FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - End Oct 3, 2019

A great selection this week with lots of attractive, good quality, rare and unusual specimens.  Look for new discoveries that we picked up at recent shows or direct from the source, plus we have plenty of pieces from a newly purchased prominent worldwide collection from the Midwest along with Geary Murdock and dealers' inventories, plus Kay Robertson!  You might even find the occasional fossil, lapidary or gem item from time to time.   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!
 
Some of the highlights from this week’s auction include:
 
1. Unique "GRAPE CHALCEDONY" specimen from Indonesia
2. Attractive AMBER with INSECTION INCLUSIONS from Dominican Republic
3. Newly mined PINK and LAVENDER OPAL from Peru  
4. Beautiful AXINITE-(Fe) specimen from the TYPE LOCALITY!
5. Wonderful WULFENITE thumbnail from the Old Yuma Mine, Arizona           
6. Rarely seen HAMBERGITE from the Little Three Mine, California
7. Rarities include CORONADITE, ZANAZZIITE, SAINFELDITE and METAHEWETTITE                                                                     
8. Plenty of cool US and European minerals and various rarities from the collection of Kay Robertson
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Hematite (good quality) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Casa de Pedra mine, Congonhas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.2 x 2.3 x 2.3 cm
Gypsum (found before 1912) (rare locality specimen) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Agrigento (Girgenti), Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
5.0 x 3.7 x 3.0 cm
Zanazziite (very rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Firmino Mine, Linopolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.4 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm
Quartz with Rutile (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Kapudzhukh Mt (Kaputdzhukh Mt), Zangezur Mountains, on the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan
5.3 x 4.2 x 3.9 cm
Fluorapophyllite-(K) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Gaspe Copper mine, Murdochville, La Cote-de-Gaspe RCM, Gaspesie-Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada
3.2 x 2.9 x 1.7 cm
Axinite-(Fe) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Saint Christophe-en-Oisans, Le Bourg-d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (Type Locality)
5.5 x 3.2 x 1.8 cm
Hambergite (rare locality specimen) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Little Three Mine, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California
1.6 x 0.7 x 0.3 cm
Paravauxite with Sigloite (rare material)
Contacto vein, Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Bustillos Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia (type locality for both species)
8.9 x 5.4 x 2.7 cm
Cassiterite with Quartz, Muscovite and Ferberite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Yaogangxian Mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
5.8 x 5.7 x 5.4 cm
Cyanotrichite (ex Geary Murdock Collection)
Peacock Mine, Leadore District, Lemhi County, Idaho
12.0 x 8.3 x 7.8 cm
Sainfeldite (very rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Bauhaus, Richelsdorf District, Hesse, Germany
5.3 x 3.0 x 2.0 cm
Almandine Garnet (classic material)
Granatenkogel north slope, Gaisberg valley, Obergurgl, Gurgler valley, Ötz valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria
6.3 x 5.7 x 3.2 cm