POST-DENVER MINERAL COLLECTION AUCTIONS (set 1 of 2) featuring OLD CLASSICS, GEM CRYSTALS and RARE SPECIES - ends Thursday Oct 11, 2018

ends Thursday Oct 11, 2018
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

A selection of specimens in this week's auctions with a mix of classics, gem crystals, contemporary minerals and rare species ! We are continuing to process material from the wonderful old mineral collections of Kay Robertson along with fine minerals from numerous other collections and purchases including 1980s-90s specimens from the collections of Paul Zerfass, Ted Bartels and Barratt Phillips Collections. Lots of rare mineral specimens here that are hard to find at ANY price, let alone at auction!


Some of the highlights from this week's include:

1. Superb RHODOCHROSITE from the late 1970s finds at the N'Chwaning I Mine
2. Rare old classics from Neudorf
3. Gem AQUAMARINE from a NEW FIND in the Erongos
4. Huge rare old New York SCAPOLITE and classic Eden Mills GROSSULAR & DIOPSIDE
5. Large colorful SMITHSONITE from Mexico
6. Rare large VIVIANITE from Kerch
7. Selection of RHODOCHROSITES
8. Superb rare Arkansas SMOKTY QUARTZ
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Color-zoned Fluorite (fluorescent)
Rosiclare Level, Annabel Lee mine, Hardin Co., Illinois
13.1 x 7.2 x 3.1 cm
Prehnite ps. After Glauberite (rare 1987 find) Facciolla & Batic Coll.
Fanwood Quarry, Watchung, Somerset Co., New Jersey
11.8 x 8.3 x 4.9 cm
Large banded Fluorite slice
Hunan Province, China
32.8 x 13.3 x 1.1 cm
Sphalerite "ball" on Dolomite
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee
14.5 x 8.0 x 6.8 cm
Pyrite (classic locale) Paul Zerfass Coll.
Rio Marina, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
8.7 x 8.5 x 7.3 cm
Hematite ps. Marcasite (Whitmore Coll.)
White Desert, Farafra Oasis, New Valley Governorate, Egypt
5.5 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm
Large Vivianite (Ted Bartels Coll.)
Kerch peninsula, Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast, Ukraine
15.3 x 11.5 x 6.2 cm
Natrolite & Heulandite (2016 find)
Nashik District, Maharashtra, India
8.4 x 7.0 x 5.0 cm
Amethyst (classic locale) Paul Zerfass Coll.
Les Isserts, Saint-Jacques-d'Ambur, Puy-de-Dome, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
11.9 x 6.3 x 5.7 cm
Large Calcite "rocketship" w/ Galena (Tom Wolfe Coll.)
Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri
16.5 x 7.3 x 7.0 cm
Apophyllite & Chlorite coating Calcite (rare combo) Ted Bartels Coll.
Roncari Quarry, East Granby, Hartford Co., Connecticut
7.8 x 6.3 x 5.8 cm
Fluorite (fluorescent) & Baryte (New Find)
Volcano Vein, San Diego Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico
6.5 x 5.7 x 2.4 cm
Witherite (old - classic locale - fluorescent)
Settlingstones Mine, Fourstones, Northumberland, England
7.5 x 6.0 x 3.0 cm
Color-zoned Fluorite (classic New Mexico) Ted Bartels Coll.
Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Socorro Co., New Mexico
12.8 x 7.3 x 6.7 cm
Grossular Garnet on Diopside (classic locale) Bedogne Coll.
Belvidere Mountain Quarries (Eden Mills), Orleans & Lamoille Cos., Vermont
7.0 x 3.7 x 3.3 cm
Fluorite octahedrons (fluorescent)
Riemvasmaak, Kakamas, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
7.0 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm
Tetrahedrite, etc (1835! - RARE) Neeld & Robertson Coll.
Neudorf, Harzgerode mining district, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
6.7 x 4.3 x 3.4 cm
Pyrite w/ Sphalerite (2012 find)
Racracancha mine, Tinyahuarco district, Pasco department, Peru
9.0 x 8.0 x 6.5 cm
Calcite (rare form - old classic) Kay Robertson Coll.
St Andreasberg, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany
5.5 x 4.6 x 4.1 cm
Epidote "fan"
Pampa Blanca, Ica Department, Peru
5.7 x 3.4 x 2.0 cm
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