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Good sample of vivianite from the Kerch mine, Crimea peninsula, currently under Russian.
occupation The crystals approaching 4 cm are embedded in the matrix on both sides.
This specimen measures 8.1 cm long by 5 cm wide and 3.2 cm thick.
Its weight is 99 grams.

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Andradite garnet brown green topping quartz crystals, crystals with a strange colored pattern.
This sample comes from the Bor quarry, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia.
It measures 4.1 cm high by 4.8 cm wide and 2.6 cm thick.
Its weight is 63 grams.
(Measurements excluding base)
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Sample showing a vein with a geode containing prehnite green in "flakes" and quartz crystals.
It comes from the Mumbai district, Maharashtra, India.
Specimen measuring 10.3 cm long by 5.6 cm wide and 3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 188 grams.
The back is sawn.

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Pretty crystallization of andradite garnet brown green with a partial covering of microcrystalline quartz.
This garnet comes from the Bor quarry, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia.
It measures 4.7 cm long by 4.2 cm wide and 3.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 95 grams.

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Elegant piece with a crystal of lazurite of 3.5 cm seeming suspended above a block of marble with pyrite and smaller crystals of lazurite.
It comes from the lapis lazuli mine of Ladjuar Medam, Koksha valley, Kuran wa Munjan, Badakhshan, Afghanistan.
This mineral measures 10.2 cm long by 9.6 cm high and 5.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 476 grams.

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Old piece featuring white and spherical prehnite with a few pompoms ofokenite.
It comes from the Pune district, Maharashtra, India.
This sample measures 12.2 cm long by 9 cm wide and 4.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 398 grams.

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Piece of prehnite soft colored on a carpet of micro-crystallized quartz.
It comes from the Pune district, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India.
This sample measures 10 cm long by 6.6 cm wide and 3.4 cm thick.
Its weight is 190 grams.

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Sample of manganocalcite polysynthetic with two main terminations.
Almost floating piece with a strong reaction to long UV.
It comes from the Dalnegorsk mining district, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia.
Weighing 89 grams, this specimen measures 8.6 cm long by 3.3 cm wide and 3.1 cm thick.

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Sample of bismuth native, chemical element with symbol Bi, here presented in the form of crystals moulded after quartz crystals.
It was taken from Dayu Co. county, rich in tin and tungsten, in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, in China.
This bronze-coloured specimen measures 1.9 cm long by 1.3 cm wide and 0.7 cm thick.

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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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Group of stilbite crystals coming from Maharashtra in India.
This specimen is peach in color.
It weighs 374 grams and measures 7cm long by 7cm wide and 7cm high.
Note a few small traces of shocks of a few millimeters.
This mineral remains of good quality despite everything.