SPECIAL AUCTION – HISTORIC MINERAL CLASSICS, featuring sulfides from the Dr. Barratt Phillips MINERAL COLLECTION - ends August 13, 2020

A special auction set featuring a number of old classics from historic localities, and also a group of 2 dozen specimens selected form the longtime collection of Dr. Barratt Phillips, specializing in sulfides.

Many really unusual and interesting pieces in this auction set! Highlights include:

1) Large matrix MOLYBDENITE ON QUARTZ

2) "X TWIN" FERBERITE FROM BOLIVIA

3) GREEK RHODOCHROSITE

4) LARGE RUSSIAN COPPER

5) AESTHETIC MEXICO ROSASITE

6) ITALIAN SCHEELITE EX BEHIER

7) COLORADO AQUAMARINE GEM CRYSTAL


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Anapaite (rich , unusual European locality!)
Prats-Sampsor, Cerdanya, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
11.6 x 8.8 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $121
Pyrite - rare locality
Rhomberg quarry, Dornbirn District, Vorarlberg, Austria
7.1 x 6.9 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $112
Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite on Pyrite, with Quartz
Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Ancash, Peru
6.1 x 4.6 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $45
Pyrite (rare Colorado locality)
South Mineral Creek, San Juan Co., Colorado, USA
12.6 x 8.8 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $154
Rosasite
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
5.6 x 4.4 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $375
Arsenopyrite, Wolframite, Sphalerite, and Quartz
Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan, China
6.7 x 5.0 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $266
Chalcopyrite
Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA
15.4 x 7.9 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $210
Calcite (fluorescent) in fossil clam shell
Rucks pit, Okeechobee Co., Florida, USA
10.7 x 8.8 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $352
Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite, and Quartz
Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
9.2 x 6.8 x 6.5 cm
Winning Bid: $535
Smithsonite on Goethite
Santa Eulalia Mining District, Chihuahua, Mexico
8.5 x 6.7 x 4.7 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Limonite ps. Siderite (Var: Spharosiderite)- dated 1927
Spokane, Spokane Co., Washington, USA
6.3 x 5.1 x 4.9 cm
Winning Bid: $97
Pyrite (unusual German locality!)
Limestone Quarry, Hamelspringe, Lower Saxony, Germany
7.7 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $77
Galena tower on Calcite and Sphalerite (old classic!)
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
9.4 x 8.2 x 7.0 cm
Winning Bid: $261
Natrolite and Calcite (fluorescent) in petrified wood
Sipi caves, Kween, Eastern Region, Uganda
7.7 x 5.5 x 3.1 cm
Winning Bid: $190
Marcasite "pinwheel"
Teutonia Mine, Hanover Region, Lower Saxony, Germany
7.9 x 6.9 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $147
Chalcopyrite and Calcite (old USA classic!)
Chimney Rock Quarry, Somerset Co., New Jersey, USA
4.8 x 3.8 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $167
Galena, Dolomite (fl), Chalcopyrite, and Pyrite
Fletcher Mine, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA
10.3 x 10.3 x 7.6 cm
Winning Bid: $187
Baryte (fluorescent) and Marcasite
Lubin Mine, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
8.2 x 4.8 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $106
Ettringite/Charlesite (2010 find)
N'Chwaning Mines, Kalahari Fields, South Africa
3.6 x 1.2 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Rhodochrosite ex Christos Spiromitros Coll.
Madem-Lakkos Mine, Stratoni, Chalkidiki, Macedonia, Greece
9.0 x 7.6 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $215
Silver on Tennantite ex Charlie Key coll.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
7.5 x 5.5 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $343
Quartz Var. Amethyst (old classic locale!)
Eonyang, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
4.5 x 4.4 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $111
Chalcostibite Altering to Azurite
Rar-el-Anz, Cherrat Wadi, Casablanca Prefecture, Morocco
6.2 x 4.4 x 3.5 cm
Winning Bid: $196
superb Colorado Aquamarine ex Kay Robertson Coll
Mt Antero, Chaffee Co., Colorado, USA
5.3 x 2.0 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $1,351
Molybdenite on Quartz ex Art Soregaroli Coll
Kingsgate, Gough Co., New South Wales, Australia
9.4 x 6.5 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Spessartine Garnet on Albite
Shengus, Skardu, Gilgit Valley, Pakistan
5.6 x 3.2 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $409
Dolomite pseudomorphs with Calcite (fl)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
8.7 x 7.8 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $350
Hematite "rose"
Tormiq valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
2.1 x 2.0 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $74
Cylindrite
Santa Cruz Mine, Poopo, Poopo Province, Oruro, Bolivia
7.6 x 5.1 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $205
Fluorapatite
Paraiba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.2 x 2.7 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $423