FINE MINERAL COLLECTION and INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 2 of 2) - FEATURING SPECIMENS FROM THE KAY ROBERTSON COLLECTION - end Thursday January 11th, 2018

Ends Thursday, January 11th, 2018
at 6:45 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, carvings / lapidary items 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 auction include:

1. Beautiful pink and green TOURMALINE on matrix from the Pederneira Mine, Brazil
2. Rarities include HYDROXYLELLESTADITE, PENTLANDITE, MORENOSITE and SURASSITE
3. FINE QUALITY, gemmy green crystals of EPIDOTE on matrix from Afghanistan
4. Lovely, gemmy golden-green colored crystals of SIDERITE with PYRITE and STANNITE from Bolivia
5. RARE specimen of KOSNARITE from the collection of Richard A. Kosnar
6. Classic QUARTZ with CALCITE from the Camp Bird Mine in Colorado (ex Dave Bergman Collection)
7. Assorted specimens from Brazil from the collection of Rolando Gioia
8. PAGE 2 features assorted minerals from the Kay Robertson Collection!
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Azurite altering to Malachite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Touissit-Bou Beker District, Jerada Province, L'oriental Region, Morocco
2.9 x 2.3 x 2.0 cm
Calcite (classic locale) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Leonard Mine, Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana
8.3 x 6.2 x 4.6 cm
Andradite (rare locale) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Junnila Mine, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California
8.3 x 6.2 x 2.6 cm
Calcite (tabular) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Boltsburn Mine, Rookhope District, Weardale, North Pennines, Co. Durham, England, UK
6.3 x 5.2 x 4.8 cm
Minium (rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Bertha shaft, Neue Hoffnung Mine, Bleialf, Prum, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4.3 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm
Natrolite (gemmy) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Chimney Rock Quarry, Bound Brook, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
4.3 x 1.6 x 1.6 cm
Enargite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Casapalca Mine, Casapalca, Huarochiri Province, Lima Department, Peru
4.3 x 4.1 x 2.7 cm
Illite pseudomorph after Halite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
"Auburn Shale", near Peru, Nemaha County, Nebraska
11.1 x 8.3 x 1.2 cm
Datolite (rare material) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Rauschermuhle Quarry, Niederkirchen, Otterberg, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
6.6 x 5.7 x 3.8 cm
Malachite with Calcite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Kabwe Mine (Broken Hill Mine), Kabwe (Broken Hill), Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia
6.3 x 4.2 x 3.6 cm
Astrophyllite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaya Oblast', Northern Region, Russia
5.6 x 3.6 x 3.3 cm
Mottramite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Summit Mine, Radersburg District, Broadwater County, Montana
5.1 x 4.3 x 1.6 cm
Bazzite (rare Beryl species) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Kent Massif, Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan
6.0 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm
Liottite (very rare) with Vesuvianite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Case Collina, Pitigliano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy (Type Locality)
2.7 x 2.3 x 1.1 cm
Sursassite (rare) (ex Francesco Bedogne Collection)
Molinello Mine, Graveglia Valley, Ne, Genova Province, Liguria, Italy
5.3 x 4.7 x 1.7 cm
Quartz pseudomorph after Epidote with Hematite and Goethite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Bessemer Ridge, Green Mountain, North Bend, King County], Washington
9.3 x 2.7 x 2.1 cm
Nickeliferous Arsenpoyrite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Marienberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
6.3 x 5.2 x 1.6 cm
Prehnite
Sandare District, Kayes Region, Mali
5.7 x 2.3 x 1.9 cm
Pentlandite (rare)
Ducktown, Polk County, Tennessee
3.1 x 2.4 x 1.2 cm
Scheelite on Quartz (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
5.3 x 4.7 x 1.2 cm
Hemimorphite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Wenshan Mine, Dulong ore field, Wenshan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China
5.1 x 4.7 x 4.3 cm
Atacamite (rare locality) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Ravensthorpe, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
7.3 x 5.6 x 3.2 cm
Canasite (extremely rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Vostochnyi area (Eastern), Sirenevyi Kamen' Deposit, Murunskii Massif, Chara and Tokko Rivers Confluence, Aldan Shield, Sakha Republic, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia
3.6 x 2.8 x 1.2 cm
Kaolinite pseudomorph after Leucite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Fosso Cancherone, Sant'Anastasia, Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
4.1 x 3.7 x 2.3 cm
Plumbogummite with Pyromorphite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England, UK
6.5 x 3.2 x 2.7 cm
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