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Plate of crystals of quartz transparent and shiny, with a crystallization ofalbite.
This piece comes from the Beaufortain massif, Savoie, France.
It measures 14.6 cm long by 8.5 cm wide and 3.1 cm thick.
Its weight is 352 grams.

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Dead boxing (or boxwork) in silica, formed following a perimorphosis on fluorite subsequently dissolved.
It comes from the Maine-Reclesne mine in Saône et Loire, France.
The piece measures 9 cm long by 6.1 cm wide and 3 cm thick.
Its weight is 119 grams.

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This piece highlights a nodule of polished gypsum, resting on a piece of marl.
Salmon-colored, it comes from the Dennevy mine in Burgundy, France.
This mine, now inaccessible, contains nodules of gypsum trapped in marls.
This 330 gram specimen measures 10.3 cm long by 8.2 cm wide and 3.9 cm thick.

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Sample of pinite on gangue, variety of muscovite here in pseudomorphosis of a cordierite crystal.
It comes from the deposit of Blot l'Eglise, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
This specimen measures 6.7 cm long by 4.6 cm wide and 4 cm thick, the crystal measures 7 mm long.
Weight of 135 grams.

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Chalcedony Brown stalactiform.
It comes from Miécaze, from an old graniodiorite quarry, in Cantal in France.
This piece measures 5.8 cm high by 4.8 cm wide and 2.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 82 grams.

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Group of crystals of transparent quartz and shiny with a little albite.
This piece comes from the Beaufortain massif, Savoie, France.
This piece measures 8.4 cm long by 5.4 cm high and 5 cm thick.
It weighs 224 grams.

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Group of clusters in balls of cubic crystals of purple fluorite on gangue.
This characteristic piece comes from Buxières-les-Mines, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
It weighs 179 grams.
This sample measures 7.3 cm long by 6 cm wide and 3.4 cm at its thickest.
Visible touches are to be noted in the crystals.

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Slice of lithophyse with a double heart, polished on both sides and glossed on one side (shiny).
This aesthetic chalcedony comes from the Esterel massif, Var, France.
Piece measuring 10.9 cm at the longest for 7.4 cm wide and 1.7 cm thick.
Its weight is 255 grams.

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Carpet of tabular crystals of baryte brown yellow.
Piece from Igornay in Saône-et-Loire, France.
It measures 8.5 cm long by 6.9 cm wide and 4.4 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 477 grams.
The base is sawn.

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Tabular crystallization of baryte of yellow green color.
This French piece comes from Saint-Georges-les-Bains, Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Weighing 253 grams, it measures 8.3 cm long by 5.7 cm wide and 4.1 cm at its thickest.

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Sample of goethite that has crystallized in a geode.
It comes from Le Kaymar, Lunel, Aveyron, Occitanie, France.
This piece measures 6.7 cm long by 5 cm wide and 2.4 cm thick.
It weighs 136 grams.

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Pretty marcasite in twin of sperkise with brachidome terminations.
It comes from the cliffs of Cap Blanc-Nez in Escalles, Pas-de-Calais, France.
This sample measures 5.7 cm long by 4 cm wide and 3.3 cm thick.
It weighs 149 grams.
Old piece treated for better preservation.

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Nice little piece covered with crystals of dolomite shiny and millimetric crystals of celestine transparent.
It comes from Saillants du Gua, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
This sample measures 5.8 cm long by 4 cm wide and 2.7 cm thick.
Its weight is 57 grams.

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Crystallization of pyrite floating and shiny.
It comes from Cap Blanc-Nez, Escalles, Pas-de-Calais, France.
This piece measures 4.8 cm long by 4.5 cm wide and 3.3 cm high.
Its weight is 146 grams.
Treated piece.

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Inner part of a nodule of pyrite well crystallized, typical formation of this quarry.
This piece comes from Saint Denis d'Orques, Sarthe, France.
Sample measuring 8.9 cm long by 5.2 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 195 grams.

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Fluorite with rare curved octahedral crystals green and purple, the main one, incomplete, exceeds 4 cm wide.
It comes from the Barre mine (Martinèche vein) Saint Jacques d'Ambur, Auvergne, in the old Pontgibaud mining district, France.
This sample measures 13.4 cm high by 8.9 cm wide and 4.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 490 grams.

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Rare fluorite with curved octahedrons green, the main one exceeds 4 cm in edges.
It comes from the Barre mine (Martinèche vein) Saint Jacques d'Ambur, Auvergne, in the old Pontgibaud mining district, France.
This sample measures 10.7 cm high by 7 cm wide and 4.1 cm thick.
Its weight is 425 grams.
A small chip on the main octahedron.

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Quartz aesthetic from the 2 Alpes sector, Ecrins massif, France.
It is composed of a fairly flat main crystal embedded in a group of smaller crystals.
This pretty piece measures 6 cm by 3.2 cm wide and 2.7 cm thick.
Its weight is 54 grams.
(Measurements excluding base)

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Piece of bi-terminated quartz with the presence of malachite resulting from the transformation of tetrahedrites from the sector.
Almost floating specimen, only a discreet contact prevents it from being certified.
This quartz comes from Grand Mont, Arêches, Beaufortain, Savoie, France.
It measures 9.2 cm long by 4.3 cm wide and 3.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 181 grams.

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Bi-terminated quartz piece with the presence of malachite from the transformation of tetrahedrites in the sector.
Specimen almost floating, only a discreet contact prevents it from being certified.
This quartz comes from Grand Mont, Arêches, Beaufortain, Savoie, France.
It measures 9.2 cm long by 4.3 cm wide and 3.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 181 grams.

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Varied lot of 3 French minerals with:
- Goethite from Chizeuil
- Chalcopyrite, Isère
- Fluorite, Valzergue

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Piece covered with bitumen natural, with two fossil snails of helix ramondi.
Specimen from the old hydrocarbon exploitation of the mine of kings, Dallet, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France.
It measures 10.8 cm long by 9.1 cm wide and 6.8 cm thick, the snails measure 1.7 cm in diameter.
Its weight is 480 grams.

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Sample of fluorite beige and purple from the Maine-Reclesne mine in Saône et Loire, France.
The crystallization is said to be in "column", with long crystals and an almost flat termination.
The piece measures 5.7 cm long by 4 cm wide and 2.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 145 grams.

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Sample of fluorite typical yellow from the deposit.
It comes from the L'Argentolle mine, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
This specimen measures 8.4 cm long by 4.7 cm wide and 3.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 269 grams.
The back is sawn.

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Rare piece of yellow fluorite covered by a chocolate-coloured coating, on a massive white quartz gangue.
It comes from the L'Argentolle mine, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
Weighing 429 grams, this sample measures 7.9 cm long, 8.4 cm wide and 5.4 cm thick.

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Assorted lot of 5 minerals with:
- Soul Quartz, Savoie
- Pyromorphite, Steinbach
- Quartz, Vizille
- Quartz, Oisans
- Yellow Fluorite, Vensat

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Interesting group of quartz almost floating with shale inclusions.
It comes from Saint-Sorlin-d'Arves, Oisans, Alps, France.
This piece measures 8.5 cm long by 7.2 cm wide and 4.1 cm thick.
Its weight is 204 grams.

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Sample carrying 3 crystals ofanatases measuring up to 8 mm, surrounded by quartz points.
It comes from the Lauzière massif, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
This piece measures 10 cm long by 3.5 cm wide and 3.6 cm thick.
Its weight is 134 grams.

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Nice piece featuring quartz covered with a ferric red coating topped by a band calcite white.
It comes from the quarry of La Fare, Les Bondons, Florac, Lozère, Occitanie, France.
This piece measures 9.7 cm long by 5.3 cm wide and 3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 141 grams.

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Fluorite yellow cubic with partially covered with micro-crystalline quartz crystals.
Presence of pyromorphite and galena.
It comes from the L'Argentolle mine, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
This piece measures 14.2 cm long by 7.6 cm wide and 7.1 cm high.
Its weight is 992 grams.

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Assorted lot of 7 minerals with:
- Fluorite, pyrite, Fontsante
- Quartz, Allos
- Orthoclase,
- Fluorite, Maine
- Fluorite, Argentolle
- Quartz, Col de la croix de Fer
- Goethite, Chizeuil