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Specimen presenting crystals diopside in quartz accompanied by muscovite.

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

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Nice band quartz dishes, brilliant, with a well-marked soul.

It comes from Tole, Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
This specimen is 7.2 cm long for 7.2 cm wide and 2.3 cm thickest.
Its weight is 113 grams.

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Flat sample brucite, contrasted by a little gangy, with a well-marked yellow colour.

It comes from Qilla Saif Ullah, Baluchistan, Pakistan.

This mineral measures 8 cm high for 6.3 cm wide and 1.2 cm thickest.

Its weight is 47 grams.

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Dense sample nickeline (a nickel rinse) accompanied by green anannabergite.

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

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Calcedoine botroid with a well-marked violet color.

It comes from Mamuju, Province of Western Sulawesi, Indonesia.

This sample is 3.5 cm tall for 2.5 cm wide and 1.7 cm thick.

Some discreet touches to deplore in the back of the specimen.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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