Auction Four hundred twenty Preview

May 25, 2012

1   12atdbis  ((3 ZEOLITES, ETC on BASALT)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Boron Open Pit Mine, Boron, Kern County, California,  9 to 11 cm,  3 Cabinets,  Here are 3 large specimens of vuggy Basalt.  Most of the Zeolites and uncommon minerals in the Basalt vugs are usually trimmed into thumbnail sized specimens and the minerals are micro viewable with a loop or microscope.  These specimens have some of these micro minerals in the vugs within the Basalt.  ex Jim and Dawn Minette collection.
2     12atdbis  ((ZEOLITES, ETC on BASALT)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Boron Open Pit Mine, Boron, Kern County, California,  10 x 10 x 6 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is a large specimen of vuggy Basalt.  Most of the Zeolites and uncommon minerals in the Basalt vugs are usually trimmed into thumbnail sized specimens and the minerals are micro viewable with a loop or microscope.  This specimen has a few vugs and one larger than normal vug.    ex Jim and Dawn Minette collection.
3  12atdbis  ((ZEOLITES, ETC on BASALT)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Boron Open Pit Mine, Boron, Kern County, California,  11 x 9 x 3.5 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is a large specimen of vuggy Basalt.  Most of the Zeolites and uncommon minerals in the Basalt vugs are usually trimmed into thumbnail sized specimens and the minerals are micro viewable with a loop or microscope.  This specimen has large open vugs sparkling with microminerals.    ex Jim and Dawn Minette collection.
4  12atdbis  ((6 ZEOLITES, ETC on BASALT)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Boron Open Pit Mine, Boron, Kern County, California,  4.5 to 9 cm,  6 Miniatures to Cabinets,  Here are 6 specimens of vuggy Basalt.  Most of the Zeolites and uncommon minerals in the Basalt vugs are usually trimmed into thumbnail sized specimens and the minerals are micro viewable with a loop or microscope.  These specimens have some but not alot of these micro minerals in the vugs within the Basalt.  ex Jim and Dawn Minette collection.
5  12atdbis  ((ZEOLITES, ETC on BASALT)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Boron Open Pit Mine, Boron, Kern County, California,  11 x 8 x 4 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is a large specimen of vuggy Basalt.  Most of the Zeolites and uncommon minerals in the Basalt vugs are usually trimmed into thumbnail sized specimens and the minerals are micro viewable with a loop or microscope.  This specimen has many vugs including large open vugs sparkling with microminerals. These large micros are Analcime crystals.    ex Jim and Dawn Minette collection.
6  12atdbis  ((ZEOLITES, ETC on BASALT)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Boron Open Pit Mine, Boron, Kern County, California,  12 x 7 x 6 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is a large specimen of vuggy Basalt.  Most of the Zeolites and uncommon minerals in the Basalt vugs are usually trimmed into thumbnail sized specimens and the minerals are micro viewable with a loop or microscope.  This specimen has two large open vugs sparkling with microminerals.   ex Jim and Dawn Minette collection.
7  12atdbis  ((COLEMANINTE on CALCITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Boron Open Pit Mine, Boron, Kern County, California, 8x 5 x 5 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is a cabinet with small brown druze of Calcite with white to colorless Colemanite crystals in the vug.    ex Jim and Dawn Minette collection.
8  12atdbis  ((COLEMANINTE on CALCITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Boron Open Pit Mine, Boron, Kern County, California,  6 x 3.5 x 3 cm,  Miniature,  Here is a miniature with small brown druze of Calcite with white to colorless Colemanite crystals protruding from the Calcite.    ex Jim and Dawn Minette collection.
9   12atdbis  ((CALCITE on COLEMANITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Boron Open Pit Mine, Boron, Kern County, California,  7.5 x 4 x 3 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is a specimen with small yellow brown druze of Calcite over Colemanite crystals with only a few small tips protruding from the Calcite. ex Milton Speckels with label.    ex Jim and Dawn Minette collection.
10   12atdbis  ((CALCITE)),  $20 MINIMUM BID, Boron Open Pit Mine, Boron, Kern County, California,  16 x 8 x 4.5 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is a fine large Boron Calcite specimen with  yellow brown crystals of  Calcite covering this 100 percent Calcite specimen.  Back is sawn flat for display.  ex Jim and Dawn Minette collection.
11   7atkrrs  ((COPPER with MALACHITE coating)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb, Namibia,  9 x 8 x 4.5 cm, Cabinet,  Here is a large specimen with a mesh of Copper on and throughout the white matrix.  The Copper mesh exposed is also coated with green Malachite.  ex Uri Bahman collection.
12    7atkris  ((CALCITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb, Namibia,  10 x 6 x 4.5 cm, Cabinet,  Here is a  specimen of colorless Calcite from Tsumeb.  A couple large crystals have some scuffing and the edge crystals have some cleaved edges.   ex Uri Bahman collection.
13     7hlkmg  ((APOPHYLLITE, PREHNITE on QUARTZ)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Tilgon Quarry, Patterson, New Jersey,  11 x 10 x 4 cm, Cabinet,  Here is a  specimen from New Jersey with a large colorless blocky 1.8 cm Apophyllite crystals similar Quartz druze with some small blebs of Prehnite mingled with the Quartz.
14     7hlkmr  ((STILBITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India,  17 x 12 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet,  Here is a large specimen from Indian covered with Stilbite crystals.  There are also a few associated colorless Apophyllite crystals.
15    3atsmheu12nr  ((HEULANDITE, APOPHYLLITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India,  8.5 x 8 x 4 cm, Cabinet,  Here is a specimen with a base covered with colorless Apophyllite.  On the base of Apophyllite is a double terminated 5 cm lustrous Heulandite with a mauve color.  The Heulandite is undamaged except very minor rubbing or contact on the one termination a little over half way down.
16         7iddbgcar  ((SMOKY QUARTZ)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Unknown,  8 x 7 x 3.5 cm,  Cabinet,  A plate of gemmy Smoky Quartz with the crystals being undamaged except minor roughness on some edges on crystals at the side of the specimen.  It was in a box with no labels on the specimens.   ex H Deisinger collection.
17     ari.is  ((SMITHSONITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Monte Cristo Mine, Rush, Arkansas,  9 x 5 x 2.5 cm,  Cabinet,  This Smithsonite is from the Monte Cristo Mine in Arkansas.  Yellow botryoidal turkey fat looking Smithsonite.  ex Clyde Hardin collection.
18         ari.is  ((SMITHSONITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Monte Cristo Mine, Rush, Arkansas,  9 x 6 x 2 cm,  Cabinet,  This Smithsonite is from the Monte Cristo Mine in Arkansas.  Yellow botryoidal turkey fat looking Smithsonite covers one side.  The other side has a more brown colored Smithsonite.  ex Clyde Hardin collection.
19    10atganr  ((7 COPPER)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Bingham Open Pit Mine, Salt Lake County, Utah,  1 to 3 cm,  7 Thumbnails,  Here are 7 specimens without matrix from the find from a couple of year ago of superb crystaline Copper from Bingham.   These came off the larger pieces.
20   10atganr  ((2 COPPER)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Bingham Open Pit Mine, Salt Lake County, Utah,  3 to 4 cm,  2 Thumbnail to Miniature,  Here are 2 specimens with Quartzite matrix from the find from a couple of year ago of superb crystaline Copper from Bingham.   These came off the larger pieces.
21    7iddbocinr  ((NATIVE SILVER)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada,  8 x 5 x .3 cm, Cabinet,  Here is a slab of Silver showing the herring bone crystal growth.
22       07fbdjtr  ((RHODOCHROSITE)),  $35 MINIMUM BID, True Fissure Mine, Philipsburg, Montana,  10 x 7 x 5 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is rare to uncommon Rhodochrosite specimen. It could use some cleaning but it is from the True Fissure Mine in Philipsburg, Montana.  Philipsburg is also the home of the Black Pine Mine famous for its world class Veszelyite.
23    7atadts  ((ARSENOPYRITE)),  $15 MINIMUM BID, Huanzala Mine, Peru,  10 x 6 x 4 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is an Arsenopyrite from an uncommon location for Arsenopyrite.  Undamaged with some small micro Quartz coating some areas but is also hard to photo to show the Arsenopyrite crystals.
24    11hlkmtr  ((DRUSY QUARTZ or CHALCEDONY)),  $15 MINIMUM BID, Glen Mills Quarry, Delaware County, Pennsylvania,  17 x 10 x 2.5 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is a large specimen from the limited find in 2010 of druse at a Pennsylvania location.  It was also referred to as black raspberry rainbow druse.  This specimen has some brown iron staining which could be removed with chemical cleaning.
25   1926 9ldgcnss  ((STELLERITE)),  $35 MINIMUM BID, Kara Oba, Bet Pak Dala Steppe, Karaganda Oblist, Kazakhstan,  18 x 12 x 6 cm, Large Cabinet,  Here is a  n unusual Stellerite from Kazakhstan.  Grey lustrous crystals.  Left side has mounds damaged and on the right a few single crystal groups have damage.  Still those areas could be trimmed out and still leave an undamaged cabinet size specimen.
26    12dhjdis   ((IRIDESCENT GOETHITE)),  $25 MINIMUM  BID, Minnie Moore Mine-Colorado Mine, Tintic District, Juab County, Utah, 13 x 8 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet,  These were collected this year from a relatively small pocket now totally collected.  The Minnie Moore Mine evidently is connected to the Colorado Mine.  Mindat lists minerals at the Colorado as Baryte, Calamine, Cerussite, Galena, Geocronite, Jarosite, Pharmacosiderite, Quartz, Scorodite, Smithsonite, and Sphalerite.  The only photo is of Jarasite.  No analysis was done but there is Limonite and Goethite at the Mine even though not listed in Mindat.  This has a beautiful rainbow coloration of iridescence like an oil slick.  Tintic specimens seem to be rather scarce.  This is probably the largest specimen and most completely covered with the iridescence.
27  12ettgis  ((ANHYDRITE)),  $15 MINIMUM BID, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico,  8.5 x 2.5 x .8 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is a fine light blue undamaged fan of Naica Anhydrite.
28    12ehtgir  ((GYPSUM)),  $20 MINIMUM BID, Chihuahua, Mexico,  15 x 14 x 7 cm,  Cabinet,  Large and undamaged Gypsum.  Crystals are larger than normal.  One area of contact with more crystals.
29    7atadir   ((CERUSSITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mibladen, Morocco, 4 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm,  Miniature, Lustrous Cerussite crystals form a ring around the matrix.  Crystals are undamaged except the bottom most crystal at the base.
30    7atadir   ((GOLD)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Olinghouse Gold Mine, Nevada, 6 x 2 x 2 cm,  Miniature, Matrix covered by small terminated Quartz crystals. Within the Quartz are 2 or three Gold wires which are stabilized with wax for trimming or sawing or shipping.  The wax can be removed by submerging in water and then heating the water to melt the wax and have the wax float to the surface of the water.
31    6062 5atjknss   ((CALCITE)), $15 MINIMUM BID, Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, 9 x 8 x 4.5 cm,  Cabinet,  Fine undamaged stalactite of Calcite from the Southwest Mine in Bisbee.
32     7atadir   ((WULFENITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mibladen, Morocco, 4 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm,  Miniature, Lustrous yellow orange Wulfenite crystals on the top of pedestel of matrix.  The smaller front Wulfenite has a nick out of the front but the other larger crystals are undamaged.
33   6hhjhns  ((CALCITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Blackrock, Arkansas,  7 x 4 x 2.5 cm,  Miniature, Two generations of Calcite from Blackrock.  No damage .
34   12atdbns  ((COLEMANINTE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Boron Open Pit Mine, Boron, Kern County, California, 15 x 6 x 3 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is a cabinet sized Colemanite with large lustrous golden crystals.  These almost resemble Meikle Barite crystals.  The back and sides are sawn and rounded.   ex Jim and Dawn Minette collection.
35 12atdbns  ((COLEMANINTE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Boron Open Pit Mine, Boron, Kern County, California, 13 x 13 x 5.5 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is a cabinet sized Colemanite with reddish brown lustrous crystals.     ex Jim and Dawn Minette collection.
36   11hedwn  ((SPHALERITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Picher Field, Tri State District, Oklahoma, 7 x 7 x 6 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is a cabinet specimen of Sphalerite from Tri States Picher Field.  Old reference specimen with minor roughness on some crystal edges.
37     1275 9ldgcnss  ((FLUORITE)),  $25 MINIMUM BID, Beihilfe Mine, Halsbrucke, Freiberg District, Saxony, Germany, 13 x 8.5 x 3.5 cm,  Great old German Fluorite in great shape.  ex H Deisinger collection.
