SPECIAL AFTER-TUCSON SHOW FINE MINERAL LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 1 of 2) - end March 3, 2016

Ends March 3rd
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

An extra large 90-piece auction set of attractive, unique, classic and rare minerals from contemporary and classic worldwide localities:

Some of the highlights include:
1. A specimen of Rare lab-grown Ruby on Platinum crystals
2. TOURMALINES and other gem crystals!
3. Several fine Southern ILLINOIS specimens
4. Rare old CHRYSOBERYL sixling and PHENAKITE gem crystals!
5. An impressive large Michigan COPPER
6. An excellent Pasto Bueno RHODOCHROSITE thumbnail from the best old find
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Citrine/Smoky Quartz, Muscovite & Microcline
Aracuai, Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazi
17.8 x 10.7 x 6.1 cm
Gemmy bi-colored Tourmaline (old classic)
Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
6.7 x 0.9 x 0.7 cm
Phantom Calcite (excellent) Soregaroli Coll.
Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri
13.8 x 12.5 x 6.2 cm
Rubellite Tourmaline (Pala Intl. Coll.)
Male, Letpanhla, Mandalay Division, Burma
4.5 x 3.9 x 3.8 cm
Chatoyant Primary Malachite (Soregaroli Coll.)
Kolwezi, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo
12.1 x 7.4 x 4.4 cm
Dundasite (Type Locality) Matioli Coll.
Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, Australia
6.9 x 5.5 x 4.0 cm
Stilbite & Apophyllite
Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India
12.8 x 6.8 x 6.4 cm
Quartz "prases" included by Hedenbergite
Huanggang Mine, Hexigten, Inner Mongolia A.R., China
8.8 x 6.4 x 4.1 cm
Doubly terminated Calcite (classic locale) Payne Coll.
Chimney Rock Quarry, Somerset Co., New Jersey
5.9 x 3.7 x 2.8 cm
Fluorite (fluorescent) and Quartz
De'an fluorite mine, Wushan, Jiangxi Province, China
13.5 x 9.5 x 4.0 cm
Doubly terminated Sapphire xls (Whitmore Coll.)
Ratnapura, Sabaragamuwa Prov., Sri Lanka
1.6 x 0.7 x 0.4 cm (largest) (3 Pieces)
Sampleite (rare phosphate)
Northparkes Mine, New South Wales, Australia
7.1 x 4.4 x 4.4 cm
Pyrargyrite
Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico
2.6 x 2.3 x 1.6 cm
Manganoan Calcite (fluorescent!) Ludi von Bezing Coll.
N'Chwaning Mines, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
11.3 x 8.0 x 4.5 cm
Large Limonite ps. After Pyrite (unusual locale)
Carratraca, Malaga, Andalusia, Spain
13.3 x 6.8 x 4.4 cm
Gypsum (excellent) self-collected by Paco Gutierrez
Algezares quarry, Segorbe, Castellon, Spain
9.8 x 5.5 x 3.3 cm
Fluorite on Muscovite (rare locale) ex Obodda
Shengus, Haramosh Mts., Skardu Dist., Baltistan, Pakistan
4.5 x 3.9 x 3.5 cm
Pyrite (rare diploid habit) & Dolomite (Nowakowski Coll.)
C. E. Duff & Son quarry, Huntsville, Logan Co., Ohio
6.4 x 6.3 x 4.0 cm
Wulfenite w/ Calcite (classic AZ)
Glove Mine, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona
2.5 x 2.3 x 2.0 cm
Rutile var. Ilmenorutile (uncommon Nb-rich)
Unnamed W-Bi deposit, Darwin area, Inyo Co., California
2.8 x 2.0 x 2.0 cm
Schorl w/ Albite ex Obodda
Pech, Chapa Dara District, Konar Province, Afghanistan
8.8 x 4.2 x 3.7 cm
Calcite helectite w/ Malachite (classic Bisbee) Payne Coll.
Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona
8.2 x 6.1 x 4.3 cm
Aegirine, Smoky Quartz & Feldspar ex Obodda
Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi
9.0 x 7.8 x 7.8 cm
Phenakite (rare old classic) Matioli Coll.
Pica Pau beryl deposit, Marambainha, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.8 x 3.1 x 1.7 cm
Ferrokesterite (rare - Type Locality) & Arsenopyrite (Barnes & Matioli Coll.)
Cligga Head Mine, Perranzabuloe, St Agnes Dist., Cornwall, England
2.8 x 2.4 x 1.3 cm
Quartz w/ Pyrite ex Obodda
Madan, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
14.4 x 11.4 x 5.37 cm
Perovskite, Magnetite & Chlinochlore (Matioli Coll.)
Rocca Sella, Susa Valley, Torino Prov., Piedmont, Italy
8.0 x 5.5 x 4.3 cm
Fluorite on Quartz (old classic ca. 1940-50s) Lillie Coll.
W.L. Davis-Deardorff Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois
8.9 x 8.0 x 7.8 cm
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