Auction Two hundred forty nine Preview

Jan 30, 2009

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	1 9hhmra ((BARITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Muddy Creek, Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado, 4.5 x 5 x .6 cm, Miniature, Great looking grey blue Barite from Muddy Creek. Undamaged except for a small ick on the back of the tip. See if the photo shows this.

	2 9hhmrg ((ANDRADITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Stanley Butte, Graham County, Arizona, 6 x 5 x 1.2 cm, Miniature, Large sharp crystals of Stanley Butte Andradite. Undamaged except on tip missing on an edge crystal.

	3 9hhmrit ((VANADINITE, CALCITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, San Carlos Mine, Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico, 3 x 2 x 2 cm, Miniature, Undamaged brownish orange crystals of Vanadinite with associated Calcite.

	4 9hhmro ((ANDRADITE variety MELANITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, San Benito County, California, 4.5 x 3.5 x 1.2 cm, Miniature, Choice miniature resembling a floater with crystals on both front and back. Black crystals are lustrous with sharply defined edges.

	5 9hhmrl ((PYRITE, QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Butte, Montana, 2.5 x 2.2 x 2.2 cm Thumbnail, Lustrous and undamaged Butte Pyrite which are becoming more hard to find quality specimens.

	6 9hhmrt ((MALACHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Planet Mine, Yuma County, Arizona, 2 x 1 x .8 cm Thumbnail, Stacked green botryoidal spheres of Malachite.

	7 9hhmrir ((BIKITAITE, EOSPHORITE)), $25 MINIMUM BID, Foote Mine, Kings Mtns, Cleveland County, North Carolina, 1.7 x .5 x .2 cm Thumbnail, Lithium Aluminum Silicate. Looks like a rarer Silicate and only listed from two locations on mindat.

	8 9hhmrt ((HEMATITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Egremont, Cumberland, England, 2.2 x 2 x 1.8 cm, Thumbnail, Classic English Hematite location for this neat undamaged thumbnail sized specimen.

	9 9hhmrl ((FLUORITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Boulder Hill Mine, near Wellington, Nevada, 6 x 4.5 x 3 cm, Miniature, Specimen of undamaged cubic Fluorite crystals.

	10 9hhmrnt ((AXINITE)), $25 MINIMUM BID, Consolidated Tungsten Mine, Drum Valley, near Visalia, California, 5.5 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature, Here is fine California Axinite specimen. Looks undamaged although under a loop you might find something minor or micro.

	11 9hhmre ((PIEMONTITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Peterson Mtns, near California Agriculture Station, Nevada/California Border, 6.5 x 4 x 4 cm, Cabinet, This specimen actually has micro crystals of Piemontite which was usually only massive in a small vein.

	12 9hhmrt ((VANADINITE variety ENDLICHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Rialto Claim, Castle Dome District, Yuma County, Arizona, 4.5 x 3 x 1.6 cm, Miniature, Here is small miniature with good coverage of small almost micro crystals of Endlichite.	,

	13 9hhmrl ((QUARTZ on TOURMALINE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, California, 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm, Thumbnail, A double terminated Quartz crystal on a green, pink, and white section of Tourmaline.	,

	14 9hhmrg ((TOURMALINE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Vardinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 3 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm, Thumbnail, The core has pseudomorphed to Quartz.

	15 9hhmrt ((BERYL variety MORGANITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Elizabeth R Mine, Pala, California, 1.5 x .8 x .8 cm, Thumbnail, Here is smaller well formed pale Beryl variety Morganite from a lesser known California Mine.

	16 9hhmris ((TOURMALINE with QUARTZ)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2.3 x 1 x 1 cm, Thumbnail, Here is a fine terminated green Tourmaline with a small double terminated Quartz crystal imbedded on the termination.

	17 9hhmrg ((ACTINOLITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Chester, Vermont, 9.5 x 7 x 2.5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a dark green Actinolite from a classic Dana locality.	,

	18 9hhmrin ((DATOLITE with COPPER inclusions)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Keweenaw, County, Michigan, 8 x 6.5 x 1.2 cm, Cabinet, Here is a polished Datolite with a reddish coppery color due to Copper inclusions. This color seems to be the most desirable in this Michigan Datolites. Note color is a bit more subdued and not quite as vibrant.

	19 9hhmrii ((GALENA and SPHALERITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Galena, Kansas, 7.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Here is an aesthetic undamaged combination specimen of cubic Galena crystals on large Sphalerite crystals. It is very unusual not to have damage to the fairly soft and cleavable Sphalerite.

	20 9hhmrg ((QUARTZ with EPIDOTE inclusions)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Green Horn Mtns, California, 4.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, 4 of the Quartz faces have been polished to reveal the dark needles of included Epidote. Existing natural faces were polished not new faces added or made up.

	21 9hhmris ((ACANTHITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Cata Mine, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, 1 x .9 x .5 cm, Thumbnail, Here is a fine lustrous grey cubic Acanthite from the Cata Mine.

	22 9hhmrt ((MIMETITE variety CAMPYLITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Cumberland, England, 1.5 x 1.2 x 1.2 cm, Thumbnail, Here is a larger than usual thumbnail classic, Campylite.

	23 9hhmrl ((ENARGITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Leonard Mine, Butte, Montana, 1.2 x .5 x .3 cm, Thumbnail, Here is a single lustrous terminated Enargite crystal from Butte. May be some minor contact on one edge.

	24 9hhmrt ((CALCITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Twin Butte Pit, Pima County, Arizona, 2.2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm, Thumbnail, Here is a neat group of three terminated and lustrous Calcite crystals from a different Arizona location.

	25 9hhmrl ((KUNZITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Pala Chief Mine, Pala, California, 4 x 1.7 x 1 cm, Miniature, Here is a neat group of three terminated and lustrous Calcite crystals from a different Arizona location. NOTE COLOR IS PALE PINK AND NOT AS DARK AS PHOTO SUGGESTS.

	26 9hhmrl ((COVELLITE on QUARTZ)) $20 MINIMUM BID, Alpine County California, 5 x 3 x 3 cm, Miniature, Here is an unusual location for Covellite. It is getter harder and harder to find Butte Covellite. This California Covellite is an uncommon find.

	27 9hhmrg ((WULFENITE, MIMETITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, Arizona, 3.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Here is a fine miniature. The orange Mimetite is very vibrant and the Wulfenite crystals are in great shape, on small corner on one crystal missing and otherwise all the Wulfenites are undamaged.

	28 9hhmre ((SMOKY QUARTZ)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Mineral Mtns, Beaver County, Utah, 5 x 2.5 x 2 cm, Miniature, Here is a Utah Smoky from the Mineral Mtns. Looks undamaged but has some contacting with another Quartz crystal.

	29 9hhmrg ((APATITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Poopo, Bolivia, 1.3 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm, Thumbnail, Poopo is famous for its cylindrites. Here is two colorless lustrous Apatite crystals in a thumbnail size from Poopo.

	30 9hhmrt ((COLUMBITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Minas Gerais, Bolivia, 1.5 x 1.4 x .5 cm, Thumbnail, Here is a fine lustrous terminated black Brazilian Columbite.

	31 9hhmrl ((WULFENITE, MIMETITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Mammoth Mine, Tiger, Arizona, 2.5 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm, Thumbnail, Here is a specimen that fills the perky box. It is a Tiger Wulfenite which are very collectible.

	32 9hhmrii ((CASSITERITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Viloco, Bolivia, 2.2 x 2 x 1.8 cm, Thumbnail, Here is a very large single crystal of Cassiterite from Bolivia. The crystal edges have minor wear and the luster is not top of the line but it looks undamaged and larger than usual sized crystal.

	33 ari ((GARNET with APATITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Garnet Field, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, 14 x 11 MM, Thumbnail, Brown Garnet with cream colored Carbonate-rich Apatite from Arkansas's Magnet Cove. These were collected by Clyde Hardin, a well known Arkansas "digger" whom traded Arkansas minerals with collectors throughout the world.

	34 ari ((GARNET with APATITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Garnet Field, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, 18 x 16 MM, Thumbnail, Brown Garnet with cream colored Carbonate-rich Apatite from Arkansas's Magnet Cove. Garnet has well defined faces. These were collected by Clyde Hardin, a well known Arkansas "digger" whom traded Arkansas minerals with collectors throughout the world.

	35 ari ((GYPSUM)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Castel De Britti, Bologna, Italy, 27 x 14 MM, Thumbnail, Fine thumbnail sized Italian Gypsum crystal. Ex Clyde Hardin collection.

	36 ari ((ADULARIA)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Valle Aurina, Bolzano, Trentino, Italy, 2 x 2 x 2 cm, Thumbnail, Cluster of white Italian Andularia crystals. Ex Clyde Hardin collection.

	37 miscr ((CARNELIAN replaced HORN CORAL)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Woodland, Utah, 3.8 x 2 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Here is a fossil Horn Coral that has been replaced with Carnelian. I had another on a recent auction with more detailed description. This one looks like it was tumbled to remove most of the grey limestone leaving almost solid red coloration.

	38 7atkris ((CALCITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb, Namibia, 7 x 6 x 3 cm, Cabinet, A plate of Calcite crystals slightly etched.

	39 7hlkmg ((TWINNED FELDSPAR)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Ontario, Canada, 9 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Text book twinned Feldspar. It is almost amazingly without damage except for a couple very minor areas.

	40 7atkril ((ARAGONITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb, Namibia, 8 x 4.5 x 1 cm, Cabinet, A plate blue colored Aragonite from Tsumeb.

	41 7hlkmr ((CERUSSITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Southwest Chester Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 4.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm, Miniature, Here is a classic Penna location of Cerussite. Most specimens are very old and expensive. Here is an inexpensive more recently collected specimen from the old dumps with small crystals.

	42 5hhshn ((HEMIMORPHITE on CALCITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Ophir District, Tooele County, Utah, 4 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, Here are micro crystals of white Hemimorphite crystals on Calcite from Utah. Great under a scope or loop.

	43 7atadr ((STELLERITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Tambar Springs, New South Wales, Australia, 6.5 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm, Miniature, Here is one of those Aussi Stellerites that look like Stilbites. Fine terminated salmon colored crystals.

	44 7atkrg ((CERUSSITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb, Namibia, 3.8 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm, Miniature, Nice cluster of Cerussite crystals from Tsumeb.

	45 ari ((GYPSUM variety SELENITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Arkansas Salt Flats, Arkansas, 8.5 x 7 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Two crystals in a T shape with brown mud inclustions.

	46 5hhshis ((MIXITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Northern Spy Mine, Tintic District, Utah, 7 x 5 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a rare mineral. A local Utah collector collected several flats about 10 years ago which I purchased. He is now out of state and nothing has been found since. These blue green spheres are micro and fuzzy, hairy looking. I have sold several through this auction.

	47 5atxll ((CHALCOPYRITE, QUARTZ)), $1 MINIMUM BID, San Martin Mine, San Martin, Zacatecas, Mexico, 6 x 4 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Iridescent Chalcopyrite with terminated Quartz crystals.

	48 5atxll ((K FELDSPAR variety ADULARIA, QUARTZ)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Valenciana Mine, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, 9 x 8 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Fine example of Adularia aka Valencianite with its chisel shaped white crystals with covered with terminated colorless Quartz crystals. This is a fine specimen but the photos did not come out well.

	49 7h1jdns ((CATLINITE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Pipestone, Minnesota, 4 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, This is a mixture of Pyrophyllite and Sericite and is a red clay used by native americans to make pipes. This is actually a pipe. I do not know much about it other than ex Willam Blackadoar collection and the additional label says obtained by Harriet D Thoukadar April 1950. Note I have trouble reading the name spelling on the label.


	50 8lhmrir ((fluorescent SYLVITE and HALITE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Salton Sea, California, 9 x 8 x 7.5 cm, Cabinet, Very Fluorescent Salton Sea Sylvite, Halite with octahedral crystals.


	51 99hhpst ((Hopper, Hollow fluorescent QUARTZ)), $15 MINIMUM BID, Dugway Geode Beds, Tooele County, Utah, 7 x 5.5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Sawn Dugway geode which fluorescent green and has the strange hollow Quartz.


	52 8lhmrt ((fluorescent SYLVITE and HALITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Salton Sea, California, 5 x 5 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Very Fluorescent Salton Sea Sylvite, Halite with cubic crystals.

	53 8lhmrnt ((CLINOCLASE, LEUCOCHALCITE)), $25 MINIMUM BID, Salton Sea, California, 3 x 3 x 1 cm, Miniature, Clinoclase and Leucochalcite a variety of Olivenite.

	54 8jkrbnr ((PYROMORPHITE)), $25 MINIMUM BID, Bunker Hill, Kellogg, Idaho, 2 x 2 x 2 cm, Thumbnail, Orange lustrous hexagonal crystals of Bunker Hill Pyromorphite.

	55 6edbfns ((KOTTIGITE, PARASYMPLESITE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 4 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, Rare arsenates not mined for 30 years. These are back and related to the very popular yellow Legrandite. Analysis is needed to positive ID between Kottigite and Parasymplesite but generally it looks like the dark grey crystals are Kottigite and the light brownish crystals are Parasymplesite. This specimen probably leans toward Parasymplesite.

