MINERAL SPECIMEN AND COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS (Set 1) - Ends May 28, 2015

Ends May 28, 2015
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)
This week's auction features new mineral acquisitions and special selections from recent collections we've purchased. There are plenty of unique pieces, classic specimens, interesting localities, rare minerals and hard to find material! Many old classic specimens here come from the Soregaroli and Nowakowski collections; plus there are Brazilian rare mineral species from the Matioli collection.
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Color-zoned Fluorite (fluorescent) Nowakowski Coll.
Bloomlock quarry (Suever Stone Co. quarry), Delphos, Allen Co., Ohio
5.9 x 4.1 x 3.9 cm
Prehnite & Diopside (classic combo) Nowakowski Coll.
Jeffrey Mine, Asbestor, Quebec, Canada
7.0 x 5.5 x 2.5 cm
Unusual etched Heliodor (RARE & rare locale) Matioli Coll.
Concordia claim, Mimoso do Sul, Espirito Santo, Brazil
5.4 x 2.7 x 2.0 cm
Gold in Limonite cobble (VERY rare) Matioli Coll.
Preto River, Dom Bosco, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.3 x 3.9 x 2.1 cm
Hausmannite on Andradite Garnet (Soregaroli Coll.)
Nchwaning Mines, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
7.2 x 6.5 x 4.4 cm
Cyanotrichite & Brochantite (Carmichael Coll.)
Grandview Mine, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, Arizona
5.4 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm
Diamond - round crystal (1.99 carats) Matioli Coll.
Sincora River, Lencois, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil
0.6 x 0.6 x 0.6 cm, Thumbnail
DT Calcite twin (rare - excellent) Cynthia Payne Coll.
Walker vein, Caldwell Stone Company Quarry, Danville, Boyle Co., Kentucky
4.5 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm
Fluorite w/ Calcite & Pyrite (Soregaroli Coll.)
El Hammam Mine, Meknes-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
6.3 x 4.8 x 3.0 cm
Baryte w/ Stibnite & Jamesonite (classic locale)
Baia Sprie (Felsobanya), Maramures Co., Romania
4.4 x 4.0 x 2.4 cm
Baryte on Fluorite (classic locale - fluorescent)
Rock Candy Mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
5.8 x 5.5 x 2.9 cm
Baryte (classic locale - fluorescent) Trimingham Coll.
Silius, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy
8.4 x 7.5 x 3.8 cm
Pseudocubic Wulfenite (rare old classic)
Erupcion Mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
3.4 x 2.4 x 2.4 cm
Pyrite Concretion
Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China
6.0 x 6.0 x 5.8 cm
"Imperial" Topaz (4 grams) Bob Farrar Coll.
Topaz mine, Antonio Pereira dist., Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.2 x 0.8 x 0.6 cm
Primary Malachite (Nowakowski Coll.)
Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo
6.1 x 4.8 x 3.4 cm
Rhodochrosite (rare style) Wendland Coll.
Ushkatyn No. 3 deposit, Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan
4.7 x 3.7 x 3.3 cm
Native Tellurium (Wendland Coll.)
Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
4.4 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm
Pyrite (classic locale) Nowakowski Coll.
C. E. Duff & Son quarry, Huntsville, Logan Co., Ohio
8.7 x 7.9 x 7.4 cm
Fossil fern nodule (Nowakowski Coll.)
Braidwood, Will Co., Illinois
9.9 x 6.8 x 2.8 cm (largest) (2 Pieces)
Copper (classic locale) Trimingham Coll.
Mohawk Mine, Keweenaw Co., Michigan
13.9 x 9.4 x 4.2 cm
Bi-colored Fluorite octahedrons (fluorescent) ex Obodda
De'an fluorite mine, Wushan, Jiangxi Province, China
10.4 x 7.9 x 3.4 cm
Pyrolusite (rare old locale)
Gremmelsbach, Triberg, Black Forest, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
5.6 x 5.5 x 3.3 cm
Gem Clinozoisite (classic locale)
Eden Mills Quarries, Orleans & Lamoille Cos., Vermont
2.4 x 0.7 x 0.4 cm
Cinnabar in Dolomite (RARE - classic locale) Soregaroli Coll.
Lengenbach Quarry, Imfeld, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland
4.8 x 3.1 x 3.0 cm
Large 2.5 kilo Fluorapatite xl (classic locale) Nowakowski Coll.
Bear Lake diggings, Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada
20.2 x 9.5 x 5.7 cm