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Specimen typical of this lyon deposit combining many crystals wulfénite orange on crêtée and a crystal fluoritis.
It comes from Lantignié, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, France.
This specimen 4,4 cm long for 4 cm wide and 2.1 cm thick.
Its weight is 53 grams.
Note that the wulfenite is even more present in the back of the specimen !

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Sample goethite with recovery calcite on one side.
It comes from Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco.
It measures 9.4 cm long for 6.1 cm wide and 3.1 cm thick.
Its weight is 69 grams.

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Gypse orange with a nice presentation.
It's from Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia.
This specimen 7.8 cm long for 7.2 cm wide and 5.6 cm high.
Its weight is 213 grams.

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Orange gypsum with a nice presentation.
It comes from Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia.
This piece measures 7.8 cm long by 7.2 cm wide and 5.6 cm high.
Its weight is 213 grams.

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Fluorite cubic yellow with crystals partially covered with micro-crystalline quartz.
Presence of pyromorphite and galena.
It comes from the mine of L'Argentolle, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
This specimen measures 14,2 cm long for 7,6 cm wide and 7.1 cm high.
Its weight is 992 grams.

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Bel and old sample lussatite (opal type C) with bitumen traces.
It comes from the Roys mine, Dallet, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France.
This specimen 11.2 cm long for 7.8 cm wide and 5.3 cm thick.
His weight is 597 grams.

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Specimen classic with fluoritis yellow surmounted by a pumpkin baryte, all covered by small pyrite flies.
It comes from the rock mine in Chaillac, Indre, France.
Specimen measuring 10.8 cm long for 4.2 cm wide and 3.7 cm thickest.
Its weight is 241 grams.

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Nice Crystallization grenat andradite green brown with partial recovery of microcistallin quartz.
This grenat comes from the career of Bor, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia.
It measures 4.7 cm long for 4.2 cm wide and 3.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 95 grams.

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Fluorite gangue purple, on a sawy basis for presentation
This specimen comes from the Mine of the Rossignol, Chaillac, Indre, France.
It measures 11.2 cm long for 8.8 cm wide and 4.9 cm thick.
His weight is 716 grams.

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Beautiful specimen showing on a quartz gangue a carpet of crystals ferbérite (wolframite) measuring more than 3 cm, with beautiful finishes. Together with them, crystals quartz muscovite and of dolomite.
It comes from Panasqueira, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
This mineral is 10 cm long for 5.7 cm wide and 5.6 cm high.
Its weight is 467 grams.

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Fluorite slightly green blue over quartz, with crystals measuring up to 7 mm.
An oxide coating covers the quartz of the unsawed part.
This specimen comes from Langeac, Brioude, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
It measures 10.7 cm long for 7.9 cm wide and 4.2 cm thickest.
His weight is 463 grams.

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Group of cubes fluoritis blue heart and yellow envelope, based on a quartz-containing gangue.
It comes from the Beix mine, Saint-Germain-près-Herment, Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, France.
This sample measures 5.5 cm long for 3.9 cm wide, the main cube measures more than 2 cm.
Its weight is 96 grams.

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Goethite nipple with shiny black areas and a slightly iridescent area.
It comes from the old copper mine of Chizeuil, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy-Franche-Comté, France.
This sample is 7.2 cm wide for 5 cm high and 2.5 cm thick.
It weighs 164 grams.

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Fluorite violet with darker edges, with a crystal with a so-called "briquet" shape.
It comes from Durfort, Le Vigan, Gard, Occitanie, France.
Specimen 8.7cm long for 5.8 cm high and 4.8 cm wide.
Its weight is 329 grams.
The base is split.

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Fluorite yellow with a light frost inside the cubes typical of the deposit.
It comes from the mine of L'Argentolle, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
This specimen is 13.4 cm long for 8.3 cm wide and 3.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 471 grams.
Note slight touches on the left.

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Crystallisation gale on a gangue containing sphaleritis and calcite.
This specimen comes from the mining district of Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico.
His weight is 379 grams.
It measures 6.7 cm long for 6.5 cm wide and 3.5 cm thick.

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Fluorite green with crystallization in aztec pyramid and partial recovery of pyrite.
Specimen from the Fontsante mine, Tanneron, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
It measures 7.5 cm long for 3.6 cm wide and 3.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 128 grams.

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Fluorite yellow with a light frost inside the cubes typical of the deposit.
It comes from the mine of L'Argentolle, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
With a weight of 225 grams, this fluorite measures 7 cm long for 7 cm wide and 3.4 cm thick.
Note light touches.

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Ancient specimen with a cube gale resting in crystallisation dolomite beige. A second cleavage galena crystal is at the bottom of the sample.
It comes from Joplin's lead deposits in Missouri, United States.
This mineral is 7 cm wide for 4.7 cm high and 1.9 cm thick.
Its weight is 74 grams.

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Very good quality sample'hedenbergite, with a dark green aesthetically contrasted by the golden of the pyrite.
This specimen of an ancient collection comes from the island of Elbe, Province of Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.
It measures 8.4 cm wide for 5.8 cm high and 4.6 cm thickest.
Its weight is 234 grams.

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Specimen associating under an orange coating yellow fluorite (main square of 4 cm of ridge) and quartz tips.
Sample with keys but still very appreciable for the deposit.
It comes from the mine of L'Argentolle, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy-Franche-Comté, France.
With a weight of 447 grams, this mineral measures 8.3 cm long for 6.5 cm wide and 5.7 cm thick.

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Very nice group of two helix ramondi on gangue, epigenized lussatite blue.
Specimen without restorations, reactive to short UV.
These few fossil snails transformed into opal come from Dallet, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France.
This specimen is 7.4 cm long for 6.9 cm wide and 4.8 cm thick, snails 23 mm and 20 mm in diameter.
Weight of 271 grams.

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Good sample native copper from the Millal mine, Montroc, Tran, France.
This mine known for these blue fluorites has also given beautiful native coppers.
This copper measures 11.1 cm long for 6.4 cm thick.
Its weight is 374 grams.

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Fluorite lavender color, crystallized on both sides. It presents several fluorite crystals called "briquet" and galena.
Specimen from the Greenlaws mine, Daddry Shield, Weardale, County Durham, England.
It measures 12.2 cm long for 7.7 cm wide and 5.1 cm thickest.
Weight of 515 grams.

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Crystals gypsum go. selenite, with a beautiful lustre, on porphyry gangde.
This specimen comes from the municipality of Tatatila, State of Véra Cruz, Mexico.
It measures 7.1 cm long for 4.9 cm wide and 4.7 cm thick.
Its weight is 142 grams.

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Fluorite with blue-green cubes and white heart, cubes resting on quartz.
Specimen from the Fontsante mine, Tanneron, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
It measures 5.4 cm long for 3.7 cm wide and 3.4 cm thick.
Its weight is 85 grams.

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Fluorite green blue covered by small pyrite flies and baryte in the back.
Specimen from the Fontsante mine, Tanneron, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
It measures 6.7 cm long for 5.2 cm high and 2.9 cm thick.
His weight is 126 grams.

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A classic of French mineralogy, with this hematitis on red jasper.
This specimen comes from Saphoz, Esmoulières, Lure, Haute-Saône, Burgundy-Franche-Comté, France.
It measures 10 cm long for 4.7 cm wide and 2.5 cm thickest.
His weight is 197 grams.

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From the Mâlain mine in Burgundy, France, this specimen highlights a beautiful nodule of polished, orange gypsum on a fine matrix of raw gypsum.
This mine, which is no longer accessible today, contains rare nodule training taken from a clay mound.
This 141 gram specimen is 7.2 cm wide for 6.5 cm high and 3.1 cm thick.

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From the Mâlain mine in Burgundy, France, this specimen highlights a beautiful nodule of polished gypsum, red brown.
This mine, not accessible today, contains rare formations of nodule gypsum and white radial gypsum caught in clay marnes.
This 383 gram specimen is 9.3 cm wide for 9.1 cm high and 4.8 cm thick.

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This specimen highlights a polished gypsum nodule, resting on a piece of marne.
Of salmon colour, it comes from the Mâlain mine in Burgundy, France.
This mine, now inaccessible, contains rare formations of nodule gypsum and white radial gypsum caught in clay marnes.
This 370 gram specimen is 9.7 cm wide for 7.4 cm high and 7.4 cm thick (marne).

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