MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - end THURSDAY MAY 18, 2017 (set 1 of 2)

Ends Thursday, May 18, 2017
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

We ramped up the auctions 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. Superb gem KUNZITE
2. Rarities and classics from the Kay Robertson Collection
3. Classic MESOLITE and APOPHYLLITE
4. Exceptional Los Lamentos WULFENITE
5. Fine Ray Mine CHRYSOCOLLA pseudomorph and spinel-twinned COPPER
6. Excellent TOURMALINES
7. Large Peru PYRITE
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Pyrite (classic locale) - exceptional display specimen
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca, Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash, Peru
10.8 x 4.6 x 3.0 cm
Aragonite stalactites (rare style)
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
11.5 x 10.5 x 9.0 cm
Hematite (Charlie Key coll.) - unusual, robust crystal habit
Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
4.0 x 3.9 x 3.0 cm
Plumbogummite ps. After Pyromorphite (2015 find)
Yangshuo Mine, Guilin Pref., Guangxi Zhuang A.R., China
5.2 x 4.8 x 4.0 cm
Mesolite on Apophyllite
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
11.7 x 11.6 x 6.7 cm
Smithsonite var. Cadmium rich (New Find)
Wei Nan, Yunnan Province, China
6.9 x 6.8 x 5.1 cm
Fluorite (unique color - fluorescent)
Navidad Mine, Abasolo, Durango, Mexico
6.4 x 5.9 x 4.0 cm
Fluorite (fluorescent) w/ Galena
Rogerley Mine, Frosterley, Weardale, Co. Durham, England
9.1 x 4.6 x 3.7 cm
Sulfur on Aragonite (fluorescent) classic locale
Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
12.0 x 9.7 x 6.3 cm
Schorl on Smoky Quartz
Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.7 x 5.5 x 3.9 cm
Azurite & Malachite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
8.6 x 5.3 x 5.2 cm
Doubly terminated Calcite twin (Cynthia Payne Coll.)
Thomasville Crushed Stone Quarry, York Co., Pennsylvania
3.8 x 3.5 x 2.9 cm
Beraunite on Limonite (rare - old)
Bachman Mine, Hellertown, Northampton Co., Pennsylvania
5.5 x 3.8 x 3.0 cm
Chrysocolla ps. After Azurite (1970s find - Dave Stoudt Coll.)
Silica Ore Body, Ray Mine, Pinal Co., Arizona
4.0 x 3.5 x 1.8 cm
Hutchinsonite (rare) & Orpiment (Kay Robertson Coll.)
Quiruvilca Mine, La Libertad Department, Peru
6.4 x 6.1 x 5.1 cm
Sphalerite, Dolomite & Marcasite (Sanabria Coll.)
Troya Mine, Mutiloa, Basque Country, Spain
8.9 x 8.1 x 6.0 cm
Ruby (fluorescent) Kay Robertson Coll.
Kleggasen Ruby Quarry, Froland, Aust-Agder, Norway
4.9 x 3.1 x 2.1 cm
Pyromorphite (RARE & RARE locale) Kay Robertson Coll.
Jervois Mine, Jervois Station, Northern Territory, Australia
4.2 x 2.1 x 1.3 cm
Stephanite (rare) Kay Robertson Coll.
Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic
2.0 x 1.5 x 1.1 cm
Cuprian Smithsonite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
9.2 x 6.3 x 3.7 cm
Fluorapatite (old classic - A.E. Foote label)
Turner's Island Mine, Renfrew Co., Ontario, Canada
8.6 x 4.3 x 2.9 cm
Botryoidal Calcite (classic old Italy locale)
Campomorto Quarry, Montalto di Castro, Latium, Italy
8.0 x 5.8 x 4.5 cm
Axinite-(Fe) (classic locale)
Stamps and Jowl Zawn, Cliff outcrops, Botallack, St Just District, Cornwall, England
8.3 x 5.1 x 3.0 cm
Large Berthierite on Siderite (old rare style) ex Paterson Mus. Coll.
Herja Mine, Baia Mare, Maramures Co., Romania
20.7 x 4.4 x 3.5 cm
Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) w/ Prehnite (Buck Keller Coll.)
Virginia Crushed Stone Quarry, Loudoun Co., Virginia
9.8 x 5.5 x 4.3 cm
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