MINERAL SPECIMEN AUCTIONS - end July 25, 2013

Ends July 25, 2013
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone) Three pages of mineral specimens from our inventory and from recent collection acquisitions.: This week features plenty of unique historic and rare pieces such as a fine Colorado Rhodochrosite and an old TriState Galena; classic display specimens, and pedigreed pieces, all at liquidation prices !
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Tyuyamunite (large, rich specimen)
Ridenour Mine, Prospect Canyon Dist., Coconino Co., Arizona
13.8 x 7.6 x 5.5 cm
Color-zoned Fluorite with Calcite (fluorescent!)
Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois
3.9 x 3.7 x 3.5 cm
Smithsonite (Urish Coll.)
Kelly Mine, Magdalena, Socorro Co., New Mexico
5.7 x 5.2 x 5.0 cm
Adamite (fluorescent) ex Consie Prince Coll.
Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
4.5 x 3.5 x 3.4 cm
Native Gold on Bornite ore (old - rare)
California
3.6 x 3.5 x 2.4 cm
Bournonite, Galena & Siderite on Quartz (old classic)
Neudorf, Harz Mts, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
4.1 x 3.9 x 2.5 cm
Calcite, Chalcopyrite & Marcasite (excellent) Miller Coll.
Brushy Creek Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri
6.2 x 5.5 4.0 cm
Prehnite ps. After Anhydrite (classic locale)
Prospect Park Quarry, Passaic Co., New Jersey
9.0 x 8.0 x 4.5 cm
Heliodor-tipped Aquamarine xls (Charlie Key)
Erongo Mountains, Erongo Region, Namibia
3.1 x 2.2 x 1.6 cm
Herkimer Quartz 'diamonds' on matrix
Middleville, Herkimer County, New York
12.3 x 7.9 x 6.8 cm
Hyalophane (classic find)
Zagradski Potok Mine, Busovaca, Bosnia and Herzegovina
5.3 x 4.5 x 3.7 cm
Cornetite (Type Locality) & Malachite ex Boubee Coll.
Star of the Congo Mine, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo
7.5 x 4.0 x 1.5 cm
Calcite on Siderite (rare old combo) Fioravanti Coll.
Banska Stiavnica (Schemnitz), Banska Bystrica Region, Slovakia
5.4 x 4.8 x 3.8 cm
Vanadinite
Mibladen, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Morocco
5.4 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm
Rhodochrosite w/ Quartz (Consie Prince Coll.)
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
4.7 x 1.0 x 0.9 cm (largest) (3 Pieces)
Gem bi-colored Tourmalines
Paprok Mine, Kamdesh Dist., Nuristan Prov., Afghanistan
4.7 x 0.9 x 0.6 cm (tallest) (3 Pieces)
DT Quartz with Graphite inclusions
Cong Ly, Sichuan Province, China
17.5 x 2.3 x 1.6 cm
Gemmy Euclase (rare old classic)
Santana do Encoberto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.4 x 2.4 x 1.8 cm
Butterfly-twin Calcite (classic locale)
Kushikino Mine, Kagoshima Prefect., Kyushu Region, Japan
3.3 x 2.3 x 1.4 cm
Cobaltite (classic locale)
Brazil Lake Occurrence (Espanola), Sudbury Dist., Ontario, Canada
0.9 x 0.9 x 0.7 cm
Rhodochrosite (Herfurth Coll.)
Sunnyside Mine, Silverton District, San Juan Co., Colorado
5.9 x 4.0 x 3.4 cm
Parisite-(Ce) ex Obodda
Zagi Mountain, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
4.3 x 3.0 x 1.9 cm
Smithsonite on Coronadite (old classic)
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
5.0 x 5.0 x 3.8 cm
Gem Aquamarines (Vietnam)
Xuan Le, Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam
3.8 x 1.0 x 0.9 cm (largest) (13 Pieces)
Stibnite (classic locale) Vajdak Coll.
Kremnica (Kremnitz), Banska Bystrica Region, Slovakia
3.4 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm
Quartz on Sphalerite (excellent)
Alimon Mine, Huaron Dist., Pasco Dept., Peru
6.2 x 5.2 x 3.8 cm
Wavellite (good color) Wes Parker Coll.
Mauldin Mt., Montgomery County, Arkansas
7.8 x 5.4 x 2.4 cm
Pyrite Concretion
Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefect., Yunnan Prov., China
7.8 x 6.8 x 6.2 cm
Pyrite pyritohedrons (classic locale) Robert Fender Coll.
Rensselaer Quarry, Pleasant Ridge, Jasper Co., Indiana
11.0 x 6.5 x 3.8 cm
Spessartine Garnet and Smoky Quartz
Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian Province, China
5.8 x 3.8 x 2.5 cm