Vanadinite (rare Arizona locale)

Hamburg Mine, Silver Mining District, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA
Ex. George Loud; D. Hennessey; Brander Robinson
Small Cabinet, 7.7 x 5.2 x 4.3 cm
Start Time: 01/23/2025 8:00:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 02/02/2025 6:03:00 pm (CST)
Auction Closed
Winning Bid: $345

Item Description

This is a lovely and rarely seen Vanadinite specimen from the Hamburg Mine in La Paz County, not to be confused with the Pure Potential Mine or the nearby famous Red Cloud Mine. In my experience, specimens from the Hamburg Mine are much rarer on the market, as few were found, and it's a shame because the crystals are quite eye-catching. This piece is filled with beautiful, very sharp, highly lustrous, strong glowing red colored hexagonal prisms measuring up to about 2-3 mm on matrix. The crystals are best seen with magnification, and we have photographed the piece with a Canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens to better illustrate the quality. A really attractive locality piece that would make a nice addition to any suite of secondary ore minerals, or specimens from Arizona.
The piece was formerly in the collections of D. Hennessey and Brander Robinson.
Ex George Loud Collection No. 41.7.2.3 AZ.12; 8370. George (born August 16, 1942) is a well-known mineral collector from Washington, DC and South Carolina respectively, and was a patent lawyer by trade for over 50 years. He assembled one of the great mineral collections in the U.S., comprising worldwide specimens, and in later years he sold the worldwide specimens to focus on minerals of the United States, specifically locality suites with an emphasis on amazing representation of species while still maintaining fine quality. The specimens remarkably range from micros to all the way up to large cabinets in size. We recently acquired most of his impressive 9000+ piece collection, and the VAST majority of these pieces will be offered here in the auctions, as we feel that everyone deserves and equal opportunity at acquiring these important, well-documented and fine quality specimens for their collections.
See: https://mineralogicalrecord.com/biographies_labels/george-loud for more information

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$345 02/02/2025 5:57:40 pm (CST)
$335 02/02/2025 5:49:45 pm (CST)
$330 02/02/2025 5:49:45 pm (CST)
$310 02/02/2025 12:25:40 pm (CST)
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$245 02/02/2025 11:21:41 am (CST)
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$200 02/02/2025 11:21:20 am (CST)
$160 02/02/2025 11:21:07 am (CST)
$150 02/02/2025 11:21:07 am (CST)
$122 01/31/2025 4:25:29 pm (CST)
$112 01/31/2025 4:25:28 pm (CST)
$96 01/24/2025 10:17:11 am (CST)
$86 01/24/2025 10:17:11 am (CST)
$76 01/24/2025 10:07:58 am (CST)
$66 01/24/2025 10:07:58 am (CST)
$50 01/24/2025 10:07:54 am (CST)
$45 01/24/2025 10:07:54 am (CST)
$10 01/24/2025 12:07:35 am (CST)