CLASSIC MINERAL SPECIMEN LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - end June 20, 2013

Ends June 20, 2013
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)
3 PAGES WITH 71 NEW ITEMS!
CLASSIC MINERAL SPECIMEN LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - from several old collections that we have acquired: This set includes a number of rare old classics and fancy gem crystals both, including pieces from the notable old collections of Giancarlo Fioravanti, Dennis Mullane (Bisbee), and Herb Obodda !

NOTE : Due to a mistake while I posted the auctions remotely, the closed June 6th auctions were accidentally merged/added to the back of the June 20th set of 71 NEW items. Please ignore the older auction items showing in this set.
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Rhodochrosite on Manganite
Hotazel Mine, Kalahari manganese fields, South Africa
10.5 x 6.0 x 4.8 cm
Polished Turquoise (old classic) Mullane Coll.
Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona
12.0 x 7.8 x 4.5 cm
Fluorite (rare NM!) ex DeMark & Cowan Coll.
Cabresto Creek, Taos Co., New Mexico
4.0 x 2.9 x 2.5 cm
Pyrope Garnet xls (Type Locality) Vajdak Coll.
Trebenice, Bohemia, Czech Republic
10.9 x 1.8 x 1.8 cm (vial)
Thomsenolite on Cryolite (rare halide - Type Locality)
Ivigtut Cryolite deposit, Ivigtut, Kitaa Prov., Greenland
7.5 x 6.0 x 3.9 cm
Gemmy bi-colored Tourmaline (excellent)
Himalaya Mine, San Diego Co., California
6.8 x 2.9 x 2.4 cm
Iridescent Covellite on Pyrite (old classic)
Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana
5.5 x 4.0 x 3.5 cm
Calcite incl. w/ Malachite (rare - old)
Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona
7.0 x 6.8 x 4.7 cm
Native Tellurium & Coloradoite (Type Locality)
Rex Mine, Gold Hill Dist., Boulder Co., Colorado
9.5 x 7.3 x 4.3 cm
Rutile on Pyrophyllite (excellent) Fioravanti Coll.
Champion Mine, Laws, Inyo Co., California
5.0 x 4.0 x 3.7 cm
Gem, bi-colored Tourmaline ex Obodda Collection
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Pakistan
5.0 x 1.2 x 1.0 cm
Wurtzite (rare sharp xls)
Siglo XX Mine, Llallagua, Potosi Dept., Bolivia
3.9 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm
Silver (rare for Tsumeb!)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
3.8 x 1.6 x 1.6 cm
Wulfenite (excellent) ex. Fioravanti Coll.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
6.9 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm
Red gem Tourmalines (NEW find!)
Cruzeiro Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.6 x 0.8 x 0.7 cm (Largest) (2 Pieces)
Orpiment (rare), Realgar & Sulfides (ex. Bern Museum)
Lengenbach Quarry, Im Feld, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland
6.4 x 4.4 x 3.4 cm
Gold nuggets (Peru) ex Hauck Coll
Madre de Dios Dept., Peru
1.4 x 0.6 x 0.2 (Largest) (5 Pieces)
Anatase (rare locale)
Broughton talc mine, Quebec, Canada
0.9 x 0.3 x 0.3 cm
Doubly terminated Quartz xls (Richard Hauck Coll.)
Stanley Butte, Graham Co., Arizona
8.8 x 2.0 x 1.9 cm (largest) (32 Pieces)
Calcite twin incl. w/ Marcasite (Miller Coll.)
Tri-State District, Kansas-Missouri-Oklahoma
5.8 x 5.4 x 5.0 cm
Gem Calcite xl w/ gem fishtail twins (superb & rare AZ)
Bruce Mine, Bagdad, Yavapai Co., Arizona
6.3 x 4.9 x 2.9 cm
Ettringite, Oyelite & Barite (rare combo)
N'Chwaning mines, Kalahari manganese fields, South Africa
5.4 x 5.4 x 2.9 cm
Azurite on Kaolinite (rare combo) Urish Coll.
Morenci Mine, Greenlee Co., Arizona
6.6 x 5.7 x 3.7 cm
Pyromorphite w/ Cerussite
Daoping Mine, Guilin Pref., Guangxi Zhuang A.R., China
5.4 x 5.2 x 3.5 cm
Polylithionite (excellent) Schlichter Coll.
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
3.1 x 3.0 x 1.6 cm
Barite (2005 find)
Cerro Warihuyn, Miraflores, Huanuco Department, Peru
4.3 x 3.7 x 1.2 cm
Dioptase on Calcite (classic combo)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
5.5 x 3.3 x 2.7 cm