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Beautiful and rare sample of veszelyite crystals with a marked color on gangue.

It comes from the Laochang mine, Honghe, Yunnan, China.
This piece measures 4.6 cm long by 3 cm wide and 1.3 cm at its thickest.
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Nice group of quartz flat, shiny, with a well-marked soul.

It comes from Tole, Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
This specimen measures 7.2 cm long by 7.2 cm wide and 2.3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 113 grams.

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Crystal of tourmaline dark, capped with light green, embedded in crystals ofalbite.

It is finished and the body growth shows a shift due to a crystal of albite now disappeared.

This piece comes from the Astak mine, Gilgit, Baltistan, Pakistan.

It measures 6.2 cm long by 3.2 cm wide and weighs 50 grams.

The crystal alone measures 2 cm thick at the head.

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Group of small helmets of prehnite, accompanied by some epidote crystals.

It comes from La Combe de la Selle, St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

This sample measures 3.5 cm long by 2.6 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick.

Its weight is 14 grams.

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Pyrite crystallized on both sides with different crystal sizes.

This piece comes from Saint Denis d'Orques, Sarthe, France.

Sample measuring 8.6 cm long by 5.9 cm wide and 3.8 cm thick.

Its weight is 418 grams.

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Shiny Pyrite with well yellow octahedral crystals, with a partial covering of sphalerite.
It comes from the Huaron mines in the Pasco province at Peru.
This piece measures 9.2 cm long by 7.6 cm wide and 2.6 cm thick.
It weighs 403 grams.

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Beautiful plate of quartz with crystals partially covered with dolomite white and millimetric calcite in dog teeth.
This quartz comes from the Cavnic mine, Maramures, Romania.
It measures 13.6 cm long by 9.2 cm wide and 4.2 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 475 grams.

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Interpenetration of two crystals of pyrite shiny with curved edges.
Piece from Ambas Aguas, Muro de Aguas, La Rioja, Spain.
This sample measures 4.2 cm long by 3.5 cm wide and 3.7 cm thick.
Its weight is 138 grams.

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Group of crystals of quartz transparent
Piece from the 2 Alps, Oisans, Isère, France.
It measures 7.7 cm long by 3.7 cm wide and 6 cm high.
Its weight is 150 grams.

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Sample of celestite transparent and shiny on sulfur.
It comes from the Machów Mine, Tarnobrzeg City Co., Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland.
This piece measures 10.2 cm long by 7.8 cm wide and 5.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 577 grams.

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Association of sphalerite bright and chalcopyrite, with calcite on the back.
This piece comes from the classic deposit of Baia Sprie, Maramureș, Romania.
It measures 7.2 cm long by 4.4 cm wide and 2.4 cm thick.
Its weight is 103 grams.

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Group of crystals from smoky quartz originating from the Talèfre needle, Chamonix, Mont-Blanc, Haute-Savoie, France.
Piece measuring 6.1 cm long by 4.4 cm wide and 2.8 cm high.
Its weight is 41 grams.

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Pyrite Peruvian with an original crystallization, with adjoining striated crystals.
It comes from the Huanzala mine, Huallanca, Ancash, Peru.
This pyrite measures 4.8 cm long by 4.2 cm wide and 2.4 cm thick.
Its weight is 154 grams.

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Group of crystals transparent quartz on matrix.
It comes from L'Alpe d'Huez, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
This sample measures 8.7 cm long by 8.7cm high and 3.7 cm thick.
Its weight is 164 grams.

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Orange and spherical crystals of stellerite on gangue.
This specimen comes from Tatatila in the state of Veracruz in Mexico.
It measures 5.5 cm long by 5.1 cm high and 3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 100 grams.

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Group of stalactites of quartz with a hematoid heart on matrix.
This piece comes from the Tichka massif, Al Haouz, Marrakech-Safi Region in Morocco.
It measures 13.4 cm long by 8 cm wide and 2.8 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 223 grams.

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Piece with a few small geodes of smithsonite blue.
This piece comes from the Kamareza mines, Lavrion district, Greece.
It measures 7 cm long by 2.5 cm wide and 3.5 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 83 grams.

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Miniature mounted on a base presenting an association of sharp and shiny crystals of tetrahedrite with quartz crystals.
It comes from Casapalca, province of Huarociri, department of Lima, Peru.
Specimen measuring 3.5 cm long by 3.1 cm wide and 1.4 cm at its thickest.
Piece from the 1980s.
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Smithsonite brown associated with calcite.
It comes from the Soureza mines, Lavrion district, Greece.
Specimen measuring 7.8 cm long by 5.6 cm wide and 4.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 217 grams.

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Sample of smithsonite grey contrasting with its ochre gangue.
It comes from the Mapimi region, Durango, Mexico.
This piece measures 6.3 cm long by 6 cm wide and 2.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 114 grams.

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Piece consisting of a matrix of shiny pyrite covered with crystals of sphalerite, of calcite and a little bit of rhodochrosite white.
It comes from Trepča, Trepča valley, Mitrovica, Mitrovica district, Kosovo.
This mineral measures 9 cm long by 6.6 cm wide and 4.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 318 grams.

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Pretty piece with crystals of stilbite slightly transparent revealing a pink heart, on a brick red gangue.
It comes from Nasik, Maharashtra, India.
This specimen measures 10.1 cm long by 9 cm wide and 3.4 cm at its highest.
Its weight is 299 grams.

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Prehnite green with lamellar crystals associated with a bit of quartz.
It comes from Djebel Melh, Figuig, Eastern Region in Morocco.
This mineral measures 10.9 cm long by 7.5 cm wide and 5.3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 368 grams.
Scattered touches.

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Sample of pinite on gangue, variety of muscovite here in pseudomorphosis of a cordierite crystal.
It comes from the deposit of Blot l'Eglise, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
This specimen measures 6.7 cm long by 4.6 cm wide and 4 cm thick, the crystal measures 7 mm long.
Weight of 135 grams.

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Typical piece of its deposit, associating rhodochrosite white, sphalerite and pyrite.
It comes from Trepča, Trepča valley, Mitrovica, Mitrovica district, Kosovo.
This mineral measures 9.8 cm long by 6.7 cm wide and 4.6 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 435 grams.

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Group of crystals of transparent quartz and shiny with a little albite.
This piece comes from the Beaufortain massif, Savoie, France.
This piece measures 8.4 cm long by 5.4 cm high and 5 cm thick.
It weighs 224 grams.

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Group of crystals of sulphur bright yellow with some well-defined crystals.
It comes from the Desierto mine, Potosi, Bolivia.
This piece weighs 11.5 grams.
It measures 4.1 cm long by 2.3 cm wide and 2.1 cm at its thickest.
Note a distinguishable break at the back at the top.

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Sample bearing orange and spherical crystals of stellerite on beige crystals oforthoclase.
This specimen comes from Tatatila in the state of Veracruz in Mexico.
It measures 5.9 cm high by 7 cm wide and 5.9 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 268 grams.

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Piece extracted in the 1990s, presenting a massive wurtzite gangue covered with flat crystals of wurtzite and of baryte with white blades.
Interesting specimen from the Huanzala mine, Huallanca, Ancash, Peru.
It measures 6 cm long by 4.6 cm wide and 3.1 cm high.
Its weight is 115 grams.

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Old sample of pyrrhotite patinated with a little orange quartz.
This mineral comes from Trepča, Mitrovica, Mitrovica district, Kosovo.
It measures 6.2 cm long by 4.5 cm wide and 3.2 cm thick.
Its weight is 156 grams.

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