NEW YEAR'S FINE MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS (Set 1 of 2) - ends Jan. 7th, 2016

Ends THURSDAY Jan. 7, 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 a very diverse set this week featuring a fine mix of mineral specimens from 200 years of mining and many countries.
Highlights include:
1. fine Tsumeb calcite & malachite
2. Rare fancy yellow diamond octahedron from South Africa
3. Rare Halite rhomb from Balmat, NY
4. Fine old blue Russian topaz
5. Sculptural large malachite stalactite
6. RARE Langban native lead w/ allactite
7. Rare Langban Jacobsite
8. Rare Brazil crystallized gold nugget
9. Outstanding large Pakistan aqua and quartz combo
10. Superb old Schneeberg pyrargyrite
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Serandite (circa 1980s finds) ex. L. Horvath Coll.
Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
4.4 x 3.0 x 1.8 cm
Vivianite ps. After fossilized Whale vertebrae (Mullane Coll.)
Vivianite locality, Richmond (city), Virginia
5.6 x 4.4 x 2.6 cm
DT floater Aragonite (classic locale) Nowakowski Coll.
Minglanilla, Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
5.4 x 4.0 x 3.9 cm
Malachite ps. After Azurite
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
3.6 x 2.8 x 1.5 cm
Crystallized Gold nugget (RARE Brazil) Matioli Coll.
Garimpo do Juma, Novo Aripuana, Amazonas, Brazil
2.3 x 1.0 x 0.4 cm
Fluorapophyllite & Stilbite
Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India
6.9 x 5.4 x 3.4 cm
Thomsonite w/ Chabazite (rare Oregon locale) Trimingham Coll.
Railroad cut nr. Goble, Columbia Co., Oregon
8.9 x 8.8 x 6.0 cm
Beudantite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
3.4 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm
Pyrargyrite (old classic) ex Obodda Coll.
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
3.0 x 2.5 x 1.8 cm
Malachite stalactite (excellent)
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi, Katanga, Dem. Rep. of Congo
12.4 x 4.3 x 3.1 cm
huge Pink Fluorite cleavage octahedron (rare)
Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
12.3 x 9.7 x 8.8 cm
Pyrite xl (rare size and habit)
Merelani Hills, Manyara Region, Tanzania
7.8 x 5.5 x 4.3 cm
Gem Fluorapatite w/ Quartz & Hyalite Opal (fluorescent)
Cerro de Mercado Mine, Durango, Mexico
13.7 x 9.2 x 6.5 cm
Wolframite (Soregaroli Coll.)
3 Level, Panasqueira Mine, Castelo Branco Dist., Portugal
6.3 x 4.4 x 3.1 cm
Gem Fluorite cuboctahedrons (fluorescent) Soregaroli Coll.
Consuzo Mine, Pasto Bueno District, Ancash Dept., Peru
5.8 x 4.4 x 3.2 cm
Stilbite
Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India
12.9 x 9.9 x 5.5 cm
Hemimorphite ps. After Calcite (rare) Wolfe Coll.
New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
8.3 x 4.8 x 3.5 cm
Manganoan Calcite (rare), Pyrite & Quartz (Wolfe Coll.)
Manuelita Mine, Yauli Prov., Junin Dept., Peru
10.4 x 7.4 x 6.8 cm
superb Rhodochrosite ps. After fossilized Mollusc
Kerch Peninsula, Crimea Oblast, Ukraine
2.8 x 2.7 x 1.6 cm
Calcite stalactites (uncommon locale)
Alzada, Carter County, Montana
2.9 x 2.0 x 1.6 cm
Aquamarine, Quartz & Cleavelandite ex Obodda
Drot Valley, Astor District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
13.3 x 12.3 x 5.8 cm
Neptunite
Dallas Gem Mine, San Benito Co., California
2.4 x 1.6 x 1.3 cm
Tourmaline, Quartz & Cleavelandite (Trimingham Coll.)
Tourmaline King Mine, San Diego Co., California
7.2 x 5.8 x 4.6 cm
Jacobsite (RARE) ex Matioli Coll.
Ramen Working, Langban, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden
9.8 x 5.2 x 3.0 cm