	56 7hlgmr ((RUTILE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia, 4 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Partial crystal of lustrous classic Graves Mtn Rutile.

	57 5atdmi ((QUARTZ)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Old County Quarry, Wymore, Gage County, Nebraska, 4.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm, Miniature, I do not see many Nebraska specimens, known more for fossils. Here is an undamaged cluster of Quartz from Nebraska.

	58 ari ((CALCITE with HEMATITE inclusions)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Pallaflats Mine, Cumbria, England, 8 x 7 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Classic English specimen. Perimeter crystals are cleaved with the center crystals being undamaged.

	59 40499atsmls ((APOPHYLLITE)), $15 MINIMUM BID, Jalgoan, Maharashtra, India, 4 x 5 x 5 cm, Miniature, Excellent undamaged Apophyllite with sharply formed crytals perched on a terminated stalactite of spongey Quartz. High quality Indian zeolite specimen retail 100.

	60 5atdbn ((HEUBNERITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Adams Mine, San Juan County, Colorado, 2 x 2 x 1.7 cm, Thumbnail, Thumbnail sized specimen with large Heubnerite crystals.

	61 8attgg ((GYPSUM variety SELENITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Chihuahua, Mexico, 11 x 5 x 5 cm, Miniature, Intergrown group of three clusters of Gypsum from Chihuahua.

	62 6dboris ((ORPIMENT, REALGAR)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Getchell Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, 9 x 6 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Fine specimen of yellow Orpiment and Realgar. Both a fine red lustrous Realgar crystal and a larger yellow Orpiment crystal present on this specimen with associated white Calcite.

	63 5atdbe ((PHENAKITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mt Antero area, Chaffee County, Colorado, 9 x 9 x 7 mm, Thumbnail, Single crystal of Colorado Phenakite in a thumbnail size.

	64 ari ((BROOKITE on SMOKY QUARTZ)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Moses Hill, Magnet Cover, Arkansas, 4.5 cm, Miniature, Several black lustrous Brookite crystals on Smoky cluster. These are seen sometimes out of old collectious or accumulations. I have not seen newly collected specimens for sale.

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	71 5swns ((FERBERITE, QUARTZ, MUSCOVITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan County, China, 10.5 x 9 x 8 cm, Cabinet, A heavy specimen with parallel black thick blades of Ferberite. The Ferberite is covered with 5 to 10 mm crystals of Muscovite. Also associated Quartz and a spherical unknown which is probably Chalcopyrite. The large Quartz looks like it originally had two terminations. One is there and the other is either damage or contacted and not present.

	72 99idcsir ((TETRAHEDRITE, QUARTZ)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Casapalca Mine, Peru, 5 x 6 x 4 cm, Miniature, Here is a specimen of Tetrahedrite with associated Quartz. The Tetrahedrite also has a thin coating of golden Chalcopyrite giving the Tetrahedrite a golden sheen.

	72 al4120ir ((KYANITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Barra do Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 6.5 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, Blue blades of Kyanite with a base of Quartz.

	74 bru27r ((QUARTZ)), $5 MINIMUM BID, Brumado Mine, Bahia, Brazil, 8 x 6 x 2 cm, Cabinet, A specimen covered with Quartz crystals from Brumado, now closed.

	75 8ghmrit ((HEMIMORPHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Magistral, Durango, Mexico, 7 x 6 x 5.5 cm, Cabinet, Light blue botryoidal Hemimorphite which almost looks like Smithsonite. This is also coming out of China but beware the Chinese do dye some lots.

	76 8ghmro ((CALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico, 9.5 x 7 x 5 cm, Miniature, Here is a goethite vug filled with large Calcite crystals.

	77 8ghmrig ((QUARTZ ROSETTE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Santa Rosa Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 6 x 3 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Santa Rosa is well known for its Tourmalines. Here is an undamaged Quartz rose from the same mine.

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	48 8hljdr ((OPAL)), $10 MINIMUM BID, White Cliffs, Australia, 3 x 4.5 x 1.7 cm, Miniature, White opal with red and green fire. Hard to photograph and show color.

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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.


	10 8jhmrt ((HALITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Salton Sea, Imperial County, California, 5.5 x 6.5 x 3 cm, Miniature to Small Cabinet, Stiking orange fluorescent under UV on this California cubic Halite specimen.
		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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