Minerals Galore and Western Americana Auction

thick stalks, several crowns, 16 x 12 x 1.5" State: City: Date:

Thick stalks and several crowns, 16 x 11 x 1.5 State: City: Date:

dense concentration of stalks. Large crown. 14 x 12 x 2 State: City: Date:

Thick stalk with huge feathery crowns 14 x 13 x 1.5 State: City: Date:

really dense accumulation of stalks, several crowns 17 x 16 x 1.5 State: City: Date:

An unusually greenish-blue aquamarine crystal cluster on feldspar matrix from Erongo Mountain, Namibia. Typically the aquamarine found in the many gem

Container of about 30 tiny blue sapphires, all less than 2 mm. State: City: Date:

Round container of 21.2 grams of gold and silver amalgam. State: City: Date:

Container of about 40 rubies, all less than 2 mm. State: City: Date:

Blue enamel sign with white lettering; 14 x 28 inches. The / Montreal Mining Company / Cage Signals / All Men are Forbidden to Ride on Skips/ During R

This lot contains three photos depicting the mining processes: "Washing god" in Vancouver, British Columbia, the backside of the matted ph...

Mines located at American Bar, Middle Fork of the American River, Placer County, CA around Oct. 20th 1857. Breakout of charges for refining ore at 10

By Joseph Wasson, San Francisco. Spaulding, Barto & Co. Steam Book and Job Printers, San Francisco, 1878. 60 pp. With 2 folding maps of mining c...

Photo by R. E. Wood, who was a traveling a landscape stereo photographer from Santa Cruz active from 1875-1905. Each photo measures 3"x 4"...

Views show mining at the very rich Columbia area - now a state park near Sonoma on the south end of the Mother Lode. Notice the lifting wheel in each

Possibly unique. James Mills and brother Edgar arrived in California first. Darius Ogden Mills followed. In 1850 the company was listed as Auction and

Lot of three 12 x 10-inch photographs of the furnace invented in 1892 by Richard Pearce and manufactured by Stearns-Roger Manufacturing of Denver. Som

1) A draft of the Forest Hill Slope Company's stock options: for tunnel mining, $28,000, 10 years, 56 shares, seven trustees named. Unique and O...

California gold rush lettersheet in the form of a 4pp, blue wove paper introductory first page, testimonials and list of prices on the second page, fo

Nice good of Hendy's. 1.8x4.8" curved plate, 2x8" flat plate, 3.75" cat face, 2.6x4.4" paper weight, 5x7.25" lady smoki...

Established in 1874 at Damon's Landing, on the San Leandro Creek, at an outlay of about one hundred thousand dollars. The broadside advertises t...

The water flume would have been to provide water for elevated gravels. Smartsville is near Timbuctoo and just south of the Yuba River. During the Cali

1871. Yuba County. This stereoview shows the Blue Lead (lowest, richest of the 7 gravel units as defined by Whitney. It was taken after a major robber

Piece of correspondence addressed to A.P. Caitlin concerning the American River Water & Mining Company. This letter is about damages done by the...

Stocks-Feather River Canal, Gallivan Mining, Honest Gold & Silver Mining, Wade Mining, Gold Valley Main Tunnel. Receipts- James Ott Assay, 3x Am...

The long tom is a small sluice that uses less water than a regular sluice. It consists of a sloping trough 12 feet long, 15 to 20 inches wide at the u

Lot of 2. 1) Taylor & Brunton Sampling Works Company assay memorandum. Dateline Aspen, Colorado, Nov. 7, 1894. This piece has two important thin...

Lot of 4 assay memorandums, 3 different styles, for the Boulder Agency of the Boston & Colorado & Smelting Co. Reports for mines are in Suns...

Stereoview by Underwood and Underwood. C. Bierstadt, Publisher. Sharp and contrast and clear photographs. Titled "Brownsville Mining Camp on th...

Lot of 2 different. 1) Reed & McKenney. Incredibly sharp overview of town. 3.25 x 7" 2) WG Chamberlain (label and description on back). Rea...

Lot of 7 1) Brodie Gold Reduction Company. For Wilson & Fryer. 1896. Gross value $293.16. 2) EC Woodward, assayer and chemist. Sold assay soluti...

Lot of three. 1) 1897 results for the Colorado Springs M&L Co., Roy Gold Crater Mining Company. SP Duff was treasurer of the Pride of the Rockie...

Lot of 4. EE Burlingame's office was located at 219 Sixteenth Street opposite the Inter Ocean hotel in Denver, CO. Burlingame was involved as on...

Lot of three. 1) Von Schulz & Low, Chemists and Assayers billhead. Analysis of Cyanide lot. 1910. To Goldfield Cons. Mines Co. 2) Very rare corn...

Lot of 11. 1) A particularly excellent business card for R. R. Waitz, fire assays, electro-lixiviation, chemical analysis, etc. 2) Omaha Grant and Sme

Lot of 5. 1-2) 1887 assays. One for Hodges with five samples. Best had 0.20% gold and 0.24% silver. Company stamp. Second to Gregory Bowre. Five sampl

Lot of 4. Three different Georgetown assay works. 1) Rarest piece is 1872 Colorado Assay Office. Assay report for the Silver Wing in the Snake River D

c. 1885. No. 1814. "Georgetown from Green Lake Road." High to medium contrast. Suffers from minor yellowing, but the focus is sharp. There...

A great shot looking down the expansive Clear Creek Canyon showing the difficult terrain surrounding Clear Creek Valley. Cabinet card photograph measu

Cabinet card photo of three miners, their stone cabin, and six fully loaded pack mules in the snow. Some discoloration. Crisp details. Revere has prin

Lot of 3 different. 1) Kilburn Bros. No. 4401. Looking down a main street. Nice contrast. 2) W. H. Jackson, Denver. No. 1720. Clear Creek Series. Ove

Lot of 7. 1) J. J. Elliott Assay report with 18 lines. Although this is unused, it might be the most interesting for rarity. 1880s. 2) JJ Elliott blu

Very rare territorial claim document for Lake County dated July 18, 1865. Charles L. Wall discovery claim. Eldorado Lode. La Plata District. Lists 8 c

Lot of 3. 1) 1896. #2681. For the Silver Cord Mining Company (Royalty in Yak M&M). Net value $310.36. Signed by Ferree. 2) 1897. #933. For the Y...

Lot of 18. Includes assayers 1) Low & Chanute assayers and chemists. Billhead 1881. Charge for three assays for gold and silver. 2) Ibex Mining...

Lot of 2 different. 1)J. Thurlow Photo, Manitou, Col. No. 188. "Chestnut street, looking west." Fantastic early view with easily readable ...

Lot of two different receipts from scarce Colorado assayers. 1) Colorado Smelting Company. South Pueblo, Colorado. Assayer A. Wright, For the D. Wood

c1882. "Silver Cliff looking South" printed at bottom. Purple stamp for "Charles E. Emery, Portrait and Landscape Photographer, Silve...

Shortly after gold was discovered in the Cripple Creek area, Victor was born. Although poorly processed, this 6.5 x 4.25" photograph clearly sh...

Dated Feb. 10, 1883. The Captain has spoiled the author's chances in Virginia. It seems he wasn't willing to write a letter of support. The ...