MINERAL SPECIMENS LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - end Oct 18, 2012

Ends Oct 18, 2012
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone) Mixed old fine mineral collection specimens at auction including special selections from recent acquisitions: This auction is packed with more gem crystals and valuable old classics! Look for many good pieces from the old Obodda dealer stock, in particular.
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Fluorite cuboctahedrons (fluorescent) on Schorl (Charlie Key)
Erongo Mountains, Erongo Region, Namibia
4.5 x 4.3 x 2.5 cm
Vanadinite with Calcite (Urish Coll.)
Grey Horse Mine, Dripping Spring Mts, Pinal Co., Arizona
4.0 x 2.7 x 1.8 cm
Goethite ps. After Gypsum (Urish Coll.)
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
9.8 x 8.9 x 4.5 cm
Quartz w/ gas bubbles (Urish Coll.)
Piedra Parada (Las Vigas), Veracruz, Mexico
6.8 x 6.4 x 3.2 cm
Classic old Stilbite ex Jaime Bird Coll.
Teigarhorn, Berufjord, Iceland
4.8 x 3.0 x 2.5 cm
Dolomite w/ Quartz (uncommon locale) Jaime Bird Coll.
Barrett quarry, Norfolk-Norwood, St. Lawrence Co., New York,
3.0 x 2.6 x 1.4 cm
Columbite-(Fe) & Spessartine on Albite (rare combo) ex Obodda
nr. Shengus, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Pakistan
5.3 x 4.8 x 3.2 cm
Fluorite & Manganoan Calcite (both fluorescent) Dick Heck Coll.
Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico
9.4 x 6.9 x 3.6 cm
Hydromagnesite (self-collected in 1972 by Al Ordway)
Crestmore, Riverside Co., California
5.2 x 3.1 x 1.8 cm
Morganite ex Obodda
Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan
3.5 x 2.7 x 1.7 cm
Mimetite - sharp, gem yellow crystals
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
8.8 x 8.2 x 4.0 cm
Large Beryllonite xl (rare) ex Obodda
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Pakistan
9.1 x 5.9 x 1.8 cm
Quartz encl. Riebeckite & Astrophyllite (rare) ex Obodda
Zagi Mountain, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
4.3 x 3.8 x 3.0 cm
Manganoan Calcite & Quartz on Pyrite ex Obodda
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang Co., Hunan Prov., China
9.2 x 6.0 x 4.2 cm
Ruby and Phlogopite on Marble (excellent) ex Obodda
Jegdalek, Surobi District, Kabol Province, Afghanistan
3.0 x 2.7 x 1.7 cm
Galena w/ Sphalerite, Pyrite & Dolomite (Urish Coll.)
Tri-State District, Kansas, Missouri & Oklahoma
19.0 x 11.4 x 9.0 cm
Aurichalcite with Gypsum (Consie Prince Coll.)
Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
8.8 x 7.8 x 6.8 cm
Chalcedony ps. After Baryte ex Jaime Bird Coll.
Cisco, Grand Co., Utah
8.4 x 5.4 x 2.3 cm
Murdochite & Calcite on Malachite (collected by Harold Urish)
Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona
10.9 x 6.8 x 3.0 cm
Fluorite w/ Sphalerite & Galena (Urish Coll.)
Hill-Ledford Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois
12.4 x 10.4 x 10.0 cm
Malachite & Chrysocolla ex Obodda
Star of the Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Katanga Prov., Dem. Rep. Congo
7.2 x 6.2 x 3.2 cm
Pyromorphite (1997 find)
San Andres Mine, Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain
3.4 x 2.9 x 2.4 cm
Sphalerite and Quartz ex Obodda
Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
8.2 x 5.4 x 5.4 cm
Gem Hambergite (rare) & DT Tourmaline, ex Obodda
Stak Nala, Skardu Road, Haramosh Mts., Gilgit, Pakistan
6.1 x 4.9 x 3.0 cm
Brazilianite ex Obodda
Conselheiro Pena, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.8 x 2.5 x 1.1 cm
Fluorite octahedrons on Quartz
De'an fluorite mine, Wushan, Jiangxi Province, China
11.4 x 10.2 x 5.9 cm
superb amber Calcite with Stilbite on Drusy Quartz
Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India
22.5 x 14.8 x 10.0 cm
Large Galena and Quartz
Madan, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
18.5 x 10.9 x 9.0 cm
Marcasite on Calcite (Consie Prince Coll.)
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
10.5 x 8.0 x 6.8 cm
Gypsum ex Jeffrey Starr
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
16.6 x 12.0 x 5.5 cm