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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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Fluorite presenting a dense carpet of spheres with colors ranging from dark purple to mauve.

It comes from the Rocs quarry in Buxières-les-Mines, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

This piece measures 8.7 cm long by 5.8 cm wide and 5.7 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 281 grams.

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Perimorphosis of quartz on fluorite octahedrons, the largest crystal measured more than 3 cm edge.

This piece comes from the Voltennes mine, La Petite-Verrière, Saône-et-Loire, France.

It measures 12.8 cm wide by 7.6 cm high and 3.6 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 276 grams.

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Piece showing diopside crystals, some of which are terminated, in a quartz gangue
This sample comes from Badakhshan in Afghanistan.
It measures 5.4 cm long by 4.4 cm wide and 3.3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 97 grams.

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Piece with crystals of cleophane, variety of green sphalerite, associated with shiny galena crystals.

It comes from the Madan mining sector, Smolyan province, Bulgaria.

This sample measures 14.5 cm wide by 9 cm high and 3.1 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 201 grams.

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Sample of fossil wood cut and polished.
It comes from the Morvan massif, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
This sample measures 6.7 cm long by 4.3 cm wide and 3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 131 grams.

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Sample of fossil wood cut and polished, with pink-orange shades.
It comes from the Morvan massif, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
This sample measures 4.5 cm long by 2.6 cm wide and 4.7 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 94 grams.

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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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Beautiful crystallization of vanadinite bright red on a black gangue.

This piece comes from Mibladen, Aït Oufella Caïdat, Midelt, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco.

It measures 5.1 cm high by 3.8 cm wide and 1.7 cm thick.

Its weight is 42 grams.

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Cubic crystal of boleite dark blue.

It comes from the Amelia mine, El Boleo, Santa Rosalia, Baja California, Mexico.

This mineral measures 3.5 mm by 3.2 mm.

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Fully crystallized nodule of marcasite with twinned crystallization sperkise.

It comes from the cliffs of Cap Blanc-Nez in Escalles, Pas-de-Calais, France.

This sample measures 3 cm long by 1.9 cm wide and 1.7 cm thick.

Its weight is 18 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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Piece associating on gangue of the cerusite, a fine crystallization of baryte and of the galena.

It comes from the Mibladen mines in the Morocco.

Specimen measuring 6.6 cm long by 4.8 cm wide and 3 cm thick.

It weighs 104 grams.

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Sample of the black variety of disthene, the rhaëticite.

It comes from Minas Gerais in Brazil.

This fan-shaped specimen measures 8.6 cm long by 5 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick.

Its weight is 94 grams.

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Half lithophyse perfectly polished with a smiling quartz heart.

This aesthetic chalcedony comes from the Esterel massif, Var, France.

Piece measuring 9.5 cm in diameter and 4.2 cm thick.

Its weight is 540 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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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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Chalcedony violet of good quality with a well marked color.

It comes from Mamuju, West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia.

This sample measures 3.7 cm high by 3.5 cm wide and 1.3 cm thick.

Its weight is 12 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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Fluorite blue green covered with small pyrite flies, resting on white quartz.

Piece from the Fontsante mine, Tanneron, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

It measures 6.4 cm long by 4.8 cm wide and 4.6 cm thick.

Its weight is 198 grams.

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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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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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Twin Crystal of alabandite on a gangue ofalabandite massive, quartz and calcite. The crystal measures 1.4 cm long.

This piece comes from the mine of Uchucchacua, Oyon, Lima, Peru.

It measures 4.1 cm long by 4.3 cm wide and 1.8 cm thick.

Its weight is 39 grams.

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Sample of romanéchite forming like a black coral covered with a yellow ferric oxide (goethite?).

It comes from Veszprém, Veszprém county, Hungary.

This specimen measures 3.4 cm wide by 1.9 cm wide and 2.2 cm thick.

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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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Dense sample of nickeline (a nickel arsenide) accompanied by green annabergite.

This nickel ore comes from Aït Ahmane, Bou Azzer, Drâa-Tafilalet in Morocco.
It measures 4.3 cm long by 3.7 cm wide and 3.7 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 148 grams.

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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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