Super Sized post-Tucson OLD CLASSIC MINERALS and COLLECTIONS LIQUIDATION AUCTION - end March 2, 2017

THREE PAGES: Ends Thursday, MARCH 2, 2017
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

With the Tucson Show coming to a close, we've loaded up another great auction with plenty of interesting, unique and attractive specimens we left at home to be prepared for internet sales from the massive old collections stash I am liquidating. This auction set, as do all, features classic and rare minerals from contemporary and historic worldwide localities along with gem crystals, native elements and more. A number of old 1800s and early-1900's-era minerals from the Larry Conklin collection, valued at $1000-2000, are included !


Some of the highlights from this week's include:
1. Beautiful 2.47 carat heart-shaped TANZANITE gemstone
2. Selection of MIDWEST minerals from the Sandy Ludlum Collection.
3. Large rare Pakistan POLLUCITE.
4. Excellent Brazil TOUMALINES& Gem Pakistan TOPAZ
5. Striking large Michigan COPPER
6. Superb Tsumeb CALCITE!
7. RARE Georgia RHODOCHROSITE.
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Sulfur on Aragonite (fluorescent) classic locale
Cozzo Disi Mine, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
9.3 x 5.2 x 3.4 cm
Stilbite & Apophyllite on Chalcedony
Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India
4.8 x 3.5 x 2.7 cm
Segnitite (rare - Type Locality) ex South Austr. Museum
Kintore opencut, Broken Hill South Mine, New South Wales, Australia
6.7 x 4.3 x 4.2 cm
Smithsonite (classic locale)
El Refugio Mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico
9.8 x 5.8 x 4.3 cm
Wire silvers (old - classic locale) Kay Robertson Coll.
Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
5.0 x 2.0 x 2.0 cm
very fine Opalized fossil clam
Coober Pedy, South Australia, Australia
3.5 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm
Spinel twin (rare)
Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam
2.3 x 1.9 x 1.2 cm
Cavansite & Stilbite
Wagholi quarries, Pune, Maharashtra, India
5.0 x 4.5 x 3.4 cm
Gem Topaz xl in matrix! ex Obodda
Katlang, Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
6.0 x 5.9 x 5.0 cm
Descloizite (ex Charles Lawrence Coll.)
Berg Aukas Mine, Grootfontein District, Namibia
7.7 x 5.2 x 5.0 cm
Spessartine Garnet w/ Smoky Quartz
Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian Province, China
9.0 x 7.8 x 4.3 cm
DT Amazonite (Madrid Coll.)
Zapot pegmatite, Fitting District, Mineral Co., Nevada
6.6 x 5.7 x 5.3 cm
Gemmy Sphalerite
Flamboro Quarry, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada
3.9 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm
Gem Fluorapatite xls (old)
Cerro de Mercado Mine, Durango, Durango, Mexico
3.5 x 1.5 x 1.2 cm (largest of 6)
Lepidolite (rare fine xls) on Microcline
Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
12.3 x 9.7 x 4.3 cm
Pyritized Brachiopod on matrix
Sylvania, Lucas Co., Ohio
5.4 x 4.5 x 3.3 cm
Franklinite on Calcite (fluorescent)
Franklin, Sussex County, Nw Jersey
5.0 x 3.4 x 2.8 cm
Large spinel-twinned Copper
White Pine Mine, Ontonagon Co., Michigan
14.8 x 9.7 x 1.0 cm
DT& twinned Calcite xls on Sphalerite (Ludlum Coll.)
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee
9.2 x 8.3 x 3.5 cm
Stibnite (Schlichter Coll.)
Raura District, Lima Department, Peru
10.4 x 7.4 x 3.6 cm
Azurite
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
4.9 x 2.9 x 2.8 cm
Orange Creedite
Mina Navidad, Durango, Mexico
9.4 x 8.0 x 4.6 cm
Nephrite Jade (RARE California lapidary material) Soregaroli Coll.
Jade Cove, Cape San Martin, Monterey Co., California
12.1 x 8.1 x 5.8 cm
Uvite Tourmaline & Magnesite
Serra das Eguas, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil
6.1 x 3.3 x 2.9 cm
Gemmy Spessartine Garnet
Nani Hill, Loliondo, Ngorongoro district, Arusha Region, Tanzania
2.4 x 2.3 x 2.1 cm
Rhodochrosite (1938 - RARE Georgia)
Colley Mine, Lincolnton, Lincoln Co., Georgia
5.6 x 3.3 x 2.3 cm
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