Post-Tucson MINERALS and COLLECTIONS LIQUIDATION AUCTION - end March 16, 2017 (set 1 of 2)

Ends Thursday, MARCH 16, 2017
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

With Tucson behind us, we're looking forward to plenty of exciting auctions in the coming weeks loaded 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!


Some of the highlights from this week's include:
1. GOLD with painting by Gamini Ratnavira.
2. Rare CHILE specimens.
3. Large Chinese MANGANOAN CALCITE & LOLLINGITE.
4. RARE Madagascar XENOTIME.
5. Large AMETHYST and QUARTZ specimens.
6. ARTINITE & HYDROMAGNESITE from New York City.
7. RARE Bisbee TYUYAMUNITE and Mexican COPPER.
8. Large New Jersey PREHNITE pseudo.
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Crystallized Gold with painting
Colorado Quartz Mine, Mariposa Co., California
1.5 x 1.3 x 0.9 cm
Sphalerite w/ Dolomite & Calcite (classic locale) Payne Coll.
Joplin Field, Tri-State District, Jasper Co., Missouri
8.2 x 5.7 x 5.1 cm
Large Grossular Garnet (old)
Sierra de Cruces, Coahuila, Mexico
7.0 x 5.3 x 4.7 cm
Miguelromeroite (rare arsenate)
Veta Negra Mine, Copiapo Province, Atacama Region, Chile
2.8 x 2.4 x 2.4 cm
Large Manganoan Calcite (fluorescent) w/ Lollingite
Huanggang Mine, Hexigten, Inner Mongolia A.R., China
11.1 x 10.0 x 8.5 cm
Quartz encl. Rutile ex Obboda
Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
13.5 x 7.1 x 6.3 cm
DT, floater Bloedite xl (Carl Davis Coll.)
Soda Lake, San Luis Obispo Co., California
6.8 x 4.8 x 1.8 cm
Chondrodite & Spinel
Sungate Mine, An Phu, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam
4.7 x 4.1 x 3.4 cm
Bipyramidal Wulfenite (old - rare)
Erupcion Mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico
3.3 x 2.1 x 1.8 cm
Gem Diaspore (Czarite) 23.76 carats
Selcuk, Mugla Province, Aegean Region, Turkey
3.5 x 1.1 x 0.6 cm
Rhodochrosite (rare style) on Quartz (classic Colorado) ex Don Owens Coll.
Sunnyside Mine, Gladstone, Eureka District, San Juan Co., Colorado
11.3 x 11.2 x 6.6 cm
Lazulite w/ Siderite & Quartz
Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada
3.0 x 3.0 x 2.4 cm
Quartz w/ Molybdenite inclusions (rare) Dick Hauck Coll.
Confianza Mine, Tilama, Coquimbo Region, Chile
5.8 x 5.1 x 4.0 cm
DT twinned Calcite (rare style), Tetrahedrite & Quartz (Wolfe Coll.)
Casapalca Mine, Casapalca, Lima Department, Peru
7.7 x 6.0 x 4.0 cm
Boleite (Type Locality - 1970s)
Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalia, Boleo District, Baja California Sur, Mexico
3.6 x 3.4 x 1.3 cm
Gem Quartz xls - Ron Coleman Coll.
Ron Coleman Mine, Jessieville, Garland Co., Arkansas
17.5 x 12.1 x 9.2 cm
Calcite (fluorescent) on drusy Quartz
Shuikoushan ore field, Hengyang Prefect., Hunan Province, China
9.6 x 6.6 x 4.5 cm
Erzbergite (Aragonite & Calcite) classic locale
Styrian Erzberg, Eisenerz, Styria, Austria
14.0 x 7.1 x 4.7 cm
Large DT floater Amethyst/Smoky Quartz crystal
Baobab Mine, Kitui District, Eastern Province, Kenya
16.1 x 9.3 x 8.6 cm
Spessartine w/ Quartz (rare combo)
Navegadora claim, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.7 x 2.0 x 1.2 cm
Hematite (Charlie Key)
N'Chwaning II Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa
2.2 x 1.6 x 1.4 cm
Hemimorphite
Wenshan Mine, Yunnan Province, China
6.5 x 5.5 x 2.5 cm
Quartz w/ Hematite phantoms (rare style - classic locale)
Geevor Mine, Pendeen, St Just District, Cornwall, England
5.5 x 5.3 x 2.5 cm
Wavellite
Mauldin Mountain Quarries, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
7.5 x 4.7 x 3.0 cm
Gem Herkimer Quartz "diamonds"
Middleville, Herkimer Co., New York
4.6 x 3.6 x 2.1 cm
Fluorite (fluorescent) Richard Whitmore Coll.
William Wise Mine, Westmoreland, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire
13.7 x 13.3 x 8.5 cm
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