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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Amethyst
Mamuju area, Sulawesi Barat Province, Sulawesi, Indonesia
11.7 x 9.2 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $376
Primary Malachite (Gary Weaver Coll.)
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
12.3 x 7.5 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $120
Sphalerite twins (superb, classic locale) Art Soregaroli Coll.
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee
10.8 x 8.9 x 7.2 cm
Winning Bid: $420
large classic Italian Anhydrite w/ Calcite ex. Fioravanti Coll.
Campiano Mine, Montieri, Grosseto Prov., Tuscany, Italy
12.8 x 11.3 x 9.8 cm
Winning Bid: $442
Fluorite octahedrons w/ Lollingite
Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
13.2 x 9.2 x 7.1 cm
Winning Bid: $591
Bi-colored Fluorite & Quartz (fluorescent)
De'an fluorite mine, Wushan, Jiangxi, China
11.2 x 9.4 x 6.2 cm
Winning Bid: $521
large Copper replacing wood (old Bisbee rarity) Mullane Coll.
Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona
22.8 x 8.1 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $232
Malachite & Cerussite - old classic combo
Brown's Prospect, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, Australia
7.1 x 6.1 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Gemmy DT Red Beryl on matrix
Ruby Violet claims, Wah Wah Mts, Beaver County, Utah
5.2 x 4.7 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $1,400
large botryoidal Malachite
Tonglushan Mine, Daye Co., Huangshi, Hubei, China
12.8 x 11.7 x 8.0 cm
Winning Bid: $1,838
Vanadinite
Mibladen, Midelt Province, Draa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
7.9 x 4.3 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $305
Large color-zoned Fluorite
Denton Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois
14.0 x 10.1 x 7.7 cm
Winning Bid: $370
Rhodochrosite, Fluorite (fluorescent) & Quartz (classic Colorado)
Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Park Co., Colorado
11.5 x 8.7 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $976