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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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Sample containing many crystals in her gangue blue tourmaline.
It comes from the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil.
This mineral measures 5.4 cm long for 5 cm wide and 3.7 cm thick.
Its weight is 102 grams.

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Sample with a natural presentation vanadinite on goethite.
It comes from Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco.
This specimen measures 14.9 cm long for 5.3 cm high and 7.6 cm wide.
His weight is 638 grams.

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Beautiful presentation for this classic German mineralogy, a baryte crêted with beige colour on pink, sprinkled with chalcopyrite crystals.
It comes from an inaccessible deposit since 2004, the Dreislar mine, Medebach, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, Germany.
This specimen measures 7 cm long for 6.6 cm wide and 3.3 cm thickest.
Its weight is 196 grams.

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Beautiful presentation for this classic of German mineralogy, a beige-on-pink crested baryte, sprinkled with chalcopyrite crystals.
It comes from a deposit inaccessible since 2004, the Dreislar mine, Medebach, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, Germany.
This specimen measures 7 cm long by 6.6 cm wide and 3.3 cm at the thickest.
Its weight is 196 grams.

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Floating clusters of crystals cerusite slightly yellow.
This specimen good size comes from the mine of M'Fouati, department of Bouenza, Republic of the Congo.
It measures 7 cm wide for 5.8 cm high and 5.1 cm thickest.
His weight is 349 grams.

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Fully crystallized Stalactite quartz brilliant with crystals rich in inclusions, probably goethite.
Specimen from Aouli, Mibladen, Midelt Province, Draa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco.
It measures 10 cm high for 10 cm long at the base and 4.9 cm thick (2.3 cm for stalactite).
His weight is 351 grams.

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Herisson quartz shiny with crystals rich in inclusions (probably goethite), surmounted by a barrel pumpkin.
Specimen from Aouli, Mibladen, Midelt Province, Draa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco.
It measures 8.9 cm wide for 7.6 cm thick and 6 cm wide.
Its weight is 503 grams.

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Fuschite sample, variety of muscovite containing chrome, with transparent quartz crystals.
This specimen comes from Peru, Pasto Bueno, Pampas District, Pallasca P, Áncash.
It measures 10.2 cm long for 7.2 cm high and 5.9 cm thick.
Its weight is 387 grams.

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Specimen de spherosiderite blonde on solid quartz, covered with a crystallization of calcite.
Sidérite from the pellet quarry of Laguépie, Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitanie, France.
It measures 10.7 cm long for 4.6 cm wide and 3 cm thick.
Its weight is 147 grams.
Light contact signs.

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Headphones prehnite, a classic for the species and alpine mineralogy.
It comes from La Combe de la Selle, St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
This sample is 2.9cm long for 2.3cm wide and 1.8cm thick.
Off-base measures.

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Sample manganocalcite polysynthetic with two main endings.
Specimen near-floating with a strong long UV reaction.
It comes from Dalnegorsk mining district, Dalnegorsk urban district, Primorsky Krai, Russia.
With a weight of 89 grams, this specimen is 8.6 cm long and 3.3 cm wide and 3.1 cm thick.

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Impose crystal of'amethyst light purple on matrix with slightly skeletal growth and reconsolidated fracture marks.
It comes from the Mexico, from the Las Vigas sector, State of Vera Cruz.
This specimen measures 9.5 cm long for 8 cm wide and 5.8 cm thickest.
It weighs 313 grams.

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Nice baryte with shiny blue crystals on a beige barite gangue.
It comes from the Cavnic mine, Maramures, Romania.
This specimen comes from 9.5 cm long for 7.1 cm wide and 5.1 cm thicker.
Its weight is 493 grams.

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Specimen smithsonite translucent with rhombohedral crystals on matrix
Specimens from the Tsumeb mine, Oshikoto region, Namibia.
It is 3.7 cm high for 3.7 cm wide and 3.1 cm thick.
Its weight is 52 grams.
(Measures out of basement)

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Pseudomorphosis copper after crystallized aragonite cluster.
Specimens from mines in Coro Coro, Pacajes Province, La Paz, Bolivia.
This sample of aragonite remains is 1.3 cm in diameter.

