SPECIAL MINERAL AUCTION - ROBERTO PALUMBO COLLECTION of ITALY – Ended August 5 , 2021

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Tellurium and Bismuth in Calcite (ore sample)
Oravitza, Banat Mountains, Romania
7.8 x 4.2 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $525
Mimetite var. Campylite, on Quartz (1800s classic)
Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
5.5 x 5.3 x 4.4 cm
Winning Bid: $215
Cryolite (TYPE LOCALITY)
Ivigtut Mine, Arsuk Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland (TL)
9.0 x 4.2 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $104
Andradite with Feldspar (rare locality)
Delius Quarry, Ocna de Fier, Caras-Severin, Romania
4.6 x 3.1 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $123
Descloizite
Berg Aukas Mine, Grootfontein, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
7.2 x 3.1 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $350
Diopside var. Traversellite
Traversella Mine, Turin, Piedmont, Italy
4.9 x 3.2 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $102
Stilbite - rare French locale
Le Bourg-d Oisans, Grenoble, Isere, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
5.5 x 5.0 x 4.7 cm
Winning Bid: $143
Psilomelane with amazing old labels
Schwarzenberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
9.7 x 8.3 x 6.4 cm
Winning Bid: $380
Pyromorphite
Friedrichssegen Mine, Bad Ems-Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
12.7 x 5.6 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Aragonite (twinned) - rare style & old classic
Herrengrund, Hungary (now Spania Dolina, Slovakia)
5.3 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Manganite (TYPE LOCALITY circa 1880s)
Manganese deposit, Ilfeld, Thuringia, Germany (TL)
8.6 x 7.2 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $458
Calcite, Chalcopyrite, and Galena
Bleiberg mining area, Carinthia, Austria
7.8 x 5.6 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $98
Baryte
Maramures, Romania
7.5 x 6.2 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $220
Quartz var. Amethyst - classic old locale
Banska Stiavnica, Banska Bystrica Region, Slovakia
8.3 x 6.4 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Titanite (ex. A.E. Foote circa 1900)
Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada
3.4 x 3.1 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $132
Baryte (fluorescent) - old silver mine classic
Marienberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
6.4 x 4.8 x 4.7 cm
Winning Bid: $111
Libethenite (TYPE LOCALITY, 1800s) on Quartz
Podlipa deposit, Lubietova, Banska Bystrica Region, Slovakia (TL)
8.3 x 6.3 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $279
Zinnwaldite (mica) and Quartz
Zinnwald, Ore Mountains, Europe
8.0 x 7.3 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $129
Native Arsenic - classic old locale
Schneeberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
4.2 x 4.1 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $84
Galena and Marcasite
Aurora Mine, Ramsbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
7.3 x 5.6 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $125
Harmotome on Calcite (old UK rarity)
Bellsgrove Mine, Strontian, Highland, Scotland, UK
7.0 x 4.7 x 3.4 cm
Winning Bid: $129
Melilite group species (rare classic from Rome!)
Capo di Bove, Via Appia, Rome, Lazio, Italy
5.5 x 5.3 x 4.4 cm
Winning Bid: $65
Apatite (fluorescent) on Mica
Schwarzenstein, Ahrntal, Puster Valley District, South Tyrol, Italy
8.9 x 6.4 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $98
Orthoclase Feldspar with Quartz
SantIlario in Campo, Elba, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
6.8 x 5.3 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $45
Phillipsite with Aragonite
Via Laurentin, Rome, Lazio, Italy
9.1 x 6.4 x 4.6 cm
Winning Bid: $121
Fluorite (fluorescent , old classic!)
Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
8.3 x 6.9 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $170
Gypsum
Dammelwald clay pit, Wiesloch, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
9.2 x 4.0 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $47
Olivenite (unusually discrete crystals)
Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
5.8 x 4.3 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $165
Aragonite (classic old locale)
Agrigento, Sicily, italy
6.8 x 4.6 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $95
Orthoclase (Carlsbad twin from the original locality!)
Loket, Sokolov District, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic
6.7 x 5.5 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $60