Auction One hundred eighty six Preview

Nov 16, 2007

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1 7ddceir ((MUSCOVITE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Minas Gerais, Brazil, cm, Cabinet, Many intergrown hexagonal shaped Muscovite crystals form this attractive cabinet sized undamaged specimen. ex Ernie Schlichter

2 7ddcene ((EUCLASE with MUSCOVITE)), $25 MINIMUM BID, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil, cm, Miniature, A colorless terminated undamaged Euclase perched in the center of a miniature specimen of undamaged Muscovite crystals and a matrix of white Albite. ex Ernie Schlichter

3 7hhjdg ((STILBITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Gettysburg Quarry, Cumberland Twp., Adams County, Pennsylvania, 11 x 8 x 5.5 cm, Cabinet, Beautiful polished slab of classic Bisbee Azurite and Malachite. The internal vug contains actual Azurite crystals. ex Evan Jones collection

4 7atkrr ((CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE, QUARTZ on SPHALERITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Zacatecas, Mexico, x x x x x cm, Miniature, Large Chalcopyrite coated with oxidation making it dark with lustrous striated Pyrite crystals and some smaller Quartz crystals. These on a underlining matrix of Sphalerite.

5 7hhjdl ((DENDRITES)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, 7.5 x 5.5 x 2.5 cm, Cabinet, Here is an interesting Dendrite specimen from Sterling. This is a specimen from the Franklin Mineral Museum with label.

6 7hhjdl ((CHALCOPHANITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Probably Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, 6 x 5 x 4 cm, Miniature, lustrous Chalcophanite crystals. The label is from the museum but no location is given. Mindat.org shows 2 photos of Chalcophanite from Sterling Hill and so I assume it is Sterling Hill rather than Franklin. The museum has a value of $35 on the old label, so it was a better than average specimen. This is a specimen from the Franklin Mineral Museum with label.

7 7hhjdl ((YELLOW ZINCITE, WILLEMITE, FRANKLINITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, 800 stope, 430' level, Sterling Hill Mine, Frankling Mining District, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, 7 x 3 x 1.5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a specimen with the stope and level which is a rarity in itself. This is a vein of yellow Zincite surrounded by Willemite and Franklinite. This is a specimen from the Franklin Mineral Museum with label.

8 7hhjdl ((PYRITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey, 4.5 x 4.5 x 2 cm, Miniature, Pyrite vein from Franklin. This is a specimen from the Franklin Mineral Museum with label.

9 7hhjdl ((CHALCOPYRITE, HARDYSTONITE, ANDRADITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey, 7 x 5.5 x 5 cm, Cabinet, I think this is mainly a Chalcopyrite specimen although the label says Hardystone and andradite. It does not fluoresce. This is a specimen from the Franklin Mineral Museum with label.

10 7hhjdl ((SUSSEXITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey, 8 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a specimen with a vein of Sussexite. This is a specimen from the Franklin Mineral Museum with label.

11 7hhjdl ((DRILL CORE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey, 7.5 x 3 x 1.5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a drill core split in half length wise. It has non fluorescent white Calcite, cream colored Willemite that looks like the Calcite but is fluorescent green, reddish Zincite, and black Franklinite. This is a specimen from the Franklin Mineral Museum with label.

12 7hhjdl ((SHEAR ZONE with FRANKLINITE, WILLEMITE, CALCITE, SERPENTINE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Sterling Hill Mine, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey, 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, The label says geologic specimen collected by Ralph Cannon from the shear zone with Franklinite, Willemite, Calcite, and Serpentine. This is a specimen from the Franklin Mineral Museum with label.

13 7hhjdl ((SLICK N SIDE, MAGNETITE, HEMATITE, PYRITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey, 9 x 5.5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, It has a naturally polished face being the Slick N Side. Other wise a heavy black specimen. This is a specimen from the Franklin Mineral Museum with label.

14 7hhjdl ((GRAPHITE in CALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Franklin area, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey, 8 x 2 x 1.5 cm, Cabinet, A neat specimen with gray Graphite which you can even write with if you loose your pencil. This is a specimen from the Franklin Mineral Museum with label.

15 7hhjdl ((ZINCITE, FRANKLINITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey, 8 x 7 x 3 cm, Cabinet, A specimen rich with reddish brown Zincite and grey black Franklinite. No label from the Franklin Mineral Museum.

16 7hhjdl ((HENDRICKITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Franklin area, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey, 10 x 5 x 2.5 cm, Cabinet, A specimen of the mica that resemble Biotite but has a reddish brown tinge from Franklin know as Hendrickite. No label but has the name and location label glued to the specimen.

17 6idejti ((LIBETHANITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Old Reliable Mine, Copper Creek, Pinal county, Arizona, 4.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Dark green lustrous clusters of Libethanite crystals from Arizona. ex Evan Jones collection

18 6hekmr ((CLINOCHLORE variety PENNINE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Cedar Hill Quarry, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 5 x 4 x 2 cm, Miniature, Pennine on a Schist matrix. ex Kerry Matt collection.

19 6idejnt ((FLUORAPATITE with QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Cerro de Mercado, durango, Mexico, 7 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Undamaged specimen with a white Quartz druze covering yellow terminated and gemmy Fluorapatite crystals. Fluorapatite crystals are gemmy on the inside with a frosted Quartz coating on the crystal faces. This is not the usual Cerro de Mercado Fluorapatite. ex Evan Jones collection

20 7ghkmr ((DOLOMITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Walker Quarry, Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada, 10 x 6 x 2 cm, Cabinet, Pinkish saddle back Dolomite from Niagra Falls.

21 7ghkmr ((APOPHYLLITE on QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Tilgon Quarry, Patterson, New Jersey, 10 x 11 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Here is a 1.8 cm blocky undamaged Apophyllite from New Jersey on a cabinet sized specimen covered with a druze of terminated Quartz crystals.

22 7ghjdg ((BLUE AND GOLDEN TIGER EYE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Rhodesia, South Africa, 13 x 5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Here is a large seam of Tiger Eye from Africa. Both the blue and golden colors are represented and actually mixed in varying degrees.

23 6hekmr ((QUARTZ, DOLOMITE, CALCITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Oak Hall Quarry, Center County, Pennsylvania, 5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Double terminated Herkimer like Quartz diamond on a matrix of pink Dolomite and white Calcite. ex Kerry Matt collection.

24 7ghjdg ((PECTOLITE on APOPHYLLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Millington Quarry, New Jersey, 10 x 7 x 6 cm, Cabinet, Here is a zeolite from a USA location and not India.

25 7ghjdg ((PYRITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Bullsferry Road, Edgewater, New Jersey, 10 x 7 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Here is a New Jersey Pyrite specimen with lustrous octahedrons.

26 7ghkmg ((BERYL variety AQUAMARINE)), REPAIRED, $10 MINIMUM BID, Quadeville, Ontario, Canada, 9 x 9 x 9 cm, Cabinet, Here is a rather large Aquamarine crystal which is hexagonal and amazingly terminated with an unusual pointed terminated. The top third of the crystal is glued back together. It has some gaps but is still a very nice example of this unusual termination.

27 6hekmr ((CELESTINE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Meckley's Quarry, Manadata, Northcumberland County, Pennsylvania, 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature, Aesthetic sprays of sharply terminated light blue to almost white Celestine from Meckley's Quarry in Pennsylvania. ex Kerry Matt collection.

28 6hekmr ((CALCITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Winfield Quarry, Union County, Pennsylvania, 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature, Single perched golden Calcite crystal. ex Kerry Matt collection.

29 7ghjdg ((PALYGORSKITE after PECTOLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Laurel Hill, Secaucus, New Jersey, 8 x 6 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a neat New Jersey pseudomorph. It is Palygorskite aka Mountain Leather after Pectolite.

30 6hekmr ((ANTIGORITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Cedar Hill Quarry, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 5.5 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature, Light olive green colored striated Antigorite from Lancaster County. ex Kerry Matt collection.

31 6hekmr ((BERYL)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Crum Creek, Swathmore, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 3 x 2 x .5 cm, Thumbnail, Nice PA Beryl thumbnail. Off yellow colored Beryl which has had fingernail polish applied which could be removed. ex Kerry Matt collection.

32 6attgg ((CHLOROPHANE, SPESSARTINE, QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Tongbei, Yunxiao, Fugian Province, China, 11 x 6 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a huge Spessartine which is 2 cm across on a matrix of Chlorophane crystals and a few other smaller Spessartines and even a terminated Smoky.

