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Small nice piece of quartz with inclusions (goethite?) and calcite crystals.
It comes from Aouli, Mibladen, Province of Midelt, Draa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco.
This quartz measures 6.6 cm high by 5.1 cm wide and 2.6 cm thick.
Its weight is 94 grams.

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Piece ofamethyst on gangue, with a first group of small pale purple crystals, and next to it two intertwined crystals of a more pronounced color.
It comes from the Las Vigas sector, State of Vera Cruz, in Mexico.
This specimen measures 5.3 cm long by 4.4 cm wide and 3.8 cm high.
Its weight is 68 grams.

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Pyromorphite with fine needle crystallization on all sides.
It comes from the St Nicolas mine, Steinbach, Thann-Guebwiller, Haut-Rhin, France.
This sample measures 8.9 cm long by 7.3 cm wide and 4 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 290 grams.

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Beautiful piece ofadamite on a limonite gangue, with a first crystallization on top and a more discreet second one in a geode on the side.
This specimen comes from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.
It measures 6.9 cm high by 6.3 cm wide and 3.2 cm thick.
Its weight is 266 grams.

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Brown calcite with a formation resembling stalactites, from a rarely offered American deposit for the species.
It comes from a discovery by Bud Ehrle in the 1970s, in Alzada, Carter County, Montana, USA.
This piece, featuring shell nacre remains, measures 9.1 cm long by 4.8 cm wide and 2.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 129 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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Aesthetic presentation for this fuschite covered on top by a crystallization of hyaline quartz.
This muscovite is a green variety that contains chrome.
This Peruvian sample weighs 273 grams.
It comes from Pasto Bueno, Pampas District, Pallasca P, Áncash
It measures 9.6 cm long by 7.3 cm wide and 6.3 cm at its thickest.

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Good sample of hematoid quartz shiny, orange-red in color, on a matrix with volumes.
It comes from the L'Argentolle mine, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
Weighing 516 grams, this mineral measures 9.5 cm long by 9 cm wide and 5.5 cm thick.
Despite a discreet touch depending on the presentation, this piece is very appreciable.

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Piece associating under an orange coating of the yellow fluorite (main crystal of 4 cm edge) and quartz tips.
Sample showing touches but remaining very appreciable for the deposit.
It comes from the L'Argentolle mine, Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy-Franche-Comté, France.
Weighing 447 grams, this mineral measures 8.3 cm long by 6.5 cm wide and 5.7 cm thick.

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

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

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Beautiful presentation for this classic of German mineralogy, a baryte beige crested on pink, 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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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 cluster of crystals of cerussite slightly yellow in color.
This good-sized piece comes from the M'Fouati mine, Bouenza department, Republic of Congo.
It measures 7 cm wide by 5.8 cm high and 5.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 349 grams.

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

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Hedgehog of quartz shiny with crystals rich in inclusions (probably goethite), topped with a baryte pompom.
Piece from Aouli, Mibladen, Province of Midelt, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco.
It measures 8.9 cm wide by 7.6 cm thick and 6 cm wide.
Its weight is 503 grams.

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

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Piece of spherosiderite blonde on solid quartz, covered with a calcite crystallization.
Siderite from the aggregate quarry of Laguépie, Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitanie, France.
It measures 10.7 cm long by 4.6 cm wide and 3 cm thick.
Its weight is 147 grams.
Light contact traces.

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Helmet of 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 measures 2.9cm long by 2.3cm wide and 1.8cm thick.
Measurements without base.

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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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Pretty baryte with shiny blue crystals on a beige baryte gangue.
It comes from the Cavnic mine, Maramures, Romania.
This piece is 9.5 cm long, 7.1 cm wide and 5.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 493 grams.

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Nice piece ofepidote with quartz on a matrix of raw sphalerite and epidote.
It comes from the Pampa Blanca district, Province of Castrovirreyna, Huancavelica, Peru.
This specimen measures 5.4 cm wide by 7.9 cm high and 4.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 157 grams.
Some discreet touches to note.

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Pseudomorphosis of copper after crystallized cluster of aragonite.
Specimen from the Coro Coro mines, Pacajes Province, La Paz, Bolivia.
This sample revealing a remnant of aragonite measures 1.3 cm in diameter.

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Pseudomorphosis of copper after hexagonal aragonite crystal.
Specimen from the Coro Coro mines, Pacajes Province, La Paz, Bolivia.
This sample in good condition measures 0.9 cm in diameter and 0.5 cm thick.

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Piece associating on matrix of the pyrite and grey and striated crystals ofandorite measuring up to 5 mm.
Specimen from the San José mine, Oruro, Cerdaco province, Bolivia.
It measures 3.5 cm wide by 1.9 cm high and 1.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 15 grams.

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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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Rarely offered, sample of native lead in the form of a partially tarnished sheet resting on a matrix of epidotite (rock formed almost entirely of crystallized epidote).
This piece comes from the Garpenberg Norra (north) Mine, Garpenberg, Hedemora, Dalarna County, Sweden.
It measures 2.7 cm long by 1.6 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick.

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Tabular crystal of'andorite with several terminations and typical striations. One side has a slight beige coating, of cervantite or stibiconite.
Specimen from the November 2004 discovery made at the San José mine, Oruro, Cerdaco province, Bolivia.
It measures 1.6 cm wide by 1.4 cm high and 0.5 cm thick.

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

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Very beautiful group of two helix ramondi on gangue, epigenized in lussatite blueish.
Piece without restorations, reactive to short UV.
These rare fossil snails transformed into opal come from Dallet, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France.
This specimen measures 7.4 cm long by 6.9 cm wide and 4.8 cm thick, the snails 23 mm and 20 mm in diameter.
Weight of 271 grams.

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Natural presentation for this quartz carried by sphalerite var. cleophane.
Typical piece from the Madan mining sector, Smolyan province, Bulgaria.
It measures 7.4 cm long by 4 cm high and 2.8 cm thick.
Its weight is 72 grams.

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