October 2017 Premier Auction

Sawed specimen 1/4 x 1 x 2" Banded quartz vein mineralized with finely disseminated native gold and electrum in darker, central band. June Bel...

Banded quartz vein specimen, 1 1/2 x 4 x 4", one edge cut to display vein texture. Two episodes of quartz, one that is medium gray, very finel...

Specimen 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 x 3 1/2". Dark gray 3/4" dense quartz vein cutting altered rhyolite wall rock. Two or more specks of visible gold...

3/8 x 2 1/2 x 4 1/2" Sawed slab of complex vein banded with breccia bands. Locally abundant electrum and naumannite in dark gray .stringers. V...

5 x 2 x 2" specimen consists of strongly mineralized gold-silver bearing quartz vein. Contains traces of visible gold. Miners Gold Mine in no...

Interesting textures of vein quartz banding with small vugs of crystalline quartz. Specimen 2 x 2 x 1". Miners Gold Mine is in the north part...

Specimen 1/2 x 2 x 41/2" Beautiful banded quartz vein with interesting textures. Native gold not apparent but specimen is mineralized, probabl...

1/2 x 2 x 2 1/2" Specimen found near portal of Miners Gold Mine. Weathered quartz vein breccia with strong limonite / hematite oxidation. Obv...

Specimen of brecciated quartz vein, Miners Gold Mine, north part of Midas District, Nevada. Specimen 2 x 1 x 8" with gold and electrum in crus...

Two specimens, both sawed, one 3/4 x 1 1/2 x 1/2" and the other 1/2 x 2 x 3".The first specimen consists of a light gray band and a medium...

Two specimens of strongly mineralized gold silver-bearing brecciated quartz vein. One specimen 3/4 x 2 x 4", a 1 x 1" sawed surface; the ...

Sawed specimen 1/2 x 1 x 1" quartz vein breccia with disseminated native gold and electrum. Very unusual vesicular texture of very small round...

1/2 x 2 x 3" Sawed specimen of strongly mineralized quartz vein containing significant amounts of electrum and also naumannite. The St. Paul Mi...

Specimen 1 x 2 1/2 x 5" fragment of quartz vein, light gray to medium gray, vitreous. Contains local disseminated electrum visible with hand l...

Two slabs of quartz vein, each 1/2 x 1 1/2 x 2 1/2" containing strong high-grade mineralization consisting of disseminated electrum and silver ...

1.75 x 1.75 x 1" gold in quartz from Seven Troughs. Visible gold in corner of specimen, the weight indicates there may be more gold than is imm...

2.12 ounces. 0.5 x 2.0 x 1.75". Contains stibinite, boulangerite, and minor native gold. Interesting! City: The Outback State: ...

Fabulous Flashy Gold and Dendritic Gold. 0.52 troy ounces. o.3 x 5.6 x 4.0 cm. The Argenta was serviced by the Lancaster Mill at the height of the Tus

This contains a breccia where it appears that the quartz clasts are dissolving into matrix. 3.64 troy ounces. 2.2 x 11.5 x 6.3 cm. City: Tu

1/2 x 1 x 2 1/2" Sawed specimen of coarsely crystalline quartz vein with visible native gold. The Argenta Mine is in the northeast part of the...

Sawed specimen 1 x 1 1/2 x 3" of coarsely crystalline quartz vein with visible native gold. The Argenta Mine is in the northeast part of the T...

.29 ounces. 1.o x 2.25 x 2.25". Contains silver sulfides and minor native silver supergene sulfides. The Belle Isle was one of the major produc...

6.57 ounces. 2.0 x 2.25 x 1.75". Contains primary silver sulfides and iron sulfide. City: Tuscarora State: Nevada Date: ...

6.22 ounces. 2.0 x 3.5 x 1.75". Contains silver sulfides and minor native silver supergene sulfides. City: Tuscarora State: N...

2 x 2 x 4" mineralized rock sample. Coarse silver-gold mineralized breccia with adularia, silica flooding and quartz stockwork in altered ande...

1/2 x 1/2 x 1" Sawed specimen of high grade gold-bearing quartz veinlet. Nice specimen with visible native gold. The Dexter mine is in the T...

1/2 x 1/2 x 1" Specimen of high grade gold-bearing quartz veinlet. Nice specimen with visible native gold. The Dexter mine consists of stock...

1 1/2 x 2 x 3" Sawed specimen of 1/2 inch medium gray quartz vein with dark-gray pyrite-bearing selvage at both sides. The Dexter mine is in t...

1 x 2 x 4" sawed specimen. Consists of medium gray silica flooded and replaced wall rock with light gray quartz vein stockworks. Visible nati...

1 x 1 x 2" sawed specimen of quartz veinlet. Variegated medium gray vein quartz with dark-gray silver-gold mineralization. The Dexter mine is...

1/8 x 1 1/2 x 3" Sawed slice of quartz - adularia brecciated vein with stockwork veinlets. Abundant disseminated pyrite. Trace native gold (?...

Specimen with strong silver sulfide -bearing veinlet of medium crystalline adularia. Silver mineralization consists of abundant dark gray 2mm crystal

Gold in hand specimen (1 x 1 x 1") from the Comstock, collected by a major Nevada gold geologist. One specimen from the Flowery Mine, part of t...

The Elk Creek, Meade County, South Dakota locality is well known for producing fabulous specimens of golden barite crystals on an attractively contras

First opened in the 1970s, the Elmwood Mine (the Elmwood-Gordonsville-Cumberland mining complex) has produced some of the world's finest calcite...

A superb calcite crystal on dolostone matrix from the Elmwood Mine, near Carthage, Tennessee. This large, twinned and doubly terminated calcite crysta

This is a classic mineral specimen from the Elmwood mine near Carthage, Tennessee. The specimen features light purple, cubic crystals of fluorite and

A collection of 24 minerals in a white cardboard box measuring 5" x 7". Many of the minerals are 1" cubes. Pink feldspar, muscovit...

A fine example of the yellow "triphane" variety of the mineral spodumene. The varietal term "triphane" is derived from the Greek...

This is a WOW specimen. Kunzite is the pink to lilac colored gem variety of the mineral Spodumene. Spodumene is a common mineral in gem-bearing pegmat

Aquamarine is the greenish-blue colored variety of the mineral Beryl. The color of aquamarine is attributed to the presence of ferrous iron within the

This fine elbaite (tourmaline) specimen from the famous Barra de Salinas District (mouth of Salinas river) in the Coronel Murta district of Minas Gera

A very attractive "flower-like" quartz variety amethyst specimen from a locality in Brazil's southernmost state known as Frederico Wes...

An unusually aesthetic specimen of the iron arsenic sulfide mineral, Arsenopyrite is an iron arsenic sulfide. This cluster of well-crystallized, highl

A large, colorful specimen of azurite (blue) and malachite (green) crystals from the underground workings at the now exhausted Liufengshan Mine in Anh

The copper carbonate minerals Azurite and Malachite are two of the world's most popular collectible mineral species. This azurite/malachite spec...

An electric-blue specimen of crystallized azurite from a now-closed underground copper mine in Anhui Province, China. The color and condition of this

A fantastic combination specimen featuring the three most important collector species found at Mt. Xuebaoding. The specimen features: several gemmy, l

An attractive specimen featuring a "matrix" of light green fluorite crystals upon which has grown a lustrous, flattened, translucent, colo...

Two large, sharp, lustrous, bi-colored (white and brick-red) calcite crystals are perched on a matrix rock covered by smaller, off-white, scalenohedra