FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends January 14th, 2020

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.  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. Fantastic classic EPIDOTE "Faden" from Pakistan
2. Historic fine quality PHOSGENITE on matrix from the Monteponi Mine, Italy
3. Excellent quality, deep red SPESSARTINE GARNET on matrix from Pakistan
4. Wonderful old crystallized COPPER specimen from the Emke Mine, Onganja, Namibia
5. Superb old classic golden BARITE from the Wet Grooves Mine in England
6. Beautiful and rare "TRAPICHE" RUBY crystal from Myanmar (Burma)
7. Classic silvery GALENA crystals on matrix from Neudorf, Germany
8. Large, attractive, complex, gemmy SPHALERITE crystal group from China
9. A cool historic SYNTHETIC QUARTZ from Bell Telephone Laboratories
10. Rarities include LIVEINGITE, RAMSDELLITE and GETCHELLITE
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Molybdenite on Quartz (rare locality specimen) (ex Raul Orellana Collection)
Los Taberneros Quarry (La Cabrera pluton), El Berrueco, Community of Madrid, Spain
8.3 x 7.8 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $179
Ferberite (twin) with Marcasite
Tasna Mine, Cerro Tasna, Nor Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia
6.3 x 3.5 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $279
Benitoite (classic material)
Dallas Gem Mine, San Benito County, California
4.8 x 3.8 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $150
Gypsum (fishtail twins) with sand inclusions
Great Salt Plains, Jet, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma
6.3 x 3.0 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $210
Malachite pseudomorph after Cuprite (old classic)
Chessy Copper Mines, Villefranche-sur-Saone, Rhone, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
1.2 x 1.1 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Adamite (classic material)
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
5.3 x 3.8 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $176
Pyrite (beautifully modified crystals!)
Nanisivik Mine, Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
3.7 x 2.4 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $454
Plumbogummite pseudomorphing after Pyromorphite
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo Co., Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
3.8 x 1.4 x 1.1 cm
Winning Bid: $99
Copper (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)
Emke Mine, Ogonja (Onganja), Seeis, Windhoek District, Khomas Region, Namibia
5.8 x 4.7 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $320
Ruby (rare "Trapiche" habit)
Mong Hsu, Loilem District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma)
0.5 x 0.5 x 0.3 cm
Winning Bid: $210
Tourmaline (multi-color gem crystals)
Cruzeiro Mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.8 x 1.3 x 0.8 cm
Winning Bid: $106
Sphalerite (large gemmy complex crystals)
Rucheng Mine, Caojia, Nuanshui, Rucheng Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
7.2 x 6.4 x 4.7 cm
Winning Bid: $333
Aquamarine (with hollow termination) (ex Gary Weaver Collection)
Mt. Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado
2.7 x 1.4 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $80
Fluorite
De'an Fluorite Mine, Wushan, De'an Co., Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi, China
11.2 x 5.3 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $379
Wulfenite with Mimetite
San Francisco Mine, Cerro Prieto, Cucurpe, Mun. de Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico
6.2 x 4.9 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Azurite
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Mun. de Cananea, Sonora, Mexico
5.0 x 3.6 x 1.7
Winning Bid: $211
Galena on Quartz (classic material)
Neudorf, Harzgerode mining district, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
6.6 x 4.8 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $180
Fluorite (ex Dave Bergman Collection) (collected 1978)
Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Park County, Colorado
8.0 x 5.3 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $179
Spessartine Garnet with Albite on Microcline
Shengus (Shingus), Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
5.2 x 4.4 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $379
Quartz (attractive habit) (ex Gary Weaver Collection)
Little Giant Peak (13,200 feet), Little Giant Basin, Arrastra Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado
6.4 x 5.3 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $28
Getchellite (superb are rare) with Orpiment and Stibnite
Twin Creeks Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada
3.1 x 2.0 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $281
Fluorite (ex David Burgess Collection)
Moscona Mine, Solis, Corvera de Asturias, Villabona mining area, Asturias, Spain
7.4 x 4.7 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $156
Calcite (excellent old classic) (ex Miller Collection)
Matlock, Derbyshire, England, UK
4.3 x 4.1 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $170
Wavellite (classic material) (ex Henry de Linde Collection)
Henry de Linde Mine, Dug Hill, Avant, Garland County, Arkansas
9.8 x 9.4 x 7.2 cm
Winning Bid: $256
Phosgenite (fine classic material) (ex David Burgess Collection)
Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
3.5 x 2.5 x 2.4 cm
Winning Bid: $454
Gold Ore (ex David Burgess Collection)
Simmer and Jack Mine, South Africa
5.3 x 2.3 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $270
Hemimorphite with Calcite
Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdan Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
5.0 x 4.0 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $61
Fluorite (GEM crystals) with Calcite (ex Dr. Stephen Smale Collection)
Xianghualing Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
5.1 x 3.9 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $232
Dioptase with Wulfenite and Mimetite (2018 find)
Ntola Mine, Mindouli, Mindouli District, Pool Department, Republic of the Congo
9.1 x 8.2 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $361
Fire Opal (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)
Queretaro, Mexico
4.1 x 3.6 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $105