SPECIAL FINE MINERAL COLLECTION AUCTIONS - Ends Feb 4, 2021

THIS WEEK is a special extra large set featuring PREMIERE of many new specimens from the collections of:  Dr. Bob Reynolds, long the curator at the San Bernardino County Museum; Dr. James Carter’s estate here in Dallas; and other deaccessions and culls from friends and fellow collectors.  

Some of the highlights from this week’s auction include:

  1. James Carter Collection specimens including fine old CHESSY AZURITE

2. two AMERICAN MINERAL TREASURES SHOWCASE speimens!

3. TOURMALINES and significant AQUAMARINES

4. Bisbee MALACHITE "eyes" nodule

5. Rich California LINARITE

6. Rare WOODWARDITE specimens from Italy and China

7. Large English BARITE

8. Bob Reynolds Collection specimens

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Gemmy Aquamarine xls on Muscovite (NEW Find)
Nagar, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
15.5 x 9.4 x 6.8 cm
Winning Bid: $1,019
gem Indicolite Tourmaline floater
Pederneira mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
10.5 x 1.1 x 0.6 cm
Winning Bid: $470
Wulfenite (rare locale - self-collected by Terry Szenics in 2003)
Santa Ana Mine (Chapacase Mine), Tocopilla, Antofagasta, Chile
11.6 x 9.8 x 5.9 cm
Winning Bid: $246
Amethyst (Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Anahi Mine, Angel Sandoval Province, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
12.8 x 12.4 x 7.1 cm
Winning Bid: $526
large Malachite w/ Chrysocolla (rare locale) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Luishia Mine, Kambove District, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
17.4 x 12.0 x 9.2 cm
Winning Bid: $360
Descloizite ps. Vanadinite (unusual!) ex. McGill Collection
Aurora Mine, Coyame del Sotol Mun., Chihuahua, Mexico
5.1 x 3.5 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $121
Grossular
Sierra de Cruces, Sierra Mojada Mun., Coahuila, Mexico
1.8 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $179
Mimetite (Type Locality!)
Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
4.2 × 2.4 × 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $220
Mimetite (Uncommon green color)
Mt. Bonnie Mine, Grove Hill, Northern Territory, Australia
5.8 x 4.6 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $299
Vanadinite with Brackebuschite (?) - Rare Locality ex Currier
Gallagher Vanadium & Rare Minerals Corporation Mine, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
8.0 x 4.0 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $211
Vanadinite (strange hoppered 'tube') ex Rock Currier
Mibladen, Midelt Province, Draa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
4.5 x 3 .0 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $212
Wulfenite with Mimetite
San Francisco Mine, Cerro Prieto, Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico
2.8 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $205
Pyromorphite - Rare Locality!
Sherman Mine, Lelande Mining District, Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA
6.0 x 4.0 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $470
Mimetite
Lavrion Mining Dist., Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece
4.5 × 7.3 × 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $80
Orpiment (AMERICAN MINERAL TREASURES SPECIMEN)
Twin Creeks Mine, HUmboldt Co., Nevada, USA
5.9 x 4.3 x 4 cm
Winning Bid: $1,383
Cinnabar xls on furnace brick (RARE old Texas!) James Carter Coll.
Terlingua Mining District, Brewster Co., Texas, USA
9.5 x 8.5 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $131
Primary Malachite
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
8.3 x 5.3 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $570
Large Celestine xl (Texas!)
Lampasas Area, Lampasas County, Texas, USA
11.8 x 5.4 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Unpolished Variscite nodule end slice (85 grams)
Lucin Mining District, Box Elder Co., Utah, USA
8.0 x 6.4 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $33
Turquoise (Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Nevada
12.3 x 9.9 x 6.1 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Azurite "sun" (Dehne McLaughlin Coll. - mine owner)
Malbunka Copper Mine, Areyonga, Northern Territory, Australia
8.9 x 8.4 x 4.0
Winning Bid: $900
Turquoise nuggets (RARE old Nevada locale)
Royal Blue Mine, Royston Mining District, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, USA
2.0 x 0.4 x 0.4 cm
Winning Bid: $277
large bi-colored Fluorite (fluorescent)
Qinglong, Guizhou, China
15.6 x 11.1 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $410
large Baryte (classic locale) Dr. S. Moreton Coll.
Middle Level, Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria, England
18.8 x 12.3 x 6.9 cm
Winning Bid: $900
large botryoidal "grape" Amethyst
Mamuju area, Sulawesi Barat Province, Sulawesi, Indonesia
23.7 x 19.4 x 7.0 cm
Winning Bid: $560
large DT Calcite (classic Ohio locale!) ex Lemanski
Pugh Quarry, Weston, Wood Co., Ohio, USA
21.6 x 10.1 x 8.5 cm
Winning Bid: $430
Vanadinite (1990s finds) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Pure Potential Mine, Silver Mining Dist., La Paz Co., Arizona, USA
9.2 x 6.0 x 5.1 cm
Winning Bid: $205
Mimetite with Tennantite and Dolomite
Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
8.0 x 5.0 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $300
Pyromorphite on Coronadite
Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
6.0 x 4.7 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $242
Baryte on Orpiment (American Mineral Treasures specimen)
Twin Creeks Mine, HUmboldt Co., Nevada, USA
4.8 x 3.0 x 2.25 cm
Winning Bid: $725