FINE OLD MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 1 of 2) - FEATURING RARE SPECIMENS FROM OLD COLLECTIONS !- end Thursday April 12, 2018

ends Thursday April 12, 2018
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

We obtained an old East Coast collection just before the Tucson show and left it all at home, to offer on the internet first! Lots of old classics here! See gem crystals, rare species, old USA and German classics, and many good specimens that are hard to find at any price, let alone at auction! Plus, we included a number of holdbacks from other old mineral collections we have liquidated, for a great variety here of speicmens including things worth $1000s of dollars, satrting at only $10


Some of the highlights from this week's include:

1. MONT SAINT-HILAIRE superb THUMBNAIL classics from the Charlie Key Collection
2. Old, rare crystallized NICKELINE and MIMETITE from Europe.
3. Large Mexico AMETHYST w/ WATER BUBBLE inclusion !
4. Rare Montana BOLEITE and Utah WULFENITE
5. Superb rare SANTABARABARITE from Kerch.
6. OLD CLASSIC MINERALS from the Kay Robertson and an East Coast collection
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Spinel-twinned Fluorite & Schorl ex Charlie Key
Erongo Mountains, Erongo Region, Namiba
5.4 x 4.7 x 4.0 cm
Quartz var. Prasiolite (RARE green -Siltamaki Coll.) - Canada!
Crown Jewel Mine, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
6.1 x 4.6 x 4.2 cm
Mimetite
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
12.8 x 9.5 x 4.0 cm
Catapleiitesuperb TN!) Charlie Key TN collection
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
1.5 x 1.3 x 0.5 cm
Santabarbaraite ps. After Vivianite (rare) Robertson Coll.
Kerchenskoe deposit, Kerch peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine
6.1 x 4.3 x 2.7 cm
Kutnahorite (Type Locality - old) Paterson Museum
Kutna Hora, Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia, Czech Republic
7.1 x 6.5 x 2.1 cm
Silver wires & Acanthite on Calcite (old classic) Robertson Coll
St Andreasberg, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany
7.0 x 5.2 x 2.5 cm
Primary Malachite
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
6.4 x 6.3 x 4.7 cm
Fluorite on Celestine
Melchor Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico
7.1 x 4.2 x 1.7 cm
Large Boleite (rare - rich for locale) Robertson Coll.
Philipsburg District, Granite Co., Montana
9.2 x 9.0 x 5.0 cm
Large Kyanite crystal cluster
Barra do Salinas district, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
13.4 x 7.6 x 5.8 cm
Diopside w/ Calcite (uncommon locale) Robertson Coll.
Ampandrandava phlogopite mine, Androy Region, Tulear Province, Madagascar
9.7 x 8.3 x 5.3 cm
Polylithionite (fluorescent) w/ Leucophanite (superb TN) Charlie Key Coll.
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
2.4 x 1.8 x 0.8 cm
Quartz (classic locale)
Long Hill quartz locality, Haddam, Middlesex Co., Connecticut
8.8 x 5.3 x 5.1 cm
Gemmy Rhodochrosite (RARE style - superb TN) Charlie Key Coll.
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
1.9 x 1.2 x 0.4 cm
Nickeline xls (rare - classic locale) Robertson Coll.
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
7.9 x 5.5 x 4.3 cm
Orange Creedite "pineapple"
Mina Navidad, Durango, Mexico
9.7 x 8.8 x 8.0 cm
Smithsonite w/ Hemimorphite
Skorpion Mine, Rosh Pinah, Karas Region, Namibia
10.4 x 5.2 x 4.8 cm
Mesolite (RARE Italy) Robertson Coll.
Buco dell'Inferno (Lafreider Hulle), Siusi Alp, Bolzano Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
9.3 x 5.8 x 5.7 cm
Gahnite (Spinel Group) (uncommon locale)
Balangoda, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Prov., Sri Lanka
2.4 x 2.1 x 1.9 cm
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