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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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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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Aesthetic piece all in height carrying on a brick red gangue rhombohedra of chocolate colored calcite and a little brown-yellow mimetite.
It comes from the Santa Eulalia mining district, municipality of Aquiles Serdán, State of Chihuahua, Mexico.
This sample measures 6.2 cm high by 2.6 cm wide and 2.3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 22 grams.
(Measurements excluding base)

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Shiny piece of quartz coloured by chrysocolla underlying.
The back shows chrysocolla without covering.
It comes from the Luputo mine, Katanga, Republic of Congo.
This specimen measures 7.6 cm long by 5.2 cm wide and 2.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 211 grams.

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Sandy calcite, also called Bellecroix calcite, presenting a spherical area surrounded by rhombohedral crystals.
It comes from the place called Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France.
This aesthetic piece measures 7.7 cm long by 5.5 cm wide and 4.3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 165 grams.

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Aesthetic sandy calcite, also called Bellecroix calcite, fully crystallized.
It comes from the place called Bellecroix, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France.
This piece measures 7.9 cm long by 7.1 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 250 grams.

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Piece ofamethyst on gangue, with a first group of small pale purple crystals, and next to it two intertwined crystals of a more pronounced color.
It comes from the Las Vigas sector, State of Vera Cruz, in Mexico.
This specimen measures 5.3 cm long by 4.4 cm wide and 3.8 cm high.
Its weight is 68 grams.

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Beautiful piece ofadamite on a limonite gangue, with a first crystallization on top and a more discreet second one in a geode on the side.
This specimen comes from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.
It measures 6.9 cm high by 6.3 cm wide and 3.2 cm thick.
Its weight is 266 grams.

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Brown calcite with a formation resembling stalactites, from a rarely offered American deposit for the species.
It comes from a discovery by Bud Ehrle in the 1970s, in Alzada, Carter County, Montana, USA.
This piece, featuring shell nacre remains, measures 9.1 cm long by 4.8 cm wide and 2.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 129 grams.

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Beautiful presentation for this classic of German mineralogy, a baryte beige crested on pink, sprinkled with chalcopyrite crystals.
It comes from a deposit inaccessible since 2004, the Dreislar mine, Medebach, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, Germany.
This specimen measures 7 cm long by 6.6 cm wide and 3.3 cm at the thickest.
Its weight is 196 grams.

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Beautiful presentation for this classic of German mineralogy, a beige-on-pink crested baryte, sprinkled with chalcopyrite crystals.
It comes from a deposit inaccessible since 2004, the Dreislar mine, Medebach, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, Germany.
This specimen measures 7 cm long by 6.6 cm wide and 3.3 cm at the thickest.
Its weight is 196 grams.

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Floating cluster of crystals of cerussite slightly yellow in color.
This good-sized piece comes from the M'Fouati mine, Bouenza department, Republic of Congo.
It measures 7 cm wide by 5.8 cm high and 5.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 349 grams.

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Sample of manganocalcite polysynthetic with two main terminations.
Almost floating piece with a strong reaction to long UV.
It comes from the Dalnegorsk mining district, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia.
Weighing 89 grams, this specimen measures 8.6 cm long by 3.3 cm wide and 3.1 cm thick.

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Imposing crystal ofamethyst light purple color on matrix with slightly skeletal growth and marks of reconsolidated fractures.
It comes from the Mexico, from the Las Vigas sector, State of Vera Cruz.
This piece measures 9.5 cm long by 8 cm wide and 5.8 cm at its thickest.
It weighs 313 grams.

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Pretty baryte with shiny blue crystals on a beige baryte gangue.
It comes from the Cavnic mine, Maramures, Romania.
This piece is 9.5 cm long, 7.1 cm wide and 5.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 493 grams.

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Nice piece ofepidote with quartz on a matrix of raw sphalerite and epidote.
It comes from the Pampa Blanca district, Province of Castrovirreyna, Huancavelica, Peru.
This specimen measures 5.4 cm wide by 7.9 cm high and 4.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 157 grams.
Some discreet touches to note.

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Pseudomorphosis of copper after crystallized cluster of aragonite.
Specimen from the Coro Coro mines, Pacajes Province, La Paz, Bolivia.
This sample revealing a remnant of aragonite measures 1.3 cm in diameter.

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Pseudomorphosis of copper after hexagonal aragonite crystal.
Specimen from the Coro Coro mines, Pacajes Province, La Paz, Bolivia.
This sample in good condition measures 0.9 cm in diameter and 0.5 cm thick.

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Piece associating on matrix of the pyrite and grey and striated crystals ofandorite measuring up to 5 mm.
Specimen from the San José mine, Oruro, Cerdaco province, Bolivia.
It measures 3.5 cm wide by 1.9 cm high and 1.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 15 grams.

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Sample of bismuth native, chemical element with symbol Bi, here presented in the form of crystals moulded after quartz crystals.
It was taken from Dayu Co. county, rich in tin and tungsten, in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, in China.
This bronze-coloured specimen measures 1.9 cm long by 1.3 cm wide and 0.7 cm thick.

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Tabular crystal of'andorite with several terminations and typical striations. One side has a slight beige coating, of cervantite or stibiconite.
Specimen from the November 2004 discovery made at the San José mine, Oruro, Cerdaco province, Bolivia.
It measures 1.6 cm wide by 1.4 cm high and 0.5 cm thick.

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Piece of a classic deposit of the American mineralogy, the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri, United States.
It combines two crystals of calcite yellow on a carpet of galena crystals measuring up to 1 cm, with chalcopyrite golden and dolomite.
This specimen measures 14.5 cm long by 6.3 cm wide and 6.3 cm high.
It weighs 450 grams.

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Fluorite with light purple crystals and a green heart, partially covered with quartz and pyrite spherical.
This aesthetic piece comes from the El Hamman mine, Khémisset Province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Region, Morocco.
It measures 9.3cm wide by 6.1cm high and 5.2cm, weighing 383 grams.
Note a discreet lack on the left periphery of the sample.

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Crystals ofamethyst light purple, with a main crystal of 5.8 cm.
This piece comes from Las Vigas, State of Vera Cruz, in Mexico.
It measures 5.8 cm long by 3.8 cm wide and 1.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 29 grams.

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Piece of fine crystals of baryte grey on fluorite slightly frosted, all sprinkled with pyrite.
It comes from the Rossignol mine in Chaillac, Indre, France.
Specimen measuring 10.6 cm long by 5.9 cm wide and 4.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 390 grams.

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Baryte with tabular crystals covered with orange ferric oxides.
It comes from the Redoutières mine, Chaillac, Indre, France. This mine closed in 2006.
Sample measuring 6.6 cm long by 6.5 cm wide and 4.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 260 grams.

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Rare sample ofaurichalcite with a fine over-crystallization ofhemimorphite.
It comes from the Malines mine, Saint Laurent le Minier, Gard, France.
This specimen measures 4.2 cm long by 2.8 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 20 grams.

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Very shiny sample of crystals of gem baryte resting on a fine crystallization of pyrite.
It comes from the Malines mine, Saint Laurent le Minier, Gard, France.
This specimen measures 7.2 cm long by 4.7 cm wide and 3.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 125 grams.

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Sample of tabular baryte with a few minor shocks not spoiling the aesthetics of the piece.
It comes from the Malines mine, Saint Laurent le Minier, Gard, France.
This baryte measures 10 cm long by 7.5 cm high and 5.2 cm thick.
Its weight is 478 grams.

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