POST-TUCSON MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 1 of 2) - FEATURING RARE SPECIMENS FROM OLD COLLECTIONS !- end Thursday March 29, 2018

ends Thursday Mar. 29, 2018
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

We obtained an old East Coast collection just before the Tucson show and left it all at home, to offer on the internet first! Lots of old classics here! See gem crystals, rare species, old USA and German classics, and many good specimens that are hard to find at any price, let alone at auction! Plus, we included a number of holdbacks from other old mineral collections we have liquidated, for a great variety here of speicmens including things worth $1000s of dollars, satrting at only $10


Some of the highlights from this week's include:

1. Rare QUARTZ & RHODOCHROSITE from Butte
2. Old Himalaya Mine SMOKY QUARTZ & TOURMALINE
3. Fine and rare Greek AMETHYST "prase"
4. Excellent ROSE QUARTZ from Brazil
5. Selection of HISTORIC TOURMALINES
6. Rare SMOKY QUARTZ from California
7. SPINEL CRYSTALS from Mogok
8. Fine OLD Illinois CALCITE
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Martite (partial Hematite ps. After Magnetite)
Twin Peaks Prospect, Twin Peak, Millard Co., Utah
7.2 x 4.4 x 3.2 cm
Fluorapatite (classic locale) Robertson Coll.
Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
5.8 x 3.4 x 2.6 cm
Strontianite on etched Calcite (Ross Lillie Coll.)
Rosiclare Level, Minerva No. 1 Mine, Hardin Co., Illinois
4.8 x 4.0 x 2.8 cm
Fluorite (fluorescent) w/ Drusy Quartz & Dolomite (Robertson Coll.)
Erika Mine, Saulnhof, Wolsendorf Fluorite Mining District, Bavaria, Germany
9.3 x 6.6 x 5.2 cm
Epidote, Augite & Adularia, (Robertson Coll.)
Seekar, Seebach valley, Obersulzbach valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria
7.3 x 5.5 x 3.9 cm
Gemmy DT bi-colored Tourmaline
Pech, Chapa Dara District, Konar Province, Afghanistan
3.5 x 1.7 x 1.6 cm
Gemmy bi-colored Tourmaline
Pech, Chapa Dara District, Konar Province, Afghanistan
3.9 x 1.8 x 1.8 cm
Tourmaline & Lepidolite (old classic) Robertson Coll.
Rozna pegmatite, Vysocina Region, Moravia, Czech Republic
9.3 x 6.3 x 3.9 cm
Ulexite (TV rock)
Boron, Kramer District, Kern Co., California
6.8 x 6.2 x 6.1 cm
DT Tourmalines on DT Smoky Quartz xl (OLD) Robertson Coll.
Himalaya Mine, San Diego Co., California
7.0 x 4.0 x 3.8 cm
Bottinoite, Quartz, Ullmanite & Dolomite (old classic) Robertson Coll.
Dornberg Mine, Ramsbeck, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
4.7 x 3.4 x 2.3 cm
Calcite & Prehnite (RARE combo - Sanabria Coll.)
Los Taberneros Quarry, El Berrueco, Madrid, Spain
11.2 x 8.9 x 4.6 cm
Scheelite & Quartz on Fluorite (rare combo - Bedogne Coll.)
Xianghuapu Mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
11.7 x 7.5 x 6.5 cm
Bi-colored Fluorite, Calcite, Dolomite & Quartz (Payne Coll.)
Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
6.7 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm
Magnesite, Dolomite & Quartz (classic locale) British Museum Coll.
Traversella Mine, Chiusella Valley, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
6.5 x 4.5 x 3.6 cm
Magnesite twin (classic locale) Robertson Coll.
Kaswassergraben, Hieflau, Styria, Austria
2.0 x 1.6 x 1.0 cm
Siderite var. Pistomesite w/ Pyrite (RARE - Robertson Coll.)
Gas pipe, Agene Valley, Ulrichen, Goms, Wallis, Switzerland
1.6 x 1.5 x 1.3 cm
Spinel xls incl. a macle-twin
Mogok, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
1.3 x 1.2 x 1.0 cm (Largest of 4)
Calcite w/ Fluorite (old) Robertson Coll.
Rosiclare, Hardin Co., Illinois
8.5 x 6.3 x 4.8 cm
Quartz w/ Rhodochrosite (rare combo - USA classic locale) Robertson Coll.
1000' Level, Emma Mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana
9.5 x 6.5 x 6.0 cm
Smoky Quartz (RARE old California) Robertson Coll.
California Blue Mine, Yucca Valley, San Bernardino Co., California
6.4 x 3.4 x 2.6 cm
Cassiterite (old classic style) ex. British Museum
Wheal Vor, Carleen, Breage, Mount's Bay District, Cornwall, England
5.2 x 3.2 x 2.8 cm
Weloganite (Sacchi & Bedogne Coll.)
Francon Quarry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
6.7 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm
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