FINE MINERAL COLLECTION AUCTIONS featuring OLD CLASSICS - ENDS MARCH 11, 2021

THIS WEEK we are proud to offer you another extra-special set featuring mostly (but not all) old classics from collections we spent the last few months unpacking. Look for first sight of many new specimens from the lifelong collections of:  Dr. Bob Reynolds, long the curator at the San Bernardino County Museum; Chet Lemanski (Lemanskiite and MINDAT fame); and Dr. James Carter’s estate here in Dallas. So many items in these collections, we simply never see on the market today – and yet here they are, up for auction! These are NOT show leftovers, but are being released FIRST to the internet. There are many $1000-5000 specimens here, and a few above that in value if you look carefully....enjoy

Some of the highlights from this week’s auction include:

1. Superb large SCHEELITE & MUSCOVITE

2. PYRITE from the Dr Miguel Romero Collection!

3. Superb VIVIANITE in fossilized molluscs, from Crimea

4. California classics and rarities from the Bob Reynolds Collection including TOURMALINES and WULFENITE

5. AQUAMARINE & MUSCOVITE

6. large rare ADULARIA from the Ed David Collection

7. FLUORITE (red fluorescence!) from the famous 1988 Mexican find

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Baryte (Rob Reynolds Coll.) - rare USA classic!
Indian Head Rock, Basin, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA
12.0 x 7.7 x 5.7 cm
Winning Bid: $331
Fluorite (famous rare classic - RED fluorescence!)
Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexio
11.9 x 8.4 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $4,075
Rosasite w/ Baryte (rare combo) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexio
4.3 x 3.1 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $99
Malachite (classic old Bisbee!) Parnau & Reynolds Coll.
Cole Shaft, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
10.3 x 6.8 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $221
Pyromorphite (3 generations) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA
7.8 x 5.7 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $1,013
Wulfenite w/ Calcite (1990 find) Bob Reynolds Coll.
230' Level, Glove Mine, Cottonwood Canyon, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA
15.0 x 10.5 x 6.7 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Bi-colored Amethyst (RARE Calif. locale) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Crystal Ridge, Johnson Spring, Inyo Mts., Inyo Co., California, USA
11.4 x 7.6 x 5.9 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Aurichalcite (RARE CA) Bob Reynolds Coll.
Mohawk Mine, Clark Mts., San Bernardino Co., California, USA
11.8 x 10.4 x 8.2 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Cerussite (fluorescent) & Baryte (Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Mibladen, Midelt, Draa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
11.4 x 11.2 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $124
large Azurite plate (classic locale) Chet Lemanski Coll.
Morenci Mine, Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
14.7 x 11.7 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $885
Tourmaline, Lepidolite & Feldspar (Bill Larson Coll.)
Malkhan pegmatite field, Krasnyi Chikoy, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
10.3 x 10.0 x 0.5 cm
Winning Bid: $500
Superb large Scheelite & Muscovite (Bob Reynolds Coll.)
Pingwu beryl mine, Mt Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Sichuan, China
15.4 x 13.0 x 5.7 cm
Winning Bid: $2,750
Rhodochrosite (old classic locale)
Rothenberg Mine, Oberneisen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
6.5 x 4.9 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $190
Pyromorphite (old classic) W.L. Beer and Bob Reynolds Coll.
Rosenberg Mine, Braubach, Bad Ems Dist., Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
6.5 x 6.5 x 6.2 cm
Winning Bid: $232
Baryte on Fluorite (Minette & Reynolds Coll.)
Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA
8.5 x 6.3 x 4.9 cm
Winning Bid: $485
large historic Zincite, Calcite and Willemite ex Kay Robertson
Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
14.3 x 12.2 x 6.0 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Epidote ex Kay Robertson
Baja California, Mexico
6.0 x 3.9 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Magnetite w/ Adularia, etc. (RARE old 1800s classic ) ex Scott Williams Coll.
Ritter pass, Chummibort, Grengiols, Valais, Switzerland
6.2 x 4.9 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $363
Scheelite (RARE AZ locale!) ex Romero, Panczner & Lemanski Coll.
Comstock Lode Mine (Cohen Mine), Dos Cabezas Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
5.3 x 5.0 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $422
Rhodochrosite - unusual botroidal style
Ushkatyn No. 3 deposit, Zhayrem, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
9.8 x 5.2 x 5.1 cm
Winning Bid: $143
K Feldspar var. Adularia w/ Clinochlore (Ed David Coll.)
Churka, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
12.3 x 9.8 x 7.8 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Apatite on Epidote (dated 1914) ex Kay Robertson
Obersulsbachtal, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria
10.6 x 6.3 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $180
Azurite (James Carter Coll.)
Shilu Mine, Yangchun Co., Guangdong, China
4.5 x 3.3 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Spinel-twinned Copper (New Find)
Rocklands Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia
4.3 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $625