PRE-DENVER SHOW SPECIAL: FINE MINERAL SPECIMEN LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS (set 1 of 2) - end Sept. 8, 2016

Ends Sept. 8, 2016
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

We did summer cleaning of a back room and found many old buried treasures from past deals! So, this auction set is PACKED with FINE OLD CLASSIC MINERAL SPECIMENS including a number of pieces of HIGH $$$ from old mineral collections! Look for important rare species and many European classics from the 1800s and early 1900s in this, one of our best sets ever!


Some of the highlights from this week's include:
1. Huge, rare California GROSSULAR from the Bill Larson Collection!
2. Rare and unusual Botswana DIAMOND
3. Fine selection of RARE SPECIES including imporant STOLZITE & MONAZITE
4. LARGE MICHIGAN AMETHYST (rare!)
5. old EUROPEAN PYROMORPHITE and others from the 1800s !
6. Excellent CORNETITE, bottle of GEM PERIDOT, and many others!
7. New find: GIBBSITE from China!
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Unusual Goethite stalactite (RARE)
Ruyuan Co., Guangdong Province, China
13.2 x 2.5 x 2.4 cm
Azurite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
2.8 x 1.2 x 0.9 cm
Prehnite (Raul Orellana Coll.)
Los Taberneros Quarry, El Berrueco, Madrid, Spain
9.5 x 6.0 x 5.5 cm
Fluorite (fluorescent) & Quartz (rare old classic) Obodda Coll.
Schonbrunn, Oelsnitz, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany
5.0 x 4.3 x 4.2 cm
Vivianite
Kerch peninsula, Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast, Ukraine
7.3 x 6.8 x 3.2 cm
Ferro-actinolite (rare) w/ Cleavelandite ex Obodda
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
9.7 x 3.4 x 1.9 cm
Stolzite (a rare, rich specimen), circa 1900)
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
5.3 x 3.5 x 2.9 cm
Bi-colored Pyromorphite (classic locale) Belsky Coll.
Les Farges Mine, Ussel, Limousin, France
7.5 x 5.8 x 3.8 cm
Scheelite (fluorescent) & Muscovite
Mt Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Sichuan Province, China
9.5 x 7.6 x 5.0 cm
Fluorite (RARE India - fluorescent)
Amba Dongar complex, Gujarat, India
7.5 x 7.5 x 3.0 cm
Fluorite, Quartz & Hematite (Belsky Coll.)
Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria, England
5.1 x 4.5 x 2.6 cm
Lepidolite
Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
11.3 x 6.2 x 5.0 cm
Witherite (old - classic locale - fluorescent)
Settlingstones Mine, Fourstones, Northumberland, England
7.8 x 5.0 x 4.4 cm
McGillite (RICH & VERY RARE Canadian species)
Sullivan Mine, Kimberley, Fort Steele, British Columbia, Canada
6.1 x 4.0 x 3.1 cm
Important, Large Brookite xl (Nowakowski Coll.)
Kharan District, Balochistan, Pakistan
5.8 x 2.8 x 0.4 cm
Peridot (156 grams) (ex Mullane Collection)
Peridot Mesa, San Carlos, San Carlos Indian Reservation, Gila County, Arizona
10.5 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm (bottle)
Fluorite (fluorescent) & Pyrite (Soregaroli Coll.)
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca, Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash, Peru
7.8 x 6.8 x 4.0 cm
Cuprite octahedrons (old classic)
Wheal Gorland, Gwennap, St Day District, Cornwall, England
5.0 x 3.8 x 1.3 cm
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