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Shiny Pyrite with octahedral crystals, with a partial covering of sphalerite.
It comes from the Huaron mines in the Pasco province in Peru.
This piece measures 7.3 cm long by 4.4 cm wide and 4.6 cm thick.
It weighs 266 grams.

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Nice presentation for this piece associating spheres of rhodochrosite pale pink, small crystals of quartz and pyrite.
It comes from Trepča, Trepča valley, Mitrovica, Mitrovica district, Kosovo.
This mineral measures 5.3 cm high by 3.6 cm wide and 2.4 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 46 grams.
(Measurements excluding base)

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Pyrite Peruvian with cubic crystallization on a fairly massive gangue.
It comes from the Huanzala mine, Huallanca, Ancash, Peru.
This pyrite measures 7.6 cm long by 6.5 cm wide and 4.6 cm thick.
Its weight is 428 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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Assorted lot of 5 minerals with:
- Black Tourmaline Brazil
- Garnet Austria (Granatenkögel)
- Quartz
- Hemimorphite, China
- Wulfenite, M'Fouati, Congo

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Crystallization of manganocalcite with a light pink and pearly appearance, covered with small pyrite crystals.
This piece comes from Madan, province of Smolyan, Bulgaria.
It measures 8.3 cm long by 6.5 cm wide and 3.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 201 grams.

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Piece presenting, on a bed of crystals of quartz, of the rhodochrosite pale pink with crystals of pyrite. The back is covered with calcite.
It comes from Trepča, Trepča valley, Mitrovica, Mitrovica district, Kosovo.
This mineral measures 16.1 cm long by 7.3 cm wide and 2.8 cm thick (4.5 cm at the thickest).
Its weight is 377 grams.

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Sample of goethite with a covering of calcite on one side.
It comes from Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco.
It measures 9.4 cm long by 6.1 cm wide and 3.1 cm thick.
Its weight is 69 grams.

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Long piece showing some chrysocolla after malachite made shiny by a fine over-crystallization of quartz.
It comes from the Lupoto mine, Kakumba, Kipushi, Haut-Katanga, Republic of Congo.
This piece measures 12 cm long by 3.2 cm wide and 3.4 cm thick.
Its weight is 131 grams.

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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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Group of crystals of quartz whose main one presents an over-crystallization on the body as well as a very slight inclusion of fuchsite.
This sample comes from Ihovitra, Itremo massif, Ambatofinandrahana, Amoron'i Mania Madagascar.
It measures 6.2 cm long by 4.3 cm wide by 3.6 cm thick.
This quartz weighs 92 grams.
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Small group of crystals of sphalerite with pyrite.
It comes from Naïca Mine, Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico.
This piece, interesting because of its origin, measures 4.1 cm long by 2.6 cm wide and 2.2 cm high.
Its weight is 47 grams.

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Gypsum orange with a nice presentation.
It comes from Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia.
This piece measures 7.8 cm long by 7.2 cm wide and 5.6 cm high.
Its weight is 213 grams.

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Orange gypsum with a nice presentation.
It comes from Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia.
This piece measures 7.8 cm long by 7.2 cm wide and 5.6 cm high.
Its weight is 213 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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Manganocalcite pink, finely crystallized, with a pearly appearance.
It comes from the Madan mining sector, Smolyan province, Bulgaria.
This sample measures 10.3 cm long by 10.2 cm wide and 4.4 cm thick.
Its weight is 482 grams.

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Nice presentation for this crystallization of sphalerite shiny more than 4 cm, surmounting a sheaf of quartz. Presence of a little pyrite and rhodochrosite at the back.
This specimen comes from Trepča, Trepča valley, Mitrovica, Mitrovica district, Kosovo.
It measures 9.4 cm wide by 6.7 cm high and 5 cm thick.
Its weight is 342 grams.
Note small breaks in the quartz not spoiling the interest of the piece.

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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

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Assorted lot of 3 Mexican minerals with:
- Black tourmaline, Vera Cruz
- Grossular garnet, Xalostoc
- Orthoclase, Baja California

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Assorted lot of 3 minerals with:
- Quartz, hematite, Cumberland, England
- Quartz, Argentolle, France
- Calcite, St Sorlin, France

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Assorted lot of 6 Mexican minerals with:
- Conichalcite, Ojuela
- Vanadinite, Apex Mine
- Vesuvianite, Sierra de Cruces
- Black Tourmaline, Vera Cruz
- Gypsum, Santa Eulalia
- Calcite, Santa Eulalia

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Assorted lot of 5 Mexican minerals with:
- Conichalcite, Ojuela
- Amethyst, Vera Cruz
- Damburite, Charcas
- Gypsum, Santa Eulalia
- Diopside, Vera Cruz

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Crystallized cluster ofaragonite pseudomorphosed into copper.
Specimen from the Coro Coro mines, Pacajes Province, La Paz, Bolivia.
This sample, interesting mineralogically, measures 0.8 cm in diameter.

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Pseudomorphosis partial copper after hexagonal aragonite crystal, revealing a heart with still containing aragonite and a contour already all in copper.
Specimen from the Coro Coro mines, Pacajes Province, La Paz, Bolivia.
This sample in good condition measures 0.8 cm in diameter and 0.7 cm thick.

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Cubic crystal of boleite dark blue with a good shine.
It comes from the Amelia mine, El Boleo, Santa Rosalia, Baja California, Mexico.
This mineral measures 3 mm edge.

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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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