AFTER-TUCSON MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 1 of 2) - FEATURING SPECIMENS FROM OLD COLLECTIONS - end Thursday March 8, 2018

ends Thursday Mar. 8, 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. Fine matrix CARROLLITE
2. Gem TOPAZ from Virgem da Lapa
3. EPIDOTE from the TYPE LOCALITY!
4. Unusual TOURMALINE from the Himalaya Mine
5. Gem Swiss SMOKY QUARTZ gwindel
6. Rare Tiger DIABOLEITE, HYDROCERUSSITE & CERUSSITE
7. AQUAMARINE and SMOKY QUARTZ from Klein Spitzkopje
8. BIXBYITE from the Wessels Mine & large Swiss MAGNETITE !
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Floater (rare) Galena & Marcasite on Dolomite (Bedogne Coll.)
Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri
12.8 x 11.7 x 5.7 cm
Almandine Garnet (classic Alaska) Belsky Coll.
Wrangell Island, Wrangell-Petersburg Borough, Alaska
2.6 x 2.1 x 2.1 cm
Large Talc specimen - new find
Muranska Dlha Luka, Banska Bystrica Region, Slovakia
13.4 x 7.1 x 4.7 cm
Diaboleite w/ Hydrocerussite & Cerussite (rare classic AZ) Robertson Coll.
Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona
4.5 x 2.8 x 2.2 cm
Cassiterite (old classic) Belsky Coll.
St Agnes District, Cornwall, England
5.7 x 5.1 x 3.3 cm
Cinnabar (old classic) Belsky Coll.
Almaden, Almaden District, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
6.5 x 4.1 x 3.7 cm
Magnetite, Monazite-(Ce), Xenotime-(Y) & Rutile (rare large plate)
Lercheltini area, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland
11.5 x 8.2 x 3.8 cm
Bixbyite (sharp, fine xls) & Calcite on Manganite
Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
6.1 x 4.8 x 2.9 cm
Theisite, Claraite (both rare) & Azurite (New Find!)
Les Ferreres mine, Rocabruna, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
12.3 x 9.9 x 5.7 cm
Fluorite (fluorescent) on Galena (classic locale)
Naica Mine, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico
9.4 x 8.7 x 6.5 cm
Analcime (excellent, sharp crystal) Bedogne Coll.
Tunguska River Basin, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia
5.4 x 5.1 x 4.5 cm
Floater Azurite rosette (Frank Levy Coll.)
Shilu Mine, Yangchun Co., Guangdong Prov., China
5.2 x 4.9 x 3.9 cm
Hydroxylherderite w/ Fluorapatite (RARE locale) Matioli Coll.
Ohlo de Gato Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
6.4 x 5.5 x 2.5 cm
Eulytine (rare - Type Locality) & Fluorite (rare combo) - Bedogne Coll.
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
3.3 x 3.2 x 1.5 cm
Doubly terminated Epidote w/ Quartzj (old Alaska classic)
Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough, Alask
5.1 x 2.8 x 2.6 cm
Howlite (rarely crystallized borate)
Bras D'Or Lake, Iona, Nova Scotia, Canada
3.0 x 1.9 x 0.9 cm
Spinel-twinned Gold xls
Icabaru, Bolivar, Venezuela
1.0 x 0.5 x 0.2 cm (Largest of 3)
Dipyramidal Quartz w/ phantoms (Belsky Coll.)
Beckermet Mine, Egremont, Cumbria, England
7.3 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm
Aquamarine & Smoky Quartz (rare combo) Robertson Coll.
Klein Spitzkopje, Karibib, Erongo Region, Namibia
9.2 x 5.3 x 4.9 cm
Hauyne (rare Sodalite Group species )
In den Dellen quarries, Niedermendig, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
9.2 x 7.5 x 5.0 cm
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