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Pyrite Crystals partially covered withhematite.
This floating specimen comes from the island of Elba, Tuscany, Italy.
It measures 4.5 cm wide, main crystal size, for 4 cm high and 3.7 cm thick.
This pyrite weighs 142 grams.

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Old piece featuring cubes of galena caught in a crust of crystals of barite cream colored.
This specimen comes from Tunisia.
It measures 7.1 cm long by 5.7 cm wide and 5.3 cm high.
Its weight is 338 grams.

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Sample from a classic deposit of the French mineralogy, Lantignié in the Rhône.
It carries two fluorite crystals on crested baryte.
This specimen measures 4.9 cm long by 3.6 cm wide and 3.4 cm thick.
Its weight is 93 grams.

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Sample of very good quality from the Peyreblanque mine in Tarn, France.
It presents stalactites of goethite partially covered with pyrolusite.
Piece measuring 15 cm long by 8.3 cm at its widest and 4.9 cm thick.
Its weight is 728 grams.
Former collection ofAlain Martaud

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Scepter with amethyst ghost, which becomes smoked at the base of the crystal.
It has many red hematite inclusions.
This piece comes from Serenje in Zambia.
It measures 6.9 cm long by 3 cm wide.
Its weight is 45 grams.

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Fluorite with shiny crystals associated with baryte and quartz.
Piece from the Berbès sector in the north of theSpain.
This mineral measures 7.3 cm long by 4.8 cm wide and 3.2 cm thick.
Its weight is 126 grams.

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Very good sample ofhematite coming from the Payun Matru volcano, province of Mendoza, in Argentina.
It is a pseudomorphosis after magnetite, with shiny octahedrons in very good state of preservation.
This aesthetic specimen measures 4.9 cm high by 3.2 cm wide, the largest crystal has an edge of 2.6 cm.
It weighs 70 grams without its base.

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Sheaf all in height of shiny crystals of stibnite.
Classic piece from Baia Sprie in Romania.
It measures 15 cm high by 8 cm wide and 5 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 584 grams.

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Aesthetic manganocalcite with multiple terminations.
Slightly pink specimen of 238 grams from Dalnegorsk, Russia.
Slender piece measuring 9 cm in length and 4 cm thick.
This calcite is UV reactive.
Note a small discreet cleavage at the back of the piece.

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Set of two sulphur crystals joined together, with one of the two points well defined.
Shiny mineral with an intense yellow colour from the Desierto Mine in Bolivia.
Traces of dissolution can be observed at the base of the piece.
This specimen measures 6.5cm high and weighs 28 grams.

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Peruvian aesthetic piece associating quartz transparent to the tips, epidote and limonite red.
This 227 gram mineral measures 7.5 cm long by 6.5 cm high.
It comes from the Huaranchal district, Otuzo Province, La Libertad Department, Peru.
Natural presentation in showcase, the specimen being slightly curved.

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Blue fluorite with good transparency and a very good shine.
The cubic crystals are in very good condition, sometimes covered with a fine crystallization of quartz and a few millimetric crystals of pyrite.
Aesthetic piece, resembling ice, which can be presented without a base.
It measures 7 cm high by 8.4 cm wide and weighs 285 grams.
Fluorite from Viesca, Spain.

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Aesthetic cubic crystallization of blue fluorite.
Piece that can be presented without a base and that lets light pass all around.
The crystals have a slightly frosted surface.
This fluorite comes from the Asturias region in Spain, from the mine of La Viesca.
Weighing 485 grams, it measures 11 cm wide by 7.8 cm high.

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Nice presentation for this green fluorite associated with a few quartz points.
The gem cubes are in very good condition, with a good shine and present several twins and interpenetrations.
Note a small touch on the bottom of the piece, which remains very aesthetic.
This fluorite comes from the Okaruso mine, Erongo, Namibia.
It measures 8.2 cm wide by 5.9 cm high.

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Original small calcite in the shape of a flower.
Green in color, it carries a on shiny crystallization of an unidentified mineral.
It comes from Huanggang, Inner Mongolia, China.
Weighing 31 grams, it measures 4 cm in diameter.

