FINE MINERAL COLLECTION and INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - end July 20th, 2017

Ends Thursday, July 20th, 2017
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

This week's auction is filled with new material we picked up over the last few months along with rarities, unusual pieces, gem crystals, classics and display specimens. You'll even find a few fossils, carving and gemstones mixed in every now and then. Look for pieces mixed in from various collections we've obtained including Willard Wulff, Kay Robertson, Francesco Bedogné, and Paul Zerfass, along with dealers' inventories. Look here for the not so typical mineral specimens along with plenty of your favorites. We don't just offer the "standard 20 species", but an eclectic mix of specimens that appeal to everybody! Enjoy!


Some of the highlights from this week's include:
1. A fine quality and aesthetic intense blue, highly lustrous AZURITE from Touissit, Morocco
2. Selected Mexican and worldwide specimens from the collection of Dr. Miguel Romero!
3. Beautiful large clove purple colored crystals of AXINITE-(Fe) with Adularia from Pakistan
4. Rare and colorful "RAINBOW" ANDRADITE Garnet from Japan
5. A rarely seen specimen of the new and unusual "BLOOD VESSEL" OPAL from Mexico
6. Captivating blue CUPRIAN SMITHSONITE from the Hilarion Mine, in Lavrion, Greece
7. Rarities include GREIFENSTEINITE, GALENOBISMUTITE, ZINCWOODWARDITE (from the type locality), NAUJAKASITE and ALUMOTUNGSITE (aluminium-rich variety of Hydrokenoelsmoreite)
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Uvite (Chrome/Vanadium bearing)
Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Division, Burma
0.3 x 0.3 x 0.2 cm
Galena on Sphalerite (ex Willard Wulff Collection - self collected by Wulff)
Picher Field, Tri-State District, Ottawa County, Oklahoma
4.8 x 4.2 x 2.8 cm
Goethite (ex Willard Wulff Collection) (fine quality)
Florissant, Crystal Peak area, Teller County, Colorado
5.0 x 4.8 x 4.6 cm
Helvine on Natrolite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Tvedalen, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway
1.8 x 1.6 x 0.8 cm
Siderite (gemmy) on Pyrite with Stannite
Siete Suyos mine, Atocha-Quechisla District, Sud Chichas Province, Potosu Department, Bolivia
4.6 x 2.7 x 2.7 cm
Fluorite Carving, Dolphin
Jiangxi Province, China
15.20 grams (76 carats), 47 mm x 21 mm x 13 mm
Hematite replacing Kaolinite
Mitzpe Ramon, Negev Desert, southern Israel
2.2 x 1.7 x 1.2 cm
Chalcanthite
Rio Tinto Mines, Minas de Riotinto, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain
7.1 x 4.7 x 3.0 cm
Vanadinite
Rowley Mine, Theba, Painted Rock Mts, Maricopa County, Arizona
3.5 x 2.6 x 2.1 cm
Galenobismutite (very rare) (ex Joef Vajdak)
Felbertal, Oberpinzgau, Austria
4.3 x 2.7 x 2.2 cm
Ilvaite with Quartz
Dal'negorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
3.5 x 2.8 x 2.8 cm
Zincowoodwardite (extremely rare) (ex Josef Vajdak)
Christiana Mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece (Type Locality)
4.3 x 3.4 x 1.2 cm
Alumotungstite (aluminium-rich variety of Hydrokenoelsmoreite) (extremely rare) (ex Josef Vajdak)
Drakelands Mine (Hemerdon Mine; Hemerdon Bal Mine; Hemerdon Ball Mine), Plympton, Tavistock District, Devon, England, UK
4.0 x 3.2 x 2.2 cm
Minium
Chichi Mine, Guiliacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
5.2 x 3.8 x 1.1 cm
Pyrite (interesting habit)
Canutillos Mine, (Colavi District), Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosu Department, Bolivia
7.1 x 6.8 x 4.7 cm
Malachite with Chrysocolla
San Bernardino County, California
8.2 x 4.7 x 3.4 cm
Calcite on Pyrite pseudomorphs after Pyrrhotite (ex Dr. Miguel Romero Collection)
San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico
8.8 x 6.3 x 5.2 cm
Axinite-(Fe) with Adularia
Khapalu (Khaplu), Ganache District (Ghanche District), Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
7.8 x 7.7 x 4.2 cm
Calcite (ex Dr. Miguel Romero Collection)
San Nicolas, Mun. de Yecora, Sonora, Mexico
3.0 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm
Greifensteinite (very rare) on Muscovite
Xanda Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
7.7 x 4.7 x 4.3 cm
Manandonite (extremely rare) (ex Matioli)
Antandrokomby pegmatite, Manandona Valley, Sahatany Pegmatite Field, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar (Type Locality)
4.1 x 4.0 x 3.7 cm
Naujakasite (super rare) (ex Josef Vajdak)
Kuannersuit Plateau (Kvanefjeld), Ilimaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland
1.2 x 0.6 x 0.6 cm
Carnotite
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire)
5.2 x 2.3 x 1.7 cm
Scapolite (GEM)
Morogoro Region, Tanzania
1.7 x 0.8 x 0.8 cm
Kyanite
Barra de Salinas, Coronel Murta, Jequitinhonha valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
13.4 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm
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