FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends April 22, 2021

We have a great selection this week, featuring plenty of attractive, fine quality, classic, contemporary, rare and unusual specimens. Look for new discoveries that we picked up at shows or direct from the source. We also have plenty of pieces from various collections that we've purchased over the last year or so including David Burgess, Bob Reynolds, Chet Lemanski, Dave Bergman and more ! You might even find the occasional fossil, lapidary or gem item from time to time. 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! Some of the highlights from this week’s auction include:


1. Doubly-terminated TOURMALINE from the Himalaya Mine, California (ex Dave Bergman Collection)
2. "Leaf" GOLD on QUARTZ from the Oriental Mine, California
3. Fine LINARITE with CALEDONITE from the Reward Mine, California
4. Beautiful unique PURPLE QUARTZ from Indonesia
5. Classic BOURNONITE from the Herodsfoot Mine, Cornwall, England
6. Attractive rarely seen matrix "FADEN" QUARTZ from Pakistan
7. Rarely seen MILLERITE with SIEGENITE from the Eugenia Mine, Spain
8. Wonderful WIRE SILVER specimen from the Beaverdell, British Columbia, Canada
9. Hard to find MOLYBDENITE with RHODOCHROSITE from the Henderson Mine, Colorado
10. Rarities include: ZINC-BEARING OLIVENITE, ANDORITE, VAUXITE, PARAVAUXITE and GOLDMANITE

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Tourmaline (doubly-terminated crystal) (ex Dave Bergman Collection)
Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California, USA
3.8 x 0.8 x 0.8 cm
Winning Bid: $470
Gold on Quartz
Oriental Mine, 16 to 1 Mine, Alleghany, Alleghany Mining District, Sierra County, California, USA
1.4 x 1.2 x 0.7 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Vauxite with Paravauxite (very rare)
Siglo XX Mine, Llallagua, Bustillo Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia (Type Locality for both species)
7.1 x 5.1 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $802
Barite (ex Dave Bergman Collection)
Estano Orcko mine, Colavi District, Potosi Department, Bolivia
7.1 x 5.3 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Andradite Garnet (var: Demantoid)
Ghazni Province, Afghanistan
7.3 x 5.2 x 4.6 cm
Winning Bid: $211
Quartz (Faden) (RARE matrix piece!)
Tole (Tui), Wana, South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
10.3 x 4.3 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $378
Wulfenite (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)
Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
2.2 x 2.2 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $170
Bornite (ex David Burgess Collection)
Dzhezkazgan mining district, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
5.0 x 4.2 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $132
Wire Silver
Beaverdell, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
1.1 x 0.8 x 0.1 cm
Winning Bid: $85
Hemimorphite with Calcite (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)
Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdan, Chihuahua, Mexico
7.5 x 7.3 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Fluorite (classic material)
Moscona Mine, Solis, Corvera de Asturias, Villabona mining area, Asturias, Spain
13.2 x 10.3 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $232
Millerite with Siegenite (rare locality specimen) (ex Raul Sanabria Orellana Collection)
Eugenia Mine, Bellmunt del Priorat, Priorat, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
3.7 x 2.2 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Augelite (rare green color) (ex Dave Bergman Collection)
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Mundo Nuevo, Huamachuco, Sanchez Carrion Province, La Libertad, Peru
3.1 x 2.7 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $72
Andorite (fine quality crystals)
San Jose Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia
3.8 x 3.3 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $111
Rhodochrosite on Quartz
Sunnyside Mine, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
3.8 x 3.7 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $150
Goldmanite (rare Garnet species)
Rybnícek, Pezinok Co., Bratislava Region, Slovakia
4.2 x 4.0 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Hemimorphite (fine blue color) (2020 discovery)
M'Fouati Mine, Bouenza Department, Republic of the Congo
10.4 x 8.8 x 6.4 cm
Winning Bid: $210
Prehnite (classic material (ex Hobart Jones Collection)
Prospect Park Quarry, Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
6.7 x 6.2 x 5.5 cm
Winning Bid: $60
Wulfenite with Duftite(?)
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
3.1 x 2.4 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Inyoite altering to Meyerhofferite (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)
Monte Blanco, Black Mountains, Amargosa Range, Inyo County, California, USA
8.7 x 6.3 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $211
Malachite (''Primary'' Malachite)
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi mining district, Lualaba, DR Congo
4.9 x 4.6 x 2.9 cm
Winning Bid: $87
Stilbite with Heulandite Stalactites (ex Tom Campbell Collection)
Nasik Quarry, Maharashtra, India
6.5 x 2.8 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $139
Linarite with Caledonite (classic material) (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)
Reward Mine, Reward, Russ District, Inyo Mts, Inyo County, California, USA
5.0 x 3.2 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $151
Pyrite (ex Gary Weaver Collection)
Huanzala Mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Huánuco Department, Peru
3.9 x 3.3 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $69
Purple Quartz (''Grape'' Quartz)
Mamuju area, Sulawesi Barat Province, Sulawesi, Indonesia
5.3 x 3.2 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Calcite (classic material) (ex Dave Bergman Collection)
Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri, USA
7.3 x 5.6 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Pink Quartz (new find)
Choique Mine, Pehuenches Department, Neuquén Province, Argentina
4.9 x 4.0 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $167
Fluorapatite (classic material) (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)
Pea Ridge Mine, Washington Co., Missouri, USA
3.3 x 3.1 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $35
Fluorite on Quartz ''cast'' after Calcite
La Fluorita Dulcita Claim, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona
5.2 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $139
Ilvaite
Second Sovietsky Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
4.3 x 1.3 x 0.8 cm
Winning Bid: $180