ROCK AND MINERAL COLLECTION AUCTIONS - ends July 5, 2012

Ends July 5, 2012
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone) Selections from our own old stock and recent collection acquisitions, as well as several older dealer stocks we purchased! This auction includes numerous high-value specimens: including many classics from the Obodda dealer stock as well as from the Ed David, Schlichter, and other collections.
Filter By

Albite, Orthoclase & Quartz (Schlichter Coll.)
Warren Brothers Quarry, Acushnet, Bristol Co., Massachusetts
7.8 x 4.4 x 3.6 cm
Diopside on Albite (classic locale) Schlichter Coll.
Pitcairn, St. Lawrence Co., New York
3.0 x 2.6 x 1.5 cm
Gemmy Indicolite Tourmaline (Chuck Houser & Kevin Brown Coll.)
Maple Lode Mine, Aguanga Mountain, San Diego Co., California
5.4 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm
Chabazite var. Phacolite (Ordway Coll.)
Gads Hill, Upper Mersey Valley, Tasmania, Australia
6.4 x 3.4 x 2.4 cm
Calcite on Calcite (old classic)
St. Andreasberg, Harz Mountains, Lower Saxony, Germany
8.1 x 5.7 x 1.0 cm
DT Faden Quartz ex Obodda
Toyee, Wana, South Waziristan, FATA, Pakistan
4.0 x 3.8 x 0.9 cm
DT Quartz xls w/ iron, ex. Ed Bancroft Coll.
Grimsel area, Hasli Valley, Bern, Switzerland
6.3 x 3.6 x 3.4 cm
Rhodochrosite
Wutong Mine, Liubao, Guangxi Zhuang A.R., China
5.0 x 2.9 x 1.5 cm
Analcime (Ordway Coll.)
Parrsboro, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada
5.9 x 4.9 x 3.4 cm
Wulfenite on Galena (rare) Schlichter Coll.
Red Cloud Mine, La Paz Co., Arizona
11.6 x 6.2 x 5.5 cm
Floater Staurolite twin (uncommon locale) Ed Bancroft Coll.
Gorob Mine, Namib Naukluft National Park, Swakopmund, Namibia
4.2 x 2.8 x 1.9 cm
DT gem, Calcite (twinned)
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee
4.4 x 2.4 x 1.6 cm
Aragonite w/ Hematite & Dolomite (old classic) Ed Bancroft Coll.
Cumbria, England
5.0 x 5.0 x 3.8 cm
Aquamarine w/ Albite (uncommon locale) ex Obodda
Muchara Nala, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Pakistan
6.3 x 5.9 x 5.4 cm
Aragonite (classic locale) ex Obodda
Podrecany, Lucenec Co., Banska Bystrica Region, Slovakia
6.1 x 4.1 x 2.2 cm
Gem DT Spodumene var. Triphane ex Obodda
Pech, Chapa Dara District, Konar Province, Afghanistan
3.0 x 1.8 x 0.5 cm
DT floater Quartz xl (Richard Hauck Coll.)
Steele Mine, Lyndhurst, Ontario, Canada
10.2 x 1.8 x 1.6 cm
Dolomite ps. After Calcite (classic locale) ex Obodda
Cavnic, Maramures Co., Romania
6.8 x 5.7 x 3.5 cm
Wulfenite & Vanadinite (classic AZ) Schlichter Coll.
Rowley Mine, Theba, Maricopa Co., Arizona
9.6 x 7.4 x 4.0 cm
Prehnite ps. After Anhydrite w/ Heulandite (rare) ex Obodda
UBC Quarry, Woodland Park (West Paterson), Passaic Co., New Jersey,
7.9 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm
Galena w/ Quartz & Marcasite ex Obodda
Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
5.0 x 3.8 x 3.6 cm
Cobaltoan Calcite (uncommon locale) Carl Bentley Coll.
Solita Mine, Lleida (Lerida), Catalonia, Spain
6.4 x 5.2 x 2.5 cm
Gemmy Emerald with Calcite, ex Obodda
Panjsher Province, Afghanistan
4.8 x 3.6 x 3.2 cm
Fluorite (fluorescent) w/ Calcite ex Obodda
Jaimina Mine, Caravia, Asturias, Spain
7.4 x 6.1 x 2.9 cm
Fluorapatite (rare) on Marble ex Obodda
Sar-e Sang, Koksha Valley, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan
4.8 x 3.7 x 3.4 cm
Dioptase (rare locale)
Dumesnil, Cordoba, Argentina
2.5 x 1.4 x 0.9 cm
Astrophyllite-included Quartz (rare) ex Obodda
Zagi Mountaini, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
3.7 x 2.7 x 2.2 cm
Gypsum "rose" Schlichter Coll.
Saint David area, Cochise Co., Arizona
4.0 x 3.5 x 2.8 cm
Quartz included by Actinolite (ex Obodda)
Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan
6.8 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm
Hemimorphite (New Find)
Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo
4.9 x 3.2 x 3.2 cm