FINE HISTORIC MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - Ends Thursday April 16, 2020

This week's special large auction set features great selection of minerals including MANY historic classics, only available from old collections! We are pulling out backstock from our warehouse as we sort more goodies during a slower month, and offering up things for auction that we have long held back from major collections including: pieces from the Senator Dr. Miguel Romero Collection, a Ross LIllie collection Illinois Calcite, Kay Robertson's classics, Ken Roberts' Pseudomorphs, Iceland rarities, and some major cabinet sized display pieces!

 

Highlights this week include:

 

1. Huge , dramatic ILLINOIS CALCITE STALACTITE, ex Lillie Collection

2. Old classics from France and Iceland

3. Classic, rare old NOVACEKITE from the Miguel Romero Collection

4. Large rare COPPER from Zambia

5. Fine ZEOLITES from India including CAVANSITE & STILBITE

6. historic PSEUDOMORPHS

7. important  CASSITERITE xls from Bolivia

8. NEW FIND of crystallized AUSTRALIAN COPPER

9. Rare large Hawaii CALCITE stalactite

10. "Dragon" COPPER from the Ray Mine

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Thomsonite & Chabazite (classic locale) Eric Asselborn Coll.
Iceland
9.2 x 5.9 x 3.4 cm
Winning Bid: $166
Quartz cast after Anhydrite (Ken Roberts Coll.)
Silver Point Mine, Ouray, Ouray Co., Colorado
13.0 x 10.0 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $260
Gemmy Spessartine Garnet (92 grams)- early 2000s finds
Nani Hill, Loliondo, Ngorongoro dist., Arusha Region, Tanzania
4.7 x 3.3 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $212
Andradite Garnet (classic AZ) Kay Robertson Coll.
Stanley Butte area, Graham Co., Arizona
4.5 x 4.2 x 2.9 cm
Winning Bid: $43
Malachite w/ Calcite
Buffalo Ridge Extension, Old Dominion Mine, Globe, Gila Co., Arizona
5.0 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $43
Calcite, Fluorite & Quartz on Sphalerite
Gibraltar Mine, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico
6.8 x 5.1 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $86
Spessartine Garnet on Albite
Shengus, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltista, Pakistan
6.1 x 4.8 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $80
Large Fluorite (2 generations - rare 2016 find)
Yiwu Co., Jinhua, Zhejiang, China
13.2 x 10.0 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $335
Color-zoned Fluorite (Larry Krause Coll.)
Denton Mine, Harris Creek Mining Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois
5.8 x 5.8 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $90
Calcite on Quartz
Roata Mine, Cavnic, Maramures, Romania
8.9 x 3.1 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $37
Color-zone Fluorite w/ Chalcopyrite
Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois
7.5 x 6.2 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $220
Sawed & polished Labradorite slabs
Norcross labradorite quarry, Ampanihy, Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
6.1 x 5.0 x 3.1 (Largest of 2)
Winning Bid: $47
Molybdenite, Ferrimolybdenite
Bodo Mine, Currais Novos, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
10.5 x 8.0 x 6.8 cm
Winning Bid: $15
Azurite & Malachite (classic Utah) ex Charles Noll Coll.
Apex Mine, Washington Co., Utah
9.7 x 7.0 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $125
Fluorite, Baryte & Bitumen (Raul Sanabria Coll.)
Jaimina Mine, Carrales, Caravia District, Asturias, Spain
4.5 x 3.6 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $68
Limonite ps. After Pyrite (Dr. B. Phillips Coll.)
Pelican Point Area, Utah Co., Utah
5.0 x 2.9 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $15
Pyrrhotite w/ Pyrite (Raul Sanabria Coll.)
Brunita Mine, La Union, Murcia, Spain
8.2 x 5.9 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $97
Bournonite w/ Calcite (classic locale)
Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic
3.8 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $61
Calcite on Dolomite (Tom Wolfe Coll.)
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
13.0 x 7.1 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $63
Polished Malachite "eyes" nodule
Kolwezi mining district, Lualaba, DR Congo
7.5 x 6.7 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $112
Cassiterite (old classic with huge xls) Larry Conklin Coll.
Viloco Mine (Araca Mine), Loayza Prov., La Paz, Bolivia
9.0 x 7.2 x 6.4 cm
Winning Bid: $1,380
Cyclic-twinned Cerussite w/ Duftite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
4.2 x 3.3 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $95
huge Cavansite cluster, on Stilbite
Wagholi Quarries, Pune District, Maharashtra, India
8.2 x 6.7 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $330
Large polished Copper glacial drift slab
Ontonagon County, Michigan
30.0 x 10.9 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $700
Pyrrhotite (classic locale, superb xls)
Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
6.1 x 4.6 x 1.9 cm
Winning Bid: $165
Baryte (uncommon Norway)
Styggedalsgangen, Trak , Telemark, Norway
5.6 x 3.5 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $47
Calcite on Hemimorphite (classic AZ)
79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Gila Co., Arizona
9.4 x 9.0 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $145
Copper w/ Malachite (uncommon African locale)
Mufulira Mine, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
11.4 x 11.3 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $400
large Quartz casting on Danburite ex Ken Roberts Pseudo Coll.
Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
12.0 x 11.3 x 7.8 cm
Winning Bid: $275
Calcite twins (uncommon style)
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico
7.0 x 5.1 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $92