FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends July 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 recently either at shows or direct from the source.  Plenty of good pieces this week from various collections such as Richard Kosnar, David Burgess, Bob Whitmore and of course 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. Wonderful old-time "sixling" CHRYSOBERYL twin from Brazil
2. Gemmy multi-color TOURMALINE from Nepal (with unusual color zoning)
3. Excellent quality AZURITE crystals from the Milpillas Mine in Mexico          
4. Classic FLUORITE from the Sweet Home Mine (1978)
5. Rare GEMMY PURPLE crystals of ALBITE from Pakistan
6. Attractive classic "cogwheel" twinned crystals of BOURNONITE from Bolivia
7. Rarities include RILANDITE, PARAVAUXITE, BOTRYOGEN and ARSENOLITE
8. Plenty of cool US and European minerals and various rarities from the collection of Kay Robertson
 
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Arsenopyrite with Pyrite
San Jose Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia
4.9 x 4.1 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $38
Prehnite (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)
Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
3.6 x 1.6 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $40
Moonstone / Adularia
Morchnerkar, Morchner area, Zemmgrund, Zillertal, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria
3.2 x 1.4 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Pyromorphite (classic material)
Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho
3.5 x 2.9 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $187
Bournonite (classic material) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Georg Mine, Willroth, Altenkirchen, Wied Iron Spar District, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
9.2 x 9.0 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Fluorite (ex Dave Bergman Collection) (collected 1978)
Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Park County, Colorado
5.8 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $110
Tourmaline (rare locality) (2.17 grams)
Hyakule, Sankhuwasabha District, Kosi Zone, Nepal
3.3 x 0.7 x 0.3 cm
Winning Bid: $147
As-bearing Vanadinite ("Endlichite") (ex Leigh Price Collection)
Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
2.4 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Calcite with Quartz
Switzerland
6.3 x 6.2 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $72
Calcite (excellent twin - old specimen) (ex J. G. Dixon Collection)
Joplin Field, Jasper County, Missouri
5.6 x 4.0 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $66
Brookite on Quartz
Magnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas
2.6 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $25
Halite (skeletal crystals)
Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California
13.3 x 7.7 x 6.2 cm
Winning Bid: $107
Rilandite (ridiculously rare!)
J. L. Riland Claim, Meeker, Rio Blanco County, Colorado (Type Locality)
0.4 x 0.3 x 0.3 cm
Winning Bid: $175
Calcite (bi-colored crystals)
Malmberget, Gallivare, Norrbotten County, Sweden
5.8 x 5.3 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $95
Turgite (iridescent Hematite and Goethite)
Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia
8.0 x 6.9 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Siderite (classic material)
Black Cloud Mine, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado
8.3 x 6.3 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $40
Uvarovite Garnet with Calcite
Saranovskii Mine, Saranovskaya Village, Gornozavodskii District, Perm Krai, Russia
4.3 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $45
Diopside (classic material) (ex Bob Whitmore Collection)
Belvidere Mountain Quarries, Lowell & Eden, Orleans & Lamoille Counties, Vermont
4.2 x 3.8 x 2.9 cm
Winning Bid: $58
Botryogen (rare crystallized {!})
Santa Elena Mine, Quebrada Alcaparrosa, San Juan, Argentina
4.6 x 3.7 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Epidote (twinned crystal) (classic material)
Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
2.4 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $16
Apophyllite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Poona, Maharashtra, India
5.6 x 3.7 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $40
Fluorapatite (doubly-terminated) with Muscovite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
5.0 x 3.5 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $99
Spinel (rare octahedron with trapezohedral modifications!) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Ambalateva, Ihosy, Ihorombe, Madagascar
3.0 x 2.4 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $38
Malachite pseudomorph after Azurite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona
2.1 x 1.6 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $27
Lazulite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Cross Cut Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada
2.1 x 2.1 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Fluorite (GEM twins) with Galena (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
South Vein, Heights Mine, Weardale, England
2.9 x 1.4 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $48
Brookite with Quartz (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Magnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas
5.3 x 4.0 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $43
Calcite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
5.7 x 3.8 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $20
Calcite (fine scalenohedral crystals) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan
4.0 x 3.1 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $35