Auction One hundred eighty nine Preview

Dec 7, 2007

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1 4misc386l ((GALENA on MARCASITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds County, Missouri, 4 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Lustrous cubo octahedral crystals of Galena on a ropey or arborescent brassy cluster of Marcasite.

2 4misce ((GETCHELLITE, ORPIMENT)), TYPE LOCATION, $10 MINIMUM BID, Getchell Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, 6 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Getchellite is a red micaceous mineral with Getchell being the type location. Associated is yellow Orpiment. On this specimen there is not much Realgar which is red to red orange.

3 5hhjhis ((40 pcs TOPAZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, 5 to 15 mm, Thumbnails, Here are 40 small sherry colored terminated crystals of Utah Topaz. Direct sunlight over a period of several days to a week with bleach the color and the crystals will turn colorless. Unless you are a good self collector, these crystals are more than you would find in a full day of pounding the hard Rhyolite matrix. The few times I have gone, I have not done this well. On the other side if you are a proficient self collector or really lucky you could find some crystals much bigger. Crystal clusters to about 4 inches in length have been found with commercial mining. They have reportedly sold for $10000 and more. So even with commerical blasting and a running trackhoe these superb specimens are rarely found or they would not command such prices. Crystals picked up off the surface are colorless from the sunlight destroying the sherry color. During my collecting, I was happy any time I found colored crystals. But the best collectors that have gone many many times fine lots of these average to small crystals.

4 5hhshe ((PYRITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Daly Judge Mine, Park City, Summit County, Utah, 4.5 x 4 x 3 cm, Miniature, Larger than normal single Pyrite crystal from the Daly Judge mine with some contact on this striated, lustrous Pyrite.

5 6dddue ((ACANTHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, San Juan de las Rayas Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 1.5 cm, Thumbnail, Large 8 mm cubic Acanthite crystals perched on smaller Acanthite crystals. Nice thumbnail specimen of this Silver mineral.

6 5hhshe ((SPHALERITE)) $10 MINIMUM BID, Daly Judge Mine, Park City, Summit County, Utah, 4 x 3.5 x 2 cm, Miniature, solid Sphalerite in a complex crystal. Park City minerals seen to be scarce on the resale market mostly surfacing from old collection. This was collected by a Utah self collector 20 to 25 years ago. Mostly Tetrahedrite were collected and only a few Sphalerite specimens were collected. Of those less than 6 were this size or bigger.

7 5swir ((GALENA with minor FLUORITE)), NOTE THIS IS PROBABLY ELMWOOD MINE NOT CUMBERLAND, $20 MINIMUM BID, Cumberland Mine, Smith County, Tennessee, 5 x 3.5 x 3 cm, Miniature, Galena was uncommon at Elmwood and Cumberland mines. Here is a lustrous large cubic undamaged crystal with the look of a Tennesse Galena. On the back is also a minor small crystal of etched purple Fluorite which also firmly identifies this as a Tennessee Galena.

8 5atdbr ((CALCITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, San Martin Mine, San Martin, Zacatecas, Mexico, 8 x 5.5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Specimen which is full of lustrous translucent to transparent terminated Calcite crystals.

9 7atadis ((SILVER)), $10 INIMUM BID, Ucchuchacua Mine, Lima Department, Peru, 1.7 x 1 x .7 cm, Thumbnail, Aesthetic thumbnail sized specimen of Peruvian curled Silver with some associated white Calcite.

10 5hhjhis ((DURANGITE, HEMATITE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, 2.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm, Miniature, Here is a combination specimen of the rare orange Durangite crystals and black to grey Hematite. Some of the Hematite is lustrous and some non lustrous. This is from the small lens of material containing cassiterite, hematite, and the rare orange Durangite crystals found years ago in the Thomas Range or Utah. This is a larger than usual thumbnail size for these.

11 6idejnn ((COPPER)), $25 MINIMUM BID, Ray Mine, Pinal County, Arizona, 8 x 6.5 x 1 cm, Cabinet, Excellent arborescent Ray Copper with a reddish maroon patina which may be from a thin Cuprite coating. The crystals are elongated almost like the spinel twins from this location. These however do not look twinned. ex Evan Jones collection

12 4misci ((FOSSIL FISH, Knightia eocaena)), $10 INIMUM BID, Kemmerer, Wyoming, 15 x 14 x 2 cm, Fossil fish from Wyoming, It is from the Green River formation in Wyoming and is Eocene in age. This is the species of Knightia eocaena. It is complete with tail and fins. Scales are also seen even outside of the outline of the fish.

13 7hejdis ((CALEDONITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Grand Reef Mine, Arizona, 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Miniature sized specimen with a small vug containing small blue Caledonite crystals see mindat.org.

14 6idejig ((GALENA, FLUORITE, CALCITE, SPHALERITE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico, 4.5 x 4 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Mirrow lustrous large silvery Galena crystal with colorless cubo octahedral crystals of Fluorite and white scalenohedral crystals of Calcite. ex Evan Jones collection

15 6atcdts ((AZURITE, MALACHITE)), $65 MINIMUM BID, Anhui Province, China, 12 x 9 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Beautiful blue Azurite specimen displayable from either side. Some Malachite, but more green Malachite on one side.

16 7dhgka ((PREHNITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, O & G Quarry, Southbury, Connecticut, 10 x 10 x 5 cm, Cabinet, A vug lined with light green botryoidal Prehnite. O & G Quarry has some very fine Prehnite specimens.

17 5atmse ((TOPAZ)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, 6.5 x 6 x 4.5 cm, Miniature, 5atmse ((TOPAZ)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, 6.5 x 6 x 4.5 cm, Miniature

18 6fbdjnr ((SMOKY QUARZ, MICROCLINE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Park County, Colorado, 6.5 x 5 x 3 cm, Small Cabinet, Here is a great combination specimen. The Microcline is unusually long as most collected are short and stubby. The Microcline is terminated, long, and undamaged while the Smoky Quartz has one small chip on the tip.

19 7hekmr ((COLEMANITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Billie Mine, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, 7 x 5 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a cabinet sized specimen of colorless to white blocky crystals of Colemanite from Death Valley.

20 7hekmr ((HEULANDITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Nasik, Maharashtra, India, 12 x 7 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Salmon colored diamond shaped Heulandite crystals which look similar to the Idaho find.

21 7hekmr ((PYROMORPHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Phoenixville Mining District, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 7 x 6 x 1.5 cm, Cabinet, small needle like crystals of light olive green Pyromorphite, 1 to 3 mm with mostly 1 mm crystals.

22 7atadir ((ARAGONITE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Northern Lights Mine, Mineral County, Nevada, 13 x 7 x 4.5 cm, Cabinet, Aesthetic specimen of these Nevada Aragonites.

23 7hekmr ((APOPHYLLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India, 16 x 7 x 6.5 cm, Cabinet, Colorless Apophyllite crystals in the tabular habit. Lustrous flat tabular crystals to 4 cm across cover the trap rock matrix. Crystals are undamaged except for close to the perimeter. It also has a few cream colored Stilbite crystals. Nice specimen of the tabular style of Apophyllite.

24 5atdbl ((CALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Delta County, Colorado, 5 x 4.5 x 3 cm, Miniature, Rhombic crystals of Calcite collected in 1996.

25 7hejdr ((QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Prospect Park, Haledon, New Jersey, 7 x 6 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Stalactitic Quartz with dark cores. Interesting Quartz specimen that stands perfectly on its own for display.

26 7hejdg ((AGATIZED CORAL)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Balast Point, Tampa Bay, Tampa, Florida, 8 x 6 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Botryoidal Agate replacing Coral makes up this fossilized Agatized Coral. ex Delaware County Institute of Science.

27 7dekmr ((LABRADORITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Quebec, Canada, 15 x 9 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a large unpolished natural specimen of Canadian Labradorite. Blue and green coloration can still be seen at the proper light angle even though unpolished. Actually the one tip is polished.

28 6iklris ((HEULANDITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Rat's Nest Claim, Custer County, Idaho, 5 x 4 x 4 cm, Miniature, Unusually shaped specimen of pale peach colored Heulandite from Idaho.

29 7atamr ((MALACHITE, CERUSSITE, PYROMORPHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Browns Prospect, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, Australia, 8 x 8 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Botryoidal dark green Malachite with minor white Cerussite and tan Pyromorphite.

30 4miscr ((SALTOSAURUS DINOSAUR EGGSHELL)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Patagonia, Argentina, 7 x 3 x .5 cm, Cabinet, Large section of Dinosaur Egg shell with excellent texture. This is from the Argentina Patagonia, cretaceous in age, a Brontosaurus like animal with a longer neck called Saltosaurus.

31 6ddbfir ((SMITHSONITE)), $35 MINIMUM BID, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico, 8 x 4.5 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Pink botryoidal lustrous Smithsonite with some iridescence.

32 ari ((WAVELLITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Dug Hill Mine, Avant, Arkansas, 7 x 6 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Olive green radiating crystal structures which grew in a small rock seam.

33 ari ((WAVELLITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Mauldin Mountain, Mt Ida, Avant, Arkansas, 7 x 3 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Dark green botryoidal Wavellite from Arkansas.

34 7hejdg ((SPHALERITE, GALENA altering to ?)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Creede, Colorado, 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm, Miniature, Lustrous Sphalerite with a hoppered Galena crystal with light tan alteration coating.

35 7hekmr ((APOPHYLLITE, STILBITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India, 10 x 9 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Colorless blocky lustrous Apophyllite crystals with minor Stilbite. Nice specimen Apophyllite with the main crystal being 4 cm across.

36 5hhmcr ((CALCITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, AnnabelleLee Mine, Hardin County, Illinois, 5.5 x 2.3 x 1.3 cm, Miniature, Terminated undamaged parallel crystals of golden Calcite.

37 7hekmr ((STILBITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India, 9 x 8 x 4.5 cm, Cabinet, Large salmon colored terminated sheaf like crystals of Stilbite.

38 6atdbis ((QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Bullion King Mine, Ouray County, Colorado, 7 x 5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Excellent cluster of Ouray Quartz. Terminated undamaged crystals of Quartz.

39 6atdbis ((CALCITE on QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Portland Mine, Ouray County, Colorado, 6 x 5 x 3 cm, Miniature, Excellent cluster of Ouray Quartz with white scalenohedral Calcite crystals. Undamaged and choice.

40 7ati ((28 SELENITE aka MEXICAN ROSES)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Chihuahua, Mexico, 2 to 2.5 cm, Thumbnails, 28 thumbnail sized specimens of Selenite called Mexican Roses.

41 7jhjh ((CACTUS SELENITE)), NEW FIND, $10 MINIMUM BID, Great Salt Lake, Tooele County, Utah, 14 x 12.5 x 6.5 cm, Large Cabinet, New Find, Selenite Crystals with the individual crystals pointed out with pointed terminations forming a rounded mound of crystals. The Selenite is Fluorescent and Phosflorescent with a creamy white color. It is the first time specimens like this have been found in the Great Salt Lake. These are white to cream and not any brown.

42 7jhjh ((HALITE on CACTUS SELENITE)), NEW FIND, $10 MINIMUM BID, Great Salt Lake, Tooele County, Utah, 8 x 7 x 4.5 cm, Cabinet, New Find, Stalactitic Selenite Crystal covered with gemmy colorless cubes of Halite. The Selenite is Fluorescent and Phosflorescent with a creamy white color but mostly covered with non fluorescent Halite. It is the first time specimens like this have been found in the Great Salt Lake. These are white to cream and not any brown.

43 7jhjh ((PEACH HALITE)), NEW FIND, $20 MINIMUM BID, Great Salt Lake, Tooele County, Utah, 10 x 8 x 5 cm, Cabinet, New Find, Transluscent somewhat hoppered crystals of pale peach colored Halite. It is one of the most desirable of the new finds this year from the Great Salt Lake.

44 7jhjh ((CACTUS SELENITE)), NEW FIND, $10 MINIMUM BID, Great Salt Lake, Tooele County, Utah, 15 x 14 x 10 cm, Large Cabinet, New Find, Stalactitic Selenite Crystals with the individual crystals pointed out with sharp tips make these appear to be Cactus like. The Selenite is Fluorescent and Phosflorescent with a creamy white color. It is the first time specimens like this have been found in the Great Salt Lake.

45 4misce ((2 CALCITE RHOMBS)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Chihuahua, Mexico, 4 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Two highly fluorescent Calcite cleaved rhombs.

46 7atkrg ((NOT SURE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb, Namibia, 8 x 6 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Brecciated brown rock forming a specimen covered with small white Crystals of probably Dolomite or Smithsonite. Also a few small green crystals on the brown rock.

47 4miscis ((CALCITE on MIMETITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico, 13 x 8 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Lustrous Calcite on Mimetite. Mimetite is light yellow and is covered with Calcite rhombs.

48 4misci ((FLUORITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm, Thumbnail, Small specimen of light purple Fluorite from Elmwood Mine.

49 4atacis ((MARCASITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Campagne-Ardenne, France, 5 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm, Miniature, Marcasite nodule containing radiating crystals of Marcasite. Nodule is split in half. both halves present.

50 5attgir ((GYPSUM variety SELENITE)), $15 MINIMUM BID, Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico, 5.5 x 5 x 3.5 cm, Miniature, Water clear terminated crystals of Selenite from Santa Eulalia.

51 97kwtg1531e ((STIBICONITE pseudomorph after STIBNITE)), $15 MINIMUM BID, Mina Veronica, Tanger, Zacatecas, Mexico, 6 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature, Aesthetic specimen of terminated Stibiconite pseudomorph.

52 1atkme ((MARCASITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Kennecott Copper Mine, Bingham Canyon, Utah, 6 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm, Miniature, Specimens from Kennecott always seem to be uncommon which may be a result of their collecting policy which is collect and your fired. Here are clusters of Marcasite on matrix from this location.

53 6ari ((CALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Beansville Quarry, Beansville, Ontario, Canada, 6 x 6 x 5 cm, Miniature, Canadian Calcite specimen from Beansville.

54 5atjmi ((WULFENITE, WICKENBURGITE?)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Dives Mine, Padre Kino Mine, La Paz County, Arizona, 10 x 5 x 1.5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a specimen with Bipyramidal crystals of orange colored Wulfenite. There may also be micro Wickenburgite which would probably require a scope. I do not see any but it was being collected and found with the collection of this specimen collected by Joe Marty, discoverer of Dickthomssenite.

55 4hhshis ((FLUORITE on BARITE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Cannon Claims, Buckhorn Canyon, Dugway District, Tooele County, Utah, 7 x 6 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Light purplish green Fluorite crystals on large bladed crystals of opaque white Barite. The second photo is of the bottom of the specimen.

56 7atkrl ((CERUSSITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb, Namibia, 2 x 1.5 x .5 cm, Thumbnail, Partial terminated twinned Cerussite with some green Malachite crust on the surface.

57 7atkra ((MIMETITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb, Namibia, 4.5 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature, Large mound of yellow tan Mimetite on matrix.

58 4hhshr ((CALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ophir Hill Mine, Ophir District, Tooele County, Utah, 10 x 6 x 4 cm, Here is a fine undamaged specimen of fluorescent Calcite from the Ophir Hill Mine which is the location for the Scheelite specimens. Calcites are usually damaged and removed with etching to expose the Scheelite. This is an unusually specimen in that only a few Calcite crystals are present on a Quartz druze. Most specimens are completely covered with heavily damaged Calcite.

59 7atcens ((two pcs FLUORITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Jiangxi, China, 9 x 9 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Here are the last two of these green Fluorite from China. Sizes are similar although the second is slightly smaller width. Crystals are octahedral.

60 7atkrr ((LEPIDOLITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Steward Mine, Pala, San Diego County, California, 5.5 x 3 x 3 cm, Miniature, Purple Lepidolite is the lithium containing Mica. ex Oscar W Rodde collection

61 5ecr ((FLUORITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Tule Mine, Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico, 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature, Light purple Fluorite specimen with stacked cubes different sizes. Floater with no damage or attachment.

62 5ecr ((BOLEITE)), $15 MINIMUM BID, Santa Rosalia, Baja California, Mexico, 2 x 2 x 1.5 cm, Thumbnail, Blue cubic Boleite on matrix. The matrix is usually stabilized with Elmers and water. Still do not wet matrix which will soak up water and crumble.

63 5ggg ((ILVAITE, HEDENBERGITE, QUARTZ)), $25 MINIMUM BID, South Mountain, Owyhee County, Idaho, 7 x 7 x 6 cm, Cabinet, Black lustrous cluster of Ilvaite on brown crystals of Hedenbergite. Associated terminated Quartz crystals are also present.

64 5atlml ((AQUAMARINE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm, Thumbnail, Light blue naturally etched Beryl crystal from Brazil.

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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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