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Amazing manganocalcite with several terminations.
Slightly pink specimen of 165 grams from Dalnegorsk, Russia.
Old piece measuring 7.6 cm long by 4.5 cm wide by 3.4 cm thick.
This calcite is UV reactive.

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Amazing manganocalcite with multiple terminations.

Slightly pink specimen of 150 grams from Dalnegorsk, Russia.

Slender piece measuring 8.8 cm in length by 6.4 cm wide and 3.4 cm thick.

This calcite, which has a shock, is UV reactive.

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Piece presenting crystals of diopside green in a quartz gangue.

This sample comes from Badakhshan in Afghanistan.

It measures 5.2 cm long by 4.3 cm wide and 2.8 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 71 grams.

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Very beautiful stilbite in a bow tie knot, on a personalized base.

It comes from Maharashtra in India.

This piece measures 10.8 cm long by 7.4 cm high and 4.9 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 412 grams.

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Association on gangue of two generations of prehnite, of apophyllite and calcite chocolate.

This piece comes from the Pohna district in Maharashtra in India.

This sample measures 15.4 cm long by 10.5 cm wide and 4.1 cm thick.

Its weight is 409 grams.

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Flat sample of brucite yellow and white in color.

It comes from Qilla Saif Ullah, Baluchistan, Pakistan.

This piece measures 7.8 cm high by 5.7 cm wide and 0.9 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 51 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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Pleasant architecture for this piece combining quartz transparent with inclusions of tourmaline black and a little bit of feldspar.

It comes from the Skardu region in Pakistan.

This piece measures 10.9 cm long by 9.2 cm wide and 6.1 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 292 grams.

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Flat sample of brucite with a well-marked yellow color.

It comes from Qilla Saif Ullah, Baluchistan, Pakistan.

This piece measures 4.8 cm high by 3.3 cm wide and 0.8 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 11.2 grams.

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This very colourful piece is fossilised wood, preserved by opaline silica, tinted with copper and manganese.
It comes from a petrified forest discovered at the foot of Mount Tjikolak in 2017 in Indonesia.
This specimen measures 11 cm at its longest, 10 cm wide and 6 cm thick.
It weighs 442 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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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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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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Nice sample of brucite with a well-marked yellow color, contrasted by a little white gangue.

It comes from Qilla Saif Ullah, Baluchistan, Pakistan.

This piece measures 5 cm high by 5.1 cm wide and 2.5 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 50 grams.

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Floating piece, fully crystallized by quartz and a crystal of sphalerite ideally arranged. We can note the discreet presence of crystals of fluorite transparent.

Old sample from the Dalnegorsk mining district, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

This specimen measures 10.3 cm at the longest for 6.2 cm wide and 5.1 cm thick.

Its weight is 210 grams.

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Piece presenting crystals of diopside in quartz accompanied by muscovite.

This sample comes from Badakhshan in Afghanistan.
It measures 7.4 cm long by 5.5 cm wide and 3.4 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 143 grams.

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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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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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Rare association ofapophyllite green on mordenite cream color.
This piece comes from the Nasik district, Maharashtra, India.
It measures 13.4 cm long by 7.4 cm wide and 4.6 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 367 grams.

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Pretty fluorite mounted on a base with well-marked blue ghosts.
This fluorite comes from the province of Balochistan in Pakistan.
It measures 5.1 cm long by 3.9 cm high and 2.5 cm thick.
Its weight is 53 grams.
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Andradite garnet brown green with a little white dolomite.
This sample comes from the Bor quarry, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia.
It measures 4.1 cm high by 4.1 cm wide and 1.9 cm thick.
Its weight is 56 grams.
Old stock.

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Purple fluorite with a few blue ghosts, topped by a dog tooth calcite crystallization.
This fluorite comes from the province of Balochistan in Pakistan.
It measures 9.3 cm high by 5.5 cm wide and 4.6 cm thick.
Its weight is 325 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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Elongated group of twinned crystals according to the law of spinel of native copper.
It comes from the Itauz mine, Zhezqazghan Oblysy, Kazakhstan.
This sample measures 3.3 cm long by 4 mm wide and 3 mm thick.
Measurements off base, not fixed on it.

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Fluorite with well-defined cubes, topped by a thin crystallization of calcite.
This fluorite comes from the province of Balochistan in Pakistan.
It measures 7.5 cm high by 6.2 cm wide and 3.7 cm thick.
Its weight is 141 grams.

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Rack crystals of bournonite grey nestled in crystals of quartz transparent.
This piece comes from the Yaogangxian mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China.
It measures 7.3 cm long by 5.1 cm wide and 3.2 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 140 grams.

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Fluorite pinkish grey showing ghosts in the crystals at the top of the piece.
It comes from the province of Baluchistan in Pakistan.
This piece measures 10.7 cm long by 8.5 cm wide and 4 cm thick.
Its weight is 416 grams.

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Sample ofepidote shiny, with dark green crystals.
This piece comes from Mount Khorram, Tafresh county in Iran.
It measures 4.9 cm long by 4 cm wide and 2.7 cm thick.
Its weight is 72 grams.

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Pleasant fluorite with a shiny crystallization pulling on the gray on the front and green crystals on the back.
Fluorite from the province of Hunan in China.
It measures 15 cm wide by 9.2 cm high and 4.9 cm thick.
Its weight is 1017 grams.
Some very minor touches to report.

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