Assorted Mineral Auction - Various Collections
Mixed specimens this week include gem crystals, classic locales, fine display specimens and a selection of assorted piece from our inventory and collections we've purchased such as Dave Bergman, Brian Kosnar, Kurt Hefendehl, Bill and Anne Cook, Dr. Vasco Trancoso and more! Look for attractive higher value pieces this week, all starting at $10 reserve bids!
Some of the highlights from this week’s auction include:
1. Wonderful WIRE GOLD on matrix from California
2. Beautiful colorless and orange CALCITE from China – ex Dr. Stephen Smale Collection
3. Newly mined IMPERIAL TOPAZ from rare Zambian locality!
4. Superb rare LEGRANDITE specimen from the Ojuela Mine, Mexico
5. Outstanding SHARP and GEMMY SPHALERITE crystals on matrix from Russia – ex Rich Kosnar Collection
6. LARGE RHODIZITE crystal on matrix from Madagascar
7. Fantastic DEMANTOID GARNET crystal on matrix from Afghanistan
8. Classic DIOPTASE on CALCITE from Tsumeb – Dave Bergman Collection
9. Stellar SYLVANITE crystals on matrix from Fiji!
10. ADAMITE (green and purple crystals) with AUSTINITE from Mexico
- Scapolite (GEM quality)
- Scapolite Locality, Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India
- Ex. Rock Currier
- 4.6 x 1.1 x 1.1 cm, 14.0 grams
- Winning Bid: $124
- Rhodochrosite
- Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima, Peru
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 7.7 x 6.6 x 4.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $63
- Beryl (var: Goshenite)
- Pingwu Beryl Mine, Huya Township, Mount Little Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang, Sichuan, China
- Ex. Dr. Vasco Trancoso
- 7.5 x 6.6 x 1.7 cm
- Winning Bid: $100
- Fluorite (bi-colored crystals)
- Yiwu City, Yiwu Co., Jinhua, Zhejiang, China
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 7.1 x 6.3 x 3.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $193
- Calcite (excellent twins with Marcasite inclusions)
- Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan, China
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 11.2 x 9.3 x 5.4 cm
- Winning Bid: $331
- Fluorapatite included with ''Byssolite''
- Ganadao, Warsak Intrusions, Mohmand District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
- 3.2 x 1.7 x 0.7 cm
- Winning Bid: $85
- Andradite Garnet (var: Demantoid) (fine quality)
- Ghazni Province, Afghanistan
- 4.6 x 4.5 x 3.8 cm
- Winning Bid: $237
- Cavansite
- Wagholi, Pune District, Maharashtra, India
- Ex. Angela Kosnar
- 6.1 x 4.8 x 3.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $130
- Quartz (etched crystal) (rare locality specimen)
- Womack Lane, Fallbrook, San Diego Co., California, USA
- Ex. Tim Sherburn; Bryant Harris
- 8.2 x 2.1 x 2.0 cm
- Winning Bid: $121
- Rhodochrosite (rare locality specimen)
- 630-1000 Stope, 21 Level, Walsh Ore Body, Camp Bird Mine, Ouray Co., Colorado, USA
- Ex. Gary Weaver
- 5.8 x 3.6 x 2.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $120
- Epidote with Prehnite
- An Gearna, Ben More, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Ex. Tim Sherburn
- 7.6 x 6.7 x 2.6 cm
- Winning Bid: $111
- Crocoite (classic material)
- Berezovsk deposit, Beryozovsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
- 6.3 x 3.8 x 2.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $99
- Stibnite (old classic)
- Ichinokawa mine, Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
- Ex. Colin Manlove
- 3.8 x 1.7 x 0.8 cm
- Winning Bid: $210
- Gold (wires!) (rare old locality)
- Kenton Mine, Mack House, Alleghany Mining District, Sierra Co., California, USA
- 3.7 x 2.4 x 1.6 cm
- Winning Bid: $410
- Flying Insect Fossil
- Florissant Formation, Teller Co., Colorado, USA
- 2.7 x 2.3 x 0.6 cm
- Winning Bid: $110
- Chalcanthite (lab grown)
- Poland
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 8.2 x 6.7 x 6.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $134
- Smithsonite (uncommon locality)
- Touissit-Bou Beker Mining District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 4.7 x 3.7 x 3.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $96
- Beryl (var: Morganite)
- Nuristan, Afghanistan
- Ex. Herb Obodda
- 2.6 x 1.9 x 1.9 cm
- Winning Bid: $95
- Sphalerite with Galena
- Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia
- 4.7 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm
- Winning Bid: $71
- Fluorapatite on Calcite
- Liscombe Deposit, Cardiff Township, Highlands East Township, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada
- Ex. Tim Sherburn
- 7.2 x 4.8 x 4.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $199
- Aquamarine with Muscovite
- Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
- 5.2 x 5.1 x 3.1 cm
- Winning Bid: $130
- Sylvanite (rare locality)
- Emperor Mine, Vatukoula, Vatukoula Gold Field, Viti Levu, Fiji
- Ex. Dr. Vasco Trancoso
- 9.2 x 4.6 x 3.1 cm
- Winning Bid: $331
- Spinel
- Mahenge, Morogoro Region, Tanzania
- Ex. Dr. Stephen Smale
- 2.3 x 1.7 x 1.6 cm
- Winning Bid: $220
- Calcite with Prehnite
- Roncari Quarry, East Granby, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA
- Ex. Gerry Morvell; Al Sebela
- 8.2 x 6.8 x 5.1 cm
- Winning Bid: $116
- Topaz
- Zapot Pegmatite, Gillis Range, Fitting District, Mineral Co., Nevada, USA
- Ex. Tim Sherburn
- 4.3 x 4.2 x 3.5 cm, 66.0 grams
- Winning Bid: $155
- Clinozoisite (fine quality)
- Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
- Ex. Dr. Vasco Trancoso
- 4.5 x 1.5 x 1.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $158
- Fluorite
- Koh-i-Maran, Kalat District, Balochistan, Pakistan
- 8.0 x 7.8 x 3.1 c
- Winning Bid: $121
- Adamite (green and purple crystals) with Austinite (excellent rare classic material)
- Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
- 9.3 x 7.8 x 3.1 cm
- Winning Bid: $410
- Beryl (important historic specimen - collected circa 1929)
- Cummings Quarry, near Albany, Oxford County, Maine, USA
- Ex. Thurston M. Phetteplace
- 9.2 x 4.3 x 3.8 cm
- Winning Bid: $210
- Antigorite (var: Picrolite) (impressive large specimen - RARE locality!)
- Delight Quarry (Dyer Quarry), Soldiers' Delight ridge, Delight, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
- 19.4 x 2.1 x 1.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $180