FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends September 3, 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, plus we have plenty of pieces from the David Burgess collection along with dealers' inventories, and 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. Superb old classic CALCITE with COPPER from Michigan
2. GEMMY red RHODOCHROSITE "flower" from the N'Chwaning Mines, South Africa
3. Rare elongated gemmy bi-colored FLUORITE crystals from the Annabel Lee Mine, Illinois, USA
4. Excellent classic FLUORITE on matrix from the Frazer's Hush Mine, England
5. Attractive fluorescent / tenebrescent SODALITE (Hackmanite) from Afghanistan
6. Wonderful doubly-terminated scepter SMOKY QUARTZ from Hallelujah Junction
7. Rarities include MISERITE, FLUELLITE and THORIANITE
8. Plenty of cool US and European minerals and various rarities from the collection of Kay Robertson
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Calcite on Gypsum (?) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Valenciana Mine, Guanajuato Municipality, Guanajuato, Mexico
8.3 x 4.1 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $115
Gahnite (Spinel Group) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
2.1 x 1.7 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Arsenopyrite (old classic) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
5.3 x 4.9 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $40
Fluorite (old classic) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Stolberg, Südharz, Mansfeld-Sudharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
5.7 x 5.0 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $25
Smoky Quartz (2 crystal set) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Heiligenblut am Grossglockner, Bezirk Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
3.8 x 1.1 x 0.8 cm & 3.2 x 1.2 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Miserite (very rare) (fluorescent) (ex Henry de Linde Collection)
North Wilson Pit, Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs, Garland County, Arkansas (Type Locality)
5.2 x 2.1 x 0.7 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Hematite (doubly-terminated) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
3.0 x 2.3 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $267
Calcite with Copper inclusions
Quincy Mine, Houghton County, Michigan
12.0 x 8.5 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $644
Rhodochrosite (classic material)
N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
4.3 x 3.3 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $2,050
Fluorite (fluorescent) (classic material)
Frazer's Hush Mine, Rookhope, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
9.3 x 6.7 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $1,268
Fluorite (rare elongated habit) (ex Ross Lille Collection)
Bethel Level, Annabel Lee Mine, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois
7.4 x 4.6 x 4.4 cm
Winning Bid: $419
Calcite (classic "phantom" crystals)
Buena Tierra Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico
7.6 x 6.7 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $255
Rhodochrosite (rare locale) (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)
Moose Mine, Russel Gulch, Gilpin County, Colorado
2.0 x 1.6 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $169
Sodalite (var: Hackmanite) (tenebrescent) (ex David Burgess Collection)
Koksha Valley, Khash & Kuran Wa Munjan Districts, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
5.9 x 5.3 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $215