MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - Ends Thursday April 23, 2020

This week's special large auction set features great selection of minerals including MANY historic classics, only available from old collections! We have been cleaning out the back warehouse and finding so many interesting things from old collections purchased over the years. Look here for : Old Classics, Historic Rare Species, several fine miniatures and gem crystals, and some major cabinet sized display pieces!

Highlights this week include:

1. Large QUARTZ from Ouray, Colorado

2. Tsumeb specimens

3. Rare blue PREHNITE from Tanzania

4. Large gemmy Pederneira TOURMALINE

5. Rare RHODONITE from China

6. Large RHODOCHROSITE from Greece

 

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Natrolite & Aegerine - nice combo! (Kay Robertson Coll.)
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
3.3 x 2.8 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Fluorite octahedron (classic locale - fluorescent)
Wise Mine, Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire
5.6 x 4.5 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Sharp Analcime w/ Aegerine (Charlie Key Coll.)
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
1.8 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $31
Smithsonite var. Cadmium rich (New/old Find)
Yunnan Province, China
6.8 x 5.8 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $125
Sulfur on Gypsum (old Mexico - Kay Robertson Coll.)
San Carlos Mine, Delicias, Baja California, Mexico
3.4 x 2.3 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $41
fine Tsumeb Anglesite xl
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
3.4 x 2.8 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $370
Sand-included Calcite crystals ex Kay Robertson Coll.
Rattlesnake Butte, Jackson County, South Dakota
4.6 x 3.6 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $87
Cobaltoan Smithsonite (rare habit) w/ Cerussite (Ruggiero Coll.)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
4.7 x 3.5 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $211
Tunellite (Type Locality) on Ulexite (Kay Robertson Coll.)
U.S. Borax Mine, Boron, Kern Co., California
4.6 x 4.2 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $35
Rhodonite (rare locale - 2011 find)
Chaobuleng Mine, East Ujimqin Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
8.5 x 7.6 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $445
"Silver & Copper wood" (rare New Mexico) Gary Weave Coll.
Nacimiento Mine, San Pablo, Sandoval Co., New Mexico
4.2 x 1.7 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $260
Bournonite
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
5.0 x 3.5 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $31
Tektite (meteor-related glass) 47 grams mass
Maoming, Guangdong Province, China
8.3 x 2.1 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $44
large gemmy Indicolite Tourmaline (21 grams)
Pederneira mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
11.4 x 1.1 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $420
Beta-style Quartz & Calcite (fluorescent)
Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia
5.8 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $40
Baryte (California)
Palos Verdes Hills, Los Angeles Co, California
3.3 x 2.6 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Limonite ps. After Pyrite (Ted Bartels Coll.)
Pelican Point Area, Utah Co., Utah
4.2 x 4.0 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $28
Pyromorphite (Steve Smale Coll.)
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng Co., Guilin, Guangxi, China
4.3 x 3.5 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $170
Pyrite on Calcite on Quartz (Art Soregaroli Coll.)
Panasqueira Mine, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal
5.5 x 4.0 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $35
Calcite on Marcasite, Quartz (Art Soregaroli Coll.)
Panasqueira Mine, Covilha, Castelo Branco, Portugal
5.9 x 4.4 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $73
Large Quartz (classic Colorado find!)
Ouray, Ouray Co., Colorado
17.3 x 7.2 x 6.7 cm
Winning Bid: $227
Fluorite, Baryte & Quartz (Paul Zerfass Coll.)
Colunga District, Caravia mining area, Asturias, Spain
10.5 x 6.1 x 3.4 cm
Winning Bid: $85
Large stalactitic Rhodochrosite (classic locale)
Cassandra Mines, Aristotelis, Central Macedonia, Greece
20.8 x 11.8 x 6.0 cm
Winning Bid: $525
Pyromorphite (1995 finds) Raul Sanabria Coll.
Resuperferolitica Mine, Santa Eufemia, Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain
6.5 x 5.8 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $63
Gem Fluorite xls (fluorescent) Paul Zerfass Coll.
Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
10.3 x 7.5 x 4.5 cm
Winning Bid: $267
Tapiolite-(Fe) on Muscovite & Quartz
Quixaba pegmatite, Quixaba, Borborema mineral province, Paraiba, Brazil
7.2 x 5.4 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $131
Gaspeite (rare Ni-carbonate)
132 North Mine, Widgiemooltha, Western Australia, Australia
4.5 x 3.1 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $135
Legrandite
Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
1.8 x 0.9 x 0.5 cm
Winning Bid: $115
Fluorapatite on Calcite (Kay Robertson Collection)
Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal area, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
6.3 x 5.2 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $150
Blue Prehnite w/ Graphite (2013 find)
Merelani Hills, Manyara Region, Tanzania
7.2 x 5.0 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $410