Fine Mineral Auctions from the depths of our Warehouse ! - ends July 9, 2020

The unexpected bonus to being stuck in Dallas through the hot summer and able to go to work all day, is there is more time to go looking for old classics and treasures in the back rooms....here is yet another set featuring a mix of beautiful and important classics from our storage areas of old collections, and things that have long needed to be processed and cleaned. Enjoy many older classic specimens from the Art Soregaroli, Howard Belsky, Josef Vajdak, Cynthia Payne and Raul Sanabria Collections - things not seen in ten years or more.

HIGHLIGHTS:

1. Selection of LARGE CABINET specimens

2. Classic large old Illinois rarities from the Ross Lillie Collection

3. ALMANDINE GARNET from Austra

4. RARE SPECIES from the Josef Vajdak Collection

5. Superb large Indian ZEOLITE specimens including a rare RED APOPHYLLITE

6. a CRAZY, EMERALD & SCHEELITE COMBO from China

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Fluorapatite (fluorescent) on Albite (Art Soregaroli Coll.)
Urucum claim, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
9.5 x 5.5 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $205
large important twinned Citrine
Mansa District, Luapula Province, Zambia
18.5 x 14.1 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $765
Calcite on Fluorite, etc. (RARE! - ca. 1954) ex Ross Lillie Coll.
Blue Diggings Mine, Rosiclare District, Hardin Co., Illinois
12.7 x 11.1 x 8.0 cm
Winning Bid: $411
Native Mercury & Cinnabar (classic locale) Josef Vajdak Coll.
Almaden mining district, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
5.8 x 3.8 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $110
Color-zoned Fluorite w/ Calcite (rare locale) Ross Lillie Coll.
Gaskins Mine, Pope County, Illinois (NOTE CORRECTED & RARE LOCALITY)
17.1 x 14.7 x 8.0 cm
Winning Bid: $636
Prehnite ps. After Calcite (Swoboda, Ed David & van Tichelen Coll.)
Zoetwater, Calvinia, Namakwa, Northern Cape, South Africa
8.5 x 6.1 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $95
Sphalerite w/ Calcite (classic locale)
Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
8.2 x 5.4 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $180
Vivianite
Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Russia
5.8 x 4.3 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $195
Svabite (rare - fluorescent) Josef Vajdak Coll.
Langban, Filipstad, Varmland County, Sweden
10.3 x 6.6 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $250
Almandine Garnet on Schist (classic locale)
Granatenkogel north slope, Gaisberg valley, Imst District, Tyrol, Austria
11.7 x 6.5 x 4.6 cm
Winning Bid: $703
Dolomite ps. After Aragonite (rare NM) Gary Weaver Coll.
Guadalupe Co., New Mexico
7.0 x 5.9 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $52
Moolooite & Whewellite on Copper (rare) Joself Vajdak Coll.
Ahmeek Mine, Ahmeek, Keweenaw Co., Michigan
7.3 x 5.4 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $80
Pyromorphite (hoppered xls) ex Bob Hopper Coll
Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Shoshone Co., Idaho
4.0 x 3.0 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $206
Emerald & Scheelite (RARE UNIQUE combo!) on Feldspar
Dayakou emerald mine, Malipo County, Wenshan, Yunnan, China
6.5 x 4.7 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $1,940
Baryte (classic locale) Art Soregaroli Coll.
Rock Candy Mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
7.5 x 5.4 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $255
DT phantom Gypsum xl (Raul Sanabria Coll.)
Quien Tal Pensara Mine, Pilar de Jaravia, Almeria, Andalusia, Spain
5.5 x 3.1 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $96
Calcite on Fluorite (fluorescent)
Moscona Mine, Solis, Villabona mining area, Asturias, Spain
18.5 x 13.7 x 7.5 cm
Winning Bid: $390
Large Fluorite (2 generations - rare 2016 find)
Yiwu Co., Jinhua, Zhejiang, China
21.3 x 13.6 x 6.3 cm
Winning Bid: $377
Wavellite (old classic ) Don Owens Coll.
Avant, Garland Co., Arkansas
11.2 x 10.3 x 9.3 cm
Winning Bid: $371
Twinned Calcite "Black Diamond" cleavage (RARE old CA)
Ludlow, San Bernardino Co., California,
9.2 x 7.4 x 6.3 cm
Winning Bid: $1,150
Large Stilbite on Heulandite & Calcite (superb)
Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India
16.7 x 8.5 x 8.5 cm
Winning Bid: $576
Sulfur & Aragonite (old classic) Josef Vajdak Coll.
Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
12.6 x 7.5 x 5.5 cm
Winning Bid: $711
Primary Malachite
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
8.5 x 7.0 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $505
Aragonite & Sulfur (old classic)
Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
11.7 x 11.0 x 7.0 cm
Winning Bid: $965