MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - end THURSDAY MAY 11, 2017 (set 1 of 2)

Ends Thursday, May 11, 2017
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

We ramped up the auctions this week with some important, beautiful "spikers" including OLD CLASSIC MINERALS FROM EUROPE, RARE SPECIES and GEM CRYSTALS! This auction set, as do all, features classic and rare minerals from contemporary and historic worldwide localities along with gem crystals, native elements and more , mostly from old stashes and old dealer inventories that you cannot even access easily at shows anymore.

We are honored to announce the purchase of several large collections including the fantastic Kay Robertson collection of 10,000 specimens, filled with European treasures and old classics accumulated since she started collecting in 1928 (see our website for more information: http://www.irocks.com/kay-robertson-a-treasure-in-the-mineral-collecting-world)!


Some of the highlights from this week's include:
1. Fine selection of TOURMALINES
2. HUGE GARNET from Australia.
3. Michigan COPPER with SILVER. 4. Rare large old Nevada WULFENITE.
5. Butte CHALCOCITE after COVELLITE.
6. Rare old Illinois FLUORITE & GALENA w/ hydrocarbons
7. Outstanding old COBALTITE
8. Large and excellent Chinese FLUORITE
9. Rare French TORBERNITE
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Rhodochrosite w/ Fluorite
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru
4.3 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm
Tourmaline & Cleavelandite on Microcline
Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande Dist., San Diego Co., California
6.3 x 4.9 x 2.6 cm
Large bi-colored Fluorite octahedron (fluorescent)
Xiefang Mine, Ruijin Co., Ganzhou Pref., Jiangxi Province, China
12.7 x 9.3 x 5.8 cm
Augite var. Fassaite (old!) ex Paterson Museum Coll.
Monzoni Mts, Fassa Valley, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
9.0 x 6.8 x 3.5 cm
Siderite on Quartz (rare old classic)
Fowey Consols, Tywardreath, St Austell District, Cornwall, England
5.6 x 4.2 x 2.8 cm
Azurite & Malachite
Liufengshan Mine, Guichi Dist., Chizhou Prefect., Anhui Province, China
12.8 x 10.5 x10.3 cm
Azurite (polished nodule set)
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Rubtsovskoe Cu-Zn-Pb deposit, Rudnyi Altai, Western-Siberian Region, Russia
4.8 x 4.5 x 1.8 (Largest of 2)
Calcite w/ Duftite on Dolomite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
8.1 x 5.8 x 3.3 cm
Inyoite (rare locale)
Inder B deposit and salt dome, Atyrau, Atyrau Province, Kazakhstan
9.4 x 7.1 x 3.7 cm
Halite (mined 1965)
U. S. Potash Co. Mine, Carlsbad Potash District, Eddy Co., New Mexico
11.3 x 8.3 x 3.7 cm
Fluorite (fluorescent) ex Obodda
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
2.9 x 2.5 x 2.1 cm
Sanromanite (RARE - Type Locality)
Santa Rosa Mine, Iquique Province, Tarapaca Region, Chile
3.7 x 2.8 x 2.1 cm
Polished Rhodochrosite slices & stalactite set
Capillitas Mine, Catamarca, Argentina
3.0 x 1.8 x 1.6 cm (Largest of 14)
Large Albite w/ Schorl & Muscovite
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
16.5 x 14.1 x 12.4 cm
Lorenzenite (rare Ti-silicate)
Selsurt Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia
5.9 x 4.8 x 4.5 cm
Pyrolusite ps. After Manganite (RARE) ex Kay Robertson Coll.
Serrana Mine, El Molar, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
5.2 x 3.7 x 3.0 cm
Diamond on matrix (Kay Robertson Coll.)
Mir Pipe, Sakha Republic, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia
2.8 x 2.6 x 1.8 cm
Gemmy Baryte w/ phantoms (Kay Robertson Coll.)
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo
5.6 x 5.1 x 0.9 cm
Wulfenite (RARE old Nevada locale!) Otto Pfordte Coll.
Eureka District, Eureka Co., Nevada
12.8 x 8.3 x 5.3 cm
Torbernite (rare locale - rich) ex Parnau, Robertson Coll.
La Faye Mine, Grury, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France
7.4 x 4.0 x 4.3 cm
Fluorapatite on orange Calcite (Kay Robertson Coll.)
Wilberforce area, Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada
9.0 x 7.7 x 4.5 cm
Gem Indicolite Tourmaline
Pederneira Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
9.3 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm
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