FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends June 4, 2020

This week's selection  features 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 pieces from the collections of David Burgess, Gary Weaver and Henry de Linde, plus 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. A superb classic FLUORITE with wonderful penetration twinned crystals from England
2. Beautiful "BLOOD VESSEL HYALITE OPAL" specimen from Mexico
3. A fantastic cabinet sized display specimen of AMETHYST from Due West, South Carolina
4. RARELY SEEN MATRIX specimen of Mica / Sericite pseudomorphs after Cordierite-Indialite ("Cherry Blossom") from Japan           
5. A cool SPESSARTINE GARNET specimen from Pakistan that resembles a Dalek from Dr. Who
6. Lovely bi-colored AMETRINE crystal from Bolivia with a rarely seen "c" pinacoid face
7. Rarities include AXINITE-(Mn), SUGILITE, MANAKSITE and PHARMACOSIDERITE
8. Plenty of cool US and European minerals and various rarities from the collection of Kay Robertson
 
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Spinel
Hunza Valley, Hunza District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
4.2 x 3.2 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $22
Phenakite (old classic) (collected by Ed Over) (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Mt. Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado
2.5 x 2.3 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $299
Dioptase (classic material)
Mammoth-St Anthony Mine, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal County, Arizona
2.3 x 1.7 x 1.0 cm
Winning Bid: $140
Axinite-(Mn) on Rhodonite (rare association!) (ex David Burgess Collection)
Pachapaqui mining district, Bolognesi Province, Ancash, Peru
7.6 x 6.8 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $132
Sugilite (rare)
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
4.9 x 3.5 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $132
Trilobite
Utah
6.1 x 5.5 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $105
Calcite (very rare locality specimen) (ex Henry de Linde Collection)
Blanchard Springs Caverns, Ozark–St. Francis National Forest, Stone County, Arkansas
3.0 x 0.7 x 0.6 cm
Winning Bid: $260
Citrine on Danburite (rare combo for the locality)
Charcas, Charcas Municipality, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
4.1 x 1.7 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $82
Cassiterite (gemmy cyclic twins) with rare TOURMALINE association
Viloco Mine, Loayza Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia
2.4 x 1.8 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Mica / Sericite pseudomorph after Cordierite-Indialite ("Cherry Blossom") (RARE MATRIX piece)
Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture, Kinki Region, Honshu Island, Japan
2.3 x 2.2 x2 .1 cm
Winning Bid: $42
Spessartine (Garnet) ("Dalek")
Shengus (Shingus), Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
4.3 x 4.2 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Pink Quartz with Calcite (new find)
Choique Mine, Pehuenches Department, Neuquén Province, Argentina
6.7 x 5.2 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $79
Quartz pseudomorph after Aurichalcite (ex Dr. Wouter van Tichelen Collection)
79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona
12.7 x 6.4 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $135
Gypsum ("rose") (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Saint David area, Cochise County, Arizona
2.7 x 2.6 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $10
Almandine Garnet in schist (ex Henry de Linde Collection)
Stilluptal, Zillertal, Schwaz District, Tyrol, Austria
10.8 x 5.8 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Manaksite (ridiculously rare) (ex David Burgess Collection)
Palitra pegmatite (Palette pegmatite), Karnasurt mine (Kedyk area), Kedykverpakhk Mountain, Lovozersky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
6.6 x 2.7 x 1.0 cm
Winning Bid: $210
Perovskite et al. (RARE locality specimen) (ex David Burgess Collection)
Jacupiranga Mine, Cajati, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2.7 x 1.2 x 0.6 cm
Winning Bid: $273
Quartz (ex Gary Weaver Collection)
Leaning Tree Pocket, Mineral Farm Area, above the town of Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado
9.6 x 7.2 x 4.5 cm
Winning Bid: $137
Andorite (good quality crystals)
San Jose Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia
3.7 x 2.8 x 0.7 cm
Winning Bid: $165
Calcite with Rosasite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
2.8 x 2.6 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $30
Vanadinite (ex Henry de Linde Collection)
Apache Mine, Radium, Burch area, Globe-Miami District, Gila County, Arizona
6.3 x 5.4 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $210
Ulexite pseudomorph after Tincalconite after Borax (3 generations!) (ex Dr. Wouter van Tichelen Collection)
U.S. Borax Open Pit (Boron pit), U.S. Borax Mine, Kramer Borate deposit, Boron, Kern County California
4.6 x 3.3 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $15
Analcime on Serandite (ex Charlie Key Collection)
Poudrette Quarry (Demix Quarry) Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
5.2 x 2.1 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $54
Calcite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
7.3 x 6.1 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $61
Rutile ("Sagenite") on Limonite pseudomorphs after Siderite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Boiling Springs, Cleveland County, North Carolina
5.6 x 4.1 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $187
Fluorite with Dolomite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Cacilia (Caecilia) Mine, Freiung, Stulln, Wolsendorf West District, Wolsendorf Fluorite Mining District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
9.1 x 6.5 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Olivenite (good quality) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada
2.7 x 1.7 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $69
Samarskite-(Y) with Columbite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Divino de Uba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.3 x 2.7 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $62
Fluorite (rare locality specimen) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Monarch Mine, Monarch Wash area, Black Rock Mining District, Yavapai County, Arizona
4.7 x 2.6 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $49