FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends April 23, 2020

A great selection this week with plenty 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 the newly acquired Gary Weaver collection, plus dealers' inventories, and plenty from Kay Robertson!  You might even find the occasional fossil, lapidary or gem item in the mix.   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. Beautiful matrix bi-color SAPPHIRE crystals on matrix from Madagascar
2. Wonderful new "BLOOD VESSEL OPAL" specimen from Mexico
3. Excellent rare matrix specimen of STEPHANITE from Mexico
4. Gorgeous glowing orange EOSPHORITE on matrix from Pakistan
5. Doubly-terminated gemmy KUNZITE crystal from Afghanistan
6. Classic RHODOCHROISTE from the Eagle Mine, Colorado
7. Rarities include PEZZOTTAITE, SPANGOLITE, MARSHITE, MAKATITE with TUPERSSUATSIAITE, BERTHIERITE and PARISISTE-(Ce)
8. Plenty of cool US and European minerals and various rarities from the collection of Kay Robertson
 
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Fluorite (unique color combination)
Koh-i-Maran, Kalat District, Balochistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan
4.0 x 3.8 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $75
Fluorite (gem blue-green octahedra)
Berta Quarry and Mine, Sant Cugat del Vallès-El Papiol, Vallès Occidental-Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
6.1 x 5.1 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $40
Stephanite (rare matrix specimen)
Fresnillo, Fresnillo Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico
8.3 x 4.3 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $399
Tourmaline (tri-color) (8.29 grams) (ex Richard A. Kosnar Collection)
Cruzeiro Mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.2 x 1.2 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $220
Malachite (chatoyant) (ex David Burgess Collection)
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi Mining District, Lualaba, DR Congo
5.5 x 4.3 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $52
Prehnite (new find)
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mts, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
8.2 x 7.7 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $52
Fluorite on Microcline (ex Gary Weaver Collection)
Blue Frog Mine, North of Lake George, Teller County, Colorado
8.3 x 5.7 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $30
Parisite-(Ce) (rare) (ex David Burgess Collection)
Snowbird mine, Fish Creek, Alberton, Mineral County, Montana
2.3 x 1.8 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $40
Eosphorite (excellent color)
Chamachu, Skardu District, Pakistan
5.0 x 3.2 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $140
Shattuckite included Quartz on Chrysocolla (rare material)
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
3.6 x 2.3 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $320
Ferberite (twin) with Marcasite
Tasna Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District, Nor Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia
3.7 x 3.2 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $110
Mimetite (green)
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
3.4 x 2.7 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Rhodochrosite (ex Gary Weaver Collection)
Eagle Mine, near the ghost town of Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado
8.8 x 7.2 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $85
Sulfur (classic material)
Agrigento, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
3.2 x 2.9 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Fluor-uvite - Uvite Series (Tourmaline)
Pomba pit, Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil
1.4 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $40
Pink Quartz (new find)
Choique Mine, Pehuenches Department, Neuquén Province, Argentina
6.1 x 3.6 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Diopside
Orford Nickel Mine, St-Denis-de-Brompton, Le Val-Saint-François RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada
3.3 x 1.2 x 0.4 cm
Winning Bid: $20
Fluorite Carving, Frog (52.70 grams)
Hunan, China
5.2 x 5.0 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $35
Ruby Spinel
Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Division, Myanmar (Burma)
0.8 x 0.5 x 0.4 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Lepidolite (ex Gary Weaver Collection)
Brown Derby Mine, Ohio City Area, Quartz Creek Pegmatite District, Gunnison County, Colorado
4.7 x 3.7 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $35
Makatite with Tuperssuatsiaite (rare)
Aris Quarries (Ariskop Quarry; Railway Quarry), Aris, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia
6.4 x 5.3 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $211
Fluorite with Arsenopyrite (ex Dr. Stephen Smale Collection)
Yaogangxian Mine, Yaogangxian W-Sn ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan, China
6.0 x 3.1 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $290
Libethenite (ex David Burgess Collection)
Reiner Mine, Lubietova (formerly Libethen in Hungary) ore belt, Western Slovenske Rudohorie Mts, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia (type locality)
7.2 x 6.7 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $30
"Verdelite" Tourmaline (ex David Burgess Collection)
Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut
4.3 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $15
Amethyst on Quartz
Swimming Pool Pocket, Jackson Crossroads, Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia
13.2 x 7.3 x 6.5 cm
Winning Bid: $207
Prehnite "finger casts" after Anhydrite
Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey
5.1 x 2.3 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $35
Rhodochrosite
Ushkatyn No. 3 deposit, Ushkatyn deposits, Zhayrem, Karazhal, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
6.9 x 5.7 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $42
Bournonite ("cogwheels") (new find!)
Machacamarca Mine, near Colavi, Potosi Department, Bolivia
3.9 x 3.7 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Spessartine Garnet on Quartz with Muscovite
Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
5.8 x 5.4 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $25