FINE MINERAL COLLECTION and INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 2 of 2) - end July 13th, 2017

Ends Thursday, July 13th, 2017
at 7:00 PM (Central Time Zone)

This week's auction is filled with plenty of new discoveries 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. Doubly-terminated GEMMY pink and green TOURMALINE from the Himalaya Mine in California
2. A fine quality, gemmy sapphire-blue color crystal of AFGHANITE aesthetically sitting on matrix
3. Classic "rose" of rich blue AZURITE from the famous Czar Mine in Bisbee, Arizona
4. A GEM quality compressed purple cubic crystal of FLUORITE from the Llamas Quarry in Spain
5. Lovely semi-spherical green PREHNITE sitting on QUARTZ from the Hongquizhen Quarry, China
6. Beautiful sharp cuboctahedral light green color FLUORITE crystals on SPHALERITE from Naica, Mexico
7. A very cool, historic specimen of SYNTHETIC QUARTZ from Motorola Laboratories
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Tourmaline (Doubly-Terminated)
Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, California
2.6 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm
Fluorite on Sphalerite
Gibraltor Mine, Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
8.8 x 8.3 x 5.7 cm
Kernite (rare)
U.S. Borax open pit, U.S. Borax Mine, Kramer Borate deposit, Boron, Kramer District, Kern County, California
5.0 x 0.7 x 0.4 cm
Dioptase
Christoph Mine, Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region, Namibia
3.0 x 0.9 x 0.8 cm
Copper ("spinel twin")
Chino Mine, Santa Rita, Grant County, New Mexico
2.7 x 0.7 x 0.7 cm
Calcite
Tieshan Fe-Cu deposit (Daye iron mine), Tieshan District, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China
4.7 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm
Amazonite
near Lake George, Park County, Colorado
2.2 x 2.2 x 1.3 cm
Fluorite (GEM quality)
Llamas Quarry, Duyos, Obdulia vein, Caravia District, Caravia mining area, Asturias, Spain
1.3 x 1.2 x 0.4 cm
Calcite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Picher Field, Tri-State District, Ottawa County, Oklahoma
7.1 x 5.7 x 3.2 cm
Lazulite
Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada
4.3 x 3.9 x 1.8 cm
Pyrite (ex Raymond Schortmann Collection)
Gassetts, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont
2.9 x 2.6 x 1.6 cm to 1.3 x 1.2 x 0.9 cm
Halite on Trona
Owens Lake, Inyo County, California
12.7 x 10.3 x 3.8 cm
Spessartine Garnet on Doubly-Terminated Smoky Quartz
Wushan, Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian, East Region, China
3.7 x 1.6 x 1.4 cm
Barite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Stoneham, Weld County, Colorado
2.6 x 1.3 x 0.8 cm
Rhodochrosite
Wutong (Wudong) Mine, Liubao ("Babu"), Cangwu Co., Wuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
1.6 x 0.7 x 0.4 cm
Galena (Spinel-Law twins)
Big Bear Orebody, Area 312, Fletcher Mine, Centerville, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri
2.5 x 2.3 x 1.6 cm
Almandine (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Sedalia Copper Mine, north of Salida, Chaffee Coounty, Colorado
3.1 x 2.8 x 2.4 cm
Meionite (Scapolite) ("Ersbyite") (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Pargas, Southwestern Finland Region, Finland
3.1 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm
Beryl (var: Heliodor)
Bin Thuan Province, Vietnam
0.8 x 0.3 x 0.3 cm
Flint in Chalk
Mt Carmel, Haifa, Israel
8.8 x 6.8 x 6.5 cm
Diaspore (rare color)
Mung Hsu (Monghsu; Maing Hsu), Loilem District (Loilen District), Shan State, Burma (Myanmar)
0.5 x 0.3 x 0.1 cm
Calcite (pseudo-pyritohedral)
Shizhuyuan Mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
11.2 x 6.8 x 5.0 cm
Wulfenite
Mobile Mine, Goodsprings District, Spring Mts, Clark County, Nevada
8.7 x 5.3 x 4.2 cm
Ruby
Ampanihy District, Southwestern Region, Tulear Province (Toliara), Madagascar
2.1 x 1.6 x 1.0 cm
Calcite (ex Dr. Miguel Romero Collection)
Level 16, Potosi Mine, Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico
6.1 x 5.7 x 2.1 cm
Smoky Quartz (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Crystal Peak area, Teller County, Colorado
5.2 x 3.2 x 2.2 cm
Obsidian ("Apache Tear") on matrix
Picketpost Mountain area, Superior, Superior District, Pinal County, Arizona
5.3 x 4.7 x 4.2 cm
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