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Beautiful and rare sample of veszelyite crystals with a marked color on gangue.

It comes from the Laochang mine, Honghe, Yunnan, China.
This piece measures 4.6 cm long by 3 cm wide and 1.3 cm at its thickest.
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Piece presenting crystals of diopside in quartz accompanied by muscovite.

This sample comes from Badakhshan in Afghanistan.
It measures 7.4 cm long by 5.5 cm wide and 3.4 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 143 grams.

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Nice group of quartz flat, shiny, with a well-marked soul.

It comes from Tole, Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
This specimen measures 7.2 cm long by 7.2 cm wide and 2.3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 113 grams.

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Dense sample of nickeline (a nickel arsenide) accompanied by green annabergite.

This nickel ore comes from Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer, Drâa-Tafilalet in Morocco.
It measures 4.3 cm long by 3.7 cm wide and 3.7 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 148 grams.

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Crystal of tourmaline dark, capped with light green, embedded in crystals ofalbite.

It is finished and the body growth shows a shift due to a crystal of albite now disappeared.

This piece comes from the Astak mine, Gilgit, Baltistan, Pakistan.

It measures 6.2 cm long by 3.2 cm wide and weighs 50 grams.

The crystal alone measures 2 cm thick at the head.

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Group of small helmets of prehnite, accompanied by some epidote crystals.

It comes from La Combe de la Selle, St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

This sample measures 3.5 cm long by 2.6 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick.

Its weight is 14 grams.

Measurements without base.

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Pyrite crystallized on both sides with different crystal sizes.

This piece comes from Saint Denis d'Orques, Sarthe, France.

Sample measuring 8.6 cm long by 5.9 cm wide and 3.8 cm thick.

Its weight is 418 grams.

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Sample of fossil wood cut and polished.

It comes from the Morvan massif, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.

This sample measures 6.3 cm long by 4.7 cm wide and 6.2 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 233 grams.

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Crystals ofhemimorphite white and shiny, with a main spray of 2.5 cm.

This mineral comes from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.

It measures 6.3 cm high by 4.4 cm wide and 2.9 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 57 grams.

Note that the gangue is powdery (without influence on the aesthetics of the piece)

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Calcite with chocolate-coloured dog tooth crystals.

It comes from the El Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua in Mexico.

This specimen measures 11.1 cm long by 9.2 cm wide and 3.6 cm thick.

Its weight is 402 grams.

Note touches on the periphery of the piece.

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Shiny Pyrite with well yellow octahedral crystals, with a partial covering of sphalerite.
It comes from the Huaron mines in the Pasco province at Peru.
This piece measures 9.2 cm long by 7.6 cm wide and 2.6 cm thick.
It weighs 403 grams.

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Sample ofshiny epidote, with dark green coloured crystals.
This piece comes from Mount Khorram, Tafresh county in Iran.
It measures 4 cm long by 3.9 cm wide and 3.9 cm thick.
Its weight is 104 grams.

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Rare association ofapophyllite green on mordenite cream color.
This piece comes from the Nasik district, Maharashtra, India.
It measures 13.4 cm long by 7.4 cm wide and 4.6 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 367 grams.

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Beautiful plate of quartz with crystals partially covered with dolomite white and millimetric calcite in dog teeth.
This quartz comes from the Cavnic mine, Maramures, Romania.
It measures 13.6 cm long by 9.2 cm wide and 4.2 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 475 grams.

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Old g coingoethite with geode crystals.
It comes from Chaillac, Indre, France.
This goethite measures 4.3 cm long by 4 cm wide and 2.8 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 61 grams.

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Interpenetration of two crystals of pyrite shiny with curved edges.
Piece from Ambas Aguas, Muro de Aguas, La Rioja, Spain.
This sample measures 4.2 cm long by 3.5 cm wide and 3.7 cm thick.
Its weight is 138 grams.

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Specimen showing two crystals in pseudo hexagonal twin ofaragonite on a gangue of gypsum salmon color.
It comes from Minglanilla, Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain.
This sample measures 5.5 cm long by 5.3 cm wide and 3.9 cm thick.
It weighs 93 grams.

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Pyrenean specimen bearing crystals ofaxinite gem
It measures 3.7 cm long by 3.1 cm wide and 2.5 cm at its thickest.
These axinites come from La Mongie, Hautes-Pyrénées, France.
Its weight is 38 grams.

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Marcasite with two different crystallizations including centimetric sperkise twins.
It comes from the cliffs of Cap Blanc-Nez in Escalles, Pas-de-Calais, France.
This sample measures from 3.7 to 4.1 cm in diameter for a weight of 62 grams.
Piece treated for better preservation.

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Sample of brochantite with a well-marked green color on gangue.
It comes from Bou Beker, Touissit-Bou Beker, Jerada, Oriental Region, Morocco.
This piece measures 4.1 cm long by 4.1 cm wide and 2.6 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 40 grams.
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Solid cluster of fine acicular crystals of zinkenite black metallic.
It measures 3.3 cm long by 1.4 cm wide and 0.8 cm at its thickest.
This sample comes from the San José mine, Oruro, Bolivia.

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Skeletal crystallization of galena accompanied by calcite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite.
Piece from the Madan mining sector, Smolyan province, Bulgaria.
It measures 4.5 cm long by 3.4 cm high and 3.2 cm thick.
Its weight is 97 grams.

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Group of crystals of quartz transparent
Piece from the 2 Alps, Oisans, Isère, France.
It measures 7.7 cm long by 3.7 cm wide and 6 cm high.
Its weight is 150 grams.

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Sample of celestite transparent and shiny on sulfur.
It comes from the Machów Mine, Tarnobrzeg City Co., Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland.
This piece measures 10.2 cm long by 7.8 cm wide and 5.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 577 grams.

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Association of sphalerite bright and chalcopyrite, with calcite on the back.
This piece comes from the classic deposit of Baia Sprie, Maramureș, Romania.
It measures 7.2 cm long by 4.4 cm wide and 2.4 cm thick.
Its weight is 103 grams.

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Group of crystals from smoky quartz originating from the Talèfre needle, Chamonix, Mont-Blanc, Haute-Savoie, France.
Piece measuring 6.1 cm long by 4.4 cm wide and 2.8 cm high.
Its weight is 41 grams.

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Aesthetic piece of goethite with shiny crystals in geode.
It comes from Chaillac, Indre, France.
This goethite measures 4.1 cm long by 4 cm wide and 2.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 47 grams.

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Sample of fossil wood cut and polished.
It comes from the Morvan massif, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
This sample measures 6.2 cm long by 6.2 cm wide and 3.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 176 grams.

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Carpet of tabular crystals of baryte brown yellow, of good quality for the deposit.
Piece from Igornay in Saône-et-Loire, France.
It measures 12.5 cm long by 4.6 cm wide and 4.4 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 288 grams.
The base is sawn.

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Nodule of polished gypsum with shades of orange more or less dark.
The raw comes from the Dennevy mine in Burgundy, France.
This mine, now inaccessible, contains natural gypsum nodules trapped in marls.
This 99 gram specimen measures 7.4 cm long by 4 cm wide and 2.6 cm thick.

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