SURPRISES from the WAREHOUSE....INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends May 7, 2020


Needless to say, we have all been catching up on cleaning projects. Nearly all of these minerals were found still in boxes and drawers in the back warehouse, never seen by a customer since we acquired them. This week is a particularly wild diversity of beautiful mineral specimens! Old classics, new finds, and new material from the collections of Gary Weaver, Kay Robertson, and others...Half of the items this week are over 10cm, so this is also an unusual "Big Specimens" Auction

Highlights include:

1. LARGE CABINET pieces including ITALIAN ANHYDRITE and CHINA MALACHITE
2. RHODOCHROSITES
3. RED BERYL on matrix from Utah
4. Rare North Carolina EMERALD
5. oddities such as a MALACHITE & AZURITE from Peru, minerals of VIRGINIA
6. ARIZONA COPPERS

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Rhodochrosite (classic Colorado) W.S. Logan Coll.
Sunnyside Mine, Gladstone, Eureka Mining Dist., San Juan Co., Colorado
6.5 x 4.7 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $562
Large DT Beryl xl (rare old-timer) Trimingham Coll.
Morefield Mine, Winterham, Amelia Co., Virginia
10.6 x 7.8 x 6.4 cm
Winning Bid: $328
Large Albite var. Cleavelandite (rare old timer) - Virginia classic
Morefield Mine, Winterham, Amelia Co., Virginia
13.3 x 10.8 x 7.7 cmc
Winning Bid: $30
Unusual large tabular Quartz
nr. Hot Springs, Garland Co., Arkansas
18.6 x 13.1 x 10.2 cm
Winning Bid: $337
Talc with chromian Clinochlore var. Kammererite (RARE Brazil locale)
Serro, Serra do Cipo, Minas Gerais, Brazil
11.3 x 9.7 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $86
Fluorite & Galena on Quartz ex. Weaver Coll.
White Sands Prospect, Hansonburg District, Socorro Co., New Mexico
18.3 x 10.0 x 7.5 cm
Winning Bid: $287
Azurite, Malachite, Tenorite & Chrysocolla (Gary Weaver Coll.)
Morenci Mine, Greenlee Co., Arizona
12.3 x 7.2 x 7.1 cm
Winning Bid: $287
Large Copper (classic Arizona)
Ray Mine, Pinal Co., Arizona
18.2 x 9.6 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $117
large bi-colored Fluorite (Gary Weaver Coll.)
Melchor Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico
12.5 x 10.4 x 10.2 cm
Winning Bid: $90
Plumbogummite (fine color) ps. Mimetite on Quartz
Yangshuo Mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China
8.5 x 4.9 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $417
Azurite on Malachite after Azurite
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
4.0 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $99
Drillbit-twin Cinnabar on Dolomite
Fenghuang County, Xiangxi, Hunan, China
4.4 x 2.5 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $195
Silver wires w/ Acanthite (old Aspen!) ex. Kay Robertson
Aspen Mining District, Pitkin Co., Colorado
2.5 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $207
Smithsonite ps. After Calcite (classic locale) Dixon & Wolfe Coll.
Lavrion District Mines, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece
7.7 x 5.3 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $162
1909 Alaska Yukon Pacific Expostion mining pin
Seattle, Washington
6.1 x 4.6 x 0.3 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Calcite in septarian nodule (fluorescent) Dr. B. Phillips Coll.
Muddy Creek, Orderville, Kane Co., Utah
19.8 x 17.6 x 7.5 cm
Winning Bid: $93
large Agate geode bookends
Minas Gerais, Brazil
17.4 x 13.2 x 11.5 cm (largest of 2)
Winning Bid: $110
Large Baveno-twin Microcline w/ Schorl ex Obodda
Raikot, Chilas, Diamer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
18.1 x 12.0 x 9.6 cm
Winning Bid: $319
Gold spinel-twins
Icabaru River placers, Bolivar, Venezuela
1.8 x 0.5 x 0.4 cm
Winning Bid: $385
Superb Calcite twin (classic Indiana)
Irving Materials Quarry, Anderson, Madison County, Indiana
2.4 x 2.3 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $120
Pyrite (classic locale)
Navajun, La Rioja, Spain
7.0 x 6.3 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $148
Emerald (rare North Carolina) Kay Robertson Coll.
Crabtree Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell Co., North Carolina
2.9 x 2.0 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $130
Hematite ps. After Siderite (Ed David & van Tichelen Coll.)
Pikes Peak pluton, Park Co., Colorado
9.7 x 5.3 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $145
Large Fluorite (rare Arizona - fluorescent) Gary Weaver Coll.
Skinner lode, Silver Creek area, Oatman Mining Dist., Mohave County, Arizona
18.0 x 9.3 x 5.5 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Pyromorphite (Steve Smale Coll.)
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng Co., Guilin, Guangxi, China
3.9 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $215
Dioptase (uncommon locale)
Mbumba, Pimbi hill, Mindouli, Pool Dept., Republic of the Congo
3.4 x 2.0 x 0.7 cm
Winning Bid: $130
Brochantite & Gypsum (RARE Nevada)
Kansas mine, Muncy Creek District, White Pine Co., Nevada
11.5 x 8.2 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $186
Vanadinite (2008 pocket)
Mibladen, Midelt Province, Draa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
11.3 x 9.7 x 5.9 cm
Winning Bid: $176
Large Fluorapophyllite w/ Stilbite
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India
10.6 x 9.4 x 9.1 cm
Winning Bid: $97
Azurite & Malachite on Chrysocolla (RARE Peru locale!!)
Yauricocha Mine, Yauyos Province, Lima, Peru
7.5 x 6.1 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $203