NEW YEAR'S FINE MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS (Set 1 of 2) - ends Jan. 14, 2016

Ends THURSDAY Jan. 14, 2016
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)
Before the Holiday, we pulled a number of good pieces from our planned Tucson show stock for old classics, and we offer another very diverse set this week featuring a fine mix of mineral specimens from 200 years of mining and many countries.
Highlights include:
1.Classic large fishtail-twinned Calcite
2. Matrix Carrollite
3. Fine Sperrylite xl from a major Competition TN collection
4. Excellent suite of Tsumeb minerals
5. Old Zschopau Pyromorphite (type locale)
6. Excellent old "Little Three" Spessartine
7. Large and rare old Mozambique Lepidolite ball from the 1950's
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Pyromorphite var. Polysphaerit (uncommon)
Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Shoshone Co., Idaho
6.4 x 4.9 x 3.3 cm
Gemmy Epidote (ex Obodda)
Tormiq valley, Haramosh Mts., Skardu Dist., Baltistan, Pakistan
5.2 x 2.6 x 1.8 cm
Siderite and Sphalerite epimorphs after Calcite
Aggeneys, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
8.2 x 5.5 x 3.7 cm
Wavellite (good color, mixed lot)
Mauldin Mt., Montgomery County, Arkansas
2.8 x 2.7 x 1.5 cm (largest) (20 Pieces)
Wulfenite (Ford Coll.)
Erupcion Mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
3.9 x 3.4 x 2.0 cm
Pyrosmalite-(Fe) on Magnetite ex. Stockholm Museum
Haborshytte ore field, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden
6.2 x 3.0 x 2.4 cm
Fishtail-twinned Calcite (old classic)
Joplin Field, Tri-State District, Jasper Co., Missouri
15.0 x 7.0 x 5.9 cm
Arsenian Pyromorphite
Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Shoshone Co., Idaho
2.4 x 1.9 x 1.0 cm
Gem Fluorite (fluorescent) Ford Coll.
Xianghualing, Chenzhou Prefect., Hunan Prov., China
6.5 x 4.4 x 4.4 cm
Large botryoidal Hematite (Nowakowski Coll.)
Irhoud Mine, Safi Prov., Doukkala-Abda Region, Morocco
22.9 x 13.9 x 7.5 cm
Morganite & Lepidolite (classic CA) Trimingham Coll.)
Stewart Mine, San Diego Co., California
3.7 x 2.7 x 2.4 cm
Almandine Garnets (classic locale) Trimingham Coll.
Ziller Valley, North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria
12.9 x 11.9 x 8.4 cm
Baryte
Shotcrete Pocket, Meikle Mine, Elko Co., Nevada
14.4 x 9.0 x 6.2 cm
Anglesite w/ Galena
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
7.5 x 5.3 x 4.8 cm
Aegirine w/ Feldspar
Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi
5.8 x 3.4 x 2.4 cm
Pyromorphite (old - Type Locality) Feinglos Coll.
Zschopau, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
7.0 x 3.9 x 3.8 cm
Plumbogummite
Yangshuo Mine, Guilin Prefect., Guangxi Zhuang A.R., China
8.2 x 7.4 x 3.4 cm
Spessartine, Schorl & Cleavelandite, ex. Trimingham Coll.
Little Three Mine, Ramona, San Diego Co., California
4.8 x 2.9 x 2.7 cm
Schorl & Smoky Quartz (uncommon CA) Trimingham Coll.
Hercules Mine, Ramona Dist., San Diego Co., California
7.8 x 5.4 x 4.9 cm
Vanadinite on Baryte
Mibladen, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Morocco
13.5 x 11.9 x 2.8 cm
Calcite (uncommon locale) Soregaroli Coll.
Wawa area, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada
13.2 x 5.8 x 5.5 cm
Cassiterite (Soregaroli Coll.)
Huanuni mine, Dalence Prov., Oruro Dept., Bolivia
11.4 x 8.3 x 6.7 cm
Tourmaline (classic 1972 find) ex Russell Jones Coll.
Dunton MIne, Newry, Oxford Co., Maine
3.3 x 2.4 x 1.8 cm
Fluorite (fluorescent) octahedrons & drusy Quartz
Riemvasmaak, Kakamas, Northern Cape Prov., South Africa
4.5 x 3.1 x 3.0 cm
Fluorite & Galena (Lillie Coll.)
Hill-Ledford Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois
6.9 x 5.7 x 5.4 cm
Spinel-twinned Silver (classic locale)
Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico
7.9 x 1.8 x 1.0 cm
Lepidolite "ball" (old) Trimingham Coll.
Alto Ligonha District, Zambezia Province, Mozambique
11.9 x 10.4 x 9.9 cm
Sperrylite (Carl Davis competitive Thumbnail Coll.)
Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Eastern Siberia, Russia
1.2 x 1.2 x 1.2 cm