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| Item #A1 VERY RARE!! Wow, this is a matrix Rhodochrosite on Quartz from the Climax Mine! Anyone who knows Colorado minerals and Rhodochrosite knows just how rare matrix Climax pieces are - especially one that has large crystals. I've seen two on the past ten years of looking for one so I was thrilled to find this specimen. True, the Rhodos aren't Sweet Home quality but they are very good for Colorado and display some excellent color with glassy surfaces. The rhomb in the front has flaking and measures 4 cm while the smaller rhomb in back is complete and measures 2.5 cm in size. The outer faces appear to be included with a Quartz drusy which is common for Climax. I'm being very picky here considering the specimen's rarity but I want to be accurate. From the Climax Mine, Fremont Pass, Lake County, Colorado. Measures 5.5 cm by 7.5 cm in size. Ex. Richard Holmes Collection Price $3250 Minimum Opening Bid - $2450 |
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| Item #A2 Beautiful specimen of yellow Fluorite on Siderite matrix with Sphalerite crystals! From the West Pastures Mine in Weardale, England. Measures 8.5 cm by 7 cm. Ex. Ken Hollmann Collection. Price $1850 Minimum Opening Bid - $1150 |
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| Item #A3 WOW! INCREDIBLE cluster of Native Wire Silver from Colorado! Quite simply, the finest wire Silver I've seen from Aspen in this size range! The curling, bending wires make this specimen look more like a Freiberg Silver. This is a MAJOR specimen for any Silver or Colorado mineral collector! From the Midnight Mine, Aspen, Pitkin County, Colorado. Measures 3.4 cm by 3.6 cm in size. Ex. Bresnitz (1955), Farquhar Collections Price $7500 Minimum Opening Bid - $5500 |
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| Item #A4 EXCEPTIONAL! Large cabinet specimen of Azurite rosettes on Malachite! This is an incredible specimen from La Sal, San Juan County, Utah! The Azurite crystals are sharp and lustrous as they scatter atop the Malachite matrix. Many of the rosettes sit aesthetically along the top matrix edge. Measures 10.5 cm by 19.5 cm. Azurite on Malachite specimens from Utah are scarce and this is the largest I've seen! Price $4500 Minimum Opening Bid - $2850 |
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| Item #A5 RARE! Semi-crystalline Native Gold in Quartz matrix! What a stunning specimen and one from a locality that is extremely difficult to locate! This is truely a classic Italian Alpine Gold specimen! From the Brusson Mine, Brusson, Ayas Valley, Aosta Valley, Italy. Measures 4.5 cm by 3.2 cm in size. Price $2250 Minimum
Opening Bid - $1500 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $1500.00 | 3:54 PM | 1/4/08 | Tokyo, Japan(3) |
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| Item #A6 Awesome combination of Spessartine Garnet with Rhodonite and Galena! One of the better examples I've seen - the Garnets are large and distinct with an average size of 2.5 cm and one crystal as large as 4.2 cm!! The Spessartine crystals emerge from and sit atop a matrix of Galena and a seam of Rhodonite. From Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Measures 10.5 cm by 11 cm in size. Price $3750 Minimum Opening Bid - $2250 |
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| Item #A7 Stacked crystals of sky-blue Aquamarine with Muscovite! This cute specimen looks like a little skyscraper with the odd stacked terminations! From Dassu, Skardu District, Northern Pakistan. Measures 4.7 cm by 2.7 cm in size. Ex. R. Lee Kearney Collection Price $345 Minimum Opening Bid - $200 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $200.00 | 8:15 AM | 1/4/08 | Jackson, MS |
| $285.00 | 12:29 PM | 1/13/08 | Houston, TX |
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| Item #A8 Neat specimen featuring fibrous Orpiment over matrix! From the Quiruvilca Mine, Santiago de Chuco Province, Peru. Measures 6 cm by 5.8 cm in size. Price $285 Minimum Opening Bid - $150 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $150.00 | 12:14 PM | 1/4/08 | Knoxville, TN |
| $157.00 | 2:41 PM | 1/9/08 | Portugal |
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| Item #A9 CLASSIC! Killer Proustite specimen - this one a cluster of crystals with Dyscrasite! The color in the photo is the true color of these ruby-red Proustite crystals! The Dyscrasite appears as balls of bipyramidal orthorhombic crystals alongside of the Proustite cluster. Circa 1850's - From Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Measures 4.3 cm by 3.8 cm in size. Ex. Al McGuiness Collection (1975) Price $3500 Minimum Opening Bid - $2250 |
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| Item #A10 Lemony-orange crystals of Quartz var. Citrine in cluster! These naturally Citrine points are glassy and terminated! From Tyumenskaya Oblast, Polar Urals, Western-Siberian Region, Russia. Measures 15 cm by 8.7 cm in size. Price $650 Minimum Opening Bid - $385 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $385.00 | 7:18 AM | 1/4/08 | London, England |
| $395.00 | 3:09 AM | 1/9/08 | Madrid, Spain |
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| Item #A11 Awesome curving stalactite of Rhodochrosite! I've seen lots of Rhodo stalactites but never one with curves like this! From Catamarca, Argentina. Measures 6.8 cm by 3 cm in size. Ex. Martin Zinn Stalactite Collection Price $950 Minimum Opening Bid - $550 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $550.00 | 8:17 AM | 1/4/08 | Jackson, MS |
| $580.00 | 2:00 PM | 1/14/08 | Arcata, CA |
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| Item #A12 Pretty cluster of blue Barite crystals on Quartz! From the Shirley Basin, Carbon County, Wyoming. Measures 4 cm by 4 cm in size. Ex. Dyck Collection Price $285 Minimum Opening Bid - $175 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $175.00 | 12:18 PM | 1/4/08 | Knoxville, TN |
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| Item #A13 Beautiful doubly terminated crystal of Aqua-Morganite with Schorl! This bi-color crystal sits atop a matrix of Albite. Schorl partially covers the right termination. From Baha, Braldu Valley, Baltistan, Northern Areas of Pakistan. Measures 4.3 cm by 2.5 cm in size. Price $450 Minimum Opening Bid - $250 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $250.00 | 4:00 PM | 1/4/08 | Tokyo, Japan(3) |
| $350.00 | 12:38 PM | 1/13/08 | Houston, TX |
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| Item #A14 Wow!! Aesthetic accents of Malachite scattered atop a Cerussite crystal star! There are a few contacts but nothing extreme for a Cerrusite specimen. From the Tsumeb Mine in Tsumeb, Namibia. SW Africa. Measures 5.5 cm by 7 cm in total size. Price $2750 Minimum
Opening Bid - $1250 |
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| Item #A15 Amazing specimen of stacked Spessartine Garnets atop a large Orthoclase crystal! Also with Muscovite, I can't recall seeing another specimen quite like this one. The Garnets are perfectly stacked from bottom to top and smallest to largest. All three are complete and lustrous with reflective faces. The Orthoclase is sharp will glassy faces. From the Shigar Vallery, Skardu, Northern Areas of Pakistan. Measures 11.4 cm by 9.7 cm in size. Price $1500 Minimum Opening Bid - $985 |
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| Item #A16 Rare specimen of orange Scheelite crystals with Quartz points! From the Gharmung Area, Skardu, Pakistan. Measures 8 cm by 4.2 cm in size. Price $750 Minimum
Opening Bid - $450 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $450.00 | 12:27 PM | 1/4/08 | Knoxville, TN |
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| Item #A17 Gorgeous mix of Golden Barite on botryoidal lavender Fluorite! From the Rock Candy Mine, near Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada. Measures 4.5 cm by 5 cm in size. Price $285 Minimum Opening Bid - $150 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $150.00 | 12:30 PM | 1/4/08 | Knoxville, TN |
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| Item #A18 Colorful mix of Azurite rosettes with Malachite ps. after Azurite rosettes! Seabra, Bahia, Northeast Region, Brazil. Measures 4.2 cm by 8 cm in size. Price $345 Minimum Opening Bid - $185 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $185.00 | 12:29 PM | 1/4/08 | Knoxville, TN |
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| Item #A19 Wild, curling (dendritic growth) wires of Native Copper! From the Moonta Mine, South Australia, Australia. Measures 7.5 cm by 5.5 cm in size. Price $585 Minimum
Opening Bid - $350 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $430.00 | 4:27 AM | 1/14/08 | Austria |
| $440.00 | 7:39 PM | 1/14/08 | Sydney, Australia |
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| Item #A20 Aesthetic specimen of Manganoan Calcite in cast form! The interior surface sparkles with drusy and the "fingers" are incredible! This is one of my favorite specimens in the entire update because it is so unusual. From the Wessels Mine, Hotazel, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Measures 5.7 cm by 5.5 cm in size. Price $1450 Minimum Opening Bid - $750 |
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| Item #A21 Unique! Drill core with thin platey crystals of Native Sulfur! These flat crystals of Sulfur grew inside a pocket at great depth. The drill cores were frequently given as awards and gifts when found. From the Long Point Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas. Measures 6 cm by 6 cm in size. Price $950 Minimum Opening Bid - $500 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $500.00 | 10:52 AM | 1/6/08 | Synder, TX |
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| Item #A22 Gorgeous specimen of blue Hemimorphite on matrix! This has got to be one of the prettiest blues I've seen in a mineral specimen! From the Wenshan Mine, Yunnan Province of China. Measures 5.5 cm by 3.8 cm in size. Price $285 Minimum Opening Bid - $150 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $150.00 | 12:40 PM | 1/4/08 | Knoxville, TN |
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| Item #A23 Blue Topaz crystal on matrix with smaller Blue Topaz crystals! Gorgeous specimen from a new find at Virgem de Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Measures 5 cm by 5.3 cm in size. Price $1250 Minimum Opening Bid - $685 |
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| Item #A24 Combination Smithsonite crystals with Rosasite! Neat specimen! From the Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Namibia, SW Africa. Measures 3.6 cm by 5 cm in size. Price $285 Minimum Opening Bid - $150 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $150.00 | 12:45 PM | 1/4/08 | Knoxville, TN |
| $178.00 | 8:28 AM | 1/5/08 | Menominee, MI |
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| Item #A25 RARE!! Sheet of Native Silver with Copper Oxide accents on matrix! I purchased a collection of three specimens and this is the second largest of the group. Needless to say, Silver specimens from this locality are very rare! From an intrusive dike at the Bound Brook Quarry, Somerset County, New Jersey. Measures 6.6 cm by 7.1 cm in size. Price $650 Minimum Opening Bid - $350 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $350.00 | 12:46 PM | 1/4/08 | Knoxville, TN |
| $360.00 | 1:06 PM | 1/13/08 | Washington, D.C. |
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| Item #A26 Cool specimen of yellow Barite with Calcite on purple Fluorite! This specimen is stunning with its stark contrasting colors. From the Denton Mine, Hardin County, Illinois. Measures 7 cm by 5 cm in size. Price $245 Minimum Opening Bid - $145 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $145.00 | 12:46 PM | 1/4/08 | Knoxville, TN |
| $150.00 | 2:17 AM | 1/12/08 | Australia |
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| Item #A27 Long fingers of Prehnite ps after Laumontite! From Bombay, India. Measures 7.4 cm by 5 cm in size. Price $485 Minimum Opening Bid - $200 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $200.00 | 7:12 AM | 1/12/08 | Brazil |
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| Item #A28 Gemmy crystals of Golden Topaz with Albite and Feldspar! Measures 6 cm by 7.3 cm in size with a nearly 4 cm Topaz. From the Shigar Valley in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. Price $450 Minimum Opening Bid - $285 |
| Highest Bid | Time | Date | Location |
| $285.00 | 12:48 PM | 1/4/08 | Knoxville, TN |
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| Item #A29 HUGE crystal of Magnetite on Mica! This whopper of a Magnetite measures 6 cm from tip to tip! From Akhmatovskoe, Ural Mountains of Russia. Measures 8 cm by 11 cm in total size. Price $1650 Minimum Opening Bid - $985 |
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| Item #A30 EXCEPTIONAL and HUGE!! Large gemmy octahedral crystals of Fluorite atop Galena! These large crystals vary in color from mint green to an icy transparent! The largest Fluorite measures 7.5 cm in size! There are also snowy-white Calcite accents between some of the Fluorites and between the bottom Fluorite crystals and large Galenas which make up the matrix. From Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. Measures 21 cm by 26.5 cm by 11.5 cm in size. Price $4850 Minimum Opening Bid - $2850 |
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