December 2018 Auction- A Sale to "Die" for.

One large polished specimen--#13 weighs 142.7 g. Most of the other are unpolished specimens. #14, small chips, weighs 5.8 g. #15 weighs 27 g. #16 weig

These are high quality pieces of chrysocolla. #88 weighs 3g, 15 carats. #89 weighs 9g, 49 carats. Chrysocolla is a mineral that can be soft and fragil

# 40 for 25,00 shares to Henry S Keepers(?).Signed by WE Howard and president CW Conway. Dateline Los Angeles 1897. Incorporated August 1897. Sven min

Two gold nuggets mined in 1857 and recovered from the SS Central America wreck, sold through Stacks-Bowers, and sold to Al Adams. 14.2 grams, with or

Beautiful glossy magazines of the mineralogical records of Mining in China, Geology of China, Mineral Dealing, Chinese Flourite, Chinese Cinnabar &a...

Three specimens from Blue June, deep turquoise colr with black matrix. These are unusual looking, and nice. #40 weighs 39g. # 41, a pendant weighs 8g,

These lots are polished carefully. They are small, but beautiful! #11 weighs 2.4g (deep turquoise color) and #12 is 4g (pale blue turquoise). "...

High-grade gold or from the Florence mine. Two small pieces of exceptional high-grade each about an inch long. Collected by Jerry Gray. Estimate $200-

Two choice high grade specimens from Midas. Classic banded quartz with bright visible gold in dark bands with black oxide silver minerals. slabs abou

Pilot Mountain specimens from Mineral County, a turquoise green color. #27 weighs 45g. #28 weighs 10g. #29 weighs 26g. The Pilot Mountain Turquoise Mi

Calcite, Maracite ± Barite crystals on plates of marcasite with minor pyrite. 2x2x1". Field Guide: staff. (This specimen was found at the ...

Probably from the Buckskin Mines in Smith Valley. #32 weighs 28.5g. #33 weighs 20.6g. #34 weighs 36.9g. #35 weighs 90.5g. # 36, polished, weighs 12.5g

White opals are referred to as "common opal" or "potch" which has a milky or pearly luster known as "opalescence." #86...

These are very unusual turquoise specimens from the Zig Zag mine, which was known primarily for tungsten. Most of these specimens are nodues and are a

Two specimens of high-grade gold from the Pine Nut mountains, probably near Como. Both contain visible gold, 8 g total, the largest is a slab about 1

These are lower grade scraps of turquoise, a pale green turquoise color. #43 weighs 74g. #44 weighs 65g. "The Verde Blue Turquoise Mine is a ne...

Group of nodules, #2 light green weighs 45g. #5 brighter green with brown matrix, polished slices weigh 16.6g. #6 polished deeper green, brown spiderw

20 pieces of Fairfield variscite. #31 weighs 158g. Beautiful deep mint green stones. Some of the variscite is coated with yellow and black phosphates;

Very nice, small agate. This specimen is know as " Ellensburg Blue agate. The size is around 2". Very nice specimen with a light blue cast...

"The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins alo...