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Partial cube of green fluorite, covered with a fine crystallization of quartz, embedded in blades of baryte.
Piece from the Fontsante mine, Tanneron, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
It measures 6.7 cm long by 4.6 cm wide and 3.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 161 grams.

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Sample of baryte with honey-colored crystals, some of which are gems.
Aesthetic piece despite a few slight scattered breaks.
It comes from Iglesias, Province of South Sardinia, Sardinia, Italy.
Weighing 311 grams, it measures 8.7 cm long by 7.2 cm wide and 4.7 cm at its thickest.

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Good sample of baryte with honey-colored gem crystals.
Aesthetic piece despite a few slight scattered breaks.
It comes from Iglesias, Province of South Sardinia, Sardinia, Italy.
Weighing 154 grams, it measures 6.7 cm long by 5.5 cm wide and 3.6 cm thick.

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Sample of clinochlore green, mineral from the chlorite family, associated with vesuvianite.
It comes from Tatatila, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, locality rarely proposed for the species.
This specimen, measures 9.7 cm wide by 6.8 cm high and 7 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 396 grams.

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Sample of clinochlore associated with vesuvianite, from a locality rarely proposed for this mineral from the chlorite family.
It comes from Tatatila, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico.
This specimen measures 9.9 cm wide by 5.5 cm high and 4.1 cm thick.
Its weight is 241 grams.

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Well presented piece with a main crystal of calcite in the middle of pompoms of baryte cream color.
It comes from the Cuzac quarry in Lot, France.
This baryte measures 10 cm long by 5.2 cm and 4.1 cm thick.
Its weight is 316 grams.

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Piece with an aesthetic presentation, typical of the Malines mine, Saint Laurent the miner, Gard, France.
It features two groups of white crested barite pompoms on a carpet of red sphalerite.
This 739 gram specimen measures 15.1 cm long by 8.2 cm wide and 4.4 cm thick.

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Calcite of good quality in dog teeth chocolate coloured with a beautiful shine.
It comes from the El Potosi mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua in Mexico.
This specimen measures 13.6 cm wide by 7.4 cm high and 6.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 649 grams.

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Manganocalcite crystallized on both sides, very reactive to UV.
Piece from the Santa Barbara mine, municipality of Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico.
It measures 8.8 cm long by 5.5 cm wide and 3.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 176 grams.

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Beautiful piece ofCalifornian axinite, crystallized on both sides, with associated crystals ofalbite transparent and green fibers ofactinolite.
This sample with a good presentation comes from New Melones Dam, Calaveras Co., California, United States.
Weighing 91 grams, it measures 8 cm high by 4.7 cm wide and 3.6 cm deep.

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Aesthetic piece of Globular chrysocolla Beautiful blue color with a crystallization of Malachite.
It comes from Lubumbashi in the province of Katanga, Republic of Congo.
This chrysocolla measures 12.6 cm long by 7.1 cm wide and 4.6 cm thick.
Its weight is 473 grams.

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Aurichalcite richly crystallized offering a beautiful contrast of color.
This specimen comes from Pimbi hill, Mindouli, Republic of Congo.
Coming from a old collection, it is fixed on a base showing some signs of wear.
This aurichalcite measures 8.2 cm wide by 3.6 cm high and 2.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 196 grams (with base)

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Crystallization of dioptase of beautiful color and shine.
This piece with partially expressed crystals comes from Renéville, Republic of Congo.
It measures 2.9 cm long by 2.2 cm wide and 2.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 16 grams
(measurements without base)

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Interesting calcite coming from a deposit mainly known for its lead minerals, Steinbach in Haut-Rhin in France.
The crystals transparent and in very good condition line the inside of a geode.
This specimen measures 6.8 cm long by 6.2 cm wide and 3.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 123 grams.

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Piece from a locality known among other things for its calcites, Irai, Rio Grande Do Sul in Brazil.
It carries a main crystal of calcite on a second generation of smaller crystals.
The matrix is in quartz, the back is covered by celadonite.
UV reactive specimen.
It measures 9.8 cm long by 4.6 cm wide and 3.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 176 grams.

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Piece of chrysocolla after malachite after azurite.
It comes from the Luputo mine in Katanga, Republic of Congo.
This fine gangue specimen measures 5.8 cm long by 5.6 cm wide and 1.2 cm thick.
Its weight is 19 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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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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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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Crocoite from a locality renowned for the species, the Adelaide mine at Dundas in Tasmania.
Specimen weighing 602 grams.
It measures 13.5 cm in length by 8 cm in width and 5 cm at the thickest.

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Crocoite from a locality renowned for the species, the Adelaide mine at Dundas in Tasmania.
Specimen weighing 602 grams.
It measures 13.5 cm in length by 8 cm in width and 5 cm at the thickest.

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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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Very beautiful barite blue from Morocco, more precisely from Nador.
This piece highlights the crystals of barite resting on crystallized gray quartz.
A beautiful contrast offered by the brown limonite matrix.
This mineral measures 12 cm at the longest for 4 cm wide.
Its weight is 659 grams.