CLASSIC AND FINE MINERAL LIQUIDATION AUCTION featuring OLD CLASSICS - Ends March 3, 2022

CLASSIC AND FINE MINERAL LIQUIDATION AUCTION featuring OLD CLASSICS - Ends March 3, 2022

This eclectic auction features a diverse variety of classics, rarities, recent finds and many specimens you don't normally see in auctions.  

Specimens from the Bill Larson, Al Kidwell, Bob Reynolds, Richard Rossi, Bill & Ann Cook and other collections are featured. We have been slowly selling pieces from many of these collections for 2 years now, and all of these are unseen, fresh, recently unpacked, and presented to you first in our auctions! We feel very lucky to have picked up the large collection of Bill and Anne Cook of Cleveland, recently. It is a tribute to their long efforts, how many interesting minerals and old localities were preserved and carefully labelled so you can see them now. Bill and Anne collected for at least 60 years. 

Highlights:

1. TOURMALINES

2. Bill Larson Collection CALIFORNIA specimens (some dating to the 1940s)

3. Selection of LARGE pieces including STIBICONITE, GYPSUM, SCOLECITE, QUARTZ & FLUORITE

4. AQUAMARINE

5. Rare MOHAWKITE & COPPER

6. Idarado Mine GOLD slab



Filter By

Mookaite
Mooka Station, Carnarvon Shire, Western Australia, Australia
11.8 x 7.3 x 6.0 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Calcite on Fluorite (RARE combination style)
Denton Mine, Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
11.7 x 8.3 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $320
Galena & Ankerite (RARE old classic) Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England
13.4 x 7.8 x 7.5 cm
Winning Bid: $360
Vanadinite (1997 find - Reynolds Coll.)
Pure Potential Mine, Silver Mining Dist., La Paz Co., Arizona, USA
6.0 x 4.2 x 2.9 cm
Winning Bid: $370
Fluorite, Quartz and Calcite (classic locale)
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang Co., Hunan, China
8.2 x 6.1 x 5.4 cm
Winning Bid: $272
Arsenian Pyromorphite (1981 find) Rossi Coll.
Bunker Hill Mine, Yreka Mining Dist., Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA
7.8 x 4.5 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $356
Fluorite (RARE color - classic locale - fluorescent) Rossi Coll.
Hilton Mine, Scordale, Murton, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
8.6 x 6.0 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $390
Gemmy Aquamarine xls on Muscovite
Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
13.3 x 10.5 x 9.8 cm
Winning Bid: $1,116
Scheelite (rare - fluorescent - 1990s) Bill & Anne Cook Coll.
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Chenzhou, Hunan, China
5.3 x 4.1 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $400
Thomsonite-(Ca) with Calcite (rare color - 2012) Rossi Coll.
Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India
6.3 x 5.1 x 4.9 cm
Winning Bid: $555
Realgar (2005 find) Rossi Coll.
Baia Sprie, Maramures, Romania
8.2 x 5.8 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $1,000