MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS ! - end March 14, 2013

Ends March 14, 2013
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone) LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS of FINE MINERAL SPECIMENS from several old collections, including many OLD CLASSICS, GEM CRYSTALS, and old MUSEUM PIECES from the Giancarlo Fioravanti and Herb Obodda collections!
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Magnetite w/ Biotite
Madawaska Mine property, Faraday, Ontario, Canada
9.4 x 6.5 x 4.5 cm
Phantom Barite xls w/ Drusy Quartz
Morococha District, Junun Department, Peru
17.4 x 8.3 x 1.5 cm
Primary Malachite (excellent, rare for mine) ex Fioravanti
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
8.8 x 5.8 x 3.8 cm
Pyromorphite (Schneider Coll.)
Resuperferolitica Mine, Cordoba, Spain
3.8 x 3.4 x 2.4 cm
Cinnabar-included Calcite (rare) - Jean Hamel Coll.
Terlingua District, Brewster Co., Texas
6.4 x 3.8 x 3.5 cm
Large, DT Scapolite
Eagle's Nest, nr. Bancroft, Ontario, Canada
6.0 x 4.8 x 4.1 cm
Cobaltoan Dolomite (excellent) ex Obodda
Kakanda deposit, Katanga, Dem. Rep. of Congo
5.4 x 4.4 x 1.8 cm
Chalcedony (Quartz) ps. After Aragonite (Swoboda Coll.)
Moab, Grand Co., Utah,
5.3 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm
Superb floater Pyrite trapezohedron (Fioravanti Coll.)
Falcacci stope, Rio Marina Mine, Elba Island, Tuscany, Italy
3.0 x 3.0 x 2.5 cm
Tantalite-(Mn) ex Obodda
Mawi Pegmatite, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
1.9 x 1.4 x 0.5 cm
Graphite ex Will Henderson Coll.
Griffin, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada
2.9 x 1.5 x 1.3 cm
Aquamarine on Feldspar (excellent)
Erongo Mts., Erongo Region, Namibia
4.9 x 3.6 x 2.4 cm
Sartorite (Type Locality - rare sulfosalt) Fioravanti Coll.
Lengenbach Quarry, Im Feld, Wallis, Switzerland
7.8 x 7.4 x 5.4 cm
Strontianite on Dolomite (classic locale) Fioravanti Coll.
Oberdorf an der Laming, Laming Valley, Styria, Austria
11.1 x 7.8 x 4.0 cm
Danburite w/ Chlorite (Fioravanti Coll.)
Medel Valley, Grischun, Switzerland
3.5 x 2.9 x 1.5 cm
Psilomelane (rare locality) Fioravanti Coll.
Platna, Erzgebirge, Bohemia, Czech Republic
5.7 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm
Skutterudite var. Smaltite (old - classic locale) ex Fioravanti
Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
5.8 x 5.4 x 3.9 cm
Cuprite var. Chalcotrichite (Fioravanti Coll.)
Ray Mine, Pinal County, Arizona
5.9 x 4.7 x 2.3 cm
Gemmy watermelon Tourmaline (old classic)
Santa Rosa Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
7.8 x 3.7 x 2.8 cm
Large Prehnite w/ Epidote & Stilbite (rare combo)
Sandare, Kayes Region, Mali
18.5 x 13.4 x 10.5 cm
Botryoidal Fluorite
Minggang, Xinyang, Henan Province, China
15.9 x 10.4 x 6.4 cm
Acacia frond & winged male ant in Amber
La Bucara Mine, Dominican Republic
2.6 x 2.2 x 1.0 cm
"Painted Lady" Opal (fluorescent) in sandstone
Andamooka, South Australia, Australia
15.4 x 6.6 x 2.6 cm
Scapolite (fluorescent) w/ Diopside (classic locale)
Yates Mine, Otter Lake, Quebec, Canada
9.4 x 7.8 x 7.0 cm
Osumilite (rare) and Tridymite ex Fioravanti Coll.
Funtanafigu Quarry, Marrubiu, Sardinia, Italy
8.4 x 6.4 x 3.3 cm
DT Dravite Tourmaline (Fioravanti Coll.)
Beura Quarries, Ossola Valley, Piedmont, Italy
7.9 x 5.8 x 3.0 cm
Azurite xls (New Find - uncommon locale)
Kamiangafiele, nr. Lubumbashi, Katanga, Rep. of Congo
5.4 x 4.1 x 3.8 cm
Fluorite on Hematite-included Quartz
Orange River, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
11.4 x 4.9 x 3.0 cm
Calcite w/ phantom
Fengjiashan Mine (Daye copper mine), Hubei Province, China
4.0 x 3.4 x 2.2 cm
Linarite (classic locale)
Grand Reef Mine, Graham Co., Arizona
2.1 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm