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Locality

37432

Topaz crystal on albite (20 x 17 x 11 cm)

Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego Co., California

39098

Bertrandite crystals with rhodochrosite (6 x 3 x 3 cm)

Kara Oba, Kazakhstan

39440-58 19 alluvial sapphire crystals (128 cts.)

El Dorado Bar, Lewis & Clark Co., Montana

41031 faceted red beryl (1.24 ct.)

Red Beryl mine, Beaver Co., Utah

41793 Wulfenite crystals on matrix (11 x 7 x 6 cm)

Red Cloud mine, La Paz Co., Arizona

41796 Macle diamond crystal (4.97 cts.)

Kelsey Lake mine, Larimer Co., Colorado

42502

Microcline, variety amazonite, crystals with smoky quartz (14 x 7 x 6 cm)

Two Point mine, Teller Co., Colorado

43169 Petalite crystal (12 x 6 x 5 cm)

Papuruk, Nuristan, Pakistan

43170 Twinned montebrasite crystal
(12 x 5 x 4 cm)

Minas Gerais, Brazil

43376 Ruby crystal (36.6 cts.)

Mayote mine, Mahenge, Tanzania

43446 Celestine crystals (46 x 36 x 20 cm)

Sakoany mine, Majunga, Madagascar

44221

Azurite crystals on malachite (15 x 11 x 3 cm)

Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona

44222

Malachite (14 x 11 x 11 cm)

Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona

45821

Topaz crystals (10 x 9 x 5 cm)

Zapot mine, Hawthorne, Nevada

45822 Topaz crystals on matrix  (14 x 9 x 9 cm)

Zapot mine, Hawthorne, Nevada

46738 Carletonite crystals (5 x 4 x 3 cm)

Mt. St.-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada

47339 Gold on quartz (9 x 5 x 2 cm)

Frenchman's Adit, Bath district, Placer County, California

49725 Elbaite tourmaline crystal (10 x 4 x 3 cm)

Paprock, Kunar, Afghanistan

50279 Helvite (15 x 7 x 7 cm)

Leichang, Guangdong Prov., China

51836 Diamond crystal (8 x 7 x 5 mm, 2.57 carats)

Maria Nunes mine, Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil

51903-4 2 sapphire crystals (5 x 2 x 2 cm each)

Ratnapura, Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka

52276 Aragonite (59 x 45 x 31 cm)

Hulukou copper mine, Sichuan Prov., China

52389 Epidote (21 x 10 x 8 cm)

Northern Frontier, Kenya

52797 Carrollite (5 x 3 x 2 cm)

Kambove Pit, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo

54287 Gold (6 x 4 x 2 cm; 3.82 oz. troy)

Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, Brazil

55553
with 55554
Painite (2.1 x 1.4 x 1.4 cm)

Wetloo mine, Ohngaing, Mandalay, Myanmar

55554 Painite (5 x 4 x 2 mm; 0.47 carat)

Wetloo mine, Ohngaing, Mandalay, Myanmar

55579 Liddicoatite slice (22 x 17 x 0.7 cm)

Anjanabonoina mine, Antsirabe, Antananarivo, Madagascar


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