FINE OLD MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 1 of 2) - FEATURING RARE SPECIMENS FROM OLD COLLECTIONS !- end Thursday April 12, 2018

ends Thursday April 12, 2018
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

We obtained an old East Coast collection just before the Tucson show and left it all at home, to offer on the internet first! Lots of old classics here! See gem crystals, rare species, old USA and German classics, and many good specimens that are hard to find at any price, let alone at auction! Plus, we included a number of holdbacks from other old mineral collections we have liquidated, for a great variety here of speicmens including things worth $1000s of dollars, satrting at only $10


Some of the highlights from this week's include:

1. MONT SAINT-HILAIRE superb THUMBNAIL classics from the Charlie Key Collection
2. Old, rare crystallized NICKELINE and MIMETITE from Europe.
3. Large Mexico AMETHYST w/ WATER BUBBLE inclusion !
4. Rare Montana BOLEITE and Utah WULFENITE
5. Superb rare SANTABARABARITE from Kerch.
6. OLD CLASSIC MINERALS from the Kay Robertson and an East Coast collection
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Ettringite on Oyelite
N'Chwaning mines, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
6.2 x 4.7 x 4.2 cm
Native Copper w/ Epidote & Malachite (classic locale)
Central Mine, Central, Keweenaw Co., Michigan
11.7 x 7.2 x 4.0 cm
Calcite (2 generations)
Madawaska Mine (Faraday Mine), Hastings Co., Ontario, Canada
9.3 x 6.1 x 3.0 cm
Galena (old - RARE locale)
Duenweg, Joplin Field, Tri-State District, Jasper Co., Missouri
7.8 x 6.8 x 5.3 cm
Faden Quartz (Paul Otto Coll.)
Dara Ismael Khan District, South Waziristan, FATA, Pakistan
5.5 x 5.0 x 4.9 cm
Aragonite (fluorescent) w/ Epidote ex Obodda
Alchuri, Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
7.2 x 4.1 x 2.4 cm
Hulsite (rare borate) Vajdak Coll.
Zlaty Kopec, Jachymov District, Krusne Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Bohemia, Czech Republic
7.7 x 4.7 x 2.1 cm
Dolomite & Quartz
Shangbao Mine, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
10.4 x 6.8 x 4.5 cm
Wulfenite (RARE Utah locale)
Tecoma Hill Occurrence, Tecoma Hill Mines, Great Salt Lake Desert, Box Elder Co., Utah
7.4 x 5.3 x 5.0 cm
Fluorite w/ Hematite, Baryte & Dolomite (Robertson Coll.)
Erika Mine, Saulnhof, Wolsendorf Fluorite Mining District, Bavaria, Germany
9.8 x 7.3 x 4.0 cm
Suredaite (Type Locality - ultra rare sulfosalt) Vajdak Coll.
Oploca Vein System, Pirquitas Ag-Sn Deposit, Jujuy, Argentina
2.8 x 2.8 x 2.1 cm (BOX)
Silver nugget (classic locale)
Copper Country, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan
3.6 x 2.1 x 1.0 cm
Baryte (Heini Soltau Coll.)
Nchanga Mine, Chingola District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
3.4 x 2.1 x 1.4 cm
Prehnite
Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey
11.1 x 6.6 x 4.8 cm
Pyromorphite (rare style & locale) Robertson Coll.
Pyromorphite Mine, Mt. Shoobridge, Northern Territory, Australia
12.0 x 8.7 x 6.3 cm
Fluorapophyllite w/ Mesolite (Robertson Coll.)
Palabora mine, Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province, South Africa
6.0 x 5.2 x 4.2 cm
Microcline
nr. Florissant, Teller Co., Colorado
9.3 x 6.7 x 4.0 cm
Quartz gwindel (rare Pakistan ) Paul Otto Coll.
Zagi Mountain, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
4.4 x 3.2 x 1.8 cm
Malachite ps. After Azurite
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
4.3 x 3.2 x 1.4 cm
Large Stibnite wand
Wuling Mine, Jiujiang Prefect., Jiangxi Province, China
21.3 x 2.0 x 0.9 cm
Gem Kunzite (2010 find - 104 grams)
Oceanview Mine, Chief Mountain, Pala District, San Diego County, California
11.3 x 3.5 x 1.9 cm
Chalcopyrite & Siderite on Quartz (classic locale) Robertson Coll.
Georg Mine, Willroth, Wied Iron Spar District, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
9.3 x 5.7 x 2.3 cm
Calcite twins (rare style - fluorescent) Wolfe Coll.
Remedios Mine, Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico
12.4 x 10.4 x 4.0 cm
DT gem Herkimer Quartz "diamond"
Middleville, Herkimer Co., New York
4.5 x 3.3 x 2.5 cm
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