A SAMPLER OF SELECTED

2017 BMC AUCTION SPECIMENS (2017 Auction Date is Saturday, 21 January)

Volume 6

Quartz [SiO2] Lot of 4

Locality

Poker Hill

Cumberland

Rhode Island

Donated by John

Anderson

Photograph by Mike Haritos

Hemimorphite [Zn4Si2O7(OH)2•(H2O)]

Locality

Sa Duchessa Mine

Oridda

Domusnovas

Carbonia-Iglesias Province

Sardinia, Italy

Size

18.0 x 9.5 x 8.0 cm

1364 g

Donated by John

Anderson

Photograph by Mike Haritos

Lot of 6 Reference Books

Smithsonian Report, Part II,

National Museum, 1886

Mineralogy, Kraus, et al, 5th

Edition

Climatoloty and Mineral

Waters Of The U.S., Bell

Mineralology, Crystallography

& Blowpipe Analysis, Moses

& Parson, 1909

VA Division of Resources,

Mica & Feldspar, 1962

World Treasury of Minerals In

Color , Bariand

Donated by John Anderson

Photograph by Mike Haritos

Lot of 6 Reference Books

Oregon Geographic Names,

McArthur

Mining Lore, Paul

Illustrated Encyclopedia Of

Minerals & Rocks

Prospector, Cowhand &

Sodbuster, National Park

Service

A Source Book in Geology 1400

to 1900, Mather & Mason

Gold Rush Country, Lane

Donated by John Anderson

Photograph by Mike Haritos

Lot of 5 DVDs & 2016 Mineral Calendar

What’s Hot In Tucson 2016

Dallas Mineral Collecting

Symposium 2015

Pederneira

What’s Hot In Munich 2015

What’s Hot In Ste. Marie

2015

Benefit Mineral Calendar

2016 by Joaquim Callen

Donated by John Anderson

Photograph by Mike Haritos

Memorbilia Lot

Harper’s New Monthly

Magazine, April 1860

Harper’s New Monthly

Magazine, June 1887

A Guidebook To The Mojave

Desert of CA. Russ Leadabrand

4 Copies of Mineral News

5 Stonetrust Poster Series

photographs

An envelope with the

addressee named Cornelius

Hurlbut, Mineralogical Soc. Of

America

Donated by John Anderson

Photograph by Mike Haritos

Lot of 7 Trap Rock Minerals

4 Calcite specimens

Roncari Quarry (Tilcon

Quarry), East Granby,

Hartford Co., CT

3 Apophyllite specimens

Lane & Son traprock

quarries (Lane's Quarry),

Westfield, Hampden Co.,

MA

1 Datolite specimen

Lane & Son traprock

quarries (Lane's Quarry),

Westfield, Hampden Co.,

MA

Donated by John

Anderson Photograph by Mike Haritos

Lot of Arizona Highways & A Stock Certificate

30 Arizona Highway

Magazines.

The Magazine was first

published in 1924

Many issues discuss AZ

mining and mineral

collecting.

A Stock Certificate for

100 shares in the Arizona

Commercial Mining Co.

dated March 20, 1923

Donated by John

Anderson

Photograph by Mike Haritos

Lot of 4 Arizona Minerals

Vanadanite [Pb5(VO4)3Cl]

J.C. Holmes Mine

− Patagonia, Santa Rita Mts

− Santa Cruz Co., AZ

Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine

− Tiger, Mammoth District

− Pinal Co. AZ

Apache Mine (Defiance Mine)

− Radium, Burch area, Globe Hills

− Globe-Miami District

− Gila Co., AZ

Aurichalcite [(Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6]

79 Mine,

Chilito, Hayden area,

Banner District

Dripping Spring Mtns.

Gila Co., AZ

Donated by John Anderson Photograph by Mike Haritos

Infilling of Fossil Coral by Sphalerite

Locality

Daddry Shield

Weardale

North Pennines

County Durham

England, UK

Size

15.0 x 14.7 x 7.6 cm

1268 g

Donated by John

Anderson

Photograph by Mike Haritos

Lot of 12 Quartz [SiO2] Specimens

Diamond Hill (Ashaway Village),

Ashaway Hopkinton, Washington Co. RI

Magaliesberg Mts, Pretoria, Pretoria

District (Tshwane District), Gauteng

Province South Africa

Aggregate Industries Quarry (Wrentham

Quarry; Simeone Quarry), Wrentham,

Norfolk Co., MA

Bonsecours (Lawrenceville), Le Val-

Saint-François RCM, Estrie, Québec

William Wise Mine, Westmoreland,

Cheshire Co., NH

South Wazikistan, Pakistan

Moosup, Plainfield, Windham Co., CT

effrey Quarry, Jeffrey, Pulaski Co.,

Arkansas

Espírito Santo, Brazil

Bartlett Mountain, Bartlett, Carol Co., NH

Pine Grove District, UT

Roncari Quarry (Tilcon Quarry), East

Granby, Hartford Co., CT

Photograph by Mike Haritos

Donated by John Anderson

Clock

Clock Movement is set in

PA Slate

Donated by Judy Kelley

Photograph by Mike Haritos

Devonian Ammonite halves

Locality

Morocco

Donated by Mary

Cole and Scot

Krueger

Photograph by Mike Haritos

Trivet

A large green

marble trivet

Donated by Judy

Kelley

Photograph by Mike Haritos