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Kazakhstan
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Dioptase
XX up to 1.2cm on matrix
6.5x5cm
Altyn-Tyube deposit, Kirghiz Steppes (Asiatic Steppes),
Karaganda prov. Kazakhstan
Specimen n.672
Another photo:
bigger view
Another photo:
detail of bigger X
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Fluorite
Beautiful single X, edge up to 4cm (the X is 6cm tall) on quartz
in biterminated XX up to 6,8cm long.
From the Greisen tungsten-molybdenum deposit
in Kazakhstan
11x9cm
Kara-Oba W deposit, Betpakdala Desert, Karaganda prov. Kazakhstan
Specimen n.768
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Gmelinite-Ca
Pseudomorph gmelinite, rich in Ca, after XX
of "chabazite", some yellow stilbite spherules
13x8cm
Sokolovskoe iron mine, Rudnyi Altai,
Kostanay prov. Kazakhstan
Specimen n.410
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Stellerite with
"chabazite"
Detail of a specimen with isolated balls of bright
golden-orange stellerite XX (up to 1.5cm
wide) on white matrix; same isolated aggregate of pink "chabazite" XX
12x7cm
Sokolovskoe iron mine, Rudnyi Altai,
Kostanay prov.
Kazakhstan
Specimen
n.356
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