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Coming from the Mâlain mine in Burgundy, France, this piece highlights a nodule of gypsum orange. The nodule is freed from its gangue and polished.
This mine, inaccessible today, contains rare formations of nodule gypsum and white radial gypsum trapped in clay marls.
This 409 gram specimen measures 10.6 cm wide by 6.5 cm high and 6 cm thick.

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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 8.5 cm long by 5 cm wide and 2.7 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 188 grams.

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Polished slice of fluorite green and purple striped with good transparency.
The raw material comes from the Voltennes mine, La Petite-Verrière, Saône-et-Loire, France.
It measures 9.5 cm long by 4.3 cm wide and 1.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 117 grams.

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Goethite with a partial covering of calcite white.
It comes from Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco.
This slender piece measures 14.7 cm long by 5.3 cm wide and 3.5 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 138 grams.

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Rare association ofepidote with andradite garnets and crystals of stilbite.
This piece comes from Diakon, Bafoulabé Circle, Kayes, Mali.
This mineral measures 6.3 cm high by 4.2 cm wide and 2.5 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 87 grams.
(Measurements excluding base)

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Goethite with a partial covering of white calcite.

It comes from Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco.

This piece measures 9.2 cm long by 6.7 cm wide and 3.1 cm thick.

Its weight is 120 grams.

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Pretty piece with two transparent and shiny purple crystals.

This amethyst comes from Mexico, from the Las Vigas area, Veracruz State.

It measures 6.4 cm long, 4.9 cm wide and 2.6 cm thick.

Its weight is 65 grams.

A touch on the back of the main crystal.

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Fluorite green on gangue with crystallization covering a large part of the piece and therefore offering several directions of exposure.

It comes from Mandrosonoro, Ambatofinandrahana, Madagascar.

This piece weighing 317 grams measures 9.1 cm long by 5.1 cm high and 4.9 cm thick.

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Old piece of fluorite violet with polysynthetic crystals.
This piece comes from the Rancennes mine in the Ardennes, a site classified since 1999.
It measures 8.4 cm long by 5.2 cm wide and 4.6 cm thick.
Its weight is 292 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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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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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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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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Sphalerite gangue covered with a fine crystallization of shiny quartz, topped by gem crystals of fluorite violet.

Nice piece from the mining district of Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

This specimen measures 7.9 cm at its longest, 6 cm wide and 3 cm thick.

Its weight is 180 grams.

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Crystallization of fluorite on quartz and traces of barite. The purple crystals are intensely colored, shiny and bear well-marked growth phantoms.

It comes from the Berbès sector in the north of'Spain.

This aesthetic mineral measures 10.8 cm long by 7.6 cm wide and 5.8 cm thick.

Its weight is 397 grams.

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Piece of violet fluorite on richly crystallized gangue.
This piece comes from Buxières-les-Mines, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
It weighs 168 grams.
This sample measures 7.9 cm long by 6.3 cm wide and 3 cm at its thickest.

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Nice presentation for this piece, with prismatic crystals oferythrite overlooking a carpet of spheres of picropharmacolite pink.
It comes from the Bou Azzer mine, province of Ouarzazate in Morocco.
Specimen measuring 6.2 cm long by 4.6 cm wide and 3.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 107 grams.
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Piece associating of the twin cerussite, of the fine baryte salmon and of the galena.

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

Specimen measuring 7.5 cm long by 3.5 cm wide and 3.1 cm thick.

It weighs 100 grams.

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Perimorphosis of quartz on fluorite octahedrons, the largest crystal measured more than 3 cm edge.

This piece comes from the Voltennes mine, La Petite-Verrière, Saône-et-Loire, France.

It measures 12.8 cm wide by 7.6 cm high and 3.6 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 276 grams.

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Sample of fossil wood cut and polished.
It comes from the Morvan massif, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
This sample measures 6.7 cm long by 4.3 cm wide and 3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 131 grams.

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Sample of fossil wood cut and polished, with pink-orange shades.
It comes from the Morvan massif, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
This sample measures 4.5 cm long by 2.6 cm wide and 4.7 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 94 grams.

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Piece associating on gangue of the cerusite, a fine crystallization of baryte and of the galena.

It comes from the Mibladen mines in the Morocco.

Specimen measuring 6.6 cm long by 4.8 cm wide and 3 cm thick.

It weighs 104 grams.

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Fluorite blue green covered with small pyrite flies, resting on white quartz.

Piece from the Fontsante mine, Tanneron, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

It measures 6.4 cm long by 4.8 cm wide and 4.6 cm thick.

Its weight is 198 grams.

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Epidote shiny, with dark green crystals on matrix.

It comes from Mount Khorram, Tafresh county, Iran.

This piece measures 4.8 cm long by 3.9 cm wide and 2.7 cm thick.

Its weight is 78 grams.

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Sample of fossil wood cut and polished.

It comes from the Morvan massif, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.

This sample measures 6.3 cm long by 4.7 cm wide and 6.2 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 233 grams.

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Sample ofshiny epidote, with dark green coloured crystals.
This piece comes from Mount Khorram, Tafresh county in Iran.
It measures 4 cm long by 3.9 cm wide and 3.9 cm thick.
Its weight is 104 grams.

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Old g coingoethite with geode crystals.
It comes from Chaillac, Indre, France.
This goethite measures 4.3 cm long by 4 cm wide and 2.8 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 61 grams.

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Aesthetic piece of goethite with shiny crystals in geode.
It comes from Chaillac, Indre, France.
This goethite measures 4.1 cm long by 4 cm wide and 2.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 47 grams.

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