2014

Molybdenum Mineral Specimens

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 600.00 USD
Molybdenum Mineral Specimens
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Lot of 29 molybdenum bearing samples. Crystal species are dominantly molybdenite (many with well developed hexagonal platlets), molydbite (a relatively uncommon moly oxide), and powellite (the moly bearing scheelite). Samples were collected from a number of localaties including CA, MT, NV, OR and British Columbia. Also contained within this lot a number of vanadium bearing ore minerals including patronite (an uncommon vanadium sulfide) from Buckcreek, ID as well as hewetite, a secondary oxidation product of primary vanadium sulfides.