FINE MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - Ends Thursday April 2, 2020

This week's special auction set features great selection of minerals including MANY historic classics, as well as some old Chinese and Brazilian material, only available from old collections!

Highlights this week include:

1) A fine MONTEBRASITE matrix gem crystal from Brazil

2) TOURMALINES

3) A significant MATRIX CARROLLITE from the 1990s finds

4) Rare Kalahari BIXBYITE and other minerals from the Charlie Key collection

5) A fine, unusual MICHIGAN COPPER

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Beryl var Morganite
Aracuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.8 x 3.0 x 2.1cm
Winning Bid: $93
Malachite
Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
4.6 x 3.6 x 3.6cm
Winning Bid: $26
Pyrite with Calcite (rare for the locality)
Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
4.4 x 4.0 x 2.0cm
Winning Bid: $26
Tourmaline var. Elbaite with Lepidolite
Koksha Valley, Jurm District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
6.3 x 1.8 x 1.7cm
Winning Bid: $210
Coquimbite
Javier Mine, Huacuas, Ayacucho, Peru
5.3 x 3.5 x 2.5cm
Winning Bid: $38
Arsenopyrite
Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico
4.7 x 3.4 x 2.7cm
Winning Bid: $37
Calcite (classic China locale)
coal mine in Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China
4.7 x 3.4 x 3.0cm
Winning Bid: $50
Elbaite and Albite
Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
4.2 x 2.3 x 2.0cm
Winning Bid: $41
Vanadinite
Mibladen, Midelt Province, Draa-Tafilalet, Morocco
5.8 x 4.9 x 3.5cm
Winning Bid: $76
Fluorite on Quartz
Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USA
11.3 x 8.7 x 6.5cm
Winning Bid: $110
Quartz var Smoky (fine TN!)
Steinkophf, Namaqualand, Northern Cape, South Africa
3.0 x 2.2 x 1.6cm
Winning Bid: $50
Inderite (great for species)
U.S. Borax Mine, Boron, Kern Co., California, USA
10.3 x 1.5 x 1.0cm
Winning Bid: $533
Fluorite with Quartz and Pyrite
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
4.2 x 3.6 x 3.4cm
Winning Bid: $71
Philipsburgite
Black Pine Mine, Granite Co., Montana, USA
0.8 x 0.6 x 0.6cm
Winning Bid: $107
Mimetite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
3.3 x 3.2 x 2.8cm
Winning Bid: $35
Pyromorphite
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng Co., Guilin, Guangxi, China
5.7 x 3.7 x 2.3cm
Winning Bid: $210
Vanadinite
Mibladen, Midelt Province, Draa-Tafilalet, Morocco
3.6 x 3.3 x 3.2cm
Winning Bid: $40
Tourmaline var. Liddicoatite
Antandrokomby Pegmatite, Manandona, Ambositra, Madagascar
4.0 x 1.6 x 1.3cm
Winning Bid: $218
Bournonite ex Campbell Collection
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
3.5 x 2.1 x 2.1cm
Winning Bid: $50
Oyelite ps after Apophyllite on Calcite ex Charlie Key
N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa
4.0 x 3.1 x 1.5cm
Winning Bid: $36
Ettringite (fine TN, ex Charlie Key Coll)
N'Chwaning II Mine, Kuruman, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa
2.2 x 1.0 x 1.0cm
Winning Bid: $90
Brazilianite (type locale circa 1940's)
Corrego Frio Mine, Linopolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.5 x 2.3 x 2.1cm
Winning Bid: $117
Smoky Quartz and Microcline (rare locality piece)
Papachacra Pegmatites, Papachacra, Catamarca Province, Argentina
7.4 x 5.6 x 2.2cm
Winning Bid: $103
Primary Malachite (uncommon Brazilian locale)
Seabra, Bahia, Brazil
7.1 x 5.7 x 3.2cm
Winning Bid: $40
fine Montebrasite with Albite (Brazilian classic, ex Campbell Coll)
Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.3 x 4.5 x 4.1cm
Winning Bid: $315
Enargite (great TN for species)
Quiruvilca Mine, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad, Peru
2.9 x 2.5 x 2.2cm
Winning Bid: $20
Beryl var Aquamarine
Mt Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Sichuan, China
5.3 x 5.0 x 2.8cm
Winning Bid: $43
Purple Scapolite
Koksha Valley, Jurm District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
3.8 x 2.0 x 1.7cm
Winning Bid: $213
Carrollite (fine old TN)
Kambove, Democratic Republic of the Congo
2.2 x 1.5 x 1.5cm
Winning Bid: $61
Carrollite (great form, rare on matrix!)
Kamoya Mine, Kambove District, Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo
5.0 x 4.3 x 2.7cm
Winning Bid: $162