33 6hhkmr ((SIDERITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Canada, 6 x 5.5 x 5 cm, Miniature, Undamaged group of brown Siderite crystals. These were not labeled but came with a group of Canadian minerals.

34 6atdbinr ((FLUORITE with CALCITE)), $25 MINIMUM BID, Cave in Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, 12 x 10 x 6 cm, Cabinet, Cabinet sized specimen of undamaged purple Fluorite cyrstal covered with small Calcite. This is a corner from a large crystal with regrowth on the botttom of micro cubic Fluorite faces. ex Dave Bunk specimen valued at much more.

35 6atdbrs ((POLYBASITE and ACANTHITE pseudomorph after PYRARGYRITE on QUARTZ)), $25 MINIMUM BID, San Juan de Rayas Mine, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 x 9 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Large cabinet sized specimen of terminated druze of Quartz with a combination pseudo of Silver sulfides. ex Dave Bunk specimen with label valued at much more.

36 4misc2463 ((BRAZILIANITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 9 x 5 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Large opaque yellow green Brazilianite crystal to 8 cm. ex Luis Leite specimen.

37 7atadr ((SMOKEY QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mooralla, Victoria, Australia, 4 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, A pair, actually three, of large undamaged crystals from this famous location of Smokey Quartz crystals from geodes formed in Rhyolite Lava.

38 6atjkr ((AURICHALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, level 5, Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, 8 x 5 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Good coverage of blue green acicular crystals of Aurichalcite from Bisbee.

39 6atjkr ((MALACHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, level 5, Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, 9 x 5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Good coverage of green acicular crystals of Malachite from Bisbee.

40 7atadr ((ATACAMITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mt Gunson, South Australia, Australia, 6 x 5.5 x 3 cm, Miniature, Dark green crystals of Atacamite, a hydrous copper chloride.

41 6ari ((MELANOPHLOGITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Fortullino Hill, Livorno, Italy, 4.5 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, This is a tectosilicate with organics. Colorless crystals on the one side of the specimen.

42 6fhorr ((HYDROHETAEROLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Gold Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah, 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Brown colored mineral of Zinc and Manganese oxide.

43 6ikmmns ((PREHNITE, CALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Lower New Street Quarry, West Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, 12 x 8 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Botryoidal pale green Prehnite associated with small colorless Calcite crystals.

44 6fhorr ((CUPRIAN ADAMITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Gold Hill Mine, Tooele County, Utah, 6 x 6 x 4 cm, Miniature, bluish green micro crystals of Cuprian Adamite from Gold Hill. The Gold Hill Mine has now been closed by the state of Utah with heavy bars blocking underground access while allowing the bats to keep their low rent housing. There is still access to the above ground collecting areas with permission from the property owner as always. Rumor has it that it is a company in Chile.

45 6jkwge ((PARISITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Snowbird Mine, Mineral County, Montana, 3.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Here is a cluster of brown Parisite from Montana. ex Wes Gannaway collection with label.

46 7atadis ((ARAGONITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Northern Lights Mine, Mineral County, Nevada, 11 x 7 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Undamaged cabinet specimen of this popular Nevada find from several years ago. I was told that I bought the last 6 flats of specimens during Tucson last year. Most have been sold but searching flats for more auction specimens, I ran across a few of these specimens still here.

47 6dhbfns ((MIMETITE on CALCITE)), $25 MINIMUM BID, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahau, Mexico, 14 x 7 x 6 cm, Cabinet, Large specimen with good coverage of yellow brown Mimetite on white opaque rhombs of Calcite.

48 7atadr ((SPHALERITE, QUARTZ, PYRITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Animon Mine, Huaron, Peru, 4.5 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, Lustrous dark Sphalerite crystals with associated terminated Quartz and minor lustrous Pyrite crystals.

49 6gfnr ((CHRYSOCOLLA)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Star of the Congo Mine, Katanga, Republic of Congo, 12 x 5 x 4.5, Cabinet, blue green lustrous Chrysocolla from the Congo aka Katanga.

50 7jhjh ((PEACH HALITE)), ANOTHER NEW FIND, $10 MINIMUM BID, Great Salt Lake, Tooele County, Utah, x x x x x cm, Cabinet, New Find, Along with the pink Halite and the Cactus Selenite, Peach colored Halite has also been found this fall in the brine ponds of the Great Salt Lake. All of these are firsts from the Great Salt Lake.

51 6jkawt ((THOMSONITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Jaquish Roadcut, Goble, Columbia County, Oregon, 8.5 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm, Cabinet, Spherical Thomsonite from Oregon.

52 6ecwmis ((FLUORITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, LingWu, Hunan Province, China, 12 x 8 x 4.5 cm, Cabinet, Green cubic Fluorite from China.

53 5fbdjis ((FLUORITE with CALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Asturia, Spain, 5 x 3 x 3 cm, Miniature, Yellow cubic Fluorite with flattened rhombs of white Calcite.

54 5swl ((DOLOMITE, FLUORITE, QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunnan Province, China, 6.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm, Miniature, Fine specimen with spheres of white undamaged Dolomite on a matrix of terminated Quartz and cubic light purple Fluorite.

55 5swl ((WOLFRAMITE on QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunnan Province, China, 8.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm, Cabinet, Very fine specimen with an undamaged 8.5 cm terminated Quartz crystal with secondary smaller Quartz crystals and micro black Wolframite crystals and a larger 10 x 8 mm black Wolframite crystal.

56 6ari ((RUTILE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina, 1.3 cm, Thumbnail, Single terminated lustrous Rutile crystal from Hiddenite, North Carolina.

57 7dcr ((slab of RHODOCHROSITE, SILVER)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Alice Mine, Butte, Montana, 7 x 5 x .7 cm, Cabinet, A slab of Butte material from the Alice Mine.

58 6fhorr ((ORPIMENT, REALGAR)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Getchell Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, 5.5 x 5 x 3 cm, Miniature, Showing Orpiment from Nevada with sparkling yellow elongated Orpiment crystals surrounded by red Realgar.

59 6hlkmr ((two pcs BERYL variety AQUAMARINE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Near rt 30, Lancaster/Chester County line, Pennsylvania, 7 cm in length, Here are two specimens of Pennsylvania Aquamarine. The one specimen has an unusual tapering crystal. Both crystals are opaque and non gemmy.

60 5swl ((QUARTZ, ARSENOPYRITE, DOLOMITE, MUSCOVITE, CALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunnan Province, China, 5.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Cute cluster of minerals with a large Arsenopyrite and terminated Quartz crystals and associated minor Dolomite druze and Muscovite and Calcite.

61 6hekmr ((ANDRADITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Cornwall Mine, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, 7 x 4 x 3 cm, Cabinet, This is a specimen where the Calcite has been dissolved leaving the complete Andradite crystals in 3d on matrix.

62 6atdbe ((CHALCOPYRITE, MARCASITE on SPHALERITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Tri State District, Missouri, 3 x 2.5 x 2 cm, Miniature, Cute small miniature from the Tri State District. Oriented Chalcopyrite and silvery Marcasite on Sphalerite with a blue iridescent patina.

63 6hlkmr ((TECTITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, S E Asia, 4.5 x 2.5 x 2.3 cm, Miniature, Here is a glass meteorite aka Tectite from S E Asia.

64 7atkrr ((APOPHYLLITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Jalgoan, Maharstra, India, 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm, Miniature, green Apophyllite reference specimen.

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MRZ114 � Picromerite (Schonite) on Halite - $300 (SOLD) Potash Mine, Rossleben, Querfurt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Large Miniature, 5.7 x 4.5 x 3.6 cm A sharply crystallized example of this rare sulfate species, formerly known as Schonite, from a classic locality long abandoned. Minor halite is associated underneath and around the backside. It is, overall, a very attractive miniature. It carries an old label from the Bergakadmemie Freiberg. Sharp and complete all around, very 3-dimensional.	7hhlmit ((FLUORESCENT APATITE)), $30 MINIMUM BID, Sapo Mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 4 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Here is a great miniature. It is double terminated stacked crystals of Apatite which has a hollow core and is Fluorescent orange under UV. Completely undamaged.
	7jgcdl ((NAN DAN METEORITES)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Nan Dan, Hunan, China, 2.5 cm, 2 thumbnails, Two 2.5 cm length iron meteorites from Nan Dan China. They are lightly varnished to protect from rusting but this man be removed with thinner or nail polish remover.

Fluororichterite - George Earle Farm, Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada (small cabinet)

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