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Russia
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Dal'negorsk.
The famous mines (mainly zinc and lead) of this region are located
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Arsenopyrite
Arsenopyrite XX, up to 1cm long, amongst quartz
XX up to 4cm
12x8cm
Sabytoe Primorie, Dal'negorsk. Urss
Specimen n.453
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Fluorite
Fluorite in complex XX (cube + octahedron + rhombododecahedron), glassy, up tp 2cm, with bright
sphalerite XX.
From the famous mining region in Eastern Russia
9x7cm
Nikolaevskiy mine, Dal'negorsk. Russia
Specimen n.452
2nd photo
3rd photo
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Fluorite
Fluorite XX, trasparent, edge max 1.7cm, on thin gray XX of quartz 2.5cm
8x6cm
Nikolaevskiy mine, Dal'negorsk. Russia
Specimen n.265
2nd photo
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Galena
Galena cubic XX, with skeletal appearance, on a black
sphalerite matrix
8.5x7.5cm
Nikolaevskiy mine, Dal'negorsk. Russia
Specimen n.1028
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Pyrrothine
Hexagonal striated XX, 3cm wide, on matrix
with small quartz XX
6x4cm
Dal'negorsk. Russia
Specimen n.371
Another photo:
entire piece
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Quartz (prase)
Some XX of prase quartz, green (for hedenbergite inclusions) and
opaque, on matrix with andradite
Garnet in XX. The biggest quartz X is 5cm tall
8x8cm
Nikolaevskiy mine, Dal'negorsk. Russia
Specimen n.447
Another photo: a
bigger view
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Other
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Amesite
XX up to 0.5cm covering the rock surface, under the artificial light (it is
gray under the natural light). In the corner, a pseudo-cubic X of yellow Rutile
pseudomorph of Perovskite, 0.6cm of edge
4.5x6cm
Saranovskii mine, Sarany Village, Gorozavod areat, Permskaya Oblast', Urals
region. Russia
Specimen n.617
Another photo: entire
piece
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Glendonite
(?)
This coould be a pseudomorphism of calcite
after Ikaite, usually found associated with glacial marine
deposit, with gray sandstone; Ikaite, the precursor mineral, is very
unstable, it decays and revert back to calcium carbonate.
Glendonite is not a valid IMA species, just a name. Sometimes these
forms of minerals are classified as thinolite, that it is
properly a variety of calcite (that have usually replaced ikaite) but to
identify the minerals is difficult for a collector (ikaite forms in
cold saline waters)
4x4cm
Olenicy Village, Terssky Coast, White
Sea. Russia
Specimen n.357
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Perovskite
XX up to 1.3cm max edge, in Calcite vein embedded in serpentine matrix
10x6cm
Zelentsovkaya Pit, Kusa district,
Magnitks reg., southern Urals. Russia
Specimen n.449
2nd photo
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