TUCSON SHOW FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends Feb 27, 2020

A great selection this week with plenty of attractive, good quality, rare and unusual specimens.  Look for new discoveries that we picked up at recent shows or direct from the source, plus we have plenty of pieces from the newly acquired Gary Weaver collection along with pieces from our own Tom Campbell, plus dealers' inventories, and plenty from Kay Robertson!  You might even find the occasional fossil, lapidary or gem item from time to time.   Look here for the not so typical mineral specimens along with plenty of your favorites.  We don't just offer the "standard 20 species", but an eclectic mix of specimens that appeal to everybody!

 

Some of the highlights from this week’s auction include:

 

1. AMBER from the Dominican Republic with MULITPLE INSECT INCLUSIONS

2. Classic gemmy purple and yellow AMETRINE slice from Bolivia

3. A newly mined specimen of attractive "BLOOD VESSEL OPAL" from Mexico

4. A fantastic display quality miniature of the rare species HUBEITE from China!

5. Excellent classic AZURITE with MALACHITE from Morenci, AZ valued at $3,500 in our inventory

6. GOLD on QUARTZ from Timmins, Ontario, Canada

7. Rarities include:  ZIPPEITE with JOHANNITE, PLUMBOFERRITE STOLZITE and MURDOCITE

8. Plenty of cool US and European minerals and various rarities from the collection of Kay Robertson

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Ametrine (polished slab) (127.02 grams)
Anahi Mine, La Gaiba District, Sandoval Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia
7.5 x 6.0 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $52
Gold on Quartz
Timmins area, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada
2.1 x 1.2 x 0.3 cm
Winning Bid: $65
Imperial Topaz (3.11 carats)
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil
1.3 x 0.4 x 0.3 cm
Winning Bid: $40
Goethite (great quality) with "Onegite"
Dreamtime Mine, Crystal Peak area, Teller County, Colorado
4.2 x 2.7 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $80
Smithsonite (classic material)
Sounion Mine No. 6 ("Exi Mine"), Agia Varvara Mines (St Barbara Mines), Sounion Area, Lavrion, Attikí Prefecture, Greece
7.5 x 5.3 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $10
Quartz (GEM doubly-terminated "floater")
Purple Hope #4 Claim (Green Ridge), King County, Washington
3.7 x 1.3 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $20
Azurite (excellent quality crystals)
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Mun. de Cananea, Sonora, Mexico
3.8 x 3.6 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $121
Austinite (var: Cuprian Austinite)
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
6.4 x 6.2 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $93
Calcite (attractive green color)
Concepción del Oro, Concepción del Oro Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico
8.8 x 6.8 x 6.2 cm
Winning Bid: $30
Opal-AN (Hyalite Opal) ("Blood Vessel Opal")
Étienne Mine, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
11.2 x 6.2 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $81
Quartz on Petrified Wood (approx 35 million years old)
Brown Coal Open Pit, Zwenkau, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
2.3 x 0.7 x 0.3 cm
Winning Bid: $28
Amber with MULTIPLE insect inclusions
Sabana de la Mar (Sabana), Hato Mayor Province, Dominican Republic
5.3 x 2.9 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $85
Barite with Malachite inclusions
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Mun. de Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico
1.5 x 0.8 x 0.8 cm
Winning Bid: $35
Grossular Garnet with Epidote
Nevada
3.6 x 3.1 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $15
Cassiterite (cyclic twins) on Siderite
Viloco Mine, Loayza Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia
3.4 x 3.2 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $52
Pyromorphite (classic material) (ex Paul Zerfass Collection)
Les Farges Mine, Ussel, Corrèze, Limousin, France
2.3 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $62
Vesuvianite (green and purple)
Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada
2.7 x 2.0 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $42
Covellite (ex Gary Weaver Collection)
Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado
4.9 x 3.0 x 0.3 cm
Winning Bid: $88
Prehnite ("cast" after Anhydrite)
Lane & Son Traprock Quarries, Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts
6.3 x 4.2 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $15
Chalcedony (interesting locality)
Antelope Canyon (Valley) (part of the childhood home of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor), Round Mountain, Greenlee County, Arizona
6.4 x 3.7 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $10
Mimetite with Wulfenite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
9.6 x 5.7 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $30
Native Mercury in Melaphyre (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Obermoschel, Alsenz-Obermoschel, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
9.7 x 5.3 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $93
Orpiment coating Realgar (ex Tom Campbell Collection)
Palomo Mine, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica, Peru
4.3 x 3.8 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Plumboferrite (exceptionally rare) (ex Vajdak)
Jakobsberg Mine, Jakobsberg ore field, Nordmark District, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden (Type Locality)
1.7 x 1.6 x 0.3 cm
Winning Bid: $133
Zincite with Calcite ("Calcozincite") (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey
9.2 x 4.6 x 0.6 cm
Winning Bid: $46
Monazite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Vohambohitra pegmatite, Matakana Commune, Tsaratanàna, Betsiboka, Madagascar
2.0 x 1.6 x 0.5 cm
Winning Bid: $203
Fluorite with Quartz (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Erika Mine, Saulnhof, Stulln, Wolsendorf West District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
8.8 x 6.1 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Pyromorphite with Stolzite (very rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Wölsendorf, Schwarzach bei Nabburg, Schwandorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
4.3 x 3.2 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $90
Fluorite with Chalcopyrite and Calcite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Cacilia (Caecilia) Mine, Freiung, Stulln, Wolsendorf West District, Wolsendorf Fluorite Mining District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
6.2 x 3.3 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $10