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Mineral Display Variety ~20 [147830]

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Mineral Display Variety ~20 [147830]
Mineral Display Variety ~20 [147830]
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A nice variety of small hand specimens: "Gobi Stone" chalcedony -- an oddly shaped piece of amorphous quartz, shaped by wind and water erosion into unusual forms, this one is 4.25 x 3.5 x 2"; a matrix of small quartz crystals and druzy quartz from which a half-inch single quartz crystal protrudes, 2.25 x 1.75 x 1.5"; a metamorphic rock made up of fine-grained greenish epidote with a few larger (1/4 x 3/8") black crystals of horneblende, 2.75 x 2.0 x 1.5"; single quartz crystal with inclusions, 2.75 x 2.25 x 1.5"; single quartz crystal which has been highly polished and rounded to better show a bubble inclusion marked in black circle, 1.75 x 1.75 x 1.25"; two unpolished quartz crystals with marked bubble inclusions, 2 x 1.25 x 1" and 1.5 x 1.25 x 1"; water-clear fluorite cubes up to 1/2", whole piece is 1.75 x 1.25 x 1"; another "Gobi Stone" chalcedony, 2.5x 1.25 x 1.25"; cluster of small quartz crystals attached to two fairly clear, intersecting calcite(?) crystals of atypical form; doubly-terminated smoky quartz single crystal with inclusions, one bubble marked with black circle, 3 x 1.5 x 1.25"; two clear quartz crystals, one doubly-terminated with inclusions, 1.75 x 1.25 x 0.75", and the other at two single crystals joined at the waist and slightly offset, also with inclusions, 2.25 x 1.25 x 1"; greyish-clear fluorite cubes up to 1/2" across with some sharp blades of clear-tan calcite, 2 x 1.75 x 1.5"; malachite, 1.5 x 1.5 x 1.25"; small box of about 9 pieces of malachite, each 3/4" to 1" across; small cluster of clear quartz crystals with large flecks of green epidote, 2.5 x 1.25 x 1.25"; three Herkimer Diamonds (doubly-terminated quartz crystals), one slightly smoky, other two are water-clear, each about 1" diameter and from 1.5" to 1.75" long; large, single quartz crystal with marked inclusion, 3.3 x 2.5 x 2.5"; clear piece of smoky quartz which has been polished to better show inclusions, 4 x 2.5 x 1.75"; small box of numerous pieces of azurite (~two dozen) from 3/8" to 1" across; black, tabular hematite crystals with thin quartz crystals attached, 1 x 1 x 1"; two pair of polished magnetite shaped into long prolate spheroids, a.k.a. "rattlesnake eggs" that you toss into the air and they collide and rattle vigorously before you catch them. Known localities include: Quartz - Sichuan Province; Fluorite - Hunan Province; Azurite - Yunnan Province; Malachite - Yunnan Province; Qtz w/Hematite - Jiangxi Province; Calcite - Hunan Province. City: State: Date:
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Mineral Display Variety ~20 [147830]

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