LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - MINERALS AND GEMSTONES - ends June 14, 2012

Ends June 14, 2012
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone) Selections from our own old stock and recent collection acquisitions, as well as several older dealer stocks we purchased! This auction includes numerous old classics , a fine 1950s-era San Diego Tourmaline, and a major Moroccan wire silver on unusual galena matrix.
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Hematite (Charlie Key)
Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa
5.8 x 4.4 x 3.2 cm
Wulfenite on Calcite (Urish Coll.)
Red Gem Pocket - 2003, Red Cloud Mine, La Paz Co., Arizona
4.1 x 3.1 x 1.2 cm
Milky Quartz (uncommon locale) Schlichter Coll.
Stafford Springs, Stafford, Tolland Co., Connecticut
9.5 x 8.4 x 4.9 cm
Barite on Drusy Quartz (classic locale)
Rock Candy Mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
7.5 x 6.8 x 3.3 cm
Spessartine Garnet & Cleavelandite (Herb Obodda)
Raikot, Chilas, Diamar District, Northern Areas, Pakistan
4.7 x 4.7 x 1.5 cm
Calcite and Dolomite (Schlichter Coll.)
Lockport, Niagara Co., New York
3.8 x 3.8 x 2.5 cm
Benitoite and Joaquinite (Ed Bancroft Coll.)
Dallas Gem Mine, San Benito Co., California
5.8 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm
Heulandite incl. w/ Celadonite
Nasik, Maharashtra, India
6.9 x 5.4 x 2.8 cm
Mushroom Tourmaline (Herb Obodda Coll.)
Mogok, Mandalay Division, Burma
2.4 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm
Rhodochrosite w/ Cleavelandite
Wutong Mine, Liubao, Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang A.R., China
3.4 x 3.1 x 0.6 cm
Pyrite
Shangbao Mine, Hunan Province, China
5.8 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm
DT floater Hanksite (Type Locality) Ordway Coll.
Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California
9.1 x 6.6 x 5.9 cm
Large Calcite xls (old classic) Whitmore Coll.
Stank Mine, Barrow, Cumbria, England,
10.5 x 6.2 x 4.2 cm
Wire Silver on Galena (excellent)
Imiter Mine, Quarzazate Province, Morocco
7.8 x 5.5 x 4.0 cm
Hematite w/ Rutile & Quartz (classic locale)
Cavradi, Tavetsch, Grisons, Switzerland
3.0 x 2.0 x 1.6 cm
Almandine Garnets on Biotite Schist (Urish Coll.)
Wrangell Island, Wrangell-Petersburg Borough, Alaska
4.7 x 4.0 x 3.5 cm
Copper, Calcite & Quartz on Prehnite (MacFall Coll.)
Copper Country, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan
4.5 x 3.5 x 2.2 cm
Acanthite (self-collected by Ed Bancroft)
Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
4.2 x 3.0 x 2.8 cm
Dioptase on Calcite
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
8.7 x 5.0 x 4.3 cm
Gemmy Epidote xls
Valle la Trinidad, Baja California Norte, Mexico
7.4 x 4.3 x 1.9 cm
Fluorite on Orthoclase (classic locale) Obodda Coll.
Baveno, Piedmont, Italy
4.5 x 3.4 x 2.7 cm
Native Silver (old classic) Jago & Ydren Coll.
Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway
4.4 x 2.6 x 2.2 cm
Large Veszelyite matrix piece
Black Pine Mine, Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana
14.3 x 12.0 x 5.7 cm
Color-zoned Fluorite (rare color)
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee
6.5 x 6.5 x 4.5 cm
Crocoite (old classic locale)
Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony, Germany
5.8 x 4.2 x 3.0 cm
Vivianite (Whitmore Coll.)
Richmond City, Virginia
4.2 x 3.8 x 2.6 cm
Wavellite
Avant, Garland County, Arkansas
11.0 x 8.0 x 4.0 cm
Cobaltoan Calcite w/ Primary Malachite (fine old combo)
Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo
10.4 x 6.6 x 1.8 cm
Arborescent Copper (classic locale) Schlichter Coll.
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
4.5 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm
Stellerite pinwheel w/ Celadonite
Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India
4.9 x 4.2 x 3.4 cm