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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Primary Malachite xls (rare form)
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi, Katanga, Dem. Rep. of Congo
6.4 x 5.5 x 4.9 cm
Pyromorphite (classic locale) Kay Robertson Coll.
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
5.0 x 3.3 x 2.1 cm
Fluoborite (rare - classic locale) Paterson Museum Coll.
Fiano tuff quarries, Nocera Inferiore, Campania, Italy
6.2 x 4.2 x 3.5 cm
Polylithionite, Aegirine & Natrolite (classic locale)
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
5.6 x 4.9 x 3.5 cm
Gilmarite (rare Cu-arsenate)
El Guanaco Mine, Santa Catalina, Antofagasta Province, Chile
4.1 x 3.1 x 1.6 cm
Tennantite on Quartz (classic locale)
Cobre Mine, Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico
7.1 x 6.9 x 5.4 cm
Superb gem Kunzite (rich color) ex Sinotte Coll.
Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan
5.8 x 4.0 x 3.5 cm
Gemmy bi-colored Tourmaline
Paprok, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
7.3 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm
Amazonite w/ Smoky Quartz (Trimingham Coll.)
Crystal Peak area, Park and Teller Cos., Colorado
12.0 x 7.5 x 7.2 cm
Pyromorphite (1997 find)
San Andres Mine, Espie, Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain
5.5 x 4.3 x 3.0 cm
Legrandite (terminated - classic locale)
Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
1.9 x 0.6 x 0.2 cm
Large bi-colored Fluorite (fluorescent)
Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois
16.7 x 12.8 x 5.3 cm
Gem Spinel octahedron (Kay Robertson Coll.)
Pein-Pyit, Mogok, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
1.5 x 1.4 x 1.1 cm
Rhodochrosite (Kay Robertson Coll.) ex Willard Perkin
Potosi Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
2.2 x 1.3 x 0.8 cm
Gem Tanzanite (17.27 carats)
Merelani Hills, Manyara Region, Tanzania
2.0 x 1.0 x 0.9 cm
Cryolite (Type Locality) ex John Sinkankas & Paterson Mus. Coll.
Ivigtut Cryolite deposit, Ivigtut, Arsuk Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland
11.4 x 5.7 x 5.5 cm
Bi-colored Tourmaline scepter (classic locale)
Barra do Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
6.0 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm
Dioptase on Calcite (Kay Robertson Coll.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
3.6 x 2.7 x 2.0 cm
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