38  114 9fdcers  ((WAVELLITE on QUARTZ)), Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences,   $35 MINIMUM BID, Uncia, Bolivia,  11 x 10 x 6 cm, Large,  Here is an old specimen from the academy #19718 with label.  It is an old style Wavellite over Quartz crystals from Bolivia.
39  2336 586.ns  ((CALCITE)),   $15 MINIMUM BID, Minas Sabinas, Norid de San Pantoleon, Zacatecas, Mexico,  8 x 5.5 x 5 cm, Cabinet,  Fine lustrous undamaged Calcite with sharp crystal edges and lustrous faces  from Zacatecas.
40    1973 9ldgciss  ((MARCASITE with CALCITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Christiane Mine, Adorf, Hesse, Germany,  9 x 6 x 4 cm,  Here is a German specimen with brown Calcite and Marcasite.   ex H Deisinger collection.
41   3hhswns  ((ARSENOPYRITE on QUARTZ)),  $20 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, China,  8.5 x 7.5 x 6.5 cm,  Here is a highly lustrous terminated Quartz crystal with associated Arsenopyrite.  Termination tip is sharp as all edges of the large Quartz.
42     1548  9ldgcnrs  ((APATITE)),  $15 MINIMUM BID, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany,  7 x 7 x 3.5 cm,  Here is a German specimen several grey green Apatite crystals on matrix.  Some chipping on some crystals.   ex H Deisinger collection.
43      2037 9ldocers  ((FLUORITE with QUARTZ)),  $30 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, China,  9.5 x 7 x 3 cm,  Here is a highly lustrous Quartz and Fluorite specimen from China.  The Fluorite crystals are sharp with no chipping or damage or cleaves.  The Quartz is also sharp with no chipping or damage.
44 11hedwg   ((CALCITE)),  $5 MINIMUM  BID,  Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds County, Missouri, 5.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm,  Miniature,  A pair of Calcite crystals.  One is undamaged with sharp edges and no chipping.  The secondary crystal had a third going through the termination but only the contact also with a cleave is left.
45    923 9ldgciss  ((DOLOMITE)),  $15 MINIMUM BID, Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany,  10 x 8 x 3.5 cm,  Here is a German specimen fine undamaged cream colored rhombs of Dolomite.    ex H Deisinger collection.
46       bsir-8  ((FLUORITE)),  $15 MINIMUM BID, Heights Mine, Cumberland, England,  8 x 4.5 x 2 cm,  Here is a undamaged light purple cubic Fluorite specimen from Cumberland.
47   5367 11atdbar.in  ((PYRITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, C470 and hwy 285, near Morrison, Jefferson County, Colorado,  12 x 7 x 2.5 cm,  Here is a Colorado Pyrite concretion.  Undamaged with contact or broken end on the left side.  l
48    5368 11atdbrs.g  ((VANADINITE variety ENDLICHITE on WULFENITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico,  11 x 8 x 2 cm,  Here is a Los Lamentos orange Wulfenite coated with brown Endlichite.
.  49        7739 7ddceinr.nt   ((MALACHITE with minor AZURITE)),  $10 MINIMUM  BID, Tsumeb, Namibia, 6 x 4.5 x 2 cm,  Miniature,  Velvety green Malachite with a few small blue Azurite Crystals from Tsumeb.  ex Ernie Schlichter collection, ex Ofstein collection.
50     7741 7ddceiar.tn   ((SMITHSONITE, CORONADITE)),  $20 MINIMUM  BID, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia, 8 x 5 x 4 cm, Cabinet,  A vug in black Coronadite filled with undamaged light grey to white Smithsonite crystals from Australia.    ex Ernie Schlichter collection
51   948 9ldgcar   ((STIBNITE, CALCITE)),  $10 MINIMUM  BID, Baia Sprie, Maramures County, Romania, 9 x 4 x 4 cm, Cabinet,  Several sprays of Stibnite on a matrix covered with bands of white Calcite crystals.
52    11hedwt  ((VARISCITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Lucin District, Pilot Range, Box Elder County, Utah,  5.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm,  Miniature,  Pale green Variscite from one of three of Utah's Variscite locations, Lucin.
53      11hedwr  ((ARSENOPYRITE, CLINOCHLORE, MUSCOVITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan Province, China,  5 x 3 x 3 cm,  Miniature,  Dark green Clinochlore on Muscovite with lustrous silver colored Arsenopyrite.
54   9ehejrs.rs   ((AZURITE)),  $50 MINIMUM  BID, La Sal District, San Juan County, Utah, 6 x 4 x 2 cm, Miniature to small Cabinet,  Here is a fine undamaged blue double Azurite Nodule from La Sal. ex Chas. Lawrence collection, ex Evan Jones collection.
55    7363 11gsejtrs   ((MALACHITE pseudomorph after AZURITE)),  $75 MINIMUM  BID, Milpillas Mine, near Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico, 8 x 5 x 4.5 cm,  Cabinet,  Milpillas has produced world class Malachite pseudos and Azurite specimens during the past few years.   Here is a fine undamaged velvety Malachite after Azurite from Milpillas. The dark green contrasts with the white matrix.   ex Evan Jones whom has handled the majority of the specimens from Milpillas.
56   7744 7ddcelr.in   ((KUTNAHORITE with PYRITE)),  $10 MINIMUM  BID, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia, 5.5 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature,  Three cone shaped crystal clusters of Kutnahorite with minor associated Pyrite.   ex Ernie Schlichter collection
57   11hedwn  ((CHALCOPYRITE with DOLOMITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds County, Missouri,  3 x 3 x 2.5 cm,  Miniature,  Iridescent Chalcopyrite crystals on rhombs of cream colored Dolomite.
58     9atmrns  ((PARAVAUXITE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Serrano Vein, Llallagua, Bolivia,  4.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm, Miniature,  Paravauxite folded thin specimen of cream with a slight greenish tinge colored crystals.   ex Mark c Bandy collection, ex L A County Museum collection, ex Mark Rogers collection.
59   7743 7ddceer.a  ((ZIRCON, ALBITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec, Canada,  3 x 2 x 2 cm, Miniature,  Zircon crystal on matrix from Mont Saint Hilaire.  ex Ernie Schlichter
60    6660 11atdbnar.g  ((PYRITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Eagle Mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado,  8 x 6 x 1.5 cm, Cabinet,  Undamaged lustrous Pyrite specimen from the Eagle Mine.
61    5723 11btrmnr   ((COQUIMBITE)),  $10 MINIMUM  BID, Javier Mine, Ayacucho Department, Peru, 8 x 5.5 x 4 cm, Cabinet,  Purple hexagonal crystals of Coquimbite from Peru.
62  1540 9ldgcnss   ((BARITE)),  $20 MINIMUM  BID, Clara Mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest, Germany, 9 x 9 x 5 cm, Cabinet,  Chisel shaped crystals of Barite from the classic Clara Mine.  Overall in great shape but there is a couple of damaged crystals.  ex H Deisinger collection.
63  4326 5atjkes   ((CALCITE with BROCHANTITE)),  $10 MINIMUM  BID, Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, 10 x 3.5 x 1.3 cm, Cabinet,  Here is a Calcite stalactite with green specks of Brochantite from Bisbee.
64   7056 fbdjir  ((PYRITE)),  $15 MINIMUM BID, Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana,  10 x 8 x 3 cm, Cabinet,   Here is an undamaged Butte Pyrite specimen.  The Pyrite has a black coating that may be Chalcocite.  The entire specimen is solid Pyrite and it also has some minor associated Quartz.
65   9ldgcts   ((FLUORITE)),  $5 MINIMUM  BID, No Label, 6.5 x 6 x 3 cm, Miniature to small Cabinet, NOTE COLOR IS GREEN, NOT BLUE AS IN PHOTO.  Sea green Fluorite without a label.  My guess would be Kazakhstan.  ex H Deisinger collection.
66        9ldgcrs  ((CALCITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany,  6 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm,  Here is a German Calcite specimen fine hexagonal prisms of lustrous Calcite with trigonal terminations.  Only a couple of small nicks, but otherwise undamaged.   ex H Deisinger collection.
67    9ldgcts   ((FLUORITE, PYRITE)),  $10 MINIMUM  BID, Kara Oba, Kazakhstan, 3 x 3 x 3 cm, Miniature, Light green Fluorite with octahedral crystals with cubic modifications.  Two side of the octahedron has lustrous cubic Pyrite crystals on the Fluorite.  ex H Deisinger collection.
68    9ldgcrs   ((FLUORITE)),  $10 MINIMUM  BID, No Label, 7.5 x 6.5 x 4 cm, Cabinet,  NOTE COLOR IS MORE GREEN THAN BLUE AS IN PHOTO.  Green with purple wisps Fluorite with no label.  Cubic crystals stacked into octahedrals.   My guess is Hunan Province, China or Kazakhstan.  ex H Deisinger collection.
69   9ldgcrs   ((FLUORITE on QUARTZ)),  $5 MINIMUM  BID, No Label, 9 x 8 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Light purple crystals of Fluorite on a matrix of short stubby Quartz crystals.  My guess is Hunan Province, China.  ex H Deisinger collection.
70    9ldgcts   ((FLUORITE)),  $10 MINIMUM  BID, Weibeck, Salzburg, Austria,  3 x 3 x 1.5 cm, Miniature,  PHOTO BRINGS OUT THE INTERNAL PURPLE COLORATION, Light purple and green cubic crystals of Fluorite from Salzburg.  ex H Deisinger collection.
71     9ldgcts   ((FLUORITE)),  $5 MINIMUM  BID, No Label, 6 x 6 x 3 cm, Cabinet, PHOTO BRINGS OUT THE INTERNAL PURPLE COLORATION, OUTSIDE IS A LIGHT GREEN.  Light green and  purple crystals of Fluorite which are octahedral crystals with cubic modifications.  My guess is Hunan Province, China.  ex H Deisinger collection.
72    9ldgcts   ((FLUORITE with QUARTZ)),  $5 MINIMUM  BID, No Label, 7 x 6 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Light green and  purple crystals of Fluorite which are cubic crystals with octahedral modifications.  My guess is Hunan Province, China.  ex H Deisinger collection.
73   UUGD   ((CHALCOCITE, minor MA
74      UUGD   ((RED BERYL on
75      UUGD   ((GOLD ORE)), $10 MIN
76  UUGD   ((OLIVINE, SERPENTINE in
77     UUGD   ((SILVER bearing TETRA
78   UUGD   ((GOLD ORE)), $10 MINIMornia.
79   UUGD   ((CHALCOPYRI
80    UUGD   ((SMITHSONITE)),
81    9chmrl  ((JAMESONITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Noche Buena, Zacatecas, Mexico,  3.5 x 3 x 1 cm, Miniature,  Needles of Jamesonite from Mexico.
82    9chmrit  ((MIMETITE variety CAMPYLITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Drygill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England,  4 x 3 x 3 cm, Miniature,  Uncommon larger specimen of Campylite.  Mainly seen as thumbnails.
83      9chmria  ((PYRITE)),  $10 MINIMUM BID, Quiruvilca, La Libertad Department, Peru,  6 x 6 x 5 cm, Cabinet,  Different and strange luster on the faces.  Fine Quiruvilca Pyrite with minor edge roughness but overall in great shape for an older specimen.
84     9chmrna  ((CELESTINE on SULFUR)),  $15 MINIMUM BID, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,  7 x 7 x 6.5 cm,  Cabinet, Undamaged crystals of colorless to white Celestine on a yellow matrix of Sulfur.
85    9chmrn  ((RUTILE)),  $3 MINIMUM BID, Montejo, Madrid Province, Spain,  3 x 2 x 1.5 cm,  Thumbnail,  Titanium oxide, Rutile from Spain.
86     9chmrn  ((CERUSSITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Hull Mine, Yuma County, Arizona,  1 x 1 x .8 cm,  Thumbnail,  Terminated crystal on a small amount of matrix of an Arizona Cerussite.
87        9chmrn  ((TOURMALINE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, White Queen Mine, Pala, California,  2.5 x .5 x .5 cm,  Thumbnail,   Terminated White Queen Mine Tourmaline.
88    9chmre  ((AXINITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Drum Valley, Tulare County, California,  1.5 x 1 x .3 cm,  Thumbnail,  sharp gemmy crystal of California Axinite.
89      9chmrl  ((JAPAN TWIN QUARTZ)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Holland Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona,  2 x 1.3 x .4 cm,  Thumbnail,  Thumbnail sized Japan Twin from Arizona.
90     9chmra  ((FLUORITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Catron  County, New Mexico,  2 x 2 x 1.5 cm,  Thumbnail, Dark purple octahedral crystal of Fluorite from New Mexico.
91       9chmrt  ((TOURMALINE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, California,  1.8 x 1 x .8 cm,  Thumbnail,   Terminated Tourmaline known as a Black Cap.  The body is dark olive green transluscent with an opaque black top .9 cm termination.
92     9chmris  ((CALCITE, PALYGORSKITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Metaline Falls, Pend Oreille, Washington,  6.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm,  Miniature,  Flattened rhombs of Calcite from Metaline Falls.  The backside is covered with Palygorskite aka Mountain Leather.
93   9chmris  ((PALYGORSKITE, CALCITE)),  $5 MINIMUM BID, Metaline Falls, Pend Oreille, Washington,  6 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm,  Miniature,  Palygorskite aka Mountain Leather from Metaline Falls.  The backside is covered with small crystals of Calcite.
94     9chmrt  ((ARAGONITE)), TYPE LOCALITY, $5 MINIMUM BID, Molina de Aragon, Guadalajare, Spain,  3 x 2.3 x 2 cm,  Miniature, cluster of double terminated Aragonite.  Undamaged except for one little roughness one crystal.  Usually seen are single crystals.  Clusters from this location are somewhat uncommon.
95    9atcdis  ((LORANDITE)),  $20 MINIMUM BID, Guangxi, China, 5 x 4 x 1 cm, Miniature,  Composition TlAsS2  which is a rare species and also a poisonous species so hands should be washed after handling.  Lorandite is the red mineral.
96   7hlkmis   ((MORDENITE on CHALCEDONY)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Aurangabad, near Nasik, Maharashtra, India,  7.5 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm,  Cabinet,  Here is an aesthetic specimen that looks like a spaceship.  Blue Chalcedony covered with white spheres and hairlike crystals of Mordenite.
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98   Beaverdell British Columbia Canada
Formerly part of the famous collection of Archduke Stephan Franz Victor von Habsburg-Lothringen, dating this to pre-1867. For background on this collection, see: http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=596.
99   Gypsum, Thomas Munzer shaft, Copper slate deposits, Sangerhausen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (miniature

Cymatolite ps. After Spodumene (old & rare) Mullane Coll. Back to Weekly COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - end July 21, 2011

Fillow Quarry (Branchville Quarry), Redding, Fairfield Co., CT

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• Start Bid:$10
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• Current Bid:$75
• Size:12.4 x 6.8 x 4.1 cm
• Size Description:CABINET

 

Description:Cymatolite is a RARE pseudomorph of spodumene by a mixture of muscovite and albite. It is ususally somewhat lamellar to parallel fibrous. This is a lamellar section after a very large spodumene crystal. THIS IS OLD CLASSIC MATERIAL , MOSTLY FROM THE 1800S! IT WAS STUDIED INTENSIVELY IN THE EARLY DAYS OF MINERALOGY. This piece appears to be composed mainly of lustrous, creamy-brown albite with minor muscovite. This lithium-rich granite pegmatite is well-known for its manganese phosphates and cymatolite. Ex Dennis Mullane Collection and comes with a faded label from the Rocky Moore Collection of Los Angeles, dated January, 1942. The quarry and mine have been inactive since 1944. It is quite hefty for its size at 545 grams or nearly a pound.

Weloganite is an ultra rare, strontium, sodium, zirconium carbonate and this showy and excellent specimen is from the famous Type Locality - the now-closed Francon Quarry in Montreal, Quebec. An 8 mm, doubly terminated, tapered and layered, off-white crystal is aesthetically set on the calcite crystal covered sculptural limestone matrix. A fine and showy example, this extremely rare species is known at its best from a very few pockets at this cement quarry, which has incredibly strange chemistry and has produced a number of such rarities IN THE PAST. Not available now, except from advanced recycled collections. Ex Ernie and Vera Schlichter Collection. Note that the crystal is yellow inside but is covered by a microthin layer of other rare species.

Rhodochrosite (old - RARE Colorado) Belsky Coll.
Moose Mine, Russell Gulch, Central City District, Gilpin Co., Colorado

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