FINE CLASSIC MINERAL SPECIMEN LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends October 29, 2020

We have a great selection this week featuring plenty of attractive, fine quality, rare and unusual specimens.  Look for new discoveries that we picked up at recent shows or direct from the source. We have many more specimens from the untouched, unpicked collections of Chet Lemanski and Gary Weaver that we have only just sorted out !

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

1. Huge and significant gem YELLOW ANGLESITE from Touissit

2. 1970s RHODOCHROSITES from the N'Chwaning I Mine and Peru

3. Classic old Bisbee AZURITE

4. PHILIPSBURGITE from the Type Discovery

5. North Carolina SMOKY/AMETHYST QUARTZ

6. nice matrix MORGANITE from Afghanistan

7. FLUORITES from classic locales

8. Rare FLUORESCENTS

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Wulfenite (classic locale)
Plaka Mines, Lavrion, Attica, Greece
9.0 x 5.0 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $170
Lunar Maria Regolith Simulant used by NASA (RARE! ex Dr. James Carter)
Richardson, Texas
12.7 x 7.5 x 7.5 cm (bottle)
Winning Bid: $365
Botryoidal Fluorite on Quartz
Minggang Mine, Shihe District, Xinyang, Henan, China
10.8 x 7.5 x 6.2 cm
Winning Bid: $252
lifetime supply of small Rhodizite crystals (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
Sahatany Pegmatite Field (Mt Ibity area), Madagascar
7.5 x 4.3 x 4.3 cm (bottle)
Winning Bid: $50
Rhodochrosite (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima, Peru
6.1 x 6.0 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $180
Tetrahedrite & Sphalerite (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
Casapalca Mine, Casapalca, Huarochiri Province, Lima, Peru
10.7 x 7.9 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $196
very large Almandine Garnet (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
Thackaringa District, New South Wales, Australia
9.8 x 7.7 x 7.0 cm
Winning Bid: $137
Botryoidal Azurite (old Bisbee!) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Holbrook Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona,
11.2 x 10.3 x 5.4 cm
Winning Bid: $980
Libethenite (rare Portugal loc.) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Mostardeira Mine, Gloria, Estremoz, Evora, Portugal
8.0 x 5.6 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $85
Titanite (rare quality for location) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Lake Clear area, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada
6.0 x 6.0 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $46
Quartz ps. after Calcite on Quartz (Wouter van Tichelen Coll.)
Cavnic, Maramures, Romania
12.2 x 9.8 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $157
Malachite ps. After Azurite (Ed David Coll.)
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
8.0 x 4.3 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $105
Fluorapatite (fluorescent) on Cleavelandite ex Obodda
Mawi, Nuristan, Laghman Province, Afghanistan
6.4 x 5.3 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $170
Pyrolusite w/ Quartz (old USA locale) Kay Robertson Coll.
Taylor Mine, Alberta, Baraga Co., Michigan
5.2 x 4.5 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $53
Molybdenite incl. in DT Quartz (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
Confianza Mine, Tilama, Coquimbo, Chile
10.1 x 4.8 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $71
Molybdenite & Quartz (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
Wolfram Camp, Dimbulah, Queensland, Australia
7.5 x 5.8 x 3.4 cm
Winning Bid: $92
Gold in Quartz (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
Harvard Mine, Jamestown Mine, Tuolumne Co., California
3.8 x 2.2 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $116
Bournonite (classic old Mexico) James Carter Coll.
Noche Buena Mine, Mazapil Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico
4.5 x 2.8 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $262
large Brochantite
Vieja Mine, Potrerillos, Atacama, Chile
17.1 x 8.4 x 4.4 cm
Winning Bid: $102
large Sodalite var. Hackmanite fluorescent/ tenebrescence
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
17.2 x 9.0 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $120
large Opalized Wood (RARE locale & self-collected by Chet Lemanski)
Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat), Ratchasima Province, Thailand
17.0 x 13.2 x 10.5 cm
Winning Bid: $94
Calcite (rare style - 2 generations) Heinz Gugeler Coll.
San Martin Mine, Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mexico
11.8 x 10.8 x 7.4 cm
Winning Bid: $256
Fluorite (fluorescent) on Calcite (rare Mexico)
Tecolotes Mine, Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico
12.1 x 8.6 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $255
Quartz on Malachite
Orogrande District, Otero Co., New Mexico
10.9 x 6.9 x 6.5 cm
Winning Bid: $180
Quartz with Sphalerite (Steve Schwab Coll.)
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
12.1 x 11.6 x 6.4 cm
Winning Bid: $208
large Mica (RARE locale) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Kovdor Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
18.3 x 13.1 x 0.5 cm
Winning Bid: $42
very fine Philipsburgite (Type Locality) on Quartz (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg Mining District, Granite Co., Montana
3.0 x 2.6 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $199
large Fluorite w/ Siderite ex Dr. S. Moreton Fluorite Coll
Victoria Flat, Greenlaws Mine, Daddry Shield, Co. Durham, England
15.0 x 9.6 x 8.4 cm
Winning Bid: $725
Prehnite nodule (unusual) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Wave Hill station, Kalkarindji, Northern Territory, Australia
7.4 x 7.3 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $87
K-Feldspar var. Adularia (classic locale) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland
11.3 x 6.9 x 6.0 cm
Winning Bid: $177