Mineral collection

Surprising structure for this skeletal vanadinitis, bicolor and brilliant.
It comes from Mibladen, Aït Oufella Caïdat, Midelt, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco.
This specimen measures 3.1 cm high for 3.1 cm wide and 2.1 cm long.
Its weight is 31 grams.

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Crystals datolite on matrix, glossy and white color.
It comes from the Dalnegorsk mining complex in Russia.
With a length of 7.9 cm, it measures 4.3 cm wide for 2.9 cm thick.
Its weight is 96 grams.

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Calcite with chocolate-colored dog teeth crystals.

It comes from the El Potosi mine, Sainte Eulalie, Chihuahua Mexico.

This specimen is 11.1 cm long for 9.2 cm wide and 3.6 cm thick.

Its weight is 402 grams.

Note keys on the periphery of the specimen.

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Crystals'semimorphite white and shiny, with a 2.5 cm main gerbe.

This mineral comes from the mine of Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.

It measures 6.3 cm high for 4.4 cm wide and 2.9 cm thickest.

Its weight is 57 grams.

Note that the gangue is powdery (without influence on the aesthetics of the specimen)

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Sample fossil wood cut and polished.

It comes from the massif of Morvan, Burgundy-Franche-Comté, France.

This sample is 6.3 cm long for 4.7 cm wide and 6.2 cm thickest.

Its weight is 233 grams.

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Not common, sample french de turquoise from the career of Beauvoir, commune of Echassières in the Allier.
It measures 4.4 cm long for 3.3 cm wide and 2.1 cm thickest.
Its weight is 18.8%

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Rare French sample of disthene and mica on quartz.

Ancient specimen deposits inaccessible today, located in Saint Etienne de Tinée in the park of Mercantour, Alpes-Maritimes.
This specimen measures 7 cm long for 5.8 cm wide and 4.7 cm thickest.
His weight is 286 grams.

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Pyrite crystallized on both sides with different crystal sizes.

This specimen comes from Saint Denis d'Orques, Sarthe, France.

Sample measuring 8.6 cm long for 5.9 cm wide and 3.8 cm thick.

Its weight is 418 grams.

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Sample of the black variety of disethene, rhaëticite.

It's from Minas Gerais to Brazil.

This fan specimen is 13.6 cm long for 4.6 cm wide and 1.6 cm thick.

Its weight is 103 grams.

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Small helmet group prehnite, accompanied by a few spider crystals.

It comes from La Combe de la Selle, St Christophe-en-Oisans, Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

This sample is 3.5 cm long for 2.6 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick.

Its weight is 14 grams.

Outstanding measures.

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Cristal tourmaline dark, cape of light green, hidden in crystals'albite.

It's over and body growth shows a lag due to an albite crystal that's gone.

This specimen comes from the Astak mine, Gilgit, Baltistan, Pakistan.

It measures 6.2 cm long for 3.2 cm wide and a weight of 50 grams.

The crystal alone measures 2 cm thick at the head level.

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Great specimen native money on a rock and calcite gangue.

Interesting presence of a group of green yellow sphaleritis millimetric crystals on the bottom of the sample.

This money comes from the New Nevada mine, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico.
It measures 9.6 cm long for 5.9 cm wide and 3.7 cm thickest.
Its weight is 188 grams.

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