Mixed Mineral and Inventory Liquidation Auction - Ends August 4, 2022

This eclectic auction features many larger specimens and pieces from the Rock Currier and Taylor Hunt collections. Recent finds, classics, and rarities are highlighted. Reynolds, Cook, Sherburn, Weaver, Phillips, and other collections are featured.

Highlights:

1. AQUAMARINE and TOPAZ specimens

2. Rock Currier Collection specimens including fine Indian pieces

3. English classics

4. Colorado RHODOCHROSITE

5. Unusual large SMOKY QUARTZ from Brazil

6 . Large Alaska EPIDOTE crystal

7. Oregon OPAL ball

8. Large Mexico plate of rare CALCITE twins

9. Rare large COLORADO pseudomorph combination

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Calcite (classic old locale) ex Miller Calcite & Sherburn Coll.
Geevor Mine, Pendeen, St Just, Cornwall, England
7.9 x 6.5 x 6.3 cm
Winning Bid: $390
Galena floater (Greenbank & Sherburn Coll.)
Blackdene Mine, Ireshopeburn, Weardale, County Durham, England
4.8 x 2.6 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $63
Vivianite in fossilized mollusc shell (Cook Coll.)
Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine
4.8 x 3.7 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $178
Cylindrite (rare - Type Locality) Shields Flynn Coll.
Santa Cruz Mine, Poopó, Poopó Province, Oruro, Bolivia
3.4 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $65
Pyromorphite & Cerussite on Malachite (classic locale) Reynolds Coll.
Brown's Prospect, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, Australia
7.7 x 4.7 x 4.4 cm
Winning Bid: $450
Drusy Quartz on Chrysocolla after Malachite after Azurite w/ Hematite
Tenke-Fungurume area, Lualaba, DR Congo
9.7 x 9.0 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $285
Galena (Phillips Coll.) - unusual crystal shape
Borieva Mine, Madan ore field, Smolyan Province, Bulgaria
6.5 x 5.2 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $130
Atacamite (RARE old Nevada!) Philadelphia Academy & Smithsonian
Warner Mine, Mineral County, Nevada
9.8 x 7.8 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $299
Calcite in septarian nodule (fluorescent) Dr. B. Phillips Coll.
Muddy Creek, Orderville, Kane Co., Utah
14.5 x 13.2 x 7.3 cm
Winning Bid: $435
superb old large Gypsum included with sand (DT floater) Kidwell Coll.
Great Salt Plains, Jet, Alfalfa Co., Oklahoma, USA
15.9 x 5.2 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $71
Pyrrhotite & Quartz (classic locale) Hefendehl Coll.
Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia
5.8 x 4.7 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $286
Aquamarine (rare Arizona!)
Santa Teresa Mountains, Aravaipa Mining Dist., Graham Co., Arizona, USA
2.7 x 0.6 x 0.6 cm
Winning Bid: $90
Calcite on Prehnite (Payne Coll.)
Fanwood Quarry, Watchung, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA
4.4 x 4.4 x 4.4 cm
Winning Bid: $80
Calcite on Fluorite (RARE combo - fluorescent) Robertson Coll.
Cacilia Mine, Freiung, Schwandorf Dist., Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
7.6 x 7.1 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $915
Fluorite on Quartz (classic old Chinese style) ex Smale coll.
Shangrao, Jiangxi, China
13.3 x 7.7 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $1,024
superb, gem Smoky Quartz (classic New Mexico) Hunt Coll.
Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
11.2 x 5.5 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $613
Rutile twins on rhyolite (old classic) Hunt Coll.
Champion Mine, White Mtns., Mono Co., California, USA
12.0 x 7.2 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $567
Malachite (Hunt Coll.)
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Santa Cruz Mun., Sonora, Mexico
8.8 x 4.6 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $360
Calcite
Jose Maria Patoni, San Juan del Río Mun., Durango, Mexico
7.1 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $330
Calcite and Quartz scepter (Currier Coll.)
Huanggang Mine, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China
9.1 x 8.4 x 6.8 cm
Winning Bid: $473
Gemmy "Tanzanite" Fluorite on Drusy Quartz
Yongchun Co., Quanzhou, Fujian, China
9.4 x 6.6 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $675
Opal sphere (Hunt Coll.)
Opal Butte, Morrow Co., Oregon, USA
6.0 x 6.0 x 6.0 cm
Winning Bid: $758
Turquoise
Sleeping Beauty Mine, Globe-Miami Mining Dist., Gila Co., Arizona, USA
Various
Winning Bid: $265
Wulfenite w/ Calcite (classic AZ) Reynolds Coll.
Defiance Mine, Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
5.6 x 4.8 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $130
Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Stilbite
Momin Akhada, Rahuri, Ahmadnagar District, Maharashtra, India
11.8 x 11.3 x 8.0 cm CA
Winning Bid: $375
Hemimorphite (Van Tichelen Coll.)
Mfouati Mine, Mfouati District, Bouenza Dept., Republic of the Congo
10.7 x 8.3 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $350
Pyrite concretion
Dongchuan Cu ore field, Dongchuan District, Kunming, Yunnan, China
7.7 x 7.2 x 6.3 cm
Winning Bid: $139
large Calcite w/ striking twins (Weaver Coll.)
18th Level, Potosi Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
18.8 x 16.3 x 7.0 cm
Winning Bid: $360
Orpiment (classic locale) Hunt Coll.
Twin Creeks Mine, Humboldt Co., Nevada
4.4 x 3.8 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $335
Yttrofluorite on a large Calcite crystal
Qinglong Mine, Qinglong Co., Qianxinan, Guizhou, China
13.0 x 6.8 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $409