Mining, Minerals and Mayhem Auction

Lot of 14. One to 3 cubic inches. 1. Conichalcite from the Tintic District in Utah. 2. Copper placer nugget from Alaska. 3. Brachantite from the

Lot of 6 gold and platiunum ores from various mining districts within the US and Canada. These include the tellurides altaite and Hessite plus native

Lot of 5 gold bearing ore specimens from various worldwide locations. Samples range from 1/4 in to 2 inches in daimater and consist of gold within ma

Lot of 14. Iron Specimens from the Eastern States and Georgia: Specimens include some of larger proportions i.e.: between 4”x3” or square 3”x 2” piec

Lot of 13. Western States Iron Specimens. Specimens range from 1cm x 1cm up to 3” in length. Most specimens possess a dull luster. Others, such as He

Lot of 36 mercury ore specimens from various localaties. Samples range from less than 1 inch to 4 inches in diameter and hail from AZ, CA, NM, NV, TX

Miscellaneous lot of 21+ minerals specimens. Notable pieces include a 1/2 in piece of josephenite - a rare Ni-Fe alloy with the appearance of a meteo

Lot of 21 mineral specimens from various locations in Nevada including Goodsprings, Bridgeport, Reno, Verdi, Pioche, Bridgeport, and Nicent. Specimen

Lot of 13. Minerals include foxenite, eudialyte, heulandites, steenstrupite, anthite, ampangobeite, struverite, betatite, tantalite, malacon and other

Lot of 18. Ranging from 6" in length to 3sq. Inches. Minerals and Locations as follows; Selentite, France, Manqanocolumbite, Maine, Siderite, Con

Historical academic mineral collection consisting of a lot of 70+ mineral specimens - collected primarily within the eastern U. S. Samples range up t

Lot of 40 miscellaneous mineral specimens from various western states. Samples range from approximately 1 to 2 inches in diameter with collection loc

Lot of 13 mineral species from North Carolina and Tennessee Area. Minerals includes cerussite, monazite, alleghnvite, galaxite, anthophyillite, columb

The perfect start for any mineral collection. This lot consists of 70+ mounted and unmounted samples from a variety of US states and international lo

Lot of 29 molybdenum bearing samples. Crystal species are dominantly molybdenite (many with well developed hexagonal platlets), molydbite (a relative

Lot of 14. Minerals include beaverite, galena, anglesite, cerrusite, cerussite, pyramorphite, argentite, pyromorphite, plumbojarosite. Range is size f

Lot of 10. Minerals include boulangerite, antimony, livingstonite, stibiconite, cylinarite, pharcolite, berthierite and stibnite. Range is size from...

Lot of 9 tungsten ore specimens from various western locales. 1.) Two samples of crystalline hubnerite + pyrite in quartz matrix from the Black Hills

Lot of 24 includes Vanadium - Az, Co, Mex - Uraninite, Autenite, Carnotite, Gummite (NC), and Uranophane (NH).

Lot of 55 mineral specimens - primarily zinc bearing minerals - dominantly collected within the US. Site locales inculde CA, CO, MO, MT, NC, NJ, NV,

Native gold is hosted in massive quartz. The sample size is 5 x 2 cm.

This is a gold ore specimen from Willow Creek, Alaska. Between 1919 and 1940 Willow Creek produced 252,000 oz of gold. The sample contains visible g

Lot of 27 copper specimens from various localaties within Arizona. Most of the mineral species in the following list are supergene products - that is

Lot of 5, 1-3 cubic inches. 1) Two described as Gold, Gila Bend. 3) Silver, Monte Cristo mine, 12 mi. E. Of Wickenberg. 4) Spervylite, Platinum + Arse

Lot of 11. Arizona lead specimens and ore minerals. Lot is comprised of specimens all approximately 2sqin. Items mostly own a shiny, bright –colored l

Lot of 8 silver specimens from various mining districts within Arizona. Samples range from 1 to 3 inches in diameter with districts and mines includi

