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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Kyanite & Fuchsite (rare combo) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Lovozersky Dist., Murmansk Oblast, Russia
7.9 x 7.0 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $165
huge Anglesite (!!) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Touissit, Jerada Province, Oriental Region, Morocco
14.2 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $285
Malachite (carving quality from old classic locale)
Demidoff Mine, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
7.1 x 5.0 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $551
Rhodizite (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
Sahatany Pegmatite Field (Mt Ibity area), Madagascar
8.5 x 6.5 x 5.5 cm
Winning Bid: $95
Azurite (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
La Sal, San Juan Co., Utah
6.3 x 5.1 x 3.4 cm
Winning Bid: $141
"Wheatsheaf" Rhodochrosite (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
1.4 x 0.9 x 0.8 cm
Winning Bid: $415
Rhodochrosite (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
N'Chwaning I Mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
1.4 x 0.6 x 0.4 cm
Winning Bid: $154
Witherite (fluorescent) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois
7.0 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $243
Fluorite (classic locale - fluorescent) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Weisseck, Murwinkel, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
14.0 x 8.7 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $300
Vanadinite
Mibladen, Midelt Province, Draa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
6.5 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $75
large Hematite
Montreal Mine, Montreal, Iron Co., Wisconsin
18.7 x 2.5 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $525
Smoky/Amethyst Quartz w/ phantoms (North Carolina)
Reel Mine, Iron Station, Lincoln Co., North Carolina
15.0 x 9.6 x 7.4 cm
Winning Bid: $247
"Raspberry" Grossular Garnets
Sierra de Cruces, Coahuila, Mexico
5.4 x 4.8 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $85
Cuprite (antique old finds) Roger Maynard Coll.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
4.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $211
Calcite, Fluorite & Pyrite (Chet Lemanski Coll.)
El Hammam Mine, Meknes, Fes-Meknes Region, Morocco
7.8 x 5.6 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $55
large Calcite (rare CA - fluorescent) Dixon & Wolfe Coll.
Hilton deposit (17 Palms), Borrego Springs, San Diego County, California
12.7 x 7.0 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $310
large Willemite (classic fluorescent example!)
Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey
20.3 x 11.0 x 7.2 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Arsenopyrite, Sphalerite & Quartz (Univ. of Arizona Coll.)
Tajo Mine, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico
13.4 x 9.8 x 8.4 cm
Winning Bid: $223
Manganoan Calcite (fluorescent!) Dixon & Wolfe Coll.
Idarado Mine, Telluride, San Miguel Co., Colorado
8.3 x 7.5 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $235
Dolomite (James Carter Coll.)
Black Rock, Lawrence Co., Arkansas
11.0 x 9.0 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $73
Morganite on Albite
Pech, Chapa Dara District, Kunar, Afghanistan
8.3 x 7.6 x 6.5 cm
Winning Bid: $850