FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends January 11, 2020 at 630 pm CST

 We spent the pre-holiday week cleaning out our back warehouse from ten years of acquisitions and two moves, and found so many more hidden treasures! Stay tuned for EVEN MORE diversity, the most variety on the web, including both historic and modern specimens. Many of these items are simply not available at any price, and the rest...starting at $10 makes for a very unusual opportunity to collect them!

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

1. Superb THUMBNAIL PINK GEM FLUORITE from FRANCE 

 2. NEW FIND of HEMIMORPHITE from Laos

3. Old-time BARITE from England

4. TOURMALINE !

5. Excellent Chinese SPESSARTINE & SMOKY QUARTZ

6. Herb Obodda Collection and dealer stock specimens

7. Superb MIMETITE on CUPRITE & COPPER from TSUMEB

8. Type Locality German PYROMORPHITE

9. competition quality ALABANDITE Thumbnail from Merelani

10. Classics and rarities from the Kay Robertson Collection

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Epidote (old classic - dated 1892! )
Knappenwand, Untersulzbachtal, Salzburg, Austria
2.2 x 1.5 x 1.0 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Smithsonite stalactite slices (old - classic locale)
Lavrion District Mines, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece
4.6 x 3.6 x 0.5 cm (largest of 2)
Winning Bid: $185
Pyrite & Quartz (2012 find)
Racracancha mine, Tinyahuarco district, Pasco, Peru
5.3 x 4.7 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $186
Calcite stalactite (3 generations - old classic) Robertson Coll.
St Andreasberg District, Lower Saxony, Germany
11.5 x 7.3 x 5.7 cm
Winning Bid: $195
Galena (classic locale) ex Obodda
Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
6.6 x 5.3 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $102
Baryte (old classic)
Frizington, Cumbria, England
10.3 x 6.2 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $536
unusual Galena altering to Anglesite & Malachite (ex. Kay R.)
Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Socorro Co., New Mexico
5.7 x 3.9 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $57
Ulexite ("TV rock") ex Jim Minette
Boron, Kramer District, Kern Co., California
7.3 x 5.1 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $32
Smithsonite var. Cadmium rich (New/old Find)
Yunnan Province, China
4.9 x 4.3 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $137
Apophyllite & Stilbite
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India
6.7 x 5.4 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $536
Fluorapatite
Cerro de Mercado Mine, Durango, Durango, Mexico
2.8 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $15
Sphalerite var. Schalenblende (classic locale)
Olkusz, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
10.6 x 6.5 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $180
Alabandite octahedron (superb sharp XL!)
Merelani Hills, Manyara Region, Tanzania
2.5 x 2.0 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $145
Wulfenite (Type Locality ! )
Stefanie Mine, Bad Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria
9.0 x 6.2 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $285
Smithsonite (classic old Ireland locale)
Sheshodonnell East Mine, The Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland
4.7 x 4.0 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $135
Spessartine Garnet (gem!)
Nani Hill, Loliondo, Ngorongoro district, Arusha Region, Tanzania
1.7 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $65
Agatized fossil Coral pair (Chalcedony) Hauck Coll.
Tampa Bay, Hillsborough County, Florida
9.2 x 5.8 x 3.1 cm (Largest of 2)
Winning Bid: $217
Apophyllite stalactite (Robert Nowakowski Coll.)
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India
10.7 x 6.7 x 4.5 cm
Winning Bid: $700
Polished Pectolite var. Larimar
Filipinas Larimar Mine, Barahona Prov., Dominican Republic
5.0 x 4.6 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $83
Hematite ps. Marcasite (Whitmore Coll.)
White Desert, Farafra Oasis, New Valley, Egypt
4.8 x 4.7 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $51
Bournonite
Machacamarca Mine, Potosi, Bolivia
4.2 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $52
Quartz ex Obodda
Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
8.0 x 5.1 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Cobaltoan Calcite (rich color - 2 generations) w/ Calcite
Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Draa-Tafilalet, Morocco
7.0 x 5.6 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $206
Mimetite on Cuprite & Copper (Marshall Sussman Coll.)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
8.3 x 5.9 x 4.9 cm
Winning Bid: $775
Phosgenite (classic locale)
Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy
3.4 x 3.3 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $240
Calcite on Fluorite (Ross Lillie Coll.)
Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois
8.8 x 7.1 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $110
DT Apatite incl. w/ Actinolite (rare combo) ex Obodda
Warsak, Mohmand Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
7.2 x 4.4 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $133
Etched Topaz w/ Lepidolite (uncommon)
Teixerinha mine, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.4 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $79
Bournonite
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
4.3 x 3.1 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Hemimorphite (NEW find & locale - 2018)
Laos
6.1 x 3.9 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $70