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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Fluorite (rare hexoctahedral habit) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Untermuenstertal, Black Forest, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
5.7 x 4.3 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $65
Pharmacosiderite with Jarosite and Scorodite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Richmond-Sitting Bull Mine, Galena Mining District, Lawrence County, South Dakota
4.2 x 2.9 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $30
Galena (rare cuboctahedral habit) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Brand-Erbisdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
6.1 x 3.3 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $37
Scorodite (rare locality specimen) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Trincheras, Sonora, Mexico
1.4 x 1.3 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Wulfenite on Chrysocolla (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona
3.3 x 3.1 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Anglesite (old classic material) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
4.0 x 3.6 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $91
Milarite (rare)
Jaguaracu pegmatite, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.9 mm x 4.4 mm ; 0.51 cts
Winning Bid: $70
Smithsonite (great color)
79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Gila County, Arizona
11.06 mm x 9.58 mm ; 6.28 cts
Winning Bid: $223
Clinohumite (rare)
Kukh-i-Lal, Pyandzh River Valley, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan
4.7 mm ; 0.48 carats
Winning Bid: $45
Fluorite (superb classic gemmy twins)
Weardale, County Durham, England, UK
7.3 x 5.6 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $575
Opal-AN (Hyalite Opal) ("Blood Vessel Opal")
Étienne Mine, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
7.6 x 3.6 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $260
Adamite (classic material) (ex David Burgess Collection)
San Judas Chimney, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
9.2 x 8.3 x 4.7 cm
Winning Bid: $31
Amethyst (classic material)
Ellis-Jones Mine, Due West, Abbeville County, South Carolina
12.6 x 10.4 x 8.0 cm
Winning Bid: $700
Carrollite (rare) (ex David Burgess Collection)
600m Level, Kamoto Mine, Kamoto, Kolwezi Mining District, Lualaba, Democratic Republic of Congo
4.1 x 3.7 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Andradite Garnet (rare locality)
Kimmeria, Xanthi, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
4.3 x 4.2 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $75