FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends January 4, 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 a newly purchased prominent worldwide collection from the Midwest along with dealers' inventories, plus 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. Pink CHALCEDONY from the childhood home of Sandra Day O'Connor
2. Very attractive GEMMY RED PYRARGYRITE from Mexico
3. CRYOLITE from the type locality in Greenland
4. GEMMY purple FLUORITE crystals on SPHALERITE from the Elmwood Mine        
5. Antique CALCITE specimen from the 1800s from Nagyag (Scaramb), Romania
6. WATER CLEAR "floater" crystal of BERYL from Brazil
7. Rarities include TROILITE, METAVOLTINE, SCHARARZIKITRE, GUILLEMINITE, VANDENBRANDEITE, CUPRIAN MELANTLERITE and LORANDITE
8. Plenty of cool US and European minerals and various rarities from the collection of Kay Robertson
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Calcite (twin)
Chimney Rock Quarry (The Bound Brook Quarry), Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
3.7 x 3.6 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $10
Fluorite (recent find)
Koh-i-Maran, Kalat District, Balochistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan
6.3 x 4.2 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $20
Quartz (with iron oxide inclusions)
Red Feather Lakes, Larimer County, Colorado
3.1 x 1.7 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $30
Pink Chalcedony (interesting locality)
Antelope Canyon (Valley) (part of the childhood home of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor), Round Mountain, Greenlee County, Arizona
8.3 x 5.7 x 2.9 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Hauyne (gemmy crystals)
In den Dellen quarries, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
2.8 x 2.8 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $30
Troilite (extremely rare terrestrial occurrence) (ex David Burgess Collection)
Alta Mine, Low Divide, Low Divide Mining District, Klamath Mts, Del Norte County, California
4.7 x 4.2 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $116
Amazonite
Crystal Peak Area, Teller County, Colorado
7.2 x 5.8 x 2.9 cm
Winning Bid: $83
Quartz (var: Milky Quartz) ("floater" specimen) (ex Gary Weaver Collection)
Mother Cline Mine, Uncompahgre Mining District, Ouray, Ouray Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado
6.3 x 5.7 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Microlite Group
Ipe Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
6.3 x 6.2 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $20
Anatase (doubly-terminated) with Quartz
Taftan, Chagai District, Balochistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan
5.7 x 4.2 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $110
Fluorite (GEM twin)
Rogerley Mine, Frosterley, Weardale, North Pennines, Co. Durham, England
2.0 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $40
Beryl (GEM "floater" crystal) (16.45 carats) (ex Richard A. Kosnar Collection)
Medina, Pedra Azul Pegmatite District, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.3 x 0.7 x 0.5 cm
Winning Bid: $90
Siderite
Estano Orcko mine, Colavi District, Potosi Department, Bolivia
2.8 x 2.7 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $15
Apophyllite (good quality) (ex David Burgess Collection)
O & G Southbury Quarry, Southbury, New Haven County, Connecticut
9.8 x 6.9 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $41
Chrysocolla with Malachite
L'Etoile du Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
9.4 x 6.7 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $65
Anhydrite
Naica Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico
12.1 x 4.0 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $25
Pyrargyrite (ex David Burgess Collection)
Proano Mine, Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico
2.8 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $187
Schafarzikite (extremely rare) (ex David Burgess Collection)
Krížnica, Pernek, Malacky Co., Bratislava Region, Slovakia (Type Locality)
5.7 x 4.2 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $30
Fluorite ("ice cube" crystals) on Sphalerite with Muscovite
Dal'negorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
3.2 x 3.1 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $35
Smoky Quartz (Scepter)
Krystal Tips Mine, Hallelujah Junction, Petersen Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada
4.3 x 2.1 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $43
Plumbogummite (beautiful color)
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo Co., Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
4.7 x 3.6 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $54
Calcite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Magma Mine, Superior, Pioneer Mining District, Pinal Mts, Pinal County, Arizona
3.6 x 2.7 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $20
Turquoise pseudomorph after Apatite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Mina Deposit, Pilot Mountains District, Pilot Mts, Mineral County, Nevada
0.8 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm
Winning Bid: $61
Fluorapatite on Albite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Fillow Quarry, Branchville, Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut
7.3 x 4.0 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $437
Cinnabar (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
San Juan de Carlos Mine, near Catorce, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
3.7 x 3.3 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $26
Fluorapatite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Pulsifer Quarry, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine
4.3 x 3.8 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Fluorapatite with "Martite" (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah
4.8 x 4.0 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $53
Vandenbrandeite (very rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Musonoi Mine (Musonoi Extension Mine), Kolwezi, Kolwezi District, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo
4.0 x 3.4 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $51