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Rock containing the'opal resin chocolate coloured.
It comes from the Roche Blanche deposit, Gergovie, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France.
Weighing 389 grams, this sample measures 10.3 cm long by 6.8 cm wide and 5 cm at its thickest.

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Piece of violet fluorite on richly crystallized gangue.
This piece comes from Buxières-les-Mines, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
It weighs 168 grams.
This sample measures 7.9 cm long by 6.3 cm wide and 3 cm at its thickest.

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Unfinished crystals of vesuvianite var duparcite in a quartz gangue.

This sample comes from the Azegour mine, Al Haouz, Marrakech-Safi Region, Morocco.

It measures 4.1 cm long by 4.1 cm wide and 1.4 cm thick.

Its weight is 27 grams.

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Group of crystals of quartz each containing a ghost marked by hematite inclusions.

This quartz comes from Luena, Bukama, Haut-Lomami, Congo.

This interesting piece measuring 7.8 cm at the longest for 7.3 cm wide and 7.1 cm high.

Its weight is 403 grams.

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Flat sample of brucite with a well-marked yellow color.

It comes from Qilla Saif Ullah, Baluchistan, Pakistan.

This piece measures 4.8 cm high by 3.3 cm wide and 0.8 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 11.2 grams.

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Beautiful pyrite very shiny, with a main octahedron with truncated edges more than 4 cm long.
It comes from the Huaron mines in the Pasco province in Peru.
This piece measures 5.4 cm long by 5.6 cm wide and 4.4 cm thick.
It weighs 242 grams.

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Piece associating of the twin cerussite, of the fine baryte salmon and of the galena.

Of good quality, it comes from the mines of Mibladen in the Morocco.

Specimen measuring 7.5 cm long by 3.5 cm wide and 3.1 cm thick.

It weighs 100 grams.

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This very colourful piece is fossilised wood, preserved by opaline silica, tinted with copper and manganese.
It comes from a petrified forest discovered at the foot of Mount Tjikolak in 2017 in Indonesia.
This specimen measures 11 cm at its longest, 10 cm wide and 6 cm thick.
It weighs 442 grams.

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Perimorphosis of quartz on fluorite octahedrons, the largest crystal measured more than 3 cm edge.

This piece comes from the Voltennes mine, La Petite-Verrière, Saône-et-Loire, France.

It measures 12.8 cm wide by 7.6 cm high and 3.6 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 276 grams.

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Piece with crystals of cleophane, variety of green sphalerite, associated with shiny galena crystals.

It comes from the Madan mining sector, Smolyan province, Bulgaria.

This sample measures 14.5 cm wide by 9 cm high and 3.1 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 201 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 6.7 cm long by 4.3 cm wide and 3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 131 grams.

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Sample of fossil wood cut and polished, with pink-orange shades.
It comes from the Morvan massif, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
This sample measures 4.5 cm long by 2.6 cm wide and 4.7 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 94 grams.

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Cupro-adamite of blue color covered by a thin layer of the smithsonite light, contrasted by a dark matrix.

This piece comes from the Kamareza Mines, Lavrion district, Greece.

It measures 9.3 cm long by 3.9 cm wide and 5.2 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 162 grams.

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Beautiful crystallization of vanadinite bright red on a black gangue.

This piece comes from Mibladen, Aït Oufella Caïdat, Midelt, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco.

It measures 5.1 cm high by 3.8 cm wide and 1.7 cm thick.

Its weight is 42 grams.

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Cubic crystal of boleite dark blue.

It comes from the Amelia mine, El Boleo, Santa Rosalia, Baja California, Mexico.

This mineral measures 3.5 mm by 3.2 mm.

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Fully crystallized nodule of marcasite with twinned crystallization sperkise.

It comes from the cliffs of Cap Blanc-Nez in Escalles, Pas-de-Calais, France.

This sample measures 3 cm long by 1.9 cm wide and 1.7 cm thick.

Its weight is 18 grams.

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Group of comb quartz, with a well-marked soul for the largest.

The crystals are finished and the attachment area at the back shows a resumption of crystallization.

It comes from Tole, Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

This specimen measures 11.5 cm wide by 10 cm high and 4.5 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 383 grams.

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Piece associating on gangue of the cerusite, a fine crystallization of baryte and of the galena.

It comes from the Mibladen mines in the Morocco.

Specimen measuring 6.6 cm long by 4.8 cm wide and 3 cm thick.

It weighs 104 grams.

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Half lithophyse perfectly polished with a smiling quartz heart.

This aesthetic chalcedony comes from the Esterel massif, Var, France.

Piece measuring 9.5 cm in diameter and 4.2 cm thick.

Its weight is 540 grams.

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Crystal of tourmaline dark with a green termination (visible only with lighting) embedded in albite.

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

It measures 4.5 cm long by 2.8 cm wide and 2.4 cm thick.

Its weight is 20 grams.

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Small shiny pyrite with octahedral crystals and presence of black sphalerite.

It comes from the Huaron mines in the Pasco province in Peru.

This piece measures 5.1 cm long, 4.2 cm wide and 2.9 cm high.

It weighs 146 grams.

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Quartz from Saint-Sorlin-d'Arves, Oisans, Alps, France.

This piece measures 9.1 cm long by 7.4 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick.

Its weight is 286 grams.

Some scattered touches to note.

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Fluorite blue green covered with small pyrite flies, resting on white quartz.

Piece from the Fontsante mine, Tanneron, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

It measures 6.4 cm long by 4.8 cm wide and 4.6 cm thick.

Its weight is 198 grams.

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Epidote shiny, with dark green crystals on matrix.

It comes from Mount Khorram, Tafresh county, Iran.

This piece measures 4.8 cm long by 3.9 cm wide and 2.7 cm thick.

Its weight is 78 grams.

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Twin Crystal of alabandite on a gangue ofalabandite massive, quartz and calcite. The crystal measures 1.4 cm long.

This piece comes from the mine of Uchucchacua, Oyon, Lima, Peru.

It measures 4.1 cm long by 4.3 cm wide and 1.8 cm thick.

Its weight is 39 grams.

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Nice sample of brucite with a well-marked yellow color, contrasted by a little white gangue.

It comes from Qilla Saif Ullah, Baluchistan, Pakistan.

This piece measures 5 cm high by 5.1 cm wide and 2.5 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 50 grams.

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Floating piece, fully crystallized by quartz and a crystal of sphalerite ideally arranged. We can note the discreet presence of crystals of fluorite transparent.

Old sample from the Dalnegorsk mining district, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

This specimen measures 10.3 cm at the longest for 6.2 cm wide and 5.1 cm thick.

Its weight is 210 grams.

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Some detached crystals of vanuralite, radioactive mineral containing vanadium, uranium and aluminium.
They come from the Mounanan mine in Gabon.

Delivery only in mainland France.

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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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