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Nodule ofazurite finely crystallized on 360° with a dark color.

It comes from the Chessy mine, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

Weighing 43 grams, this specimen measures 4.1 cm long, 3.7 cm high and 2.5 cm at its thickest.

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Sample covered with crystals of dolomite shiny and millimetric crystals of gypsum transparent.

Very interesting under the magnifying glass.

It comes from Saillants du Gua, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

Specimen measuring 8 cm long by 4.7 cm wide and 3.5 cm thick.

Its weight is 65 grams.

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Association on gangue of two generations of prehnite, of apophyllite and calcite chocolate.

This piece comes from the Pohna district in Maharashtra in India.

This sample measures 15.4 cm long by 10.5 cm wide and 4.1 cm thick.

Its weight is 409 grams.

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Raw sample with bright colors oforpiment yellow and realgar red.

This piece comes from the Getchell mine, Adam Peak, Nevada, United States.

It measures 8 cm long by 5.4 cm wide and 3.3 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 142 grams.

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Sample of beryl blue with all six faces intact.

Classic piece from Madagascar.

It measures 8.1 cm long and 4.7 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 334 grams.

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Rough quartz sample containing many shiny green tourmaline crystals.

This piece comes from the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil.
It measures 9.3 cm long by 7.6 cm wide and 7.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 393 grams.

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Piece bearing two cerusites twinned on a thin baryte dewy.

Of good quality, it comes from the Mibladen mines in the Morocco.

Specimen measuring 8 cm long by 3.6 cm wide and 2.3 cm thick.

It weighs 95 grams.

Note that the largest cerusite crystal is not broken, the two terminations are just different.

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Crystallization of primary malachite associated with chrysocolla.

Piece from the Mashamba mine in Katanga, Republic of Congo.

It measures 7 cm wide by 4.9 cm high and 5.4 cm thick.

Its weight is 160 grams.

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Here is a alligator quartz both aesthetic and interesting, with a scepter growth and a crystal of tourmaline black nestled in the middle of the crystals. This shiny crystal has a slight smoke.
This specimen comes from Minas Gerais in Brazil.
It measures 5.2 cm high by 4.8 cm wide and 3.2 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 93 grams.

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Pretty chalcedony brown mamelonated, with a fairly marked yellow reaction to uvs.

This piece comes from the state of Chihuahua in Mexico.

It measures 7.8 cm long by 6.4 cm wide and 2.9 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 196 grams.

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Very colorful sample with many crystals of watermelon tourmaline, for some biterminated, in a mica gangue.

This piece comes from the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil.
It measures 7.6 cm long by 5.3 cm wide and 3.6 cm thick.
Its weight is 174 grams.

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Flat sample of brucite yellow and white in color.

It comes from Qilla Saif Ullah, Baluchistan, Pakistan.

This piece measures 7.8 cm high by 5.7 cm wide and 0.9 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 51 grams.

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Sample of purpurite, a purple manganese phosphate.

This piece comes from the Erongo region in Namibia.

It measures 5.9 cm long by 4.7 cm wide and 2.3 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 129 grams.

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Fluorite yellow at heart and purple on the surface, covered by calcite in dog teeth.

This piece comes from the Minerva mine n°1, Cave in rock district, Hardin county, Illinois, USA.

It measures 8.6 cm long by 5.5 cm wide and 5.1 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 307 grams.

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Crystals ofhemimorphite white and shiny on a limonite gangue.

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

It measures 7.2 cm at its longest, 5.8 cm wide and 3 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 102 grams.

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Piece of fluorite violet well crystallized on gangue, accompanied by a little quartz.

This piece comes from Buxières-les-Mines, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

It weighs 45 grams.

This sample measures 5.5 cm long by 3.7 cm wide and 2.3 cm at its thickest.

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Group of crystals of quartz containing well-marked ghosts by inclusions ofhematite.

This quartz comes from Luena, Bukama, Haut-Lomami, Congo.

This piece measures 5.5 cm high by 4.8 cm wide and 4.4 cm thick.

Its weight is 130 grams.

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Bright vivianite sheaf with beautiful green and blue reflections.

It comes from Mine Cabeça do Cachoeiro, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil.

This piece measures 13.2 cm long by 3 cm wide and 2.3 cm thick.

Its weight is 62 grams.

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Pair of crystals ofamethyst transparent and shiny, one of the crystals has a double termination, one windowed and very thin for the other.

This piece comes from Las Vigas, State of Vera Cruz, in Mexico.

It measures 5.5 cm long (length of the crystals) by 1.5 cm thick.

Its weight is 37 grams.

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Cluster of black vivianite crystals, from a locality known for its metric vivianites.

This piece comes from the clays ofAnloua, Martap, Adamaoua Region in Cameroon.

It measures 12.7 cm high by 8.9 cm wide and 5.5 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 519 grams.

Old piece probably varnished to prevent its dehydration.

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Group of crystals of pyrite on siderite.

This piece comes from the Mésage mine, Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage, Grenoble, Isère, France.

It measures 4.4 cm long by 3.6 cm wide and 2.2 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 55 grams (weight with base).

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A piece combining pyrite and quartz crystals on siderite.
It comes from the Mésage mine, Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage, Grenoble, Isère, France.
This specimen measures 4.5 cm long, 3.8 cm wide, and 2.3 cm at its thickest.
It weighs 50 grams.

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Flower of quartz slightly pink, with a bit of chalcedony at the back.

It comes from the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.

This piece measures 8.1 cm long by 6.6 cm wide and 1.4 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 80 grams.

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Partial crystal of baryte honey color, transparent, with correct brightness.
It comes from the Olloix sector, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
This sample measures 8.4 cm high by 6 cm wide and 3.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 318 grams.

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Sample ofazurite finely crystallized with a blue color enhanced by the colors of the gangue and malachite.

It comes from the Oumjrane mining district, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco.

This azurite measures 5.3 cm long, 4.5 cm high and 2.7 cm wide.

Its weight is 77 grams.

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Bright fully crystallized piece combining crystals of baryte and pyrite.

Sample from the Oumjrane mining district, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco.

It measures 8.8 cm long by 5.1 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick.

Its weight is 287 grams.

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This pretty specimen shows malachite finely crystalline and shiny, with some areas of chrysocolla.

This sample comes from the Etoile mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, Congo.

It measures 11.7 cm long by 6.3 cm wide and 3.5 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 187 grams.

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Beautiful dioptase shiny on chrysocolla, partially covered by mottramite.
It comes from Mindouli, Pool department, Republic of Congo.
This piece measures 7.4 cm long by 5.1 cm wide and 4.2 cm thick.
Its weight is 166 grams.

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Beautiful red pink color for this slice of elbaite tourmaline, which comes from a little represented area, the Zambia.
Polished on one side, its contour is intact. The back, left raw, presents reinforcements on the areas of natural fragility of the slice.
This tourmaline comes more exactly from the Jagoda mine, region of the pegmatites of Mkushi, central province, Zambia.
Weighing 280 grams, it measures 13.1 cm long by 11.5 cm wide and 0.8 cm thick.

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Rare and surprising formation ofulexite resembling a flower corolla.

This mineral from the borate family comes from the open-pit Rio Tinto Borax mine, Kramer, California in the United States.

This ulexite measures 11 cm long by 9 cm wide and 3 cm high.

Its weight is 133 grams.

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