FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends January 30, 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 along with a newly purchased prominent worldwide collection from the Midwest, plus dealers' inventories, and plenty from 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. GEM quality AZURITE crystals from Milpillas, Mexico
2. Excellent multi-color "phantom" FLUORITE crystals from La Viesca, Spain
3. New find of beautiful fine quality PREHNITE crystals from Merelani, Tanzania
4. Gemmy RHODOCHROSITE crystal from 1978 from the Sweet Home Mine
5. Superb quality CELESTINE crystal group from Minerva #1 Mine, Illinois
6. Rare PURPLE GEM QUALITY ALBITE crystals from Pakistan
7. Rarities include SPANGOLITE, GAUDEFROYITE, SENEGALITE, SUSSEXITE and PARATACAMITE
8. Plenty of cool US and European minerals and various rarities from the collection of Kay Robertson
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Celestine (great quality) (ex Ross Lillie Collection)
Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois
10.2 x 9.8 x 7.4 cm
Winning Bid: $531
Gold (ex Richard A. Kosnar Collection)
Glory Hole (Patch Mine), above Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado
0.5 x 0.3 x 0.3 cm
Winning Bid: $51
Rhodochrosite (ex Dave Bergman Collection)
Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Buckskin Gulch, near Alma, Park County, Colorado
1.2 x 1.2 x 0.7 cm
Winning Bid: $15
Calcite on Sphalerite
Black Rock Quarry, Lawrence County Zinc District, Lawrence County, Arkansas
2.5 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $15
Plumbogummite (strong color)
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo Co., Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
5.3 x 3.6 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $45
Azurite (GEMMY crystals) on matrix
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
4.1 x 1.9 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $101
Galena (fine quality) (ex J. Murray Collection)
Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
5.0 x 3.2 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $97
Silver ("Spinel Twin")
Elura Mine (Endeavor Mine), Cobar, Robinson Co., New South Wales, Australia
2.2 x 0.3 x 0.2 cm
Winning Bid: $99
Titanite (twins)
Arondu, Basha Valley, Skardu district, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
7.6 x 5.6 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $25
Amethyst (WATER CLEAR scepter crystal)
Purple Hope No. 4 claim, Green Ridge, King County, Washington
2.9 x 2.6 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $35
Gypsum ("Desert Rose")
near Oued Souf, ("City of a Thousand Domes"), El Oued Province, Algeria
9.8 x 9.3 x 6.2 cm
Winning Bid: $99
Fluorite (GEM twin)
Rogerley Mine, Frosterley, Weardale, North Pennines, Co. Durham, England
2.4 x 1.8 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $15
Ettringite (doubly-terminated)
N'Chwaning Mines, Kalahari Fields, South Africa
3.0 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $40
Rhodochrosite on Aegirine (ex David Burgess Collection)
Poudrette Quarry (Demix Quarry) Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
3.0 x 0.7 x 0.3 cm
Winning Bid: $97
Enigmatite (rare) (ex David Burgess Collection)
Khibiny Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
4.4 x 3.8 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $15
Prehnite (great quality - new find)
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mts, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
6.8 x 5.2 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $148
Rhodochrosite (rare locality specimen) (ex Geary Weaver Collection)
Daniel Bonanza Mine, south of Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado
10.3 x 4.4 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $190
Aquamarine (3 piece set) (4.94 carats total weight)
Xuan Le, Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam
1.3 x 0.3 x 0.3 cm to 2.0 x 0.4 x 03 cm
Winning Bid: $25
Sulfur (classic material)
Agrigento (Girgenti), Agrigento Province (Girgenti Province), Sicily, Italy
4.1 x 3.0 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $35
Quartz (var: Chalcedony) (new find) (reminiscent of Cornwall!)
Lesvos Island, North Aegean Sea, Greece
4.7 x 2.7 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $35
Gaudefroyite (very rare) with Andradite
Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
4.8 x 4.3 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $103
Azurite with Antlerite and Brochantite (ex Gary Weaver Collection)
Posey Mine, White Canyon District, Red Canyon, San Juan County, Utah
6.8 x 6.0 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $25
Aragonite (ex Tom Campbell Collection)
Sefrou, Sefrou Province, Fès-Boulemane Region, Morocco
6.3 x 6.3 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $42
Spangolite (rare classic material) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Mex-Tex Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico
3.3 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $176
Franklinite (classic material) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Franklin Mine, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey (Type Locality)
2.8 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $17
Gypsum (GEM multi-terminated "floater" group) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Salt mine, Bex, Vaud, Switzerland
5.7 x 1.9 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $42
Botryoidal Siderite on Siderite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Leonie I Mine, Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, Amberg-Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
8.5 x 6.0 x 5.7 cm
Winning Bid: $10
Wardite with Eosphorite on Rose Quartz (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Lavra da Ilha (an island in the middle of the Jequitinhonha River), Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil (type locality)
4.7 x 3.2 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $15
Cuprite (var: Chalcotrichite) (RARE locality specimen) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Dorothy Mine, Mungana, Mareeba Shire, Queensland, Australia
6.7 x 4.2 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $241