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Gold: Au

Comments: Well crystallized bright metallic gold specimen.
Location: Red Ledge mine, Nevada Co., California. Scale: 3.5 x 6 cm in size.
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Grossular: Ca3Al2(SiO4)3

Comments: Gemmy, transparent, cinnamon-colored grossular crystals averaging 7 mm in size.
Location: Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Scale: 3.5 x 4 x 1.5 cm.
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Hemimorphite: Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·(H2O)

Comments: Lustrous, mostly colorless to slightly reddish-brown hemimorphite crystals, the largest 13 x 20 x 2 mm in size.
Location: Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: 25 x 10 x 25 mm.
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Kesterite: Cu2(Zn,Fe)SnS4  
Mushistonite: (Cu,Zn,Fe)Sn++++(OH)6

Comments: Sharp, kesterite crystal, greenish in color due to a mushistonite coating with clear, prismatic beryl crystals.
Location: Xue Bao Diang Mountains, north of Pingwu, Sichuan Province, China. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
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Lazulite: MgAl2(PO4)2(OH)2

Comments: Lustrous dark blackish-blue crystals of lazulite to 5 mm in size.
Location: Crosscut Creek, Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada. Scale: 3 x 4.2 x 1.5 cm.
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Mimetite: Pb5(AsO4)3Cl  
Cerussite: PbCO3

Comments: Creamy white crystal of cerussite measuring 11 x 22 mm in size nestled nicely in a vug which is lined by bright-yellow, lustrous, prismatic mimetite crystals. The mimetites average 5 mm in length.
Location: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Scale: 3.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm.
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Muscovite: KAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH,F)2  
Apatite-(CaF): Ca5(PO4)3F  
Beryl: Be3Al2Si6O18  
Apatite: Ca5(PO4)3(OH,F,Cl)

Comments: Pink crystals of fluorapatite with pale blue beryl (aquamarine) on books of muscovite crystals.
Location: Nagar area, Gilgit district, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Scale: 3 x 3 cm.
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Mushistonite: (Cu,Zn,Fe)Sn++++(OH)6  
Kesterite: Cu2(Zn,Fe)SnS4

Comments: Sharp, kesterite crystal, greenish in color due to a mushistonite coating with clear, prismatic beryl crystals.
Location: Xue Bao Diang Mountains, north of Pingwu, Sichuan Province, China. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
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Plagioclase: (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8  
Albite: NaAlSi3O8

Comments: Colorless, lustrous blocky albite crystals to 3 cm in size with a thick dusting of micaceous green micro chlorite.
Location: Acushnet Quarry, Bristol Co., Massachussetts, USA. Scale: 17 x 15 x 7.5 cm matrix.
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Polybasite: [Ag9CuS4] [(Ag,Cu)6(Sb,As)2S7]

Comments: Lustrous, metallic steel-gray rosette of polybasite crystals.
Location: Guanajuato, Mexico. Scale: 18 x 16 x 8 mm.
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Powellite: CaMoO4

Comments: Sharp, thumbnail-sized crystal group of yellowish brown lustrous powellite crystals, the largest measuring 15 x 18 mm in size.
Location: Pandulane quarry, Nasik district, Maharashtra, India. Scale: 20 x 25 x 16 mm.
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Pyrrhotite: Fe(1-x)S (x=0-0.17)

Comments: Lustrous sharp crystals of pyrrhotite to 3.5 cm in size with minor sphalerite and chalcopyrite.
Location: Nikolaevskiy mine, Dal'negors, Primorskiy Kray, Russia. Scale: 4 x 5 x 5.5 cm.
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Rosasite: (Cu,Zn)2(CO3)(OH)2

Comments: Rosasite on malachite after azurite. Blocky crystals of azurite to 2.5 cm in size, completely altered to malachite, then coated by pale sky-blue rosasite.
Location: Silver Bill mine, Gleeson, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: 4 x 7.5 x 2 cm.
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Scolecite: CaAl2Si3O10·3(H2O)

Comments: Delicate cluster spray of colorless transparent acicular crystals of scolecite. The scolecites measure to 3 mm in thickness.
Location: Nasik district, Maharashtra, India. Scale: 5 x 3.5 x 9.5 cm.
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Silver: Ag

Comments: Numerous fine, silver wires to 4 mm in diameter attached to a matrix of massive white calcite and minor sulfides.
Location: Himmelsfahrt mine, near Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Scale: 4 x 4.5 x 6 cm.
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Smithsonite: ZnCO3  
Creedite: Ca3Al2(SO4)(F,OH)10·2(H2O)

Comments: Purple transparent crystals of creedite to 6 mm on matrix of creamy botryoidal crystalline smithsonite.
Location: Level 8 San Antonio mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: 7 x 3.5 x 2 cm.
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Sphalerite: (Zn,Fe)S

Comments: Highly lustrous, black, complex sphalerite crystals to 15 mm in size completely covering the top of a sulfide matrix.
Location: Nanisivik mine, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. Scale: 6.5 x 7.5 x 1.8 cm.
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Stephanite: Ag5SbS4

Comments: Group of steel gray lustrous stephanite crystals to 8 mm in diameter. Caleb Simkoff Collection.
Location: Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Scale: 10 x 12 x 23 mm.
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Stibiconite: Sb+++Sb+++++2O6(OH)

Comments: Yellowish druses of microscopic stibiconite pseudomorphic after sharply terminated stibnite crystals.
Location: Xi Kuang Shang mine, Len Shui Jiang, Hunan Province, China. Scale: 31x11x8 cm.
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Stilbite-Ca: NaCa4[Al8Si28O72]·n(H2O) (n=28-32)  
Thomsonite-Ca: NaCa2Al5Si5O20·6(H2O)

Comments: Peach colored stilbite crystals to 3.5 cm in size is hosting two finely crystallized balls of powdery white thomsonite.
Location: Near Jalgaon, Maharashtra State, India. Scale: Picture size 15 cm.
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