2013 April Treasures & Tribes Auction

Gold nugget cuff links in original box from Burnett Brothers Jewelers of Seattle Washington, circa 1870. The 2 pieces weigh a total of .21 troy ounces

Lot of 4: 1) Native Gold Nugget. 1.9g. 2/3 x 1/3 x .25 from Mount Kare, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. An attractive gold quartz nugget from an unus

Lot of 3, weighing 2.6g total. Unusually articulate and well chosen examples of palladian wire gold from Venezuela. HKA#63958

Lot of 8 crystalline gold specimens totalling .89 troy ounces. Also a metal sifting tray 4.5 x 2.5. One of the specimens is an amalgam piece. HKA#6267

Lot of 3: 1) pyrargyrite, Silver City Utah, 71.7grams; 2) native silver on bornite, Amy Silversmith mine, 1886, Butte Montana, 24.9grams; silver, Schl

High grade specimen. It weighs 5.72 troy oz and measures 2 x 2.75 HKA#62759

Lot of 2: 1) gold in quartz and silver sulfides, Silverton, Colorado, 78.4 grams; 2) native silver barite, Creede, Colorado, 206.4 grams.Maish Collect

Lot of 3: 1) Petzite in matrix (Ag3,Au,Te2) from the Cash mine, Boulder County, 43.8 grams; 2) wire silver from Crede, 53.9 grams; 3) Chlorargyrite fr

Lot of 3 from Bulldog Mine: 1) 3 x 1.1/3 x 1/3 . 2) 3 x 1.1/3 x 1/3. 3) 2 x 1.25 x 1/3. Slabs unusually rich in high grade native silver ore, associat

This 2 1.5 x 1.25 specimen features beautiful galena figuring and native silver throughout a large argentite sample. This sample was mined in Creede C

3 examples of silver gold telluride, sylvanite in quartz from Cripple Creek Colorado. 47.6, 50.5 and 82.1 grams in weight. (Au,Ag) Te2 is the most com

This 1.5 long, 0.75 wide, 0.5 thick sample of gold and silver/lead weighs 18.8 grams.Maish Collection HKA#62302

Lot of 2: 1) Measures 1.25 x .75 x 1. A historic 1930s silver-copper hybrid weighing 25.4g and showing historic miner's chisel marks. During the...

Native Silver, Bornite, and Quartz Lot of 2 from the Troy Mountain Mine of Troy, MT near Butte. 1) Measures 2.25 x 2 x 1 1/3. A historic and mineralog

Lot of 3 measuring 5 x 4 1/6, 4 x 3.5 x 1/6, and 4 x 2.75 x 1. Unusually rich specimens containing yellow grains of electrum, silver grains of uytenbo

Lot of 3: 1) 5 x 3 .25. 2) 5 x 3 x .25 3) 4 x 3 x .25. Unusually rich specimens containing yellow grains of electrum, silver grains of uytenbogaardtit

This moon shaped specimen measures 6 x 2 x 1 and is an extremely rich and well-banded Ken Snyder Mine ore slab from the Midas District. Showing rich b

Lot of 5 specimens. 1) 3 x 1.25 x 1/3. 2) 3 x 1.5 x .25. 3) 3.25 x 1.25 x .25. 4) 2.25 x 1.75 x .5. 5) 2 x 1.25 x .25. Complete vein cross-sections sh

Lot of 2: 1) silver, Zacatecas, Mexico, mounted in plastic case, 2) silver, Honduras, 76.4 grams.Maish Collection HKA#62282

Lot of 3: 1) argentite in chaleopyrite and calcite, Valencia Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 26.2 grams; 2) silver and chrysocolla, Sonora, Mexico, mounted