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Sample of the black variety of disthene, the rhaëticite.

It comes from Minas Gerais in Brazil.

This fan-shaped specimen measures 8.6 cm long by 5 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick.

Its weight is 94 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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Orange and spherical crystals of stellerite on a thin matrix.

This specimen comes from the municipality of Tatatila in the state of Veracruz in Mexico.

It measures 5 cm long by 3.2 cm wide and 1 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 13 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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Chalcedony violet of good quality with a well marked color.

It comes from Mamuju, West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia.

This sample measures 3.7 cm high by 3.5 cm wide and 1.3 cm thick.

Its weight is 12 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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Floating crystal of pyrite with very curved edges.

Piece from Ambas Aguas, Muro de Aguas, La Rioja, Spain.

It measures 2.7 cm long by 2.5 cm wide and 2.4 cm thick.

Its weight is 50 grams.

In perfect condition.

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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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Sample of romanéchite forming like a black coral covered with a yellow ferric oxide (goethite?).

It comes from Veszprém, Veszprém county, Hungary.

This specimen measures 3.4 cm wide by 1.9 cm wide and 2.2 cm thick.

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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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Aesthetic native silver with beautiful dendrites on a rock and calcite gangue.

This silver comes from the New Nevada mine, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico.
It measures 3.8 cm long by 2.3 cm wide and 2.2 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 20 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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Beautiful and rare sample of veszelyite crystals with a marked color on gangue.

It comes from the Laochang mine, Honghe, Yunnan, China.
This piece measures 4.6 cm long by 3 cm wide and 1.3 cm at its thickest.
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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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Dense sample of nickeline (a nickel arsenide) accompanied by green annabergite.

This nickel ore comes from Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer, Drâa-Tafilalet in Morocco.
It measures 4.3 cm long by 3.7 cm wide and 3.7 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 148 grams.

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Large piece of native silver on a rock and calcite gangue.

Interesting presence of a group of millimetric yellow-green sphalerite crystals at the bottom of the sample.

This silver comes from the New Nevada mine, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico.
It measures 9.6 cm long by 5.9 cm wide and 3.7 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 188 grams.

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Crystal of tourmaline dark, capped with light green, embedded in crystals ofalbite.

It is finished and the body growth shows a shift due to a crystal of albite now disappeared.

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

It measures 6.2 cm long by 3.2 cm wide and weighs 50 grams.

The crystal alone measures 2 cm thick at the head.

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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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Crystals ofhemimorphite white and shiny, with a main spray of 2.5 cm.

This mineral comes from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.

It measures 6.3 cm high by 4.4 cm wide and 2.9 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 57 grams.

Note that the gangue is powdery (without influence on the aesthetics of the piece)

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Calcite with chocolate-coloured dog tooth crystals.

It comes from the El Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua in Mexico.

This specimen measures 11.1 cm long by 9.2 cm wide and 3.6 cm thick.

Its weight is 402 grams.

Note touches on the periphery of the piece.

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Surprising structure for this skeletal vanadinite, bicolor and shiny.
It comes from Mibladen, Aït Oufella Caïdat, Midelt, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco.
This piece measures 3.1 cm high by 3.1 cm wide and 2.1 cm long.
Its weight is 31 grams.

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Shiny Pyrite with well yellow octahedral crystals, with a partial covering of sphalerite.
It comes from the Huaron mines in the Pasco province at Peru.
This piece measures 9.2 cm long by 7.6 cm wide and 2.6 cm thick.
It weighs 403 grams.

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Sample ofshiny epidote, with dark green coloured crystals.
This piece comes from Mount Khorram, Tafresh county in Iran.
It measures 4 cm long by 3.9 cm wide and 3.9 cm thick.
Its weight is 104 grams.

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Piece presenting on matrix a rich carpet of fibrous crystals of millerite densely compacted golden-green.
It comes from the open-pit Thompson Mine, Manitoba., Canada.
This sample measures 3 cm long by 2.7 cm wide and 2.4 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 36 grams.
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