FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends November 5, 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 have specimens from the collections of Chet Lemanski, David Burgess, Gary Weaver and 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 cabinet sized FLUORITE specimen with beautiful bi-colored "phantom" crystals from Illinois                                                        
2. Uniquely compressed AQUAMARINE crystal from Madagascar
3. Excellent, old-time classic, historic BRAZILIANITE specimen from the type locality in Brazil
4. Wonderful, GEMMY, classic "Gwindel" SMOKY QUARTZ from Switzerland
5. Beautiful "Trapiche" habit pink SAPPHIRE crystal from Myanmar
6. Classic bi-colored PYROMORPHITE specimen from Idaho (1981 find)
7. Rarities include: RAMMELSBERGITE, LEGRANDITE, MISERITE, CARNOTITE and WUPATKIITE
8. Two excellent Chinese mineral specimens from the collection of Dr. Stephen Smale
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Rammelsbergite (rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Freieslebenschacht, Liembach, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
3.7 x 3.6 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Hematite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Itabira, Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.3 x 3.2 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $51
Fluorite (bi-color phantom crystals) (ex Ross Lille Collection)
Sub-Rosiclare Level, Annabel Lee Mine, Ozark-Mahoning Group, Hardin County, Illinois
12.7 x 7.7 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $1,406
Fluorite (GEM "phantom" crystals) on Quartz
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
6.2 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $344
Datolite
Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Krai, Russia
7.3 x 4.8 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $102
Fluorite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Cacilia (Caecilia) Mine, Freiung, Stulln, Wolsendorf West District, Wolsendorf Fluorite Mining District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
8.2 x 4.7 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Molybdenite (rare locality specimen) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)
Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro mining district, Chañaral Province, Atacama, Chile
5.3 x 2.6 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $435
Smoky Quartz (scepter with MOVING water bubbles!)
Tafelkop, Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg Area, Daures, Erongo Region, Namibia
5.6 x 3.7 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $396
Wavellite (rare blue color) (ex Henry de Linde Collection)
Avant, Garland County, Arkansas
8.9 x 5.9 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $285
Muscovite with Albite on Microcline
Mt. Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado
13.2 x 8.0 x 5.7 cm
Winning Bid: $170
Miserite (very rare) (fluorescent) (ex Henry de Linde Collection)
North Wilson Pit, Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs, Garland County, Arkansas (Type Locality)
5.8 x 3.3 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $145
Calcite (doubly-terminated twin) on Dolomite
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee
5.7 x 4.6 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $167
Sulfur (classic material)
Agrigento, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
5.2 x 4.1 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $370
Brazilianite (old classic material)
Corrego Frio Mine, Linopolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Type Locality)
5.5 x 5.2 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $470
Fluorite with Quartz and sulfides (ex Richard A. Kosnar Collection)
Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Buckskin Gulch, Alma District, Park County, Colorado
11.0 x 9.8 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $435
Mottramite (good quality - classic material)
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
6.2 x 4.2 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $197
Opal (pink and lavender)
Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru
4.7 x 3.5 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $200