SPECIAL MINERAL AUCTION - THE COLLECTION SHIELDS FLYNN - ends SATURDAY Aug 6, 2022
A special auction highlighting mostly thumbnail sized specimens from the worldwide collection of Shields Flynn. Many fine quality specimens from classic and contemporary localities, spanning from well-known species to some very rare minerals. PLEASE NOTE: This auction closes on a SATURDAY, not our normal Thursday closing.
- Rhodonite (classic material) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
- 2.6 x 1.4 x 1.1 cm
- Chrysoberyl (UN-twinned crystal) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Espirito Santo, Brazil
- 1.1 x 0.6 x 0.3 cm
- Andradite Garnet (var: Demantoid) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Green Dragon Mine, Tubussis Farm 22, Dâures, Erongo Region, Namibia
- 3.3 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm
- Azurite with Malachite (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Mun. de Cananea, Sonora, Mexico
- 2.6 x 2.6 x 1.2 cm
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- Wardite (fine crystal) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
- 2.6 x 2.5 x 1.8 cm
- Hedenbergite (RARE locality specimen) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Tormiq Valley, Haramosh Mts., Roundu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
- 2.9 x 1.1 x 0.7 cm
- Yugawaralite (RARE Iceland locality) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Hvalstöd, Hvalfjörður, Hvalfjarðarsveit, Western Region, Iceland
- 3.3 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm
- Tremolite (var: Hexagonite) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Gouverneur Mine, Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
- 3.0 x 2.3 x 1.2 cm
- Quartz with ''Chlorite'' inclusions (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Aktas Deposit, Ulytau, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
- 2.7 x 1.5 x 1.3 cm
- Pyromorphite (old classic) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Wheal Alfred, Great Wheal Alfred (Alfred Consols), Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK
- 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.7 cm
- Stichtite (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Stichtite Hill, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia
- 2.1 x 1.5 x 0.6 cm
- Copper (RARE wires) with Quartz and Prehnite (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Osceola Mine, Osceola, Houghton County, Michigan, USA
- 2.4 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm
- Aegirine (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi
- 2.9 x 1.5 x 1.1 cm
- Botryogen (rare) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Libiola Mine, Sestri Levante, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
- 2.3 x 2.2 x 1.3 cm
- Gadolinite-(Y) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Frikstad, Iveland, Agder, Norway
- 1.8 x 1.4 x 1.1 cm
- Calcite (Cobalt-bearing) (rare Spanish locality) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- San Carlos Mine, San Juan de Plan, Huesca, Aragon, Spain
- 2.6 x 2.3 x 1.7 cm
- Beudantite (rare) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
- 2.7 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm
- Andradite Garnet (var: Melanite) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Ojos Españoles Mine, General Lázaro Cárdenas, Julimes Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
- 2.7 x 2.3 x 2.1 cm
- Tyrolite (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Mammoth Mine, Mammoth, Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA
- 2.7 x 2.2 x 1.6 cm
- Serandite with Natrolite (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Poudrette Quarry (Demix Quarry), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
- 2.7 x 2.0 x 1.2 cm
- Hectorite (rare) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Stewart Lithia Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
- 2.0 x 1.6 x 1.2 cm
- Hausmannite with Andradite Garnet (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- N'Chwaning Mines, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape, South Africa
- 2.8 x 2.6 x 2.4 cm
- Elbaite Tourmaline (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Stewart Lithia Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
- 2.0 x 1.0 x 0.7 cm
- Hollandite (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Yavapai County Manganese deposits, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
- 2.7 x 1.7 x 1.1 cm
- Leucophanite on Aegirine (rare) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Poudrette Quarry (Demix Quarry), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
- 2.7 x 0.7 x 0.4 cm
- Acanthite (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Guanajuato Municipality, Guanajuato, Mexico
- 3.7 x 1.4 x 0.7 cm
- Marialite (Scapolite) (GEM crystal) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Marble occurrence, Morogoro, Uluguru Mts (Uruguru Mts), Morogoro Region, Tanzania
- 2.2 x 1.2 x 0.9 cm
- Lithiophilite (fine crystal) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Emmons Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
- 2.7 x 2.4 x 1.4 cm
- Adamite (classic ''pinwheel''-shaped groups) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
- 2.9 x 2.8 x 1.8 cm
- Mellite (rare) (ex Shields Flynn Collection)
- Csordakuti Mine, Bicske-Csordakut, Bicske-Zsambeki Basin, Fejer Co., Hungary
- 1.2 x 1.1 x 0.9 cm