Western Frontiers Auction (October 2022)

3 nice Green River fish fossils. 8x10" Priscacara Liops, 2.75x4"single fish and 4.7.25" 2 fish with corner chip. Date: Country (if...

3 ammonite fossils with 2 other spike shaped fossils. Slab 16x12". Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

5 carved and polished Orthoceras fossils, about 8". Amethyst geode candle holder with center holder, 7x5x2.5". 5.75" tall machine ca...

A nice pair of polished split nautilus fossils. 6.75x5.5" Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Native silver and argentite in dendritic form in veined quartz. 4" x 2" x 1" A spectacular hand specimen cut on 3 sides clearly show...

3 small cut slab specimens of DeLamar high grade from Silver city. Each of these shows important mineralogical features in the ore deposit. a.) 1 x 1.

Ivanhoe district, Elko County. 5 x 3 x 2.5" Quartz and calcite with ruby silver minerals in a banded breccia with quartz pseudomorph of calcit...

With a beautiful cross sectional cut face exposing native gold (electrum) in the banded quartz sequence. 4" x 1.75" x .75" From the S...

Awakening mining district in the slumbering hills. This is an old mine reportedly in production in the 1930s worked on by Herbert Hoover. This specime

3.5" x 2" x 1/2" 90 grams. From the sleeper main vein elevation 4000 feet. Numerous layers of colloform/mammilary silica and native ...

6.61 troy ounces - a heavy specimen for its size! 3.5" x 1" x 2" This specimen shows multiple electrum banding over a 2" width w...

10 grams. 7/8" x 7/8" a nice small example of high grade sleeper ore visible in both cut section and the rough. Gold/electrum distributed ...

A cut slab, polished on one side. 2 1/4" x 1 1/2" x 3/8" thick. Gold rich bands containing electrum dendrites embedded in opal quartz...

2 3/4" x 1 7/8" x 1." 105 grams. This is a very interesting high grade gold (electrum) Specimen from the sleeper main vein, 3900...

Rich and classic Fire Creek sample 4.5 x 1 3/4 x 1 7/8" a thick cut slab with cut faces on two sides exposing high grade zones within the brecc...

4.5" x 2.5" x 3" Visible gold within aguilarite, nominate and possibly some ruby silvers as sulfide minerals in a quartz matrix. The...

Large high grade gold silver specimen 5" x 3" x 3" Beautiful large hand specimen of banded quartz with aguilarite, nominate and pos...

Reconnaissance Map of the Middle Kuskokwim and Lower Yukon Region, Alaska. This map is Plate I of the U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 578 issued in 19

Mounted photograph of the entrance to the famous Silver King Mine. You can see ore track leading into the mine, as well as machinery and men standing

Bulletin 143, Geology & Ore deposits of the Tombstone Dist. Arizona, by Butler, Wilson & Rasor, 1938 ~ (6"x 9" booklet, 26 plates...

1) Bulletin 1027-F, Copper Deposits of part of Helvetia Mining District, Pima Co., AZ, by Creasey & Quick, 1955 ~ (6" x 9" booklet, 5 ...

1) "The Copper Deposits of the Clifton-Morenci District", PP-12, by Waldemar Lindgren, 1905 ~ 25 plates, (one geological map In pocket), ...

Hassayampa Mining District, AZ. Gold and Copper Cons. Mining and Milling mine patent. 1905. Claims include: Surprise, Jumbo, Comstock Lion, Brooklyn,

2 Peck District, AZ mine patents. 1897 Gladiator Gold Mining, President McKinley secretary signature. 1902 Lone Jack, Monitor, Magnet No. 2, Charlesto

Great view showing over 25 miners posing on the side of a rock hill. A few are very young. A well-dressed man on the right might by the mine supt. Sta

Two letters sent by C.A. Holland to his cousin. Holland was the superintendent of the Buchanan Gold Mining and Milling Co. in Buchanan, California. Wr

Map of the Grass Valley Mining District, Nevada County, California, Showing the Locations of the Principal Mines Compiled for the State Mining Bureau

U.S.G.S.. PP 194, The Gold Quartz Veins of Grass Valley, by W.D. Johnston, Jr., 1940 ~ Illustrations include 39 plates, (5 in pocket), & 69 figu...

Reports and maps for various mines in Mariposa County, California. Most of these reports and maps are for the Ruth Pierce Mine, about 28 miles east of

The Miners Foundry, manufacturers of mining equipment for the California Gold Rush, at 325 Spring Street, Nevada City is a California Historical Land

Report of the Property Controlled by the Harmony Mines Company by H.L. Englebright, Mining Engineer, Nevada City, California. Dated July 15, 1916. Inc

Nice Nevada City archive including assay reports, You Bet Mine, claim on unspecified name claim, 2X Selby Smelting gold bullion deposit slips, Wells F

Lot of three. 1) Notice of location by J.. Holland in 1891. Location at Grass Valley Mining District. 1000' x 600'. 2) Purchase of (?) at Bo...

The letter talks about the mine first worked in 1851. Seems to be an effort to revitalize the mine in 1874 or later. 10 legal sized pages that (withou

Photographs showing mining operations in the Nevada City area. The larger one shows the labeled on the back as the "Gold Stamp Mill." This...

Two mining reports for different properties in the Moores Flat Mining District in Nevada County, California. The first is the Report of the Bonanza Gr

Ledger and letter from Red Dog, a California gold rush mining town in Nevada County. The ledger is a time book from Red Dog Mine showing a list of min

Appraisal of the estate of Andrew McCoy in San Juan, Nevada County, California. This estate involved mining properties and other assets in Nevada Coun

Jackson Gold Quartz Mine Report by George B. Ackerman and Remark by Edward Jussen. This mine was located in Plumas County, California. Report contains

Original hand-drawn map of Poverty Bar, Calaveras County, California. This map shows the mining shafts, vineyards, orchards, roads, ditches, rivers, a

By Andrew C. Lawson, 1915 ~ Text portion consists of 180 pages of geologic descriptions, with 10 plates & 4 figures, and the pocket consists of ...

Stamped Wells Fargo Messenger. Blue oval. Advertising cover. 2c brown (U61) entire. Very nice! San Francisco Wells Fargo stamp on reverse with a Nov.

1884. Mine located near Smartsville. Smartsville located 15 miles from Marysville. Located at Sucker Flat. In 1884 the state of California forbad all

Report and map of the Contention Mining Property in Knights Creek, Tuolumne County, California. Report includes information about the mine including l

2 page handwritten document directing and instructing the District Attorney to prosecute persons, companies or corporations who engage in hydraulic mi

1) Colfax & Foresthill Quadrangles, Geology and Mineral Deposits, SR-67, 1961 ~ 4 plates (in pocket), 8 figures, 36 photos, 8 tables ~ (8 Ω...

Nevada Co., 1918, reprint by Pine-Aire Productions ~ Descriptions of all mining districts & their mines ~ Illustrated with 28 photographs, incl...

Mining Camps, a study in American Frontier Government, by Charles H. Shinn, published by Alfred A. Knopf, N.Y., 1948 ~ (6" x 9" HB, 300 pa...

Lot of miscellaneous ephemera related to California mining and the Gold Rush. Includes a Final or Completed Certificate and Notice of Location of the

Group of three different California mining reports. The first is for the Blue Tent Mines somewhere near Grass Valley. It was prepared by mining engine