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Pseudomorphosis copper after hexagonal crystal of aragonite.
Specimens from mines in Coro Coro, Pacajes Province, La Paz, Bolivia.
This sample in good condition measures 0.9 cm in diameter for 0.5 cm in thickness.

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Sample in a matrix of siderite-ancerite and calcite of the zinkenite. Sulfosel is formed as prismatic crystals up to 10 mm free from calcite by chemical treatment.
It comes from the ravine of Saint Pons, Barcelonnette, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
This specimen measures 5.8 cm long for 5.3 cm wide and 3.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 113 grams.

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Specimen associated on matrix of the pyrite and grey and striated crystals of'andorite measuring up to 5 mm.
Specimens from the San José mine, Oruro, Cerdaco province, Bolivia.
It is 3.5 cm wide for 1.9 cm high and 1.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 15 grams.

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Sample bismuth native, chemical element of Bi symbol, appearing here as crystals molded after quartz crystals.
It was taken from Dayu Co. County, rich in tin and tungsten, in Ganzhou, Jiangxi China.
This bronze-coloured specimen is 1.9 cm long for 1.3 cm wide and 0.7 cm thick.

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Rarely proposed, sample native lead in the form of a partially tarnished leaf based on an epidotite matrix (rock formed almost entirely of crystallized epidote).
This specimen from Garpenberg Norra Mine (north), Garpenberg, Hedemora, Dalarna County, Sweden.
It measures 2.7 cm long for 1.6 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick.

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Tabular crystal d'andorite with several endings and typical streaks. One side has a slight beige, cervantite or stibiconite coating.
Specimens from the November 2004 discovery at the San José mine, Oruro, Cerdaco province, Bolivia.
It is 1.6 cm wide and 1.4 cm high and 0.5 cm thick.

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Specimen with a pink matrix of rhodochrosite overcome by calcite white finely crystallized, then crystals of tetrahedrites measuring up to 8 mm.
It comes from the mine of Boldut, Cavnic, Maramures, Romania.
Specimens measuring 7 cm long for 4.2 cm wide and 4.1 cm thick.
Its weight is 191 grams.

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Very nice group of two helix ramondi on gangue, epigenized lussatitis blue.
Specimen without restorations, UV-reactive short.
These rare fossil snails turned 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, the snails 23 mm and 20 mm in diameter.
Weight 271 grams.

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Natural presentation for this quartz carried by sphaleritis var. leophane.
Specimen typical of the Madan mining sector, Smolyan province, Bulgaria.
It is 7.4 cm long for 4 cm high and 2.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 72 grams.

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Fluorite with crystals of a light purple and green heart, partially covered with quartz and pyrite spherical.
This aesthetic specimen comes from the El Hamman mine, Khémisset Province, Rabat-Salé-Kenitra Region, Morocco.
It is 9.3cm wide for 6.1 cm high and 5.2 cm, for a weight of 383 grams.
Note a discrete lack on the left side of the sample.

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Fluorite lavender colour, crystallized on both sides. It has several crystals of fluorite called "briquet" and galena.
Specimen from Greenlaws Mine, Daddry Shield, Weardale, County Durham, England.
It is 12.2 cm long for 7.7 cm wide and 5.1 cm thicker.
Weight 515 grams.

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Specimen of garnet var. tsavorite with quartz, graphite, pyrite, and some traces of tanzanian violet.
This sample is from Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania.
It is 6.9 cm long for 6 cm wide and 3.7 cm thick.
Its weight is 216 grams.

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

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Crystals'amethyst light purple, with a 5,8 cm main crystal.
This specimen comes from Las Vigas, State of Vera Cruz Mexico.
It is 5.8 cm long for 3.8 cm wide and 1.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 29 grams.

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Specimen of fine crystals of baritone gray on fluoritis slightly frosted, all sprinkled with pyrite.
It comes from the nightingale mine in Chaillac, Indre, France.
Specimens measuring 10.6 cm long for 5.9 cm wide and 4.1 cm thickest.
Its weight is 390 grams.

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