Mixed Mineral Auction!
Specimens from the well-known Cook, Hefendehl, Trancoso, and other collections are featured in this very eclectic selection of rarities, classics, new finds, and large specimens.
Highlights:
1. INDICOLITE TOURMALINE and etched TRIPHANE SPODUMENE specimens from Afghanistan.
2. "Raspberry" GROSSULAR GARNETS.
3. Large AQUAMARINE, FLUORITE, and MUSCOVITE
4. New Find of LAZURITE
5. Rare VANADINITE on fossil clam and CELESTINE on fossil Bryozoan.
6. RHODOCHROSITE specimens.
7. Excellent "SAGENITE" RUTILE and CASSITERITE specimens.
8. RARE large MOHAWKITE cobble from Michigan and SMOKY QUARTZ from Ohio.
9. HEULANDITE and ANALCIME from classic localities.
10. Rare Dalnegorsk PSEUDOMORPH combination.
- Cassiterite on Muscovite
- Pingwu beryl mine, Mount Little Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Sichuan, China
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 7.7 x 5.5 x 4.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $525
- Boltwoodite with Calcite
- Goanikontes Claim, Arandis Con., Erongo Region, Namibia
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 5.7 x 5.7 x 2.1 cm
- Winning Bid: $96
- Sulfur on Calcite drill core
- Comanche Creek Mine, Pecos Co., Texas, USA
- Ex. Al Kidwell
- 6.3 x 6.3 x 5.4 cm
- Winning Bid: $260
- Fluorite - rare USA locale
- Afton Canyon deposit, Cady Mts., San Bernardino Co., California, USA
- Ex. Bob Reynolds
- 10.8 x 6.2 x 4.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $165
- Rutile on Feldspar & Lepidolite
- Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 9.7 x 6.8 x 3.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $2,566
- Azurite & Malachite
- Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 7.0 x 5.0 x 4.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $825
- large Analcime (classic locale)
- Rio Fromm, Kastelruth, South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
- Ex. Vasco Trancoso
- 5.7 x 5.5 x 4.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $100
- Native Selenium (rare CA), Smithsonite & Pyrite
- Darwin Mine, Darwin Mining Dist., Inyo Co., California, USA
- Ex. Bob Reynolds
- 5.2 x 3.7 x 2.9 cm
- Winning Bid: $164
- Fluorapophyllite-(K) on Stilbite
- Pashan quarries, Pune Dist., Maharashtra, India
- Ex. Vasco Trancoso
- 8.8 x 5.5 x 4.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $825
- Hubeite on Quartz
- Fengjiashan Mine, Daye Co., Huangshi, Hubei, China
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 10.3 x 9.8 x 7.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $115
- Rhodochrosite
- Kassandra mining dist., Aristotelis, Central Macedonia, Greece
- Ex. Vasco Trancoso
- 7.4 x 4.9 x 2.0 cm
- Winning Bid: $60
- Rhodochrosite with Quartz
- Banska Stiavnica, Banska Bystrica Region, Slovakia
- Ex. Vasco Trancoso
- 6.3 x 5.5 x 3.1 cm
- Winning Bid: $101
- Calcite (multi-generational)
- Leiping Mine, Guiyang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
- Ex. Vasco Trancoso
- 9.1 x 7.3 x 5.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $310
- Lepidolite on Quartz
- Brown Derby Mine, Quartz Creek Pegmatite Mining Dist., Gunnison Co., Colorado, USA
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 12.2 x 8.2 x 6.8 cm
- Winning Bid: $72
- Galena with Siderite & Pyrite
- Double Rainbow Mine, Galena Mining Dist., Lawrence Co., South Dakota, USA
- Ex. Lee Burnett
- 9.7 x 7.0 x 6.2 cm, 805 grams
- Winning Bid: $60
- Calcite (2020 find)
- Gunung Keriang, Alor Setar, Kota Setar Dist., Kedah, Malaysia
- 9.3 x 9.1 x 5.1 cm
- Winning Bid: $125
- Smoky Quartz (RARE Ohio specimen!)
- John Nethers property, Flint Ridge, Muskingum Co., Ohio, USA
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 9.5 x 5.5 x 5.4 cm
- Winning Bid: $92
- Celestine on fossil Bryozoan (RARE )
- Stoneco White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa Co., Ohio, USA
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 7.7 x 5.3 x 2.8 cm
- Winning Bid: $189
- Color-zoned Fluorite (New Find - urban Beijing!)
- ShunYi, Beijing, China
- 7.8 x 6.0 x 3.1 cm
- Winning Bid: $257
- Raspberry Garnet
- Sierra de Cruces, Coahuila, Mexico
- 13.0 x 7.3 x 6.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $2,383
- Gemmy Calcite xls (2009 find)
- Tieshan Fe-Cu deposit, Huangshi, Hubei, China
- 9.3 x 5.3 x 3.6 cm
- Winning Bid: $210
- Vanadinite on fossil clam (RARE!!)
- Mibladen, Midelt, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
- 5.4 x 5.2 x 3.5 cm
- Winning Bid: $135
- Ruby crystal with unicorn carving
- Longido Dist., Arusha Region, Tanzania
- Ex. Tim Sherburn
- 5.7 x 4.8 x 0.5 cm, 39 grams
- Winning Bid: $110
- Quartz with iron oxides
- Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg Mining Dist., Granite Co., Montana, USA
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 4.3 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm
- Winning Bid: $105
- Fluorite in Phlogopite Mica (unusual!)
- Bancroft area, Ontario, Canada
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 15.3 x 9.9 x 1.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $105
- Galena, Sphalerite and Siderite
- 2nd Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 10.0 x 7.4 x 5.8 cm
- Winning Bid: $110
- Sanbornite (rare silicate)
- Esquire No. 1 claim, Rush Creek, Fresno Co., California, USA
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 12.7 x 7.8 x 3.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $98
- Talc var. Steatite ps. Enstatite with Chlorapatite
- Bamble, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 10.3 x 4.5 x 2.0 cm
- Winning Bid: $110
- Lazurite (Type Locality)
- Sar-e-Sang, Kokcha Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
- 7.4 x 6.6 x 5.0 cm
- Winning Bid: $100
- large Siderite ps. Hedenbergite
- Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Krai, Russia
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 13.7 x 10.7 x 4.8 cm
- Winning Bid: $307