Special $249 Reserve Auction
Continuing with our special themed auctions we have a selection of higher-end minerals this week with $249 reserve bids. This is a great opportunity to pick up excellent pieces for bargain prices! You'll find a great mix of fine quality specimens from new and contemporary discoveries plus classics and showy display pieces!
- Calcite (''flower'')
- Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 7.3 x 5.7 x 4.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $269
- Quartz (var: Rose) on Albite
- Taquaral, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Ex. Brian Kosnar
- 4.3 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $249
- Copper pseudomorph after Azurite (''rose'') (classic material)
- Copper Rose Mine, San Lorenzo, Georgetown District, Grant Co., New Mexico, USA
- 3.3 x 2.6 x 2.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $361
- Bournonite with Siderite on Quartz
- Machacamarca Mine, near Colavi, Potosi, Bolivia
- 8. 7x 8.3 x 8.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $249
- Sphalerite (SHARP tetrahedral crystals)
- Dodo Mine, Saranpaul, Berezovo District, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia
- Ex. Rich Kosnar
- 5.7 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $410
- Spinel with Chondrodite
- Luc Yen Mine, Lục Yên District, Yên Bái Province, Vietnam
- 7.8 x 5.2 x 4.7 cm
- Winning Bid: $249
- Gypsum (var: Selenite) (GEM quality!) (rare locality specimen)
- Fengjiashan Mine, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei, China
- 6.9 x 6.3 x 3.8 cm
- Winning Bid: $375
- Quartz (highly unusual and sculptural ''cast'')
- Minas Gerais, Brazil
- 10.4 x 6.2 x 4.1 cm
- Gibbsite coating Wulfenite (RARE ASSOCIATION!)
- Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 11.3 x 5.7 x 1.7 cm
- Winning Bid: $279
- Indicolite Tourmaline
- Pederneira Mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- 10.5 x 0.6 x 0.6 cm, 11.2 grams
- Winning Bid: $311
- Andradite Garnet (var: Topazolite) (recent find)
- Cerro De La Concordia, Piedra Parada, Tatatila Municipality, Veracruz, Mexico
- 9.0 x 8.2 x 5.7 cm
- Fluor-uvite - Uvite Series (Tourmaline) on Magnesite
- Pomba Pit, Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 9.3 x 6.3 x 4.7 cm
- Winning Bid: $320
- Wulfenite (different color crystals) with Mimetite
- Tsumeb Mine, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
- 7.2 x 5.3 x 3.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $249
- Fluorite
- Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan, China
- 9.3 x 7.1 x 8.8 cm
- Winning Bid: $249
- Halite on Trona (NEW FIND!)
- Owens Lake, Olancha, Owens Valley, Inyo Co., California, USA
- 17.4 x 13.2 x 4.7 cm
- Galena (skeletal crystal) with Quartz and ''Chlorite''
- Borieva Mine, Madan Ore Field, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
- Ex. Dr. Barratt Phillips
- 8.8 x 5.2 x 3.7 cm
- Ammolite (Opalescent Placenticeras Fossil)
- Korite Ammolite Mine, Bearpaw Formation, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
- 58 mm x 27 mm x 3 mm, 54.07 ct
- Winning Bid: $249
- Fluorapatite with Siderite and Quartz
- Panasqueira, Covilha, Castelo Branco District, Portugal
- 6.3 x 4.3 x 3.8 cm
- Winning Bid: $249
- Ruby on marble (RARE matrix specimen for the locality)
- Sivec marble quarries, Sivec Mountain, Prisad, Prilep Municipality, North Macedonia
- 5.5 x 4.2 x 2.1 cm
- Winning Bid: $360
- Chalcedony pseudomorph / fossil after Gastropod (Hippochrenes volgensis)
- Volga River Region, near settlement Batai in Saratov Region, Russia
- 9.3 x 3.4 x 3.3 cm
- Calcite (Manganese-bearing)
- N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
- 5.8 x 3.2 x 2.8 cm
- Celestine (excellent color and quality) with Calcite
- Ottawa Silica Company Quarry (Rockwood Quarry), Rockwood, Wayne Co., Michigan, USA
- Ex. Colin Manlove
- 8.2 x 6.2 x 3.7 cm
- Winning Bid: $359
- Cassiterite (excellent large twins) on Muscovite
- Pingwu Beryl Mine, Huya Township, Mt Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang, Sichuan, China
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 9.8 x 8.8 x 3.4 cm
- Winning Bid: $1,001
- Arsenopyrite on Hedenbergite
- Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China
- Ex. Kurt Hefendehl
- 9.3 x 4.3 x 3.3 cm
- Winning Bid: $249
- Vanadinite (excellent crystals)
- Mibladen Mining District, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
- 4.1 x 3.2 x 2.8 cm
- Winning Bid: $289
- Calcite (cobalt-bearing)
- Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Draa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
- 5.8 x 5.6 x 4.2 cm
- Winning Bid: $319
- Epidote on Byssolite (looks like Knappenwand!)
- Tormiq Valley, Haramosh Mts., Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
- Ex. Rich Kosnar
- 7.7 x 6.7 x 3.4 cm
- Winning Bid: $329
- Sphalerite (gemmy crystals)
- Krushev Dol Mine, Madan Ore Field, Smolyan Province, Bulgaria
- 6.3 x 5.8 x 3.7 cm
- Winning Bid: $249
- Fluorite (classic twinned crystals)
- Greenlaws Mine, Daddry Shield, Stanhope, Co. Durham, England, UK
- Ex. Brian Kosnar
- 9.2 x 6.3 x 3.5 cm
- Winning Bid: $526
- Aquamarine with Muscovite
- Chumar Bakhoor, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan
- 7.5 x 6.4 x 4.8 cm
- Winning Bid: $1,750