SPECIAL FINE MINERAL AUCTION - JACK HALPERN MINERAL COLLECTION DEACCESSIONS - ends Jan 13, 2022

SPECIAL AUCTION ! – We are truly honored to be able to offer another large group of diverse beautiful specimens selected for sale to the public from the Jack Halpern Collection, built over decades by our old friend in San Francisco. To spread them out more widely out to the world of collectors, we are purposefully NOT saving many of these for shows as we would have in the past, and in fact did in past years. Instead, we jointly with Jack decided to let most of these beautiful minerals, where he purchased them long ago at old prices, fly at the auctions. Most of these have been purchased 20-40 years ago and are not on the market today!    For a newly added video on Jack and his collecting philosophy, please visit our updated blog post with his interview during a celebration at turning 100: https://www.irocks.com/the-jack-halpern-collection  (and we also have scans of previous published articles on Gentleman Jack available, upon request, to those who win items here.) More on Jack can also be seen   on The Mineralogical Record : https://mineralogicalrecord.com/biographies_labels/halpernjack/

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Stilbite cluster (floater)
Aurangabad Dist., Maharashtra, India
5.8 x 2.9 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $232
Gem Tourmaline crystal
Pederneira Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.9 x 1.1 x 0.8 cm
Winning Bid: $531
Elbaite (mushroom) and Quartz
Palelni Mine, Molo Village, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma)
2.5 x 2.3 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $285
Azurite (unusual style) ex Halpern
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
9.2 x 5.4 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $937
Tourmaline
Governador Valdares area, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.2 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $323
Tourmaline cluster
Chia mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.6 x 2.4 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $360
Malachite (polished slice)
Katanga, Dem Republic of Congo
6.5 x 5.1 x 0.5 cm
Winning Bid: $525
Millerite in Quartz geode
Halls Gap, Lincoln Co., Kentucky, USA
4.5 x 4.2 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $659
large pink Grossular Garnet (old classic)
Sierra de Cruces, Sierra Mojada Mun., Coahuila, Mexico
6.2 x 5.8 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $365
Spessartine on Quartz var. Smoky
Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Fujian, China
4.4 x 4.4 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $725
Quartz var. Smoky
St Gotthard pass area, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
4.6 x 2.9 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $250
Schorl with Cleavelandite & Quartz ex Smale and Halpern
Shigar Valley, Shigar Dist., Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
7.4 x 5.6 x 5.4 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Fluorite with Chalcopyrite (old classic)
Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
8.5 x 5.1 x 4.5 cm
Winning Bid: $302
superb Gold Crystal (1800s gold rush locality)
Boronia diggings, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
1.8 x 1.2 x 1.0 cm
Winning Bid: $3,519
Bismuth (Man-made)
Germany
8.6 x 5.7 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $435
Anorthite var. Labradorite (polished slice)
Ampanihy, Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
18.0 x 14.5 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $111
Quartz var. Amethyst (classic locale)
Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine, Thunder Bay Dist., Ontario, Canada
6.7 x 6.2 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $335
Heulandite on Chalcedony
Jalgaon Dist., Maharashtra, India
11.5 x 8.0 x 6.6 cm
Winning Bid: $430
Rhodonite with Galena
2700 Level, North Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
4.2 x 3.3 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $601
Boleite (set, including one from 1892, ex Cumenge!)
Amelia Mine, Boleo Dist., Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico
0.7 x 0.7 x 0.7 cm
Winning Bid: $466
Calcite (Cobalt-bearing)
Aghbar Mine, Aghbar, Draa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
4.2 x 3.4 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $150
Biotite Mica (unusual shape !) on Calcite
Betroka, Anosy, Madagascar
5.8 x 5.0 x 4.6 cm
Winning Bid: $120
Quartz var. Amethyst (rare locale)
Valenciana Mine, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
10.1 x 5.3 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $2,050
Rhodochrosite - unusual find, ex Halpern
Morro da Mina, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.5 x 3.7 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $2,550
Quartz with superb Star Rutile inclusion (polished)
Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
8.1 x 4.7 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $2,600
Inesite (classic locale)
Hale Creek Mine, Trinity Co., California, USA
5.1 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $1,140
Wulfenite (superb old classic) ex Halpern
Erupcion Mine, Ahumada Mun., Chihuahua, Mexico
6.8 x 5.9 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $2,150
Pink Tourmaline slice (polished)
Camp Robin, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
4.2 x 3.6 x 0.1 cm
Winning Bid: $386
Tourmaline (ex Halpern collection)
Malkhan Mines, Urals, Russia
4.1 x 4.0 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $3,338
Calcite with Duftite oriented inclusions ex Sussman, Halpern
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
5.2 x 5.0 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $935