FINE MINERAL COLLECTION & INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION - Ends January 30, 2020

A great selection this week with plenty of attractive, good quality, rare and unusual specimens.  Look for new discoveries that we picked up at recent shows or direct from the source, plus we have plenty of pieces from the newly acquired Gary Weaver collection along with a newly purchased prominent worldwide collection from the Midwest, plus dealers' inventories, and plenty from Kay Robertson!  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. GEM quality AZURITE crystals from Milpillas, Mexico
2. Excellent multi-color "phantom" FLUORITE crystals from La Viesca, Spain
3. New find of beautiful fine quality PREHNITE crystals from Merelani, Tanzania
4. Gemmy RHODOCHROSITE crystal from 1978 from the Sweet Home Mine
5. Superb quality CELESTINE crystal group from Minerva #1 Mine, Illinois
6. Rare PURPLE GEM QUALITY ALBITE crystals from Pakistan
7. Rarities include SPANGOLITE, GAUDEFROYITE, SENEGALITE, SUSSEXITE and PARATACAMITE
8. Plenty of cool US and European minerals and various rarities from the collection of Kay Robertson
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Anatase (rare locality specimen) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Dodo Mine, Saranpaul, Khanty-Mansi Okrug, Tyumenskaya Oblast', Prepolar Ural, Western-Siberian Region, Russia
5.1 x 3.2 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $20
Albite (Cleavelandite / Perthite) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Pala District, San Diego County, California
6.3 x 4.3 x 4.1 cm
Chrysocolla pseudomorph after Hemimorphite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizona
7.3 x 3.4 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $53
Hematite (old classic material) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
3.8 x 3.4 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $51
Spinel (rare locality specimen) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
San Benito County, California
3.8 x 2.7 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $67
Sphalerite ("Spinel"-twins) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Stari Trg Mine, Trepca, Kosovska Mitrovica, District of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo
3.9 x 2.3 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $30
Fluorite (color shift twinned crystals)
Greenlaws Mine, Daddry Shield, Stanhope, Co. Durham, England, UK
10.4 x 6.7 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $170
Aquamarine (good color) (ex Gary Weaver Collection)
Thank You Lord Claim, Mt. Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado
5.0 x 3.7 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $88
Senegalite (incredibly rare) (ex David Burgess Collection)
Mount Kourou Diakouma (Kouroudiako), Saraya, Falémé River basin, Tambacounda Region, Senegal (Type Locality)
8.1 x 7.1 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Sussexite (6 piece set) (ex Richard A. Kosnar Collection)
Franklin mine, Sussex County, New Jersey
1.1 x 0.3 x 0.2 cm to 2.2 x 0.5 x 0.2 cm
Winning Bid: $40
Fluorite (GEM "phantom" cubes)
La Viesca Mine, Huergo, La Collada mining area, Siero, Asturias, Spain
5.8 x 4.9 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $141
Paratacamite (rare)
Lily Mine, Pisco Umay, Ica, Peru
3.9 x 1.8 x 0.7 cm
Winning Bid: $36
Bismutite after Bismuthinite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Alto Ligonha District, Zambezia Province, Mozambique
5.3 x 1.7 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $115
Jarosite with Copiapite and Natrojarosite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Cape Calamita Mine (Calamita Mine), Capoliveri, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
4.7 x 2.7 x 2.3 cm
Winning Bid: $25
Albite (rare GEM PURPLE crystals!)
Khyber Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
6.7 x 5.2 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $880