SPECIAL HOLIDAY MINERAL AUCTION: old classics and gem crystals! (ends Dec 19)

Ends Thursday Dec. 19, 2013
at 6 PM (Central Time Zone)

A Special Holiday Auction set with mineral specimens at token reserve prices, many of which are $500 or $1000 and more in value. This set includes tourmalines, gold, and old classics from the collections of Obodda, Trimingham, and Belsky.
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Bi-colored Tourmaline & Cleavelandite ex Obodda
Shengus, Haramosh Mts., Skardu Dist., Baltistan, Pakistan
6.2 x 5.2 x 5.0 cm
Cervantite & Stibnite in Quartz (Trimingham Coll.)
Bottomley prospect, San Jacinto Dist., Pershing Co., Nevada
2.3 x 1.7 x 1.4 cm
Laurelite (rare - Type Locality), Galena & Quartz
Grand Reef Mine, Laurel Canyon, Graham Co., Arizona
4.3 x 3.8 x 2.6 cm
Pyromorphite (classic locale) Rich Kosnar Coll.
Mexico Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England
7.5 x 6.2 x 5.3 cm
Gemmy DT "Imperial" Topaz (15 grams)
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.0 x 1.5 x 1.1 cm
Color-zoned Fluorite (large xl for locale) Chris Cowan Coll.
Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Socorro Co., New Mexico
7.3 x 6.3 x 4.2 cm
Hydroxylherderite on Albite ex Obodda
Shigar Valley, Skardu Dist., Baltistan, Pakistan
4.5 x 4.5 x 1.7 cm
Crystallized leaf Gold (old classic locale) Belsky Coll.- superb TN
Rosia Montana (Verespatak), Alba Co., Romania
3.2 x 2.3 x 1.0 cm
Pyromorphite (classic locale) Belsky Coll.
Les Farges Mine, Ussel, Limousin, France
5.5 x 4.4 x 4.3 cm
Rhodochrosite (classic locale) Belsky Coll.
Inakuraishi Mine, Furubira, Hokkaido, Japan
5.7 x 4.8 x 1.6 cm
Weird spinel-twinned Galena xls on Pyrite (rare - old)
Park City District, Summit Co., Utah
7.5 x 6.5 x 6.5 cm
Andradite Garnet (Bill Larson Coll.)
Ocna de Fier (Vasko-Moravita), Caras-Severin Co., Romania
4.6 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm
Tarbuttite (Type Locality) w/ Smithsonite Marty Zinn Coll.
Broken Hill Mine, Kabwe, Central Province, Zambia
4.5 x 3.7 x 2.4 cm
Edenharterite (unique to Type Locality)
Lengenbach Quarry, Im Feld, Wallis, Switzerland
8.8 x 6.0 x 4.2 cm
Gem Aquamarine (Argentina!) Stoudt Coll.
La Esperanza Quarry, Dumesnil, Cordoba, Argentina
2.8 x 1.6 x 1.4 cm
Doubly terminated Schorl xls (excellent)
Erongo Mts., Erongo Region, Namibia
4.5 x 4.2 x 3.2 cm
Sphalerite twin, Calcite, Dolomite & Galena ex Obodda
Stari Trg Mine, Trepca, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo
6.4 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm
Zektzerite (Type Locality), Arfvedsonite & Microcline (Trimingham Coll.)
Washington Pass, Golden Horn Batholith, Okanogan Co., Washington
7.4 x 6.0 x 2.4 cm
Talc (Trimingham Coll.)
Argonaut Mine, Ludlow, Windsor Co., Vermont
9.4 x 6.8 x 3.0 cm
Pyrophyllite ex Trimingham Coll
Indian Gulch Mine, Santa Cruz Mt., Mariposa Co., California
10.7 x 7.4 x 4.4 cm
Babingtonite (Trimingham Coll.)
Babingtonite occurrences, Zhaotong Prefect., Yunnan Prov., China
3.9 x 3.0 x 1.8 cm
Zincite, Willemite, Franklinite & Calcite
Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey
7.5 x 4.5 x 3.8 cm
Veszelyite (classic locale)
Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana
4.2 x 2.7 x 1.5 cm