Holiday Treasures Auction- December 2019

This 1-3/4 pound specimen is a sample from a copper smelting furnace in McGill, Nevada, nearly Ely, where the purified molten copper appears to have b

Grab bag of twenty rocks and minerals including nice pieces of pyrite, chalcopyrite, calcite dripstone, dogtooth calcite, copper oxide minerals, coppe

5# of assorted slabbed agates. Moss, bacon ribbon, fortification, laguna, Fort Agate and more State: City: Date:

A massive specimen pale green smithsonite growing an inch thick on a nondescript piece of grayish-brown rock. Weight is approx. 1-3/4 pounds, and the

This is a specimen of native copper from the Phoenix Mine in Copper County on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern Michigan. It weighs approx. 66 grams

Here is a beautiful native copper specimen attributed to the Quincy Copper Mine Complex near Hancock on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Northern Michigan. I

Mixed lot of rough sapphires and garnets likely hand winnowed from heavily weathered schistose rocks or recovered from placer deposits of Montana. All

Two pieces of high-grade antimony ore from the Antimony King Mine in the Bernice District, Churchill County, Nevada, approx 65 x 43 x 35 mm and 30 x 3

Three pieces of high-grade silver-gold ore from the Original Bullfrog Mine in Bullfrog, Nevada, approx 30 x 20 mm to 45 x 45 mm. Quartz matrix with ab

High-grade gold ore from the Daisy Mine, Diamondfield, Nevada, approx 50 x 35 x 25 mm. Crystalline quartz with occasional flecks of gold or pyrite are

High-grade gold-telluride ore from the Great Bend Mine, Goldfield District, Diamondfield Subdistrict, Esmeralda County, Nevada, approx 70 x 55 x 35 mm

Two pieces of high-grade silver ore from the Eureka District, Eureka County, Nevada, approx 80 x 62 x 30 mm and 45 x 40 x 30 mm. Mostly white quartz w

High-grade silver ore from the Mammoth Mine near Gilbert, Esmeralda County, Nevada, approx 65 x 65 x 50 mm. Massive white and clear quartz specimen wi

High-grade gold specimen, approx 85 x 50 mm, from the Rogers Goldfield Syndicate Lease of the Red King Claim of the Florence Mine in Goldfield, Nevada

High-grade gold sulfide ore specimen from the Florence Mine in Goldfield, Nevada, approximately 40 x 33 x 25 mm. Matrix is similar blue-gray quartz th

Two pieces of high-grade gold sulfide ore specimen from the Mohawk Extension Mine in Goldfield, Nevada, each approx 30 x 30 mm. They are denser than o

High-grade gold-barite from the Sandstorm Mine in Goldfield, Nevada, approx 70 x 55 mm. Original collector identifies goldfieldite -- a copper-telluri

High-grade gold-bismuth-sulfide ore, approx 60 x 55 mm, from the Florence Mine in Goldfield, Nevada. Blue-gray quartz with greenish-yellow efflorescen

High-grade gold-silver oxide ore from the Gold Crown Property of the Goldyke, Nye County, Nevada, approx 45 x 25 x 25 mm. Original collector identifie

High-grade silver ore from the Illinois Mine, near the site of Lodi, north of Gabbs, Nye County, Nevada, approx 90 x 90 x 90 mm. A mass of white quart