SPECIAL LIQUIDATION AUCTION: Hoppel Collection RARE SPECIES & CLASSIC MINERALS Minerals - ends 630 PM on Dec 29, 2016

AUCTION ENDS on Dec 29
We are honored to present the final megasized set of several large auctions of rare species and classic old locality pieces and classic mineral specimens from the massive Hoppel Collection, obtained between 1983 and 1998 or thereabouts. After several years of holding back many rare species and more sophisticated collector specimens from the Hoppel collection, I have negotiated a deal to let me offer these more esoteric and collectible specimens to my customers via our own auction style. Bidding starts at $10 even though many specimens are valued at $1000 and more and the previous owner PAID in excess of $2000 for half a dozen things in this auction set! We are excited that these liquidation auctions will bring to market hundreds of specimens of importance to collectors, many from the 1980s and 1990s heyday of a previous generation of old mineral collection dispersals!
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Rutile twinned, on kyanite matrix
Graves Mountain, Lincoln Co., Georgia, USA
4.6 x 4.5 x 3.6 cm
Alunite
Margarita Vein, Tambo Mine, El Indio deposit, Coquimbo Province, Chile
2.3 x 1.7 x 1.2 cm
Galena in Quartz Pocket, with Sphalerite
Madan ore field, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
15.0 x 12.5 x 8.0 cm
Elbaite (DT) on unusual Quartz
Taquaral, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
9.8 x 7.5 x 3.4 cm
Vivianite in fossil clam shell
Kerch peninsula, Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast, Ukraine
4.3 x 3.6 x 3.4 cm
Hydromagnesite
Soghan, Baft County, Kerman Province, Iran
2.7 x 1.0 x 0.1 cm
Fergusonite-(Y)
Ampangabe pegmatite, Faratsiho District, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar
3.8 x 1.7 x 1.6 cm
Tetrahedrite and Chalcopyrite with Galena and Quartz - circa mid 1800s
Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Liskeard District, Cornwall, England, UK
7.2 x 5.1 x 3.2 cm
Colemanite
Boraxo Mine, Ryan, Furnace Creek District, Inyo Co., California, USA
21.0 x 14.0 x 7.0 cm
Stromeyerite and Calcite (fl)
Pribram, Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia, Czech Republic
9.2 x 5.2 x 5.0 cm
Hollandite
Murjek, Jokkmokk, Lappland, Sweden
7.5 x 4.6 x 2.5 cm
Dioptase on Calcite (fl)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
7.9 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm
Euxenite-(Y)
Besakoa, Madagascar
6.0 x 5.7 x 3.2 cm
Gratonite (Type Locality) ex Bob Jones coll
1400 Level, Excelsior Mine, Cerro de Pasco, Pasco department, Peru (TL)
4.1 x 3.0 x 2.0 cm
Corundum var. Ruby
Mysore District, Karnataka, India
7.1 x 5.3 x 4.8 cm
Zvyagintsevite (superb sharp xls)
Konder alkaline-ultrabasic massif, Aldan shield, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
0.7 x 0.2 x 0.2 cm
Calcite on Marcasite stalactites
Shullsburg area, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Lafayette Co., Wisconsin, USA
8.7 x 5.8 x 5.2 cm
Metaswitzerite (Type Locality)
Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Kings Mountain District, North Carolina, USA (TL)
8.7 x 3.9 x 2.8 cm
Magnetite
Cerro Huanaquino, Potosi Department, Bolivia
13.1 x 8.5 x 3.8 cm
Chalcanthite on Calcite on Galena
Canaveilles, Pyrenees-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
9.6 x 7.4 x 4.3 cm
Baryte circlet, with Cerussite and Wulfenite
Mibladen Mining District, Midelt, Meknes-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
11.2 x 8.0 x 4.4 cm
Boleite
Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalia, Boleo District, Baja California Sur, Mexico
8.1 x 5.8 x 3.2 cm
Arsenatian Vanadinite var. Endlichite
Erupcion Mine, Los Lamentos Mts, Chihuahua, Mexico
8.8 x 6.6 x 3.6 cm
Planerite
Montgomery County Quarry, Mauldin Mt., Montgomery Co., Arkansas, USA
7.5 x 7.2 x 4.2 cm
Tapiolite-(Fe)
Tete Province, Mozambique
6.1 x 3.0 x 2.2 cm
Glauconite (rare and rare from USA)
Juda, Green Co., Wisconsin, USA
10.0 x 7.5 x 3.6 cm
Epidote on Quartz
Pampa Blanca, Ica Department, Peru
10.0 x 8.0 x 8.0 cm
Thomsenolite, Pachnolite, Ralstonite, Cryolite (Copenhagen museum)
Ivigtut Cryolite deposit, Ivittuut, Arsuk Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland (TL)
10.4 x 9.4 x 5.7 cm
Yttrocolumbite (rare USA locale)
Spruce Pine District, Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA
3.5 x 1.9 x 1.2 cm
Tritomite-(Y)
Kirkland Lake Township, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
9.6 x 6.4 x 3.3 cm