SPECIAL MINERAL AUCTION – Fine Minerals Lost in our warehouse! - Ends Sept 9, 2021

We are proud to present a special auction featuring mostly old and some more modern classics and rare finds, mostly sourced from our own warehouse as we keep unpacking old storage boxes from years ago, clean old materials that had been set aside or lost, and prepare things from collection acquisitions. This is a really interesting lot of mostly highly unusual things, often with subtle and rare aspects when you look at them closely.

This special auction features items such as:

ANATASE – superb thumbnail from Pakistan

A huge LEUCITE crystall from the USA

Significant RUSSIAN GWINDEL  SMOKY QUARtZ – superb cabinet piece

ZIRCON in matrix

SUGILITE and ETTRINGITE from SOUTH AFRICA

YELLOW FLUORITE from old finds  

And more….!

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Creedite
Qinglong Mine, Dachang, Qinglong County, Qianxinan, Guizhou, China
12.6 x 7.6 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $215
Andradite var. Demantoid Garnet (superb TN)
Antetezambato Mine, Antsakoamanondro, Ambanja, Diana, Madagascar
3.1 x 2.1 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $390
Chrome-Grossular on Diopside ex Soregaroli
Montreal Chrome pit, Les Appalaches RCM, Quebec, Canada
6.3 x 3.0 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $125
Bixbyite and Topaz
Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, USA
4.8 x 3.1 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $577
Acanthite
Imiter mine, Imiter , Draa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
4.5 x 2.3 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Scheelite and Epidote (California!)
Kernville, Greenhorn Mountains, Kern Co., California, USA
1.8 x 1.8 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $178
Zircon ex Zinn coll.
Haramosh Mts., Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
5.7 x 4.6 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Bixbyite with Topaz (fine TN)
Maynard Claims, Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, USA
1.5 x 1.5 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $148
Beryl var. Heliodor
Padre Paraiso, Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.0 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $1,050
Silver (unusual locality)
Balcoll Mine, Falset, Priorat, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
4.4 x 3.8 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $343
Creedite (superb miniature)
Qinglong Mine, Dachang, Qianxinan, Guizhou, China
4.2 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $232
Cerussite (3 generations) ex Shields Flynn coll
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
4.9 x 3.2 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $179
Fluorite included in Quartz
Amborompotsy, Amborompotsy, Ambatofinandrahana, Amoron'i Mania, Madagascar
13.0 x 2.3 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $705
Olmiite ex Zinn Coll.
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari, Northern Cape, South Africa
7.0 x 5.2 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $194
Copper (Spinel Twin) - important locality find
Chino Mine, Santa Rita, Grant Co., New Mexico, USA
8.4 x 1.3 x 0.5 cm
Winning Bid: $579
Fluorite
William Wise Mine, Westmoreland, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire, USA
5.6 x 4.9 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $390
Hemimorphite
Laos (undisclosed locality)
8.2 x 3.3 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $149
Wulfenite with Quartz (rare combo)
Mfouati District, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo
4.0 x 2.9 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $210
Adularia "faden" ex Obodda
Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
8.8 x 4.2 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Ettringite with Hausmannite (early 2000s find)
N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari, Northern Cape, South Africa
5.2 x 3.6 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $262
Wolfeite ex Al Ordway
Big Fish River, Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada
6.1 x 3.2 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $97
Fluorite
Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
10.5 x 8.7 x 2.9 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Cassiterite (old classic locale)
Amo Sn deposit, Ximeng County, Pu'er, Yunnan, China
3.7 x 2.5 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $138
Scapolite
Dara-e-Pech pegmatite field, Dara-e-Pech District, Kunar, Afghanistan
2.8 x 2.2 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $825
Peridot with Ludwigite inclusions
Sapat Gali, Naran, Kaghan Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
3.5 x 1.8 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $625
Vivianite - superb 'gem crystal'
Tomokoni mine, Canutillos subdistrict, Machacamarca, Potosi, Bolivia
3.3 x 2.6 x 0.8 cm
Winning Bid: $168
Calcite var. Cobaltoan
Katanga Copper Crescent, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
8.6 x 5.3 x 4.5 cm
Winning Bid: $691
Smoky Quartz Gwindel
Puiva Mount, Saranpaul, Prepolar Ural, Western-Siberian Region, Russia
13.4 x 10.1 x 4.9 cm
Winning Bid: $449
Chrysoberyl (twinned)
Fazenda Santa Isabel Pancas, Espirito Santo, Brazil
3.2 x 2.3 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $154
Sugilite - large, rich specimen
N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari , Northern Cape, South Africa
5.3 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $584