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.
- Smithsonite (2 generations)
- Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 13.3 x 8.2 x 7.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $147
- Gemmy Indicolite Tourmaline with Lepidolite
- Paprok, Kamdesh Dist., Nuristan, Afghanistan
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 6.7 x 1.7 x 1.7 cm
- Winning Bid: $826
- Fluorite
- Marienschacht Mine, Wölsendorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 11.1 x 5.3 x 3.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $386
- Libethenite
- Mindola Pit, Nkana Mine, Kitwe, Copperbelt Prov., Zambia
- Ex. Lemke
- 2.2 x 2.1 x 1.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $130
- Etched Spodumene var. Triphane
- Pech, Kunar, Afghanistan
- 15.2 x 4.2 x 2.2 cm, 117 grams
- Winning Bid: $440
- large Mohawkite nugget (RARE)
- Mohawk Mine, Mohawk, Keweenaw Co., Michigan, USA
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 14.0 x 10.3 x 6.3 cm, 2929 grams
- Winning Bid: $260
- Magnetite octahedron
- Yinnietharra, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 8.4 x 5.8 x 4.5 cm
- Winning Bid: $950
- Lorenzenite with Aegirine
- Selsurt Mtn., Lovozersky Dist., Murmansk Oblast, Russia
- Ex. Bill and Anne Cook
- 8.2 x 6.2 x 5.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $247
- Heulandite (old classic circa 1800s)
- Faroe Islands
- Ex. Philadelphia Academy; Vasco Trancoso
- 12.3 x 8.8 x 6.5 cm
- Winning Bid: $150
- large Pink Fluorite with Aquamarine & Muscovite
- Nagar Dist., Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
- 17.8 x 17.0 x 7.5 cm, 2418 grams
- Winning Bid: $1,609
- Chalcopyrite & Siderite
- Kaiwu Mine, Hezhang Co., Bijie, Guizhou, China
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 9.6 x 7.8 x 5.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $481