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

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

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

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

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Sandy Calcite, also called calcite de Bellecroix, presenting a spherical area surrounded by rhombo-edric crystals.
It comes from the place called Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France.
This aesthetic specimen 7.7 cm long for 5.5 cm wide and 4.3 cm thickest.
Its weight is 165 grams.

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Sandy calcite aesthetic, also called calcite de Bellecroix, completely crystallized.
It comes from the place called Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France.
This specimen 7.9 cm long for 7.1 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 250 grams.

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Fluorite green with crystallization in aztec pyramid and partial recovery of pyrite.
Specimen from the Fontsante mine, Tanneron, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
It measures 7.5 cm long for 3.6 cm wide and 3.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 128 grams.

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

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Pyromorphite with fine needle crystallization on all faces.
It comes from the St Nicolas mine, Steinbach, Thann-Guebwiller, Haut-Rhin, France.
This sample is 8.9 cm long for 7.3 cm wide and 4 cm thickest.
Its weight is 290 grams.

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Association alpine d'une crystallisation geemme de sphalitis on a gangue tetraedrite and brononitis.
This specimen comes from the coal mines of La Mure, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
It measures 4.8 cm long for 2,8 cm wide and 2,3 cm thick.
Its weight is 47 grams.

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Good sample hematoid quartz glossy, red orange color, on a matrix with volumes.
It comes from the mine of L'Argentolle, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy-Franche-Comté, France.
With a weight of 516 grams, this mineral measures 9.5 cm long for 9 cm wide and 5.5 cm thick.
Despite a discreet touch depending on the presentation, this specimen is very appreciable.

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Specimen associating under an orange coating yellow fluorite (main square of 4 cm of ridge) and quartz tips.
Sample with keys but still very appreciable for the deposit.
It comes from the mine of L'Argentolle, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy-Franche-Comté, France.
With a weight of 447 grams, this mineral measures 8.3 cm long for 6.5 cm wide and 5.7 cm thick.

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Specimen de spherosiderite blonde on solid quartz, covered with a crystallization of calcite.
Sidérite from the pellet quarry of Laguépie, Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitanie, France.
It measures 10.7 cm long for 4.6 cm wide and 3 cm thick.
Its weight is 147 grams.
Light contact signs.

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Headphones prehnite, a classic for the species and alpine mineralogy.
It comes from La Combe de la Selle, St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
This sample is 2.9cm long for 2.3cm wide and 1.8cm thick.
Off-base measures.

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Sample in a matrix of siderite-ancerite and calcite of the zinkenite. Sulfosel is formed as prismatic crystals up to 10 mm free from calcite by chemical treatment.
It comes from the ravine of Saint Pons, Barcelonnette, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
This specimen measures 5.8 cm long for 5.3 cm wide and 3.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 113 grams.

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Very nice group of two helix ramondi on gangue, epigenized lussatitis blue.
Specimen without restorations, UV-reactive short.
These rare fossil snails turned into opal come from Dallet, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France.
This specimen is 7.4 cm long for 6.9 cm wide and 4.8 cm thick, the snails 23 mm and 20 mm in diameter.
Weight 271 grams.

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Specimen of fine crystals of baritone gray on fluoritis slightly frosted, all sprinkled with pyrite.
It comes from the nightingale mine in Chaillac, Indre, France.
Specimens measuring 10.6 cm long for 5.9 cm wide and 4.1 cm thickest.
Its weight is 390 grams.

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Baryte with tabular crystals covered with orange ferric oxides.
It comes from the mine the Redoutières, Chaillac, Indre, France. The mine closed in 2006.
Sample measuring 6.6 cm long for 6.5 cm wide and 4.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 260 grams.

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Uncommon sample'austria with fine over-cristallization'semimorphite.
It comes from the Malines mine, Saint Laurent le Minier, Gard, France.
This specimen is 4.2 cm long for 2.8 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 20 grams.

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Very bright sample of crystals of baryte gem based on a fine crystallization of pyrite.
It comes from the Malines mine, Saint Laurent le Minier, Gard, France.
This specimen is 7.2 cm long for 4.7 cm wide and 3.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 125 grams.

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Sample tabular baritone with some minor shocks not spoiling the aesthetics of the specimen.
It comes from the Malines mine, Saint Laurent le Minier, Gard, France.
This barium is 10 cm long for 7.5 cm high and 5.2 cm thick.
Its weight is 478 grams.

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Partial Cube of green fluorite, covered with a fine crystallization of quartz, embedded in blades of baryte.
Specimen from the Fontsante mine, Tanneron, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
It is 6.7 cm long for 4.6 cm wide and 3.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 161 grams.

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Fluorite with cubes with blue-green stops and white heart, cubes resting on quartz.
Specimen from the Fontsante mine, Tanneron, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
It is 5.4 cm long for 3.7 cm wide and 3.4 cm thick.
Its weight is 85 grams.

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Fluorite green blue covered by small pyrite flies and baryte in the back.
Specimen from the Fontsante mine, Tanneron, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
It is 6.7 cm long for 5.2 cm high and 2.9 cm thick.
Its weight is 126 grams.

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A classic of French mineralogy, with this hematitis in sheets on red jasper.
This specimen comes from Saphoz, Esmolières, Lure, Haute-Saône, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
It is 10 cm long for 4.7 cm wide and 2.5 cm thicker.
Its weight is 197 grams.

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From the Mâlain mine in Burgundy, France, this specimen highlights a beautiful nodule of polished gypsum, red brown.
This mine, not accessible today, contains rare formations of nodule gypsum and white radial gypsum caught in clay marnes.
This 383 gram specimen is 9.3 cm wide for 9.1 cm high and 4.8 cm thick.

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This specimen highlights a polished gypsum nodule, resting on a piece of marne.
Of salmon colour, it comes from the Mâlain mine in Burgundy, France.
This mine, now inaccessible, contains rare formations of nodule gypsum and white radial gypsum caught in clay marnes.
This 370 gram specimen is 9.7 cm wide for 7.4 cm high and 7.4 cm thick (marne).

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Specimen well presented with a main crystal of calcite in the middle of pompons of baryte cream color.
It comes from Cuzac's career in the Lot, France.
This barium is 10 cm long for 5.2 cm and 4.1 cm thick.
Its weight is 316 grams.

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Well presented piece with a main crystal of calcite in the middle of cream-colored barite pompoms.
It comes from the Cuzac quarry in the Lot, France.
This barite measures 10 cm long, 5.2 cm and 4.1 cm stick.
Its weight is 316 grams.

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Typical association of the mine Peyrebrune, Castres, Tarn, France.
This specimen has a crystallization of siderite covered by calcite and a microcrystallization of pyrite.
With a weight of 596 grams, it is 13 cm long and 9.2 cm wide and 4.4 cm high.

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Typical association of the Peyrebrune mine, Castres, Tarn, France.
This piece presents a crystallization of siderite covered by calcite and a micro-crystallization of pyrite.
Weighing 596 grams, it measures 13 cm long, 9.2 cm wide and 4.4 cm at the highest.

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Specimen with an aesthetic presentation, typical of the malines mine, Saint Laurent the Mining, Gard, France.
It presents two groups of white crêté baryte pompons on a red sphalerite carpet.
This 739 gram specimen is 15.1 cm long for 8.2 cm wide and 4.4 cm thick.

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