FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends November 19, 2020

We have a great selection this week featuring plenty of attractive, fine quality, rare and unusual specimens.  Look for new discoveries that we picked up at shows or direct from the source. We also have plenty of great specimens from various collections that we've purchased over the last year or so.  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. Beautiful gemmy green FLUORITE on QUARTZ from South Africa
2. GLOWING yellow BRUCITE on matrix from Pakistan
3. Rarely seen PURPLE ALBITE crystals on matrix from Pakistan
4. Classic "iron rose" HEMATITE on matrix from Switzerland (ex Bill Pinch Collection)
5. GEM QUALITY doubly-terminated AQUAMARINE crystal from Pakistan
6. Large PYROMORPHITE crystals pseudomorphing to PLUMBOGUMMITE from China
7. Rarities include: OLMIITE, RILANDITE, ANDORITE and ARTHURITE
8. RED and BLUE TOURMALINE crystal from the Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil
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Sillimanite
Sri Lanka
1.03 ct ; 8.6 mm x 5.0 mm
Winning Bid: $45
Aeschynite (rare)
Nuristan, Afghanistan
2.38 ct ; 10.09 mm x 5.28 mm
Winning Bid: $52
Pyrite on Quartz (ex Richard A. Kosnar Collection)
Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado
8.8 x 4.4 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Rilandite (ridiculously rare!)
J. L. Riland Claim, Meeker, Rio Blanco County, Colorado (Type Locality)
0.3 x 0.3 x 0.2 cm
Winning Bid: $235
Gypsum pseudomorph after Glauberite
Copper Canyon Area, Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Arizona
8.0 x 7.5 x 5.4 cm
Winning Bid: $105
Fluorite with Calcite
West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
12.3 x 7.0 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Plumbogummite pseudomorphing after Pyromorphite
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo Co., Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
4.1 x 1.8 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $165
Silver (ex Raul Sanabria Orellana Collection)
La Suerte Mine, Hiendelaencina, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
3.2 x 2.0 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $179
Quartz (scepter and "fenster" habit) (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)
King Solomon Mountain (12,900 feet), Little Giant Basin, San Juan County, Colorado
7.2 x 2.7 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $77
Groutite (old classic) (ex Michigan Tech / Seaman Museum Collection)
Robert Mine, Cuyuna Range, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
6.7 x 5.7 x 5.1 cm
Winning Bid: $441
Axinite
Baluchistan, Pakistan
0.99 ct ; 6.6 mm x 6.5 mm
Winning Bid: $139
Albite (rare PURPLE crystals!)
Khyber Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
5.3 x 4.7 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $182
Tourmaline (Rubellite and Indicolite) (4.14 grams) (ex Richard A. Kosnar Collection)
Cruzeiro Mine, São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.3 x 1.0 x 0.4 cm
Winning Bid: $369
Fluorite on Quartz
Riemvasmaak fluorite occurrences, Riemvasmaak, Kakamas, ZF Mgcawu District, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
5.3 x 4.0 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $442