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Beautiful red pink color for this slice of elbaite tourmaline, which comes from a little represented area, the Zambia.
Polished on one side, its contour is intact. The back, left raw, presents reinforcements on the areas of natural fragility of the slice.
This tourmaline comes more exactly from the Jagoda mine, region of the pegmatites of Mkushi, central province, Zambia.
Weighing 280 grams, it measures 13.1 cm long by 11.5 cm wide and 0.8 cm thick.

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Prehnite with well-formed lamellar crystals and slightly shiny.

It comes from Djebel Melh, Figuig, Eastern Region in Morocco

This piece measures 10 cm wide by 5.5 cm high and 3.2 cm thick.

Its weight is 194 grams.

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Group of crystals of quartz each containing a ghost marked by hematite inclusions.

This quartz comes from Luena, Bukama, Haut-Lomami, Congo.

This interesting piece measuring 7.8 cm at the longest for 7.3 cm wide and 7.1 cm high.

Its weight is 403 grams.

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Beautiful pyrite very shiny, with a main octahedron with truncated edges more than 4 cm long.
It comes from the Huaron mines in the Pasco province in Peru.
This piece measures 5.4 cm long by 5.6 cm wide and 4.4 cm thick.
It weighs 242 grams.

(Measurements excluding base)

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Cupro-adamite of blue color covered by a thin layer of the smithsonite light, contrasted by a dark matrix.

This piece comes from the Kamareza Mines, Lavrion district, Greece.

It measures 9.3 cm long by 3.9 cm wide and 5.2 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 162 grams.

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Group of comb quartz, with a well-marked soul for the largest.

The crystals are finished and the attachment area at the back shows a resumption of crystallization.

It comes from Tole, Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

This specimen measures 11.5 cm wide by 10 cm high and 4.5 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 383 grams.

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Orange and spherical crystals of stellerite on a thin matrix.

This specimen comes from the municipality of Tatatila in the state of Veracruz in Mexico.

It measures 5 cm long by 3.2 cm wide and 1 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 13 grams.

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Crystal of tourmaline dark with a green termination (visible only with lighting) embedded in albite.

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

It measures 4.5 cm long by 2.8 cm wide and 2.4 cm thick.

Its weight is 20 grams.

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Small shiny pyrite with octahedral crystals and presence of black sphalerite.

It comes from the Huaron mines in the Pasco province in Peru.

This piece measures 5.1 cm long, 4.2 cm wide and 2.9 cm high.

It weighs 146 grams.

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Quartz from Saint-Sorlin-d'Arves, Oisans, Alps, France.

This piece measures 9.1 cm long by 7.4 cm wide and 4.5 cm thick.

Its weight is 286 grams.

Some scattered touches to note.

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Floating crystal of pyrite with very curved edges.

Piece from Ambas Aguas, Muro de Aguas, La Rioja, Spain.

It measures 2.7 cm long by 2.5 cm wide and 2.4 cm thick.

Its weight is 50 grams.

In perfect condition.

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Some detached crystals of vanuralite, radioactive mineral containing vanadium, uranium and aluminium.
They come from the Mounanan mine in Gabon.

Delivery only in mainland France.

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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.

Measurements without base.

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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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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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