NEW YEAR'S FINE MINERAL COLLECTION and INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 2 of 2) - FEATURING SPECIMENS FROM THE KAY ROBERTSON COLLECTION - end Thursday January 4th, 2018

Ends Thursday, January 4th, 2018
at 6:45 PM (Central Time Zone)

ATTENTION: This auction will run longer than the normal period of time, so as not to interfere with Christmas and New Year's. Please note the closing date is January 4th, 2018. This auction will be combined with the auction that closed on December 21st into one billing cycle, and will start to ship after January 4th.

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 rare, purple and yellow bicolor GEM crystal of Ametrine with a rare "c" {0001} face from Bolivia
2. Excellent and attractive "bent" crystals of bubble gum pink TOURMALINE on QUARTZ from the Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, California
3. Classic, gemmy, rich orange colored DOUBLY-TERMINATED IMPERIAL TOPAZ crystal from Brazil
4. Rarities include species such as TONDIITE, SPHAEROCOBALTITE and BOULANGERITE
5. SUPERB quality, GEMMY cubic crystals of FLUORITE with GALENA from the Stotfield Burn Mine, Weardale, England
6. An aesthetic CALCITE specimen from the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray Co., 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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Fluorite (rare locality) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Linopolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
6.2 x 6.2 x 3.7 cm
Pectolite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada
3.7 x 2.6 x 2.6 cm
Copper (elongated crystals) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Chino Mine, Santa Rita, Santa Rita District, Grant County, New Mexico
6.1 x 3.3 x 1.7 cm
Tondiite (crystals!) (extremely rare)
Maria Mine (Santa Maria Mine), Caleta Vitor district, Arica Province, Arica and Parinacota Region, Chile
3.7 x 3.2 x 1.3 cm
Cerussite (old classic)
Lady Anne Hopetoun shaft (Brow and Hopeful Veins), Wanlock Dod, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
5.3 x 4.7 x 4.0 cm
Bournonite ("cogwheel") (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
La Mure coal mines, La Mure, Isere, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
2.3 x 1.3 x 0.7 cm
Muscovite on Albite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Jocao pegmatite (Cigana claim), Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.7 x 4.7 x 3.2 cm
Quartz (Chalcedony) (Agate) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Idar-Oberstein, Hunsruck, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
8.3 x 5.2 x 1.0 cm
Grossular (var: Hessonite) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Mussa Alp (Pian della Mussa), Balme, Ala Valley, Lanzo Valleys, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
8.7 x 4.2 x 2.1 cm
Columbite / Tantalite (twin) with Muscovite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Linopolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.1 x 1.7 x 1.1 cm
Diopside (rare locale) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Pipestone Mine, Bald Mountain, Boulder Batholith, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA
2.2 x 2.1 x 1.2 cm
Amazonite on Hematite pseudomorph after Siderite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Black and Blue Mine, Harris Park, Park County, Colorado
4.6 x 3.2 x 2.3 cm
Danburite (rare blue color) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Alto Chapare, Chapare Province, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia
7.8 x 5.2 x 2.7 cm
Ilvaite with Quartz and Hedenbergite (ex Obodda)
Dal'negorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
7.2 x 7.2 x 4.2 cm
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin area, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Central South Region, China
2.1 x 1.0 x 0.8 cm
Tourmaline ("curved" crystals) on Quartz
Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California
5.7 x 5.1 x 2.1 cm
Hematite on Quartz (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Altenberg Mine, Littfeld, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
5.7 x 5.2 x 3.2 cm
Libethenite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Nchanga Mine, Chingola, Chingola District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
2.5 x 2.4 x 0.6 cm
Emerald on matrix (ex Rolando Gioia Collection)
Carnaiba mining district, Pindobacu, Campo Formoso ultramafic complex, Bahia, Brazil
6.2 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm
Sphaerocobaltite (rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Kamoto, Kolwezi District, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo
4.7 x 4.1 x 2.2 cm
Aegirine (big crystals)
Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi
13.2 x 3.3 x 2.7 cm
Aeschinite-(Y) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Miass (Miask), Ilmen Natural Reserve, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia
9.1 x 5.2 x 3.3 cm
Azurite on Malachite (ex Jack Halpern Collection)
Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker District, Jerada Province, L'oriental Region, Morocco
8.0 x 5.2 x 3.1 cm
Boulangerite (rare) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Goldberg Mine, near Muesen, Hilchenbach, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
7.7 x 5.4 x 2.6 cm
Wulfenite on Calcite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Old Yuma Mine, Pima County, Arizona
9.2 x 5.2 x 3.7 cm
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