Lot of four tungsten ore specimens from Arizona and Mexico. 1.) Spectacular wolframite and hubnerite crystals in quartz from Doz Cabezas, Arizona. (1

Lot of 7 copper ore specimens from Inyo and Mono Counties, California. These specimens contain tetrahedrite, conichalcite, linarite, caledonite, chal

Lot of 5. 1) Chalcanthite, Mojave Desert. 2) Chalcopyrite, Copper Hill mine, Amador County. 3) Two of Enargite, Morning Star mine, Alpine County. 4) E

Lot of 14 gold ore specimens from the famous Mother Lode in California. These are the hard rock ores from the Sierras that produced most of Californi

This is a set of four beautiful native gold specimens hosted in massive quartz from French Hill in Auburn, California. Auburn was a gold rush town se

Lot of 1 gold sample, measuring one to three cubic inches. Mined in 1870 by "Bodie Sam" at the Standard Mine.

Lot of 2 . Downieville was settled in 1849 during the gold rush and remained productive until the late 1860s. The samples have native gold and argen

Lot of 3 gold samples. 1. Is a 1 to 3 cubic inch sample from a placer boulder from the Washington District of Alleghany. 2. A 1 to 3 cubic inch float

Lot of 7. 1. A one to two cubic inch sample from the I Love Mine. This sample assayed out at $401.25 a ton. 2. A one to two cubic inch ore sample from

Lot of 7 gold specimens from the Green Horn Mine in Plumas County, California. Several of the samples have visible gold, other minerals include aurif

Lot of 9 gold ore specimens from the Morning Star, Morning Glory, and Idaho-Maryland mines in Grass Valley, California. These ores are from the famou

Lot of 4. 1. 2 to 3 cubic inch gold ore from Sierra Nevada in California. Assayed out at $1,860.00 per ton. 2. 1to 2 cubic inch gold ore from The Mon

Lot of 10. One to 3 cubic inches. 1. Tetrahedrite (argentiteferous), Bornite (auriferous) from the Addenda Mine. 2. Low grade Gold-Silver ore. 3.

Lot of 14. Southern California Lead Specimens- Inyo and San Bernardino Counties. Most specimens have a light/brown, gray, or dark in color with patche

Lot of 7. Minerals from Mono and Inyo County, CA. Items are all small, between 1” and 2 “ in size. Specimens include the following: Psilomelane, Bridg

Lot of 18 miscellaneous mineral specimens from throughout California. Specimens range from approximately 1 to 4 inches in diameter and include anorth

Lot of 3. Minerals include miargyrite, gold ore and others. Sizes range from 2” x 1” to 4” x 2”.

This lot of 22 mineral specimens consists of a number of uncommon and rare borates, phospates, calc-silicates, and cerium carbonate-fluorides from a n

Lot of 34. Minerals include rutile, crestmoreite, howlite, glaucophane, limonite, chromite, albite, ankeriteulexite, foshagite, tourmaline, quartz, bi

Lot of 7. One to 3 cubic inches. 1. Silver from the Silver Queen Mine, Barstow. 2. Miargyrite from San Bernardino County. 3. Silver + Partzite f

Lot of 10 tungsten ore specimens from various California locales. 1.) Granular scheelite in quartz - calcite matrix, Yosemite, CA ( 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2 i

Lot of 2 gold and silver ore specimens from the Mickey Breen Mine in Ouray, Colorado. This area was productive from the 1870s to the 1890s as a gold

Lot of 7 gold and silver ore specimens from historic mines in Ouray, Colorado including the American Nettie Mine, the Bright Diamond Mine, and the Iro

Lot of 10. Minerals include gold specimen, petzite, tellurium, hessite, silver ore, sylvanite and others. Size range from thumbnail to 2 1/4" x 2

Lot of 4 gold ore specimens from several historic mines in Crisman, Colorado including the Logan Mine, the Wallace K Mine, and the Tellar Mine. Nativ

Lot of 3 gold specimens from the Dixie Mine. The mine began production in 1936 and produced over $500,000 worth of gold and silver by the time it clo

Lot of 3. 1. One-half cubic inches gold in Petzite, Rip van Dam Mine. 2. 103 cubic inches Roasted Sylvanite, Wano Mine. 3. 1-3 cubic inches gold and P

Lot of 7 specimens. Mineral include are sylvanite, gold ore and gold in galena. Some have polished sides. Size ranges from 1/4" x 1/4" to 3

Lot of 14. Minerals include galena, sapalerite, columbite, riebeckite, jamesonite, fayalite, maracite and others. A number of these multiple specime

Lot of 28 ore specimens representing the diverstiy of Au bearing tellurides mined within the Cripple Creek Mining District, Co. Discovered in 1890, t

Lot of 11 specimens from various locations in Colorado including Gilman, Caribou, Dove Creek, Powderhorn, Turkey Creek, and Boulder. Samples include

Lot of 4silver specimens. 1. A 1 to 2 inch cubic inch silver and Argentite specimen from the White Raven Mine, Boulder, Colorado. 2. A 3 to 1 inch c

Lot of 10 species. Minerals include galeria, galena, silver lead ore, silver argentite, polybasite, ceragrrite and others. Size ranges from ½” ...

Lot of 4 tungsten ore specimens from Boulder, Colorado 1.) Crystalline ferberite in breccaited vein from the Franklin Mine. Cut surface exposing brecc

Lot of 2 gold ore specimens from the Homestake Mine in South Dakota. The Homestake Mine was one of the largest gold mines in the country and produced

Lot of 20 copper ore specimens from the historic Michigan Copper Country of the Keweenaw Pennisula. This was the first copper district within the U. S

Lot of 3. One-half to 3 cubic inches. 1. Silver-Coper from "Half Breed Ore," Lake Michigan District. 2. 14 Silver, 15 Copper "Half

Lot of 11. Minerals include pyrite, galena, sphalerite and others. Range is size from thumbnail to 3”x 3”.

Lot of 24 copper ore specimens. Copper ores include malachite, bornite, chalcopyrite, covellite, chalcocite, enargite, collusite, cuprite, native cop

Lot of 12. Minerals include silver, sternbergite, gold, galena, gold in quartz, and others. Sizes range from ½” x 1” to 3 ½” x 4 ¼”. ...

This is a gold specimen from the Cable Mine in Anaconda, Montana. The Cable Mine was opened in 1867 and produced over $200,000 worth of gold by 1940.

Lot of 14. Minerals include gold and arsenopyrite, gold ore, copper ore, gold and quartz, limonite auriferous, gold and silver. Ranges in size from ...

Lot of 17 Mostly Inyo-Mono Counties. 1.) Limonite, Madison County, MT (approx 2" x 1 1/2"). 2.) Pyrolusite. Red Bluff, MT (2" x 1"

Lot of 46+ mineral specimens collected within Montana. Besides collecting the specimens in Gallatin and Madison Co. many were collected at the Tilden

Lot of 18 specimens from several locations in Montana including the Granite-Bimetallic Mine in Phillipsburg, the Old Minnesota Mine in Wicks, and the

Lot of 54 different specimens. This wonderful collection assembled by Gottschalk who had a relationship with a geologist at Franklin Furnace. In the l

Lot of 41 rare zinc, iron, and manganese minerals from the Franklin and Ogdensburg, NJ. The unique marble hosted zinc deposits of Franklin and Sterli

Lot of 5. 1.) Altaite hosted in dolomite, Hilltop Mine, Dono Ana Co., New Mexico. 4 x 2 x 2 cm. 2.) Endlichite, Lake Valley, New Mexico. 4 x 2 x 2

Lot of 6 specimens from various locations in New Mexico including Hatch, Hillsborough, Franklin Mts, Gallinas Mts, Grant County, and Taos County. Sam

This is a sample of native tellurium from Grant County, New Mexico. The tellurium is hosted in granite which has been altered by hydrothermal fluids.

Lot of 16 pieces from Reno, Manhattan, Pershing County, Lovelock, Lahontan, and other Nevada locales. This collection includes specimens of antimony

Lot of 33 specimens of antimony minerals from historic gold producing districts in Nevada including Manhattan, Willard, Battle Mountain, and Lovelock.

Lot of 7. All lots 1 to 3 cubic inches. 1. Cerargyrite, some silver content. 2. Cerargyrite with silver content. 3. Cerargyrite, some silver content.

Lot of 11. Quartette Mine. One-half to 4 cubic inches. 1. Copper lead, Gold-Silver ore "Quartete" Mine. 2. Gold ore. 3. Au-Cu ore. 4

Lot of 9. Box 1: 1. 1-3 cubic inches Malachite. 2. Four 1-3 cubic inches Malachite+Azurite+Chalcocite+Tenorite, Bristol Silver Mine. 3. Cu+Zn Pb. 4. 1

Lot of 16 copper ore specimens from various locations in Nevada including Lyon, Mineral, and Ormsby Counties. Minerals include tenorite, chalcocite,

Lot of 8 copper ore specimens from several locations in Nevada including the Rio Tinto mine, Mountain City, Tacoma, and Montrello. Specimens include

Lot of 10. Minerals include coyellite argentite and stromeyerite, gold silver ore, argentite and polybasite and silver ore. Range is size from to &...

Lot of 17 specimens from historic mines in Washoe County, Nevada including the Opher and Golden Fleece Mines at Peavine which operated from the 1860s

Lot of 10. 1. Copper sample measuring 1/8 to two cubic inches. 2. One half inch to two cubic inch copper, cuprite and malachite sample from Battle Mou

Lot of 14. One to 4 cubic inches. 1. Chalcopyrite + Pyrite from Kimberly. 2. Copper + Cuprite + Tenorite. 3. Ore specimen. 4. Copper ore. 5.

Lot of 23 copper ore specimens from Majuba Hill in the historic Antelope District. Majuba Hill is well known for its wide variety of copper minerals,

Lot of 8. One to 4 cubic inches. 1. Chalocite-Azurite in Calcite from the Willard District, Pershing County. 2. Cuprite + Azurite on Chalocite.

Lot of 9. One to 4 cubic inches. 1. Chalcopperite + Pyrite + Bronite + Tetrohedrite from Mason Valley. 2. Cornetite + Pseudo Malachite from the Emp

Lot of 13 gems. Minerals include tourmaline, cassitenite, rutilet, magnate, topaz, diamond, apatite, concentrates and others. Range in size from Thumb

One Reville Mine specimen.

This specimen is a placer nugget of gold and copper. The sample is 50% gold and 50% copper with minor copper oxidation on the surface. The sample siz

Lot of 2 from the Confidence Mine on the Comstock Lode. Gold-silver ore. Size ranges from 1 1/4" x 1" to 3" x 3".

This sample is from the Queen City District. It is a gold and silver ore specimen with native gold and the ruby silver proustite hosted in quartz. S

"Bonanza" Gold-Silver Ore from the Consolidated- Virginia Mine of the Comstock Lode. Measures 3" x 1 1/2"

Lot of 3 specimens from the Woodville Shaft, Justice Mine of the Comstock. Minerals included are gold-silver ore. Ranges from 2” x 2 ¼” to 3 &...

Lot of 4. From the "Justice Mine" of the Comstock. Minerals are gold-silver ore. Sizes range from 2 1/2" x 1 3/4" to 3 1/4" x

Lot of 4 gold and silver ore specimens from Jessup, Nevada. These samples contain visible gold and the silver ore minerals embolite, cerargyrite, and

Lot of 9 gold and silver ore specimens from the Gold Circle District near Midas. Specimens are all 1/2 to 1 1/2 inches in diameter and were collected