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Beautiful and old sample of lussatite (type C opal) with traces of bitumen.
It comes from the Roys mine, Dallet, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France.
This piece measures 11.2 cm long by 7.8 cm wide and 5.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 597 grams.

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Pretty crystallization of andradite garnet brown green with a partial covering of microcrystalline quartz.
This garnet comes from the Bor quarry, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia.
It measures 4.7 cm long by 4.2 cm wide and 3.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 95 grams.

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Lithophyse sawn and polished with a dominant red and a blue gray smile!
This aesthetic chalcedony comes from the Esterel massif, Var, France.
Piece measuring 8.4 cm at the longest for 7.7 cm wide and 3.6 cm thick.
Its weight is 299 grams.
This chalcedony comes from an old stock.

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Fluorite purple on gangue, on a sawn base for presentation
This piece comes from the Rossignol Mine, Chaillac, Indre, France.
It measures 11.2 cm long by 8.8 cm wide and 4.9 cm thick.
Its weight is 716 grams.

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Sample of romanéchite, a black manganese oxide containing barium, covered with a yellow ferric oxide (goethite?).
It comes from a discovery made in 2020 in Veszprém, Veszprém county, Hungary.
This specimen resembling coral measures 3 cm high, 1.7 cm wide and 1.1 cm thick.
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Aesthetic piece all in height carrying on a brick red gangue rhombohedra of chocolate colored calcite and a little brown-yellow mimetite.
It comes from the Santa Eulalia mining district, municipality of Aquiles Serdán, State of Chihuahua, Mexico.
This sample measures 6.2 cm high by 2.6 cm wide and 2.3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 22 grams.
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Piece presenting on a marble and pyrite gangue pseudomorphoses of afghanite crystals in lazurite, with a deep blue contrasting with the beige marble. This specimen subsequently underwent the geological movements of its environment.
This sample comes from the lapis lazuli mine of Ladjuar Medam, Koksha valley, Kuran wa Munjan, Badakhshan, Afghanistan.
It measures 14 cm long by 8.9 cm wide and 8.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 1.062 kilograms.

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Elegant piece with a crystal of lazurite of 3.5 cm seeming suspended above a block of marble with pyrite and smaller crystals of lazurite.
It comes from the lapis lazuli mine of Ladjuar Medam, Koksha valley, Kuran wa Munjan, Badakhshan, Afghanistan.
This mineral measures 10.2 cm long by 9.6 cm high and 5.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 476 grams.

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Cute piece with centimetric crystals of hyaline quartz on a gangue rich in millimetric pyrite crystals.
It measures 8.1 cm long by 4.8 cm wide and 3.8 cm thick.
This sample comes from the municipality of Guanaceví, State of Durango, Mexico.
Its weight is 98 grams.

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Hematoid Quartz with a fine red-orange crystallization.
It comes from the L'Argentolle mine, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
Weighing 378 grams, this mineral measures 14.3 cm long, 6.1 cm wide and 3.1 cm thick.
The back of the piece is sawn.

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Rare centimetric crystal of labradorite, showing four crystallized faces including one with the labradorescence effect.
This sample of plagioclase feldspar comes from Madagascar.
It measures 1.7 cm long by 1.1 cm wide and 0.9 cm thick.
Its weight is 3.6 grams.

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Gem crystallization of rhodochrosite in a manganese-rich gangue.
This sample comes from the Jacobsi mine, Santa Eulalia mining district, Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico.
It measures 4.6 cm long by 3.5 cm wide and 2.2 cm thick.
Its weight is 62 grams.

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Interesting piece presenting of hydrozincite white associated with smithsonite grey.
It comes from the Serpieri mine, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion, Attica, Greece.
This sample measures 4.7 cm long by 3.1 cm wide and 2.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 75 grams.

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Group of crystals of quartz with inclusion of fuchsite at the base of the crystals, giving a slight green color to the piece.
This sample comes from Ihovitra, Itremo massif, Ambatofinandrahana, Amoron'i Mania Madagascar.
It measures 5.5 cm long by 2.5 cm wide by 2.1 cm thick.
This quartz weighs 43 grams.
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Shiny piece of quartz coloured by chrysocolla underlying.
The back shows chrysocolla without covering.
It comes from the Luputo mine, Katanga, Republic of Congo.
This specimen measures 7.6 cm long by 5.2 cm wide and 2.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 211 grams.

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Crystallization of manganocalcite with a soft pink and a pearly appearance.
This pretty piece comes from Madan, province of Smolyan, Bulgaria.
This sample measures 8.5 cm long by 7 cm wide and 1.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 196 grams.

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Fluorite slightly blue green on quartz, with crystals measuring up to 7 mm.
An oxide coating covers the quartz from the uncut part.
This specimen comes from Langeac, Brioude, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
It measures 10.7 cm long by 7.9 cm wide and 4.2 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 463 grams.

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Piece presenting on gangue a first deposit of sulphur covered by a celestine partially crystallized brown.
It comes from the Maschów Mine, Tarnobrzeg County, Lower Carpathian Voivodeship, Poland.
This good size sample measures 17.4 cm long by 8.7 cm wide and 8.5 cm high.
Its weight is 815 grams.

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Group of transparent quartz, with several flat crystals.
It comes from L'Alpe d'Huez, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
This sample measures 6.8 cm wide by 6.5 cm high and 6.2 cm thick.
Its weight is 232 grams.

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Group of cubes of fluorite with a blue heart and yellow envelope, resting on a gangue containing quartz.
It comes from the Beix mine, Saint-Germain-près-Herment, Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, France.
This sample measures 5.5 cm long by 3.9 cm wide, the main cube measures more than 2 cm edge.
Its weight is 96 grams.

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Goethite mamillary with shiny black areas and a slightly iridescent area.
It comes from the old copper mine of Chizeuil, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
This sample measures 7.2 cm wide by 5 cm high and 2.5 cm thick.
It weighs 164 grams.

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Piece presenting a bed of quartz crystals with spheres of rhodochrosite pale pink, some pyrites and boulangerite.
It comes from Trepča, Trepča valley, Mitrovica, Mitrovica district, Kosovo.
This mineral measures 14.4 cm long by 7.3 cm wide and 5 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 382 grams.

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Fluorite yellow with a slight frost inside the cubes typical of the deposit.
It comes from the L'Argentolle mine, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy-Franche-Comté, France.
This specimen measures 13.4 cm long by 8.3 cm wide and 3.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 471 grams.
Note slight touches on the left.

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Crystallization of galena on a matrix containing sphalerite and calcite.
This piece comes from the Santa Eulalia mining district, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Its weight is 379 grams.
It measures 6.7 cm long by 6.5 cm wide and 3.5 cm thick.

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Fluorite green with an Aztec pyramid crystallization and a partial pyrite coating.
Piece from the Fontsante mine, Tanneron, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
It measures 7.5 cm long by 3.6 cm wide and 3.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 128 grams.

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Manganocalcite pink with a pearly appearance, covered with small pyrite crystals, on a gangue rich in sphalerite.
It comes from the Madan mining sector, Smolyan province, Bulgaria.
This sample measures 8 cm wide by 5.5 cm high and 6.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 233 grams.

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Fluorite yellow with a slight frost inside the cubes typical of the deposit.
It comes from the L'Argentolle mine, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
Weighing 225 grams, this fluorite measures 7 cm long by 7 cm wide and 3.4 cm thick.
Note the slight touches.

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Old piece featuring white and spherical prehnite with a few pompoms ofokenite.
It comes from the Pune district, Maharashtra, India.
This sample measures 12.2 cm long by 9 cm wide and 4.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 398 grams.

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Piece presenting on gangue orange and spherical crystallizations of stellerite, as well as beige crystals oforthoclase.
This specimen comes from Tatatila in the state of Veracruz in Mexico.
It measures 9.3 cm wide by 6.7 cm high and 3.6 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 227 grams.

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Old piece featuring a cube of galena resting in a crystallization of dolomite beige. A second cleaved galena crystal is located at the bottom of the sample.
It comes from the lead deposits of Joplin in Missouri, United States.
This mineral measures 7 cm wide by 4.7 cm high and 1.9 cm thick.
Its weight is 74 grams.

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