Mineralauctions.com

This site proudly brought to you by Rob Lavinsky with help from local collectors Kevin Brown, Wally Mann, Karl Warning, Jeff Starr and other friends here in Dallas... we have over 150 years of mineral-collecting addiction between us! Also, your shipping and billing is run by the able Brandy Cleveland, who has been with us since 2005 and has handled personally most of the 50,000 minerals and 10,000

gemstones shipped through this site in that time. This auction is uniquely designed as a cash-flow/liquidation outlet from its origins. I do not generally buy specimens to auction in hopes of making money on each item as a normal mineral dealer and a normal mineral auctioneer might. Rather, the primary purpose of these auctions is to LIQUIDATE minerals in quantity from a vast warehouse of accumulated inventory and from large collections we must buy to acquire a few targeted specimens. The auctions therefore mainly consist of minerals I purchase in the course of pursuing my main business specialty of buying and dispersing efficiently large collections of minerals; parcels of minerals bought "as a lot;" and of new finds from foreign countries, where I often must buy more than I could absorb and sell individually. With these buying strategies, there is simply too much material to move or even store practically; and liquidation makes more sense than flat gallery pricing so that I can get what I may out of the pieces, and move on to the next deal with the cash flow. That is why bids start with only a token $10, EVEN ON OBVIOUSLY VALUABLE SPECIMENS, except for the rare "special auctions" of higher-priced minerals.