FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends December 16, 2021

We have a great selection this week, featuring plenty of attractive, fine quality, classic, contemporary, rare and unusual specimens from around the world. Look for some great specimens from various collections that we've purchased like, Bob Reynolds, Chet Lemanski, Gary Weaver, Al Kidwell, Dave Bergman and Rich Kosnar. 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. Attractive fine quality HEULANDITE crystals on matrix from India (ex Dave Bergman Collection) 2. Beautiful RUBY (rare ''Trapiche'' form crystal) from Myanmar 3. Excellent GEMMY green PERIDOT crystals on matrix from Pakistan (ex Richard Kosnar Collection) 4. Wonderful rare PURPLE colored ALBITE from Pakistan 5. Eye-catching yellow CADMIUM-BEARING SMITHSONITE from China 6. LARGE FLUOR-UVITE – UVITE TOURMALINE crystal from Brazil (ex Tom Campbell Collection 7. Attractive SMOKY QUARTZ with RUTILE inclusions carving of Buddha from Brazil 8. A really unusual crystal group of WULFENITE from Tsuemb 9. Rarely seen AQUAMARINE crystal on matrix from the Blue Lady Mine in California 10. Rarities include TANGDANITE, WHERRYITE, SULFOHALITE, IDRIALITE and SENEGALITE
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Wherryite (very rare) (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)
Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona (Type Locality)
5.8 x 4.6 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $80
Fluorite and Rhodochrosite on Quartz (ex Gary Weaver Collection)
Sunnyside Mine, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, Eureka District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
9.3 x 8.8 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $173
Fluor-uvite - Uvite Series (Tourmaline) (big crystal!) (ex Tom Campbell Collection)
Pomba Pit, Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil
3.2 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Smithsonite (cadmium-bearing)
Wenshan, Yunnan, China
6.7 x 3.3 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $235
Flying Insect Fossils in Mudstone
Florissant Formation, Teller County, Colorado, USA
7.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 cm
Winning Bid: $78
Calcite (ex Rich Kosnar Collection)
Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds County, Missouri, USA
8.3 x 6.4 x 6.2 cm
Winning Bid: $120
Wulfenite (unusual crystal forms) (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
4.7 x 3.7 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $179
Native Bismuth (ex Richard Hauck Collection)
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany (Type Locality)
2.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $157
Fluorite with Pyrite (ex Herb Obodda Private Collection)
Trusetal, Brotterode-Trusetal, Schmalkalden-Meiningen District, Thuringia, Germany
6.0 x 4.7 x 4.4 cm
Winning Bid: $305
Malachite pseudomorph after Azurite with Plancheite (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
7.7 x 5.7 x 4.7 cm
Winning Bid: $145
Zircon (var: Cyrtolite)
Lake View Mt., Riverside County, California, USA
1.5 x 1.3 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $35
Silver with Spessartine and Smithsonite (rare combo) (ex Al Kidwell Collection)
Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
6.1 x 5.3 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $145
Colemanite (fine crystals - rare color)
Kestelek Mine, Mustafa Kemalpafla, Bursa Province, Marmara Region, Turkey
3.8 x 3.2 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $370
Annabergite (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)
Lavrion District, Attikí Prefecture, Greece
3.3 x 2.3 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $80
Erythrite (classic material) (ex Tom Campbell Collection)
Aghbar Mine (Arhbar Mine), Bou Azer, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco
2.6 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $691
Schorl (multi-crystal group)
Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
8.3 x 5.5 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $68
Titanite with Clinochlore (ex Richard Rossi Collection)
Arondu, Basha Valley, Shigar district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
10.8 x 7.8 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $270
Strontianite with Calcite (ex Richard Rossi Collection)
National Limestone Quarry No. 2, Lime Ridge, Mount Pleasant Mills, Perry Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.3 x 7.2 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $435
Senegalite (incredibly rare)
Mount Kourou Diakouma (Kouroudiako), Saraya, Falémé River basin, Tambacounda Region, Senegal (Type Locality)
5.2 x 3.8 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $1,300
Idrialite (incredibly rare) (ex Josef Vajdak)
Skaggs Springs Mine, Skaggs Springs, Coast Range, Sonoma Co., California, USA
7.1 x 5.3 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $202
Scapolite (strong color)
Dara-e-Pech pegmatite field, Dara-e-Pech District, Kunar, Afghanistan
2.2 x 1.7 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $390
Smoky Quartz with Rutile inclusions Carving, Buddha
Novo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
7.2 x 6.6 x 4.4 cm
Winning Bid: $307
Azurite in Granite (''K2 stone'' ''Ketonite'')
Foothills of K2 Mountain, on the border between Gilgit–Baltistan northern Pakistan and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China
3.8 x 3.7 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $110
Barite with Cinnabar inclusions (classic material)
Clarashall Mine, Ruschberg, Baumholder, Birkenfeld District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
5.7 x 3.7 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $250
Adamite (Copper-bearing)
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
8.6 x 4.2 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $95
Magnesite (RARE Cuba locality!) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)
La Habana Province, Cuba
9.3 x 8.4 x 6.4 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Phlogopite (large crystal) (circa early 1900s)
Sydenham Mica Mine, Loughborough Township, Frontenac Co., Ontario, Canada
10.2 x 4.1 x 0.6 cm
Winning Bid: $200
Microcline (old classic material - 1950)
near Florissant, Teller County, Colorado, USA
8.3 x 6.7 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $181
Sulfohalite (fine rare crystals) (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)
Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California, USA (Type Locality)
8.3 x 5.8 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $561