Holiday Treasures Auction- December 2019

Four separate specimens of mercury ore from the Pershing Quicksilver Mine east of Lovelock, Nevada, each approximately 30 x 30 mm, and each with deep

Dyplomystus Fossil Fish from the Eocene epoch Green River Formation in southwest Wyoming. Slab is 23 x 20 inches and about 3/4 inch thick. The fish fo

This is a delightful display specimen of midnight-blue azurite crystals growing on a heavily oxidized breccia substrate. These sparkling blue crystals

10.3 g cut sample with polished face, possibly Goldfield, Nevada. Very high grade native gold. about 1" diameter. State: City: Date:

A beautiful display piece of massive druzy quartz on copper oxide ore bearing the beautiful green and blue shadings of malachite, azurite, and chrysoc

Nice group of six semi-precious stones from the John Heizer estate, Nevada Mining Engineer. Beautiful jade sample with 2 cut, polished edges; two eu

Gold nugget from the Atlin District, right over the border in Yukon from Skagway. Nugget weighs that magic mathematical number, "Pi". 3.1...

4.51 troy ounce gold nugget from the Atlin mining district, just east of Skagway in Yukon. measures about 2.5 x 1.5". a beauty! State: Alaska C...

Nice gold nugget, unknown western US provenance, 1.75" long, 0.75" wide, 1.87 troy ozs. State: City: Date:

Very heavy silver-lead ore specimen from the Elmquist Prospect near Battle Mountain, Nevada, approx 105 x 90 x 80 mm. Massive black sulfide assemblage

High-grade gold ore specimen from the Hat Lease in Goldfield, Nevada, approx 125 x 100 x 70 mm. Highly brecciated, silica-filled specimen with abundan

High-grade gold-bismuth ore from the January Mine near Goldfield, Esmeralda County, Nevada, approx 75 x 85 x 45 mm. Massive quartzite piece with abund

High-grade gold-silver ore from the January Mine in Goldfield, Nye County, Nevada, approx 125 x 85 x 60 mm. Highly brecciated, quartz-filled, rhyolite

High-grade silver and gold ore specimen from the Jumbo Extension Mine in Goldfield, Nevada, approx 105 x 85 mm. Original collector identified argentit

High-grade fluorite-gold ore from the 200-foot level of the Thanksgiving Mine near Manhattan, Nye County, Nevada, approx 110 x 85 x 70 mm. Massive qua

This is a piece of refractory material coated with a thin layer of slag in which are incorporated small spherules of metallic gold and silver. The ori

Large, high-grade silver ore specimen from the Mizpah Vein, Mizpah Mine, Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada, approx 160 x 65 x 40 mm. Massive quartzite with

Nice sized hand specimen of ore from the Consolidated Virginia Mine in the heart of the Comstock, Virginia City, Nevada. This ore specimen is a 1-1/2-

Grey sign with black lettering: "WARNING / Dangerous Condition / Only Authorized Personnel / Shall enter This / Mining Operation / Unauthorized...

This large wooden and leather bellows came from one of more than 300 abandoned mining operations in the vicinity of Hawthorne, Mineral County, Nevada.