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Fluorite on quartz coming from the famous Burc mine in the Tarn, France.
The cubes are yellow-green in color, with good shine, the largest measures 13mm edge.
The white and gray quartz sometimes comes as a covering on the fluorite.
Mineral weighing 230 grams measuring 85 mm long by 45 mm wide.
Some touches to note but the piece remains very aesthetic.

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Crystal partial of baryte coming from the mine of La Mure in Isère, France.
The blue-grey piece carries on an edge the white border characteristic of the barytes of this deposit.
It weighs 98 grams.
This crystal measures 7 cm long by 5.2 cm wide and 1 cm at its thickest.

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Slightly geode sample with dolomite crystals cream-colored with a cluster of millimetric sphalerite crystals.
This specimen with crystals in good condition comes from Romania, from the renowned mine of Cavnic.
It measures 11 cm long by 5 cm high and 6.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 490 grams.

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Specimen from the Kosovo, from the Trepca mine.
It presents quartz in association with calcite.
This mineral measures 9 cm long by 7 cm wide.
Its weight is 133 grams.

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Green fluorite from the Rogerley quarry, Diana Maria Mine, England.
Typical piece of the sector, with twins and photosensitive effect.
These collection minerals are green under incandescent light, blue/green in sunlight.
Specimen weighing 282 grams.
It measures 9.3 cm long by 4.5 cm wide and 4.7 cm high.

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Rare shiny plaque of goshenite in tabular crystals, with clusters of millimetric muscovite crystals.
The transparent beryl crystals measure up to 1.5 cm.
This sample comes from the Xuebaoding Mountains, near Pingwu (Sichuan province) in China.
The plaque measures 12 cm long by 8 cm wide and 3.5 cm high.
Its weight is 286 grams.

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Beautiful association of cassiterite shiny, tabular crystals ofaquamarine, on a bed of muscovite crystals muscovite.
This piece comes from the Xuebaoding Mountains, near Pingwu (Sichuan province) in China.
It measures 9.5 cm long by 7.5 cm wide and 4 cm high.
Its weight is 416 grams.
The cassiterite crystals black are bipyramidal, the main group reaches 3 cm.

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Aesthetic hematoid dolomite shiny red brown.
It comes from Tsumeb in Namibia.
This showcase piece measures 10 cm long by 5 cm wide and 5.5 cm at its thickest.
It weighs 344 grams.

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Galena crystallized in cubes and octahedrons covered with marcasite.
This piece comes from Poland.
It weighs 324 grams.
This mineral measures 12 cm long by 10 cm wide and 3 cm thick.

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Aesthetic calcite with crystals known as plate stacking.
This mineral comes from an old deposit, from the Giraumont mine, iron mine closed in 1978.
The crystals are in very good condition.
This collection specimen weighs 395 grams.
Calcite measuring 7 cm in length by 7 cm in width and 4 cm in height.

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Sample of purple fluorite from Balochistan, Pakistan.
The crystals are cubic and form two clusters that rest on calcite.
This piece measures 21 cm long by 11 cm wide and 9 cm thick.
It weighs 3473 grams

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Rhodochrosite with petal crystals, with some crystals millimetric quartz.
The back of this specimen is covered with quartz.
Piece measuring 11.5 cm wide by 10 cm high and 3.5 cm thick.
It weighs 755 grams.
This specimen comes from the Baia Sprie mining region in Romania.

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Group of stilbite crystals coming from Maharashtra in India.
This specimen is peach in color.
It weighs 374 grams and measures 7cm long by 7cm wide and 7cm high.
Note a few small traces of shocks of a few millimeters.
This mineral remains of good quality despite everything.

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Stone covered on all sides with crystals of vanadinite.
It comes from Mibladen in the Morocco.
This beautiful specimen measures 110 mm long by 80 mm wide and 45 mm high.
It weighs 412 grams and the crystals of vanadinite measure up to 4 mm.

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Here is a magnificent showcase specimen coming from Lubumbashi in Congo.
Very beautiful contrast of the blue of the chrysocolla with the green of malachite.
Two beautiful areas of the malachite sparkling crystallized.
An area of a few centimeters of shattuckite.
This piece measures 9 cm long by 9 cm wide and 7 cm thick.
It weighs 860 grams.

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