FINE MINERAL SPECIMENS LIQUIDATION AUCTION - ends Jan 16

Ends January 16, 2014
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)
72 specimens from our inventory and special selections from recent collection acquisitions. This week features plenty of unique pieces, classic specimens, interesting localities, rare minerals and hard to find material in this week's auction from collections such as Trimingham, Obodda and more!
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Diamond octahedron (0.83 carats)
Democratic Republic of Congo
0.6 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm
Rhodocrhrosite
N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
2.2 x 2.0 x 0.4 cm
Gratonite (circa 1950s) Ed Swoboda Coll.
Cerro de Pasco, Pasco Prov., Pasco Dept., Peru
3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
Phosgenite on Galena (classic locale) Trimingham Coll.
Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy
5.8 x 5.4 x 4.3 cm
DT Ruby w/ Mavinite & Albite
Mysore District, Karnataka, India
3.7 x 3.5 x 3.0 cm
Chalcocite w/ Calcite (old classic) Belsky Coll.
Bristol Copper Mine, Hartford Co., Connecticut
9.0 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm
Twinned Epidote xl (Trimingham Coll.)
Garnet Hill Mine, Calaveras Co., California
7.0 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm
Native Lead w/ Hydrocerussite (Trimingham Coll.)
Langban, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden
8.5 x 6.0 x 3.7 cm
Sphalerite, Calcite (fluorescent) & Rhodochrosite (Trimingham Coll.)
Stari Trg Mine, Trepca, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo
8.8 x 7.8 x 6.0 cm
Almandine Garnet (old classic) Trimingham Coll.
Russell Garnet Mine, Russell, Hampden Co., Massachusetts
7.9 x 6.4 x 6.0 cm
Gemmy floater Spinel octahedron (fluorescent)
Marble occurrence, Morogoro, Morogoro Region, Tanzania
2.0 x 2.0 x 1.6 cm
Gemmy Azurite xl (Israel Coll.)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
2.3 x 1.3 x 0.8 cm
Esperite, etc (5 color fluorescence) Elling Coll.
Franklin Mine, Sussex Co., New Jersey
11.0 x 7.4 x 5.5 cm
Brucite (rare locale)
Deception Bay, Nunavik, Quebec, Canada
4.4 x 3.4 x 2.2 cm
Manganoan Calcite (fluorescent!)
Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
9.9 x 8.4 x 6.0 cm
Calcite (rare Oregon locale) Trimingham Coll.
Marble Mountain Quarry, Josephine Co., Oregon
8.0 x 5.8 x 4.2 cm
Botryoidal Fluorite (rare Colorado) Trimingham Coll.
Canon City District, Fremont Co., Colorado
6.2 x 5.9 x 4.8 cm
Banded Goethite (rare locale) Trimingham Coll.
Mather B shaft, Negaunee, Marquette Co., Michigan
7.4 x 7.1 x 4.8 cm
Bi-colored gem Spodumene ex Obodda
Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan
7.4 x 3.1 x 1.0 cm
Cobaltoan Calcite
Bou Azzer District, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco
4.7 x 3.4 x 2.2 cm
Topaz (Israel Coll.)
Klein Spitzkopje, Erongo Region, Namibia
5.7 x 3.8 x 3.0 cm
Kunzite, Tourmaline & Lepidolite
Paprok Mine, Kamdesh Dist., Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
10.5 x 5.4 x 5.4 cm
Montebrasite (rare - uncommon locale)
Fazenda Pomarolli, Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.3 x 3.1 x 2.7 cm
Spinel-twinned Silver, Acanthite & Calcite
Balcoll Mine, Falset, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
5.2 x 4.2 x 3.0 cm
Pyrochlore (rare locality)
Verity Property, Blue River, British Columbia, Canada
1.0 x 0.7 x 0.6 cm
Primary Malachite
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
3.7 x 3.4 x 2.2 cm
Copper xls w/ Calcite (old classic) Larrry Krause
Copper Country, Ontonagon Co., Michigan
6.7 x 4.6 x 4.2 cm
Orange Creedite
Mina Navidad, Durango, Mexico
7.4 x 5.9 x 5.0 cm