Mixed Mineral Auction!

An eclectic mix of large specimens, rarities, classics, and recent finds from the well-known Hefendehl, Hauck, Currier, Cook, and other collections.

Highlights:

1. Silver specimens

2. ROSASITE after MALACHITE after AZURITE from Tsumeb

3. RUBY on MARBLE

4. New find of SCHORL & QUARTZ

5. Rare CHALCEDONY on MALACHITE after AZURITE from DR Congo

6. FLUORITE specimens

7. Classic FRANKLINITE, WILLEMITE & CALCITE from Franklin

8. Large AMMONITE

9. Rare Mogok PHLOGOPITE

10. Old-time Connecticut GOETHITE

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Arsenic-bearing Vanadinite
Erupcion Mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
14.7 x 11.3 x 9.4 cm, 1369 grams
Winning Bid: $551
Pyrochroite
N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, KMF, Northern Cape, South Africa
Ex. Renaud Vochten
11.6 x 7.9 x 6.9 cm
Winning Bid: $211
Hübnerite and Quartz
Huayllapon Mine, Pasto Bueno, Pampas Dist., Ancash, Peru
Ex. Kirby Siber, Gary Hansen
13.0 x 13.0 x 7.3 cm
Winning Bid: $145
Botryoidal Goethite (old)
Salisbury Mine, Salisbury Mining Dist., Litchfield Co., Connecticut, USA
Ex. George English, Harvard, Dustin-Ziegler
15.4 x 9.5 x 8.3 cm
Winning Bid: $360
Descloizite ps. Wulfenite
Erupcion Mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Chet Lemanski
13.3 x 9.3 x 6.5 cm
Winning Bid: $493
Pyrite on Quartz
Slate quarries, Lehesten, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt Dist., Thuringia, Germany
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
12.7 x 10.0 x 4.5 cm
Winning Bid: $47
Baryte
Cerro Warihuyn, Miraflores, Huamalíes Prov., Huánuco, Peru
6.5 x 5.5 x 4.9 cm
Winning Bid: $46
Malachite
Mary Mine, Courtland-Gleeson Mining Dist., Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Ex. Dick Hauck
8.1 x 7.3 x 6.7 cm
Winning Bid: $147
Doubly terminated Calcite twin
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
12.1 x 6.4 x 4.6 cm
Winning Bid: $535
Stellerite "pinwheel" on Mordenite
Aurangabad Dist., Maharashtra, India
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
6.8 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $148
"Ice" Fluorite
Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China
6.9 x 4.3 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $395
Bismuth xls (lab grown)
Germany
Ex. Jack Halpern
5.1 x 4.8 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $61
Franklinite, Willemite & Calcite
Franklin Mine, Franklin Mining Dist., Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA
Ex. Ed David
11.4 x 11.2 x 6.3 cm
Winning Bid: $951
Copper and Cuprite Ore Slab
Morenci Mine, Greenlee Co., Arizona, USA
17.0 x 8.8 x 1.8 cm, 626 grams
Winning Bid: $574
Schorl & Quartz
Shigar Valley, Shigar Dist., Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
6.2 x 4.8 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $216
Ruby on marble (rare matrix)
Sivec marble quarries, Sivec Mtn, Prilep Mun., North Macedonia
5.8 x 5.8 x 5.4 cm
Winning Bid: $373
Quartz with dendrites
Brazil
Ex. Rock Currier
15.8 x 14.5 x 0.7 cm, 350 grams
Winning Bid: $475
large Ammonite (replaced by Aragonite) with Calcite
Ambarimaninga, Mahajanga Prov., Madagascar
25.5 x 22.0 x 3.0 cm, 1524 grams.
Winning Bid: $2,455
Fluorite, Sphalerite, Calcite & Galena
Denton Mine, Cave-in-Rock Sub-Dist., Hardin Co., Illinois, USA
Ex. Dick Heck
17.2 x 14.3 x 10.5 cm, 2080 grams
Winning Bid: $725
Iridescent Chalcopyrite on DT Quartz
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
9.3 x 4.3 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $153
Quartz cluster (rare, old locale)
Kumi Mine, North Chungcheong Prov., South Korea
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
8.6 x 6.1 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $463
Iridescent Hematite and Goethite
Pahang, Malaysia
9.8 x 7.9 x 6.9 cm
Winning Bid: $280
Goethite ps. Pyrite
Pelican Point Quarry, Lake Mountains Mining Dist., Utah Co., Utah, USA
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
10.3 x 5.6 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $626
Calcite twins
N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, KMF, Northern Cape, South Africa
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
13.7 x 13.5 x 10.2 cm
Winning Bid: $801
Gem Fluorite w/ phantoms
Xianghuapu Mine, Linwu Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
8.7 x 5.4 x 4.7 cm
Winning Bid: $925