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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Guilleminite (extremely rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Musonoi Mine (Musonoi Extension Mine), Kolwezi, Kolwezi District, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Type Locality)
2.9 x 2.3 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $105
Semseyite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Mare, Maramureș Co., Romania
4.9 x 4.3 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $152
Cuprian Melantlerite (formerly "Pisanite") (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Damar Mine, near Murgul, East Anatolia, Turkey
7.3 x 4.5 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $10
Wulfenite on Mimetite with (?)
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
5.3 x 3.7 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $130
Fluorite on Sphalerite
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee
7.7 x 6.2 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $123
Spessartine Garnet on Feldspar
Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian, China
2.6 x 2.3 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Cryolite (ex Russ Behnke and David Burgess Collections)
Ivigtut Cryolite deposit, Ivittuut, Arsuk Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland, Denmark (Type Locality)
7.3 x 5.9 x 4.9 cm
Winning Bid: $71
Rose Quartz "cast" (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Minas Gerais, Brazil
7.5 x 4.4 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $110
Lorandite (extremely rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Allchar (Alšar; Alsar; Alshar), Rožden, Kavadarci , North Macedonia (Type Locality)
4.7 x 3.1 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $137
Hematite on Quartz (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Big Bertha Mine, Middle Camp-Oro Fino Mining District, Dome Rock Mts, La Paz County, Arizona
3.3 x 3.2 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $30
Sphalerite (multicolor sharp lustrous crystals) with Quartz
Septemvri Mine (Deveti Septemvri Mine), Madan ore field, Smolyan Province, Bulgaria
6.3 x 4.3 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $35
Calcite (1800s specimen) (ex David Burgess Collection)
Sacarimb (Sacaramb; Nagyag), Deva, Hunedoara Co., Romania
10.6 x 7.3 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $263
Fluorite (GEM cubes)
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan, China
2.3 x 1.6 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Metavoltine (very rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile
4.2 x 4.1 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $98