SPECIAL FINE MINERAL AUCTION - JACK HALPERN MINERAL COLLECTION - ends July 17, 2021

SPECIAL SET! – We are truly honored to offer this highly curated group of 30 diverse and uniquely beautiful specimens from the Jack Halpern Collection. To spread them out more widely out to the world of collectors, we are purposefully NOT saving many of these for the shows as we would have in the past. Instead, we decided to let most of these beautiful minerals, where he purchased them long ago at old prices, fly in the auctions. Most of these have been purchased 20-40 years ago and are simply things that are not on the market today! This auction features premium mineral specimens , nearly all worth in excess of $1,000 and yet starting at token reserves. As Jack would say, Enjoy the Beauty !

For a newly added video on Jack and his collecting philosophy, please visit our updated blog post now hosting new videos including his interview during a celebration of 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.) 


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Rhodochrosite (famous 2007 find) ex Halpern Coll
Wutong Mine, Liubao, Cangwu Co., Wuzhou, Guangxi, China
10.1 x 5.5 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $8,999
Fluorapatite with Albite (famous find) ex Jack Halpern
Sapo mine, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.0 x 2.5 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $760
Apatite with Quartz ex Gunnell, Halpern
Noyes Mountain Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
7.3 x 5.1 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $5,689
Sanidine gem crystal ex Jack Halpern
Itrongay, Mahasoa Est, Betroka, Anosy, Madagascar
4.3 x 3.1 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $1,835
Cinnabar on Dolomite ex Jack Halpern
Tongren Mine, Bijiang District, Tongren, Guizhou, China
4.2 x 3.3 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $532
important large Smithsonite ps. Dolomite on Quartz ex Halpern
Monte Cristo mine, Rush, Marion Co., Arkansas, USA
16.5 x 11.5 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $3,310
Galena (Spinel Twin) with Quartz ex Jack Halpern
Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
13.2 x 7.7 x 7.0 cm
Winning Bid: $4,000
Azurite and Malachite ex Roebling & Jack Halpern
Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
19.4 x 11.8 x 10.0 cm
Winning Bid: $4,485
Quartz var. Smoky Quartz 'Morion' ex Jack Halpern
25 km N.W. of Vitoria do Conquista, Bahia, Brazil
25.0 x 22.0 x 11.5 cm
Winning Bid: $1,750
Wulfenite ex Godshaw & Halpern Coll.
Erupcion Mine, Los Lamentos Mts, Ahumada Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
4.5 x 3.4 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $5,150
Elbaite Tourmaline ex. Smale, Halpern Coll's
Benedito mine, Água Boa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
8.2 x 1.1 x 0.8 cm
Winning Bid: $4,500
Apophyllite and Stilbite ex Jack Halpern
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India
9.7 x 5.0 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $616
Adamite ex Jack Halpern
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mapimi Municipality, Durango, Mexico
4.0 x 3.8 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $925
significant USA Hematite 'iron Rose' ex Jack Halpern
Cherie No. 3 Claim, Juab Co., Utah, USA
6.3 x 5.4 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $2,387
Fluorapatite gem crystal ex Jack Halpern
Ciudad Durango, Durango, Mexico
4.9 x 2.1 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $500
Smithsonite var. Cobaltian ex Jack Halpern
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
4.0 x 2.7 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $955
Benitoite on Natrolite ex Jack Halpern
California State Gem Mine, New Idria District, San Benito Co., California, USA
4.5 x 4.0 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $3,850
Dioptase on Calcite ex Larson, Wilber, Graeber, Halpern
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
6.4 x 4.9 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $3,200
Quartz var. Amethyst 'cactus' style ex Halpern
Boekenhoutshoek area, Nkangala District, Mpumalanga, South Africa
14.1 x 11.2 x 9.3 cm
Winning Bid: $3,350
Gypsum (large & rare locality! ) ex Jack Halpern
Fremont River Canyon, Wayne Co., Utah, USA
17.5 x 16.0 x 13.5 cm
Winning Bid: $677
Anglesite ex Jack Halpern, Carl Turner
Touissit, Bou Beker, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
3.4 x 2.6 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $7,950
Baryte with Realgar inclusions ex Jack Halpern
Cavnic, Maramures, Romania
12.1 x 8.3 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $6,800
Azurite ex Jack Halpern
Boomerang Mine, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
4.1 x 2.8 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $452
Quartz with specular Hematite ex Jack Halpern
Florence Mine, Haile, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
6.0 x 4.1 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $876
Fluorite (purple phantom) ex Jack Halpern
Minerva No. 1 Mine,Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA
5.4 x 5.2 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $1,551
Rubellite ex Jack Halpern Coll.
Jonas Mine, Itatiaia, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.1 x 1.2 x 1.0 cm
Winning Bid: $5,100
Hematite (important old classic!) ex Jack Halpern
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
9.4 x 7.2 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $7,050
Fluorite with Calcite ex Zinn & Halpern
Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA
5.3 x 4.6 x 4.5 cm
Winning Bid: $2,311
Quartz ('Herkimer Diamond') ex Jack Halpern
Middleville quarry, Middleville, Herkimer Co., New York, USA
5.2 x 3.8 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $2,355
Smoky Quartz and Spessartine on Microcline ex Jack Halpern
Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Zhangzhou, Fujian, China
15.6 x 11.5 x 10.9 cm
Winning Bid: $3,800