Tarnowitzite, Malachite & Anglesite (Reynolds Coll.)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
12.4 x 11.9 x 11.1 cm
Winning Bid: $363
floater Quartz (RARE CA locale) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Grizzly Ridge Quartz Mine, Grizzly Flat Mining Dist., El Dorado Co., California, USA
13.4 x 6.7 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $145
Malachite w/ Smithsonite (RARE USA LOCALE) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Mohawk Mine, Clark Mts., San Bernardino Co., California, USA
14.8 x 10.2 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Fluorite (fluorecent - RARE Nevada) Bob Reynolds Coll.
nr. Queen Canyon, Esmeralda/Mineral Co. line, Nevada, USA
14.3 x 8.0 x 4.9 cm
Winning Bid: $140
Fluorite (fluorescent) w/ Dolomite (Bob Reynolds Coll.) - old classic
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Chenzhou, Hunan, China
13.4 x 9.4 x 5.9 cm
Winning Bid: $320
Gemmy Smoky Quartz with bubbles inside (Swiss quality!) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
9.0 x 6.0 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $550
Vivianite in fossil mollusc matrix (superb - Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Russia
11.5 x 8.0 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $666
Aquamarine xls & Muscovite (Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Nagar, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
9.7 x 5.0 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $1,650
Carlsbad-twin Orthoclase xl (rare CALIF find) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Aquaduct Road area occurrence, Water Canyon, Kern Co., California, USA
9.0 x 7.5 x 6.3 cm
Winning Bid: $110
Celestine
Sakoany deposit, Katsepy, Boeny, Madagascar
5.8 x 5.5 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Greenockite in Smithsonite (RARE - classic locale) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Lavrion Mining District, East Attica, Attica, Greece
5.3 x 4.3 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $90
DT Ruby xl (fluorescent) R.D. Mushlitz Coll.
Mysore District, Karnataka, India
6.6 x 4.0 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $153
Woodwardite (NEW FIND of this Aluminum species)
Qinglong County, Guizhou, China
5.5 x 5.0 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $625
Malachite ps. after Copper & Cerussite (Tsumeb rarity!) Charlie Key
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
9.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 cm
Winning Bid: $293
Wulfenite (rare California!) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Darwin Mine, Darwin Mining District, Inyo Co., California, USA
5.7 x 3.9 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $803
Japan-law twin Quartz (RARE Arizona classic) ex Bob Reynolds
Holland Mine, Washington Camp, Patagonia Mining District, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA
5.4 x 3.8 x 0.5 cm
Winning Bid: $210
Pyromorphite ex Kay Robertson
Bunker Hill Mine,Kellogg, Idaho, USA
4.5 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $173
Malachite stalactites on custom wood base
Tonglushan Mine, Huangshi District, Hubei Province, China
20.3 x 13.7 x 12.5 cm
Winning Bid: $1,400