FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends October 22, 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 recent shows or direct from the source. We have specimens from the collections of David Burgess and Gary Weaver, along with 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. Super, doubly-terminated, RARE MATRIX AQUAMARINE specimen from Brazil

2. Attractive, beautifully crystallized, historic COPPER specimen from Michigan

3. Excellent, GEMMY, doubly-terminated KUNZITE crystal from Afghanistan (193 grams)

4. Classic and hard to find LARGE CABINET MALACHITE from the Cashin Mine, Colorado

5. Rare pseudomorph of TURQUOISE after FLUORAPATITE from Mexico

6. Wonderful, fine quality WITHERITE crystals on matrix from Illinois  

7. Rarities include: DRESSERITE, METAHEINRICHITE, BANDYLITE and BRAUNITE

8. Plenty of cool US and European minerals and various rarities from the collection of Kay Robertson

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Stilbite (classic material) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Teigarhorn, Berufjordur, Suour-Mulasysla, Eastern Region, Iceland
7.2 x 3.6 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $87
Fluorite (botryoidal) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
North of Canon City, Fremont County Colorado
4.7 x 4.0 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $126
As-bearing Vanadinite ("Endlichite") (ex Leigh Price Collection)
Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
2.8 x 1.8 x 1.0 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Calcite
Second Sovietsky Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
4.8 x 3.2 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Citrine on Danburite (rare combo for the locality)
Charcas, Charcas Municipality, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
3.9 x 1.1 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $119
Calcite (pseudo-pyritohedral crystals)
Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan, China
11.6 x 8.7 x 7.7 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Turgite (rare locality specimen)
Gaston County, North Carolina
8.0 x 3.6 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Chalcopyrite (rare locality specimen) (ex Bill Pinch Collection)
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Cercle, Tinghir Province, Draa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
9.3 x 6.8 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $217
Fluorite
Moscona Mine, Solís, Corvera de Asturias, Villabona mining area, Asturias, Spain
4.3 x 3.8 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $71
Multicolor Fluorite Carving, Dolphin (15.10 grams)
Jiangxi Province, China
4.7 x 2.1 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $155
Perovskite (classic material) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Rocca Castellaccio, Ciappanico, Torre di Santa Maria, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
4.9 x 3.3 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $22
Calcite ('flower')
Wenshan Mine, Wenshan City, Wenshan, Yunnan, China
7.0 x 5.7 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $132
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite-Ca
Nasik, Maharashtra, India
7.1 x 6.6 x 4.4 cm
Winning Bid: $46