Western Americana Signature Sale (May 2021 Auction)

Two specimens of high-grade gold ore, thought to be from the Primrose Mine in Sierra County, California, near Sierra City. Obvious visible gold in whi

The Primrose Mine is about 3.5 miles northwest of Sierra City, California, in the Plumas National Forest. It was a very small producer from two veins

Two slabs of high-grade gold ore from the Sunnyside Mine located in Eureka Gulch north of Silverton, Colorado. This is the mine made famous by the col

Three large hand samples and three small pieces of gold-silver ore from the Ajax Mine, on the northern edge of Victor, Colorado, in the Cripple Creek

Specimen is 2 x 0.5 x 1 inches. Estimated to contain nearly 1 ounce of gold. Gold shows across all four sides. Total weight is 67.2 grams State: G

Pyrite Sun (a.k.a. Pyrite Dollar, Sun Dollar, Marcasite Sun) on black shale, broken in half right through the middle. Needs repair, or mounted as a un

Heavy slab of copper-bearing "Sandstone Ore" from the White Pine Mine in Ontonagan County, Michigan on the west end of the Keweenaw Penins...

Two specimens of native copper with black shale matrix. One is a slab of dense, black shale with feathery bits of bright orange native copper through

Lot of 3. All are from the Buick Mine of Iron County, Missouri. 1 & 2) Two specimens of Galena. Smaller is 1.5 x 1 x 1.5". Larger is 1x 2.2...

Beautiful display piece of high-grade lead ore labeled OZARK, so likely from the Old Lead Belt region of Missouri near Fredericktown, Missouri. Weighs

Group of calcite (Calcium Carbonate) specimens, in varying crystal forms, all from Mississippi Valley Type deposits, probably from the Southeast Misso

An eight-pound block of silvery-gray crystalline galena, a lead sulfate, with small crystals of yellowish pyrite, an iron sulfide, from the Lead Belt

Three small pieces of high-grade gold ore identified by the collector as from the Big Four Mine, Nevada. This could be either the Big Four Mine near B

High-grade silver ore specimen, approx 301 grams, from the Bryan Mine in Lander County, Nevada, located just north of the open-pit workings of the New

Ellendale is a present-day ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, about 30 miles east of Tohopah. From discovery in 1909 by 29-year-old Ellen Nay, the mine

Beautiful gold on quartz specimen from the Monarch Mine near Gardnerville in northwestern Nevada. The gold is approx 1/2 x 1/4 inch centered in a piec

Spectacular, naturally dark, smoky quartz from the Incline Village pegmatite, mined in the early 1970s by Reno mineral dealer Harvey Gordon. The cryst

First production of the Manhattan Gold Mine is listed as 1868, and operations started and stopped numerous times up to 1990. The site has been reclaim

The Manhattan Mining District was discovered in the 1860s. The Nellie Gray Mine was a small producer near the center of the district. This piece of hi

Spectacular native copper specimen, museum size and grade, from the Rio Tinto Mine. 11" x 22", about seven pounds. The Mountain City Copp...