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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Large Forsterite var. Peridot
San Carlos Indian Reservation, Gila Co., Arizona
16.0 x 10.0 x 11.1 cm
Winning Bid: $168
Calcite twins (rare Pakistan) ex Obodda
Tole, Wana, South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
7.7 x 5.6 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Clinozoisite & Calcite (RARE combo) Obodda Coll.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
8.0 x 5.4 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $345
Dioptase (rare - classic Azizona)
Magma Mine, Superior, Pinal Co., Arizona
3.8 x 2.9 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $80
Microcline (Carlsbad twins) w/ Schorl ex Obodda
Raikot, Chilas, Diamer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
12.8 x 12.6 x 11.0 cm
Winning Bid: $230
Pyromorphite (Type Locality) Karl Warning Coll.
Heilige Dreifaltigkeit Mine, Zschopau, Saxony, Germany
5.5 x 5.3 x 3.4 cm
Winning Bid: $165
Gemmy Emerald xls (classic locale)
Leckbachgraben, Nasenkopf mountain, Salzburg, Austria
5.0 x 3.2 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $235
Large Fluorite (fluorescent!) w/ Baryte (Sanabria Coll.)
La Cabana, Berbes Mining area, Asturias, Spain
16.0 x 10.8 x 6.7 cm
Winning Bid: $420
Turquoise (rare Germany locale)
Altmannsgrun, Plauen, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany
4.0 x 2.5 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $71
Afghanite w/ Calcite, Nepheline, etc ex Obodda
Koksha Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
7.0 x 3.4 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $82
Spessartine Garnet (New Find)
Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.5 x 2.0 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Gem Pink Fluorite (excellent - classic locale)
Mont Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
2.9 x 2.4 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $389
Fluorite (fluorescent - mid-2000s finds)
Tongbai County, Nanyang, Henan, China
10.1 x 7.1 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $161
Azurite & Malachite slab (classic locale)
Morenci, Greenlee Co., Arizona
10.0 x 7.5 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $460
Spessartine Garnet on and in Smoky Quartz (w/ gem garnets inside!)
Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian, China
8.5 x 8.0 x 4.6 cm
Winning Bid: $450
Gemmy bi-colored Liddicoatite Tourmaline
Camp Robin area, Ambohimahasoa, Haute Matsiatra, Madagascar
5.4 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $634
superb pattern in Malachite stalactite slice
Kolwezi mining district, Lualaba, DR Congo
6.6 x 5.6 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $755
Gem Tourmaline (uncommon locale )
Gowinggo Mine, Kail, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
6.0 x 1.8 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $625