MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS (set 1 of 2) with OLD CLASSICS, NEW FINDS and RARITIES - ends Thursday July 19, 2018

ends Thursday July 19, 2018
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

A great mix this week featuring gem crystals from a Tourmaline collection plus old classics, contemporary beauties and rare species! We are continuing to process material from the wonderful old mineral collections of Kay Robertson along with fine minerals from numerous other collections and purchases including 1980s-90s specimens from the Ted Bartels Collection. Lots of old classics here that are hard to find at any price, let alone at auction!


Some of the highlights from this week's include:

1. NEW Erongo AQUAMARINE FIND
2. Specimens from the KEN ROBERTS & ROSS LILLIE collections
including a rare and fine SPESSARTINE GARNET
3. Large Michigan COPPER, Cobalt SILVER ore slab 4. Selection of fine RADIOACTIVE species
5. Kay Robertson Collection rarities and classics
6. Rare gem Austrian SPHENE thumbnail
7. Chinese QUARTZ "prase"
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Dolomite & Siderite (rare old classic)
West Cumberland Iron Field, Cumbria, England
8.0 x 5.6 x 3.1 cm
Large gemmy bi-colored Fluorite (NEW find)
Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China
17.0 x 13.2 x 8.5 cm
Color-zoned Fluorite on Quartz (RARE locale) Ross Lillie Coll.
Sub-Rosiclare Level, Spar Mountain, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois
6.7 x 5.0 x 3.8 cm
Gemmy red Spessartines w/ rare cast (Ken Roberts Coll.)
Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian Province, China
5.8 x 5.3 x 2.7 cm
Chalcedony ps. After fossil sponge (2016 find)
Bu Craa, Laayoune Province, Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra Region, Morocco
6.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm
Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite & Quartz (RARE combo) Robertson Coll.
Niccioleta Mine, Massa Marittima, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
10.0 x 5.8 x 2.5 cm
Arsenopyrite (RARE Mexico) Robertson Coll.
Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
6.9 x 5.3 x 4.8 cm
Strontianite (fluorescent) on Baryte (old)
Minerva No. 1 Mine, Hardin Co., Illinois
6.8 x 4.5 x 2.9 cm
Datolite & Apophyllite
Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
8.9 x 8.0 x 5.1 cm
Large Orange Creedite
Mina Navidad, Durango, Mexico
13.0 x 11.0 x 7.7 cm
Octahedral & spinel-twinned Gold
Icabaru, Bolivar, Venezuela
0.9 x 0.7 x 0.4 cm
Cassiterite & Muscovite on Albite (Ted Bartels Coll.)
Linopolis, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.6 x 4.4 x 2.6 cm
Native Silver (RARE - old - classic locale) Ted Bartels Coll.
Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England
0.8 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm
Digenite w/ Pyrite (classic locale) Robertson Coll.
Leonard Mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana
3.8 x 2.5 x 1.3 cm
Aquamarine, Schorl & Quartz (NEW FIND)
Erongo Mts, Erongo Region, Namiba
5.2 x 4.7 x 4.2 cm
Rhodochrosite (W.S. Logan Coll.)
Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
4.5 x 3.4 x 2.5 cm
Mimetite (classic locale) Robertson Coll.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
6.7 x 5.3 x 3.9 cm
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