NEW YEAR's FIRST FINE MINERAL SPECIMEN LIQUIDATION AUCTION !

Ends Jan 3, 2013
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone) Three pages of mixed fine minerals and classic mineral specimens for liquidation, including a diverse selection of OLD CLASSICS, GEM CRYSTALS, and old MUSEUM PIECES from the Giancarlo Fioravanti and Herb Obodda collections!
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Weloganite on Calcite ex Schwethelm
Francon Quarry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (type loc.)
6.0 x 5.0 x 2.8 cm
Krennerite (rare - excellent, old Colorado) Fioravanti Coll.
El Paso Mine, Cripple Creek Dist., Teller Co., Colorado
7.3 x 6.5 x 3.7 cm
large Brookite xl (Schlichter Coll.)
Magnet Cove, Hot Spring Co., Arkansas
2.8 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm
Silver wires w/ Acanthite
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru
2.5 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm
Rhodochrosite (classic locale) Fioravanti Coll.
Wolf Mine, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
8.4 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm
Bi-colored Tourmaline w/ Smoky Quartz ex Obodda
Parun pegmatite field, Wama District, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
6.0 x 5.3 x 4.5 cm
Crystallized Gold
Majuba placer, Antelope District, Pershing Co., Nevada
1.2 x 1.2 x 0.6 cm
Souvenir porcelain plate of Sudbury, Canada (ca. 1900) Obodda Coll.
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
10.7 x 10.7 x 1.8 cm
Chalcocite (uncommon locale)
Mount Gordon Mine, Mount Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia
3.3 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm
Quartz encl. Anhydrite casts (very rare) Fioravanti Coll.
St Gotthard Highway tunnel, Goschenen, Uri, Switzerland
5.4 x 3.4 x 2.5 cm
Gem Indicolite on floater Quartz xls (superb)
Mawi pegmatite, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
8.5 x 6.1 x 3.4 cm
Gemmy, DT, floater, Forsterite var. Peridot ex Obodda
Manshera, Naran-Kagan Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
2.4 x 1.5 x 0.9 cm
White cap Amazonite (rare)
Flat Rock, Crystal Peak, Park & Teller Cos., Colorado
4.5 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm
DT hematite-included Quartz scepter w/ phantom ex Charlie Key
Orange River, Karas Region, Namibia
5.1 x 2.5 x 2.1 cm
Amethyst
Artigas Department, Uruguay
16.4 x 14.4 x 5.3 cm
Spinel-twinned Copper xls coated w/ Malachite
Onganja, Windhoek District, Namibia
19.4 x 12.4 x 8.9 cm
Fluorite w/ Molybdenite & Boulangerite (very rare)
Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
3.5 x 2.9 x 2.4 cm
large Amethyst (Kenya)
Baobab Mine, Kitui District, Eastern Province, Kenya
20.9 x 18.0 x 13.8 cm
large gemmy Calcite (Consie Prince Coll.)
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee
18.0 x 15.8 x 14.9 cm
DT Calcite on Dolomite (Urish Coll.)
Nanisivik Mine, Baffin Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada
6.4 x 5.8 x 3.5 cm
Quartz var. Jasper ps. After Barite (rare Colorado)
Mack, Mesa Co., Colorado
3.9 x 2.9 x 1.8 cm
Chloanthite (old variety of Skutterudite) Fioravanti Coll.
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
5.9 x 4.5 x 3.0 cm
Gem Spodumene ex Obodda
Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan
6.4 x 1.9 x 1.9 cm
Cockscomb Marcasite xls (classic locale) Fioravanti Coll.
Reocin Mine, Reocin, Cantabria, Spain
8.4 x 7.0 x 2.8 cm
Native Lead (rare) Fioravanti Coll.
Langban, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden
7.9 x 6.4 x 2.9 cm
Dolomite (classsic locale) Fioravanti Coll.
Traversella Mine, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
7.8 x 6.1 x 4.8 cm
Calcite (old classic) Fioravanti Coll.
Alston Moor District, Cumbria, England
7.1 x 4.4 x 3.4 cm
Azurite & Wulfenite ex Fioravanti Coll.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
2.7 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm
Gold octahedron ex Fioravanti Coll.
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
2.4 x 1.7 x 0.8 cm
Wiluite (old, rare - Type Locality) Fioravanti Coll.
Vilyui River Basin, Saha Republic, Eastern Siberia, Russia
4.8 x 4.4 x 3.2 cm