MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS (Set 1 of 2) - Ends Aug 6, 2015

Ends Aug 6, 2015
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)
Fine Mineral and Mineral Collection Liquidation Auctions: A great assortment this week featuring pieces from various collections we acquired over the last several years! Look for very rare species and locality pieces. We found another flat of old classic pieces from the Trimingham collection, and include here a superb old East Coast CORDIERITE crystal. Look for gem tourmalines and beryls from the Soregaroli and Obodda collections!
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Large spinel-twinned Copper
White Pine Mine, Ontonagon Co., Michigan
35.5 x 18.8 x 0.4 cm
Proustite (classic locale - circa late 1800s)
Chanarcillo, Copapo Province, Atacama Region, Chile
2.6 x 1.6 x 1.5 cm
Rhodochrosite w/ Fluorite (Dave Bristol Coll.)
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Prov., Lima Dept., Peru
6.7 x 4.5 x 4.2 cm
Gemmy bi-colored Tourmaline on Quartz
Morro Redondo mine, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
9.3 x 6.0 x 4.8 cm
Aquamarine & Muscovite
Chumar Bakhoor, Nagar, Northern Areas, Pakistan
14.0 x 12.5 x 9.4 cm
Enargite (old classic) Ydren Coll.
Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana
4.4 x 3.7 x 2.7 cm
Gem Jeremejevite
Ameib Farm 60, Usakos, Erongo Region, Namibia
2.9 x 0.5 x 0.4 cm
Betafite (classic locale - 1950s)
Silver Crater Mine, Hastings Co., Ontario, Canada
2.8 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm
Pyrite sun
Sparta, Randolph Co., Illinois
10.2 x 10.1 x 0.7 cm
Indicolite Tourmline w/ Lepidolite (Gutierrez Coll.)
Pederneira Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.5 x 1.6 x 1.3 cm
Manganoan Calcite (fluorescent!) Schlichter Coll.
Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
11.9 x 4.3 x 3.8 cm
Azurite & Malachite ps. After Azurite
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
11.9 x 6.8 x 3.4 cm
Scapolite w/ Calcite (fluorescent - rare locale) Nowakowski Coll.
Miskwabi Lake Roadcut, Haiburton Co., Ontario, Canada
8.0 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm
Zircon (fluorescent - uncommon CO locale) ex. Trimingham Coll.
North Cheyenne Canon, Colorado Springs, El Paso Co., Colorado
9.0 x 8.0 x 3.3 cm
Diopside w/ chrome Grossular xls (Trimingham Coll.)
Orford Nickel mine, Estrie, Quebec, Canada
12.0 x 4.7 x 2.7 cm
superb matrix Cordierite (classic locale) Trimingham Coll.
Richmond Soapstone Quarry, Richmond, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire
7.7 x 6.0 x 6.0 cm
Native Copper (uncommon habit)
2500' Level, Unit 96, White Pine Mine, Ontonagon Co., Michigan
3.5 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm
Rutile epitaxial on Hematite (Matioli Coll.)
Serra Mine, Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil
5.7 x 5.0 x 4.5 cm
Fluorapatite 'T' (classic locale)
Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.5 x 1.9 x 0.9 cm
Calcite (old classic)
Egremont, Cumbria, England
3.1 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm
Quartz on Sphalerite (excellent) Soregaroli Coll.
Alimon Mine, Huaron Dist., Pasco Dept., Peru
7.5 x 6.0 x 5.0 cm
Hematite-included Amethyst (RARE Brazil) Matioli Coll.
Curio Mine, Araquaia River, Tocantins State, Brazil
12.4 x 11.8 x 6.4 cm
Doubly terminated Hornblende (Nowakowski Coll.)
Bear Lake diggings, Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada
8.7 x 4.3 x 3.8 cm
Pseudocubic Wulfenite xls on Mimetite
Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
8.5 x 7.8 x 3.0 cm
bicolor Beryl (Morganite on Aquamarine) with Tourmaline (rare combo)
Pech, Chapa Dara District, Konar Prov., Afghanistan
7.0 x 5.8 x 5.4 cm
Silver var. Kongsbergite (self-collected by Paco Gutierrez)
Santa Matilde open pit, Almeria, Andalusia, Spain
13.3 x 8.2 x 7.5 cm