FINE MINERAL SPECIMEN LIQUIDATION AUCTION - ends Dec 12

Ends Dec 12, 2013
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)
NOTE A LARGE NUMBER OF OLD CLASSICS AND RARE SPECIES!

 Despite the ice storm that locked Dallas down, we managed to get up a late set of really diverse classics and rare species, mostly from the large collections of Dr. Robert Trimingham and Herb Obodda. Enjoy!
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Apatite and Epidote (classic locale) ex Obodda
Knappenwand, Untersulzbach Valley, Salzburg, Austria
6.3 x 4.2 x 3.4 cm
Schorl & Albite ex Obodda
Bulochi, Astor valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
5.8 x 4.1 x 3.2 cm
Garnierite (rare - old) Columbia Univ.
New Caledonia (Type Locality)
8.4 x 7.4 x 3.7 cm
Polished Fluorite cleavage octahedron ex. Larrry Krause
Cave-in-Rock District, Hardin Co., Illinois
5.4 x 4.0 x 4.0 cm
Gem DT Spodumene var. Triphane (ex Obodda)
Pech, Chapa Dara District, Konar Province, Afghanistan
2.7 x 1.6 x 0.7 cm
Amethystine Quartz scepters w/ bubbles & Schorl ex Obodda
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Pakistan
10.4 x 3.9 x 3.4 cm
Axinite-(Fe) w/ Chlorite ex Obodda
Tormiq valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu Dist., Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
6.8 x 4.8 x 3.2 cm
Tantalite-(Mn) ex Obodda
Mawi Pegmatite, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
2.1 x 1.8 x 0.7 cm
Cassiterite (var. 'wood tin') ex. Univ Arizona
Llavisa, Potosi, Bolivia
3.4 x 2.8 x 2.0 cm
Leucophosphite, Jahnsite & Hureaulite ex Black Hills Inst.
Tip Top Mine, Custer Co., South Dakota
7.8 x 6.7 x 2.5 cm
Aurichalcite w/ Hemimorphite (old classic)
Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
6.1 x 4.4 x 3.4 cm
Fluorite & Hyalite Opal (both fluorescent) on Quartz
Riemvasmaak, Kakamas Dist., Northern Cape Prov., South Africa
9.0 x 6.0 x 5.0 cm
Fluorite (New Find) fluorescent
Weishan REE Mine, Weishan Co., Shandong Prov., China
8.0 x 5.4 x 3.0 cm
Tourmaline w/ Quartz (New Find)
Goncalo, Guarda, Guarda Dist., Portugal
4.9 x 3.9 x 3.9 cm
Wulfenite
Erupcion Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
3.5 x 2.9 x 2.8 cm
DT Serandite w/ Aegirine ex. Trimingham Coll.
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
3.4 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm
Clinoclase (old classic) Trimingham Coll.
St Day District, Cornwall, England
4.9 x 3.1 x 2.4 cm
Enstatite (rare old classic) Trimingham Coll.
Kragero, Telemark, Norway
6.5 x 5.3 x 3.1 cm
Azurite & Conichalcite (New Find)
Christiana Mine, Lavrion, Attiki Prefect., Greece
13.5 x 7.0 x 5.0 cm
Large bi-colored Fluorite w/ Siderite (Trimingham Coll.)
Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope Dist., Weardale, Co. Durham, England
17.0 x 11.0 x 8.4 cm
Manhattan Island, New York City drill cores
New York City, New York
5.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm (3 Pieces)
Enargite w/ Quartz (Trimingham Coll.)
Mountain Con Mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana
7.4 x 6.2 x 3.5 cm
Copper (superb xls) ex. Dearborn & Scalisi Coll.
Ahmeek Mine, Keweenaw Co., Michigan
3.2 x 2.5 x 1.9 cm
Fluorapatite (classic locale) Trimingham Coll.
NBHC Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
6.4 x 5.2 x 3.3 cm
Hematite w/ Andradite
N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
2.2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
Leaf Gold in Quartz (Arizona) Eric Anderson Coll.
Arizona
3.8 x 2.6 x 1.7 cm
Bi-colored Fluorite w/ Cleavelandite & Hyalite Opal Obodda Coll.
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Pakistan
3.3 x 2.9 x 1.9 cm
Anhydrite (uncommon locale) Carmichael Coll.
Salt mines, Ocna Dejului (Desakna), Dej, Cluj Co., Romania
5.5 x 4.6 x 3.9 cm
Quartz w/ Epidote (classic locale & Type Locality) Trimingham Coll.
Bourg d'Oisans, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France
6.8 x 5.4 x 4.7 cm
Interpenetrating Fluorite cubes (fluorescent) Trimingham Coll.
Aveyron, Midi-Pyrenees, France
7.4 x 5.4 x 3.4 cm