Bucket of Holes

01/30/2026

https://e-rocks.com/items/auction/2413058/bucket-holes-minerals-24-jan-30-jan-2026

Less than a day left on my current auction on . Some incredible things here including a fantastic little calaverite micro, tschernichite, asagiite, blueridgeite, melonite and gold after calaverite, milarite from NC, niedermayrite, footemineite, twinned greenockite from Bolivia, extremely rare kadyrelite and much more! If you have a look I really appreciate it! I also have some nice specimens in the 20th anniversary auctions including an extremely rare retzian-Nd, cuprosklodowskite, boltwoodite from CA and a fairfieldite from the Foote Mine collected in 1958. Check those out too! Thanks!

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11/27/2025

https://www.ebay.com/usr/bucketofholes

I've recently been adding quite a few really good specimens from Franklin and Sterling Hill, NJ to my ebay page. It's rare that samples like these hit the market. If you have a moment to check them out, I appreciate it!

I've also created a page for buying, selling and trading of specimens from these mines... because no such space seemed to exist! As more and more old collections from these mines come to market in the next few years, I wanted to create a space where everyone can list what they're looking for, or openly offer specimens to a growing collector base as they become available. You can join this group here: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/16TBXRds8D/

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10/26/2025

https://e-rocks.com/items/auction/2364871/bucket-holes-franklinsterling-hill-20-oct-26-oct-2025

https://ebay.us/m/XIOTbl

Interested in the mineralogy of Franklin and Sterling Hill, NJ but don’t know where to find nice specimens? Well, good news… my latest auction on ending tomorrow includes 20 rare and very hard to find specimens from these famous mines. Featured are world class micro, thumbnail and miniature specimens of franklinfurnaceite, clinohedrite, extremely rare gerstmannite, sarkinite, pyrosmalite-Mn, alleghanyite, nasonite, kolicite, wallkilldellite and other minerals. I also have a selection of very fine larger samples on my ebay store as well. Both links are above and if you have a look I really do appreciate it!

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08/10/2025

https://e-rocks.com/items/auction/2328314/bucket-holes-minerals-04-aug-10-aug-2025

Less than 1 day left in my current auction on ! Some fantastic things here including a new find of the extremely rare mineral asagiite from Missouri of all places, very good crystal of sperrylite from Canada, exceptional crystals of wayneburnhamite, rich marsturite from Franklin, NJ, world class kasolite from Musonoi and many other small treasures. If you have a look I really appreciate your time!

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08/09/2025

Fluorapatite with tiny bundles of lithiophilite prisms - Ca5(PO4)3F - Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., NC - 6.81mm FOV

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08/09/2025

Cahnite, with one twinned crystal - Ca2[B(OH)4](AsO4) - Franklin Mine, Franklin, Sussex Co., NJ - 3.26mm FOV

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08/09/2025

Gem, apple green willemite with rosasite - Zn2SiO4 - Tsumeb, Namibia - 7.23mm FOV

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07/02/2025

https://e-rocks.com/items/auction/2310365/bucket-holes-minerals-27-jun-02-jul-2025

Less than a day left in my current auction on and this week offers some really special things. In addition to the classic Cornwall cuprite, chinese liroconite, exceptional metasaleeite from Australia, classic blue willemite from Tsumeb, rare and sought after greenockite from New Jersey and other goodies, there are some incredibly rare specimens of larsenite, cuprocherokeeite, haywoodite, rowleyite and kayrobertsonite. Also of special note in this auction are some good things from Franklin/Sterling Hill, NJ, most importantly samples of a NEW FIND for Sterling Hill that I recently uncovered. Only four samples of a yttrium-bearing zalesiite occurring as beautiful sprays of blue hexagonal prisms were found in ONE vug, and were associated with green crystals of segnitite. Both minerals are new for the mines. If you have a moment to take a look, I really appreciate it!

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05/24/2025

https://e-rocks.com/items/auction/2291564/bucket-holes-s-gross-micro-collection-24-may-29-may-2025

Like antique minerals? Pleased to have acquired the collection of Siegfried T. Gross of Colorado Springs, CO. He, along with Edwin Over (overite), Lazard Cahn (cahnite) and others started the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society in 1936 and immediately started a ‘round table’ led by Cahn for studying microminerals very much similar to the existing round tables led by collectors in Philadelphia, PA at the time. Micromineral collecting in the USA began as early as 1850, but this time period elicited an explosion of interest in this aspect of the hobby with the introduction of better microscopes. See Quintin Wight’s excellent book, The Complete Book of Micromounting. Siegfried built his collection by self collecting at many Colorado localities that are now long extinct, but the backbone of the collection is composed of specimens gifted to him by numerous prominent collectors of the period (1925-1940). There are samples represented in the collection from L.C. Wills, Charles Palache, Lazard Cahn, Ed Over, Arthur Montgomery (montgomeryite), Clarence Bement (bementite), W.R. Willis, J.D. Custer, W.F. Foshag (foshagite), George English (english*te), Philadelphia Academy of Science, Ward’s and many others. It’s a rare opportunity to possess a tiny piece of mineral history! The first auction of selected specimens from the collection is currently live on . Link above!

05/12/2025

https://e-rocks.com/items/auction/2282664/bucket-holes-minerals-07-may-12-may-2025

My latest auction on ends in less than a day! Some super rares in this one like jasonsmithite, the new minerals blueridgeite and sigogglinite from the Redmond Mine, tiptopite, nizamoffite and chenguodaite in addition to a selection of uranium bearing micromounts from the collection of Bill Pinch from the Congolese mines. There are also nice samples of cuprite, phosphosiderite, legrandite and other minerals from classic locales. If you take a moment to check it out I really appreciate it!

05/11/2025

Vandenbrandeite - Cu(UO2)(OH)4 - Shinkolobwe Mine, Katanga, Congo - 3.37mm FOV

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05/11/2025

Phosphosiderite (twinned crystals) on barbosalite - FePO4 • 2O - Bull Moose Mine, Custer Co., SD - 4.60mm FOV

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