AFTER-TUCSON MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 1 of 2) - FEATURING SPECIMENS FROM OLD COLLECTIONS - end Thursday March 1, 2018

ends Thursday Mar. 1st, 2018
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

We obtained an old East Coast collection just before the Tucson show and left it all at home, to offer on the internet first! Lots of old classics here! See gem crystals, rare species, old USA and German classics, and many good specimens that are hard to find at any price, let alone at auction!


Some of the highlights from this week's include:

1. Gemmy large TANZANITE crystal !
2. Large and important old English BARITE
3. Classic AMETHYST from Slovakia
4. Rarities and classic from the Kay Robertson and an East Coast collection.
5. Purple APATITE on CLEAVELANDITE from Pulsifer
6. Large DIOPTASE from Mindouli
7. Old Swiss SMOKY QUARTZ
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Quartz incl. w/ hematite & Calcite (old - rare combo)
Crowgarth Mine, Cleator Moor, West Cumberland Iron Field, Cumbria, England
12.7 x 10.5 x 3.0 cm
Eleonorite (Type Locality), Cacoxenite & Wavellite
Rotlaufchen Mine, Waldgirmes, Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany
10.7 x 6.2 x 3.1 cm
Large Baryte (important old classic from the 1800s)
Parkside Mine, Frizington, Cumbria, England
17.6 x 7.3 x 5.0 cm
Cassiterite (old classic) ex. Bosch & Smithsonian Coll.
Horni Slavkov (Schlaggenwald), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia, Czech Republic
4.8 x 4.6 x 2.3 cm
Arsenopyrite (old - classic locale)
Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
7.5 x 6.7 x 5.7 cm
Galena "stalactite bar" (rare style) Dr. Gary Hansen Coll.
Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri
6.3 x 2.3 x 1.7 cm
Aragonite
La Pesquera, Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
6.0 x 3.0 x 2.8 cm
Very Large Pyrrhotite (classic locale) Robertson Coll.
Potosi Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico
12.1 x 5.7 x 5.4 cm
Stilbite
Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India
13.2 x 9.8 x 8.7 cm
Quartz & Calcite (classic locale) Soregaroli Coll.
Level 3, Panasqueira Mine, Castelo Branco Dist., Portugal
9.0 x 5.6 x 4.5 cm
Fine Gem Tanzanite crystal
Merelani Hills, Manyara Region, Tanzania
5.1 x 2.1 x 1.3 cm
Fluorapatite on Cleavelandite (RARE combo - classic locale)
Pulsifer Quarry, Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine
5.2 x 2.8 x 2.6 cm
Smithsonite (Trimingham Coll.)
Touissit, Jerada Province, L'oriental Region, Morocco
6.8 x 4.0 x 3.5 cm
Fluorapatite (classic locale)
Turners Island Mine, Renfrew Co., Ontario, Canada
7.5 x 5.8 x 5.2 cm
Dioptase on Calcite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
7.2 x 4.9 x 4.7 cm
Amethyst (old classic European Locale!)
Banska Stiavnica (Schemnitz), Banska Bystrica Region, Slovakia
10.2 x 7.6 x 4.5 cm
Gem Smoky Quartz (old - classic locale)
Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
5.6 x 4.6 x 3.0 cm
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