FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & 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 recent shows or direct from the source. We have many more specimens from the untouched, unpicked collections of Chet Lemanski and Gary Weaver that we have only just sorted out!

Highlights:

1. Vivid COBALTOAN CALCITE and a large MALACHITE

2. James Carter Collection specimens

3. Large WULFENITE

4. SCHEELITE with rare DOLOMITE from Pingwu

5. Old STIBNITE and AXINITE pieces from Japan

6. MALACHITE from Ireland

7. Large CINNABAR from Ukraine

8. Gem MORGANITE

9. Cliff Bourland Collection specimens

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Axinite (unusual form - old classic)
Obira mine, Bungo-Ono City, Oita Prefecture, Japan
6.8 x 5.3 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $125
Wulfenite
Erupcion Mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
5.5 x 4.5 x 3.4 cm
Winning Bid: $227
Siderite & Cryolite (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
Ivigtut cryolite deposit, Ivittuut, Arsuk Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland
8.0 x 7.3 x 6.7 cm
Winning Bid: $139
Azurite & Malachite
Liufengshan Mine, Guichi District, Chizhou, Anhui, China
12.3 x 7.5 x 6.6 cm
Winning Bid: $675
large Galena, Dolomite & Marcasite (Gary Hansen)
Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri
13.8 x 9.0 x 8.4 cm
Winning Bid: $296
Andradite var. Topazolite
New Idria Mining District, San Benito Co., California
9.6 x 6.2 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $200
Pyrite (Leadville)
Leadville, Lake Co., Colorado
7.1 x 5.2 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $95
Smithsonite (classic old Ireland locale)
Sheshodonnell East Mine, The Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland
4.4 x 2.8 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $108
DT Calcite twin w/ Sphalerite (1970s) ex Galas Coll.
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee
7.2 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $172
Smithsonite (classic 1999 find) Gary Weaver Coll.
8th Level, San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
6.3 x 4.7 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $98
large Kyanite
Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
19.1 x 5.4 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $1,430
Fluorapatite on Calcite
Yates mine, Otter Lake, Quebec, Canada
13.7 x 10.4 x 8.4 cm
Winning Bid: $209
Stibnite (old classic) James Carter Coll.
Ichinokawa mine, Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
7.3 x 2.1 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $302
large bipyramidal Wulfenite w/ Mimetite (2008 find)
San Juan Poniente, Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
15.5 x 10.7 x 6.7 cm
Winning Bid: $591
Natrolite w/ Quartz (uncommon)
Nashik District, Maharashtra, India
8.2 x 7.6 x 5.5 cm
Winning Bid: $1,251
Rhodonite
Morro da Mina mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil
7.5 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $313
Plumbogummite (fine color) on Quartz
Yangshuo Mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China
10.5 x 6.1 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $869
Fluorite (3 generations) on Quartz
De'an fluorite mine, Wushan, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China
13.5 x 10.1 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $140
Realgar
Baia Sprie mine, Baia Sprie, Maramures, Romania
11.4 x 5.7 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $500
Stellerite (Charlie Key)
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India
7.2 x 5.7 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $153
Bi-colored Fluorite
Melchor Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico
14.8 x 6.8 x 6.3 cm
Winning Bid: $206
Calcite on Fluorite (Marcella Watson Coll.)
Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico
9.7 x 9.4 x 7.7 cm
Winning Bid: $343
Large Native Copper sheet
White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon Co., Michigan
19.2 x 14.5 x 0.4 cm
Winning Bid: $343
Gemmy Indicolite Tourmaline (12 grams)
Pederneira mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
8.0 x 2.0 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $223
Gem Morganite (119 grams) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Laghman, Afghanistan
6.3 x 5.0 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $432
Botryoidal Malachite (fine Ireland!) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Tynagh Mine, Killimor, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
9.9 x 8.6 x 5.1 cm
Winning Bid: $607
large Cinnabar w/ Quartz (rare) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Nikitovka Hg Deposit, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
17.1 x 8.7 x 6.0 cm
Winning Bid: $1,806
large Vanadinite
Mibladen, Midelt Province, Draa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
11.3 x 5.8 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $1,900
Woodwardite (NEW FIND of this Aluminum species)
Qinglong County, Guizhou, China
13.1 x 6.9 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $1,310
Fluorite w/ Bitumen on Sphalerite (Cliff Bourland Coll.)
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee
9.2 x 5.9 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $399