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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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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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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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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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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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Sample ofaragonite white stalactiform, interesting in the context of a systematic.
It comes from Ste Marie aux mines, Haut Rhin, France.
This aragonite measures 7.7 cm long by 6 cm wide and 2 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 45 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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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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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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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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