SPECIAL PRE-TUCSON FINE MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS (Set 1 of 2) - ends Jan. 21, 2016

Ends THURSDAY Jan. 21, 2016
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)
Raiding our mixed inventory before planning for our huge 60-foot main show booth at the Tucson show, we offer another very diverse set this week featuring a fine mix of mineral specimens from collections and new finds.
Highlights include:
Several Large and Rare TOURMALINES, ENHYDRO AMETHYST GEM CRYSTAL, a CABINET SIZED OLD FLUORITE FROM OKORUSO, RARE SPECIES, and OLD CLASSICS -
A superb, rare crystallized cordierite is particularly notable!
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Quartz (2 generations) ex Obodda
Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
6.8 x 5.3 x 4.4 cm
Galena & Siderite on Magnetite (RARE & rare locale)
Black Mountain, Aggeneys, Northern Cape Prov., South Africa
4.0 x 3.3 x 3.2 cm
Kaolinite ps. After Carlsbad-twinned Orthoclase
Melbur China Clay Pit, St Austell Dist., Cornwall, England
5.3 x 4.0 x 1.2 cm
Boulangerite (rare) & Quartz (Vajdak Coll.)
Vojtech Mine, Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic
5.3 x 4.7 x 3.0 cm
Cuprian Smithsonite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
4.0 x 3.4 x 2.0 cm
Citrine
Aracuai, Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
6.9 x 6.5 x 4.5 cm
Calcite on Apophyllite (rare locale circa 1965)
Old Goose Creek Quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Virginia
6.8 x 5.5 x 2.9 cm
Large Calcite (rare old classic) Nowakowski Coll.
New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
15.9 x 9.3 x 6.0 cm
Vanadinite
Mibladet, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Morocco
6.1 x 5.4 x 2.5 cm
Pokerchip Calcite (Payne Coll.)
Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
6.8 x 5.4 x 3.4 cm
Calcite, Chalcopyrite & Dolomite (Trimingham Coll.)
Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri
16.9 x 11.3 x 7.9 cm
Roscoelite (RARE Colorado) ex Columbia Univ. Coll.
Placerville District, San Miguel Co., Colorado
4.5 x 3.2 x 2.2 cm
Purple Spinel octahedrons (Matioli Coll.)
Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam
9.4 x 6.8 x 6.5 cm
Banded Fluorite slice
Hunan Province, China
12.6 x 8.8 x 1.0 cm
Large Pyrite Concretion (unusual form!)
Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefect., Yunnan Prov., China
16.3 x 9.4 x 9.0 cm
Fluorite & Baryte ex Obodda
Jaimina Mine, Caravia, Asturias, Spain
5.9 x 5.4 x 3.8 cm
Wavellite (good color)
Avant, Garland Co., Arkansas
10.9 x 8.0 x 6.4 cm
DT twinned Calcite & Realgar (Ford Coll.)
Shimen Mine, Changde Prefect., Hunan Prov., China
5.4 x 3.4 x 3.3 cm
Gem ruby-red Spinel octahedron (4.27 carats)
Pein-Pyit, Mogok, Mandalay, Burma
1.0 x 0.9 x 0.8 cm
Apatite w/ Ferro-actinolite (RARE Pakistan) ex Obodda
Sur Ghat, nr. Mullah, North-West Frontier Prov., Pakistan
6.2 x 3.5 x 2.0 cm
Large Fluorapatite & Calcite (Nowakowski Coll.)
Bear Lake diggings, Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada
24.9 x 19.3 x 4.3 cm
Apophyllite on Prehnite (classic New Jersey) Trimingham Coll.
Prospect Park Quarry, Passaic Co., New Jersey
8.2 x 7.8 x 4.9 cm
Tetradymite (rare locale) Vajdak Coll.
Bytiz, Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic
4.1 x 3.5 x 1.0 cm
Calcite on Sphalerite (older) Dr. Gary Hansen Coll.
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee
11.1 x 7.1 x 5.5 cm
Thomsonite on Stilbite (uncommon locale)
Shendurni, Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India
6.7 x 6.4 x 4.1 cm
Axinite-(Fe) & Diopside (RARE combo) ex Obodda
Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan
7.8 x 6.5 x 5.5 cm
Scheelite (fluorescent) w/ Muscovite
Mt Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Sichuan Prov., China
6.8 x 6.8 x 5.2 cm