SPECIAL FINE MINERAL COLLECTION AUCTION - JACK HALPERN MINERAL COLLECTION DEACCESSIONS - ends June 10, 2021

SPECIAL SET! – We are truly honored to have obtained another large group of diverse beautiful specimens from the Jack Halpern Collection, built over decades by our old friend in San Francisco. To spread them out more widely out to the world of collectors, we are purposefully NOT saving many of these for shows as we would have in the past, and in fact did in 2020. Instead, we decided to let most of these beautiful minerals, where he purchased them long ago at old prices, fly at the auctions. Most of these have been purchased 20-40 years ago and are not on the market today! Look for another set in June or July!  

For a newly added video on Jack and his collecting philosophy, please visit our updated blog post with his interview during a celebration at turning 100: https://www.irocks.com/the-jack-halpern-collection  (and we also have scans of previous published articles on Gentleman Jack available, upon request, to those who win items here.) 

More on Jack can also be seen  on The Mineralogical Record : https://mineralogicalrecord.com/biographies_labels/halpernjack/

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Pyrophyllite ex Jack Halpern Collection
Indian Gulch Mine, Hornitos Mining District, Mariposa Co., California, USA
10.9 x 8.8 x 5.0 cm
Winning Bid: $1,446
Celestine ex Jack Halpern Collection
Sakoany deposit, Katsepy, Mitsinjo, Boeny, Madagascar
7.7 x 6.2 x 5.5 cm
Winning Bid: $498
Duftite oriented on Calcite ex Jack Halpern Collection
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
12.6 x 9.1 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $2,505
Smithsonite ex Jack Halpern Collection
Refugio Mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico
6.4 x 4.7 x 2.9 cm
Winning Bid: $266
Azurite ex Jack Halpern Collection
La Sal Mining District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA
5.5 x 4.4 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $260
Amazonite (porcelainous) with Cleavelandite ex Halpern Collection
Bartsch Claim, Crystal Peak, Teller Co., Colorado, USA
7.6 x 5.5 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $735
Fluorite ex Jack Halpern Collection
Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan, China
6.1 x 4.5 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $2,050
Fluorapophyllite-(K) with Stilbite ex Halpern Collection
Pashan, Pune District, Maharashtra, India
6.2 x 5.9 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $807
Grossular 'Raspberry' Garnet ex Jack Halpern Collection
Sierra de Cruces, Coahuila, Mexico
7.7 x 6.4 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $1,162
Microcline var. Amazonite with Cleavelandite ex Halpern Collection
Powder Ridge Claim, Crystal Peak, Teller Co., Colorado, USA
11.8 x 9.3 x 7.7 cm
Winning Bid: $1,250
Calcite on Calcite, with Hematite ex Halpern Collection
Santa Eulalia Mining District, Chihuahua, Mexico
9.8 x 8.8 x 4.1 cm
Winning Bid: $343
Azurite on Malachite ex Jack Halpern Collection
La Sal Mining District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA
3.3 x 2.7 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $163
Quartz var. Amethyst ex Jack Halpern Collection
Ambatondrazaka, Alaotra-Mangoro, Madagascar
2.6 x 1.9 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $148
Quartz var. Amethyst 'cactus' style ex Halpern Collection
Boekenhoutshoek area, Nkangala District, Mpumalanga, South Africa
6.9 x 6.7 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $585
Azurite rose ex Gene Wright, Jack Halpern Collection
Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
3.2 x 2.6 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $385
Cuprian Aragonite and Calcite ex Jack Halpern Collection
Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, Attica, Greece
10.2 x 9.6 x 6.3 cm
Winning Bid: $200
Fluorite (fluorescent) ex Jack Halpern Collection
Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
8.8 x 7.2 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $350
Kyanite (huge single crystal) ex Jack Halpern Collection
Barra do Salinas, Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
19.9 x 5.0 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $1,438
Quartz var. Agate in fossil coral (set) ex Halpern Collection
Tampa Bay, Tampa, Hillsborough Co., Florida, USA
7.3 x 6.1 x 2.5 cm
Winning Bid: $293
Millerite ex Jack Halpern Collection
Thompson Mine, Thompson Nickel Belt, Manitoba, Canada
3.8 x 2.8 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $110
Cryptomelane ex Jack Halpern Collection
Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
4.6 x 4.0 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $675
Heulandite ex Jack Halpern Collection
Nizhnyaya Tunguska River Basin, Evenkiysky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
10.6 x 4.9 x 4.7 cm
Winning Bid: $328
Silver (synthetic) ex Jack Halpern Collection
Germany (lab grown)
3.0 x 2.0 x 0.2 cm
Winning Bid: $162
Ilmenite with Albite ex Smale & Halpern Collections
Tormiq Valley, Haramosh Mts., Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
7.1 x 5.3 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $846
Pyrite ex Jack Halpern Collection
Navajun Mine, Logrono, La Rioja, Spain
6.3 x 6.2 x 6.0 cm
Winning Bid: $850
Rubellite with Cleavelandite (fine TN) ex Halpern Collection
Jonas Mine, Itatiaia, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.7 x 1.4 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $1,074
unusual Spessartine Garnet on Microcline ex Halpern Collection
Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian, China
4.2 x 3.8 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $640
Rubellite, with Lepidolite ex Jack Halpern Collection
Jonas Mine, Itatiaia, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.7 x 2.3 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $2,568
Hematite ps. Magnetite ex Jack Halpern Collection
Payun volcano, Mendoza Province, Argentina
7.3 x 6.8 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $1,000
superb, rich Papagoite in Quartz ex Jack Halpern Collection
Messina Mine, Vhembe District, Limpopo, South Africa
6.8 x 4.2 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $3,549