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TC120MT

Brilliant Azurite crystal with a very vivid color and a habit between tabular and short prismatic, with polycrystalline growths on the faces.

Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco

Specimen size: 2.8 x 2.6 x 1.7 cm

TC260ED

Twinned crystal of Sphalerite (variety marmatite) on matrix with very well defined faces and edges. It occurs with Pyrite crystals with a deformed cubic habit and with other Pyrites that are pseudomorphs after hexagonal Pyrrhotite crystals.

Stan Trg (Stan Terg, Stari Trg) Mine, Trepča Complex, Trepča Valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica District Kosovo (2012)

Specimen size: 9.1 x 7.3 x 7.4 cm

Main crystal size: 4.4 x 3.4 cm

TC1100TP

Large group of Quartz crystals (smoky variety), one of them clearly dominant, with very visible twists and parallel gwindel-like growths, with good luster and a deep color and good transparency.

Aiguille de l'Eboulement, Les Petites Jorasses, Mont Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (2015)

Specimen size: 20.7 x 11.4 x 10.6 cm

Main crystal size: 17.4 x 8.1 cm

TC150MH

Lustrous yellowish green crystals of Pyromorphite with a barrel-shaped habit, on a Quartz matrix, with recrystallizations of light yellow-brown Mimetite. It comes from a classic French locality that has been reopened for specimen production.

La Vidale Mine area, Asprières, Saint-Martin de Bouillac, Aveyron, Occitanie France (2008)

Specimen size: 5.3 x 4.2 x 4.5 cm

Main crystal size: 0.4 x 0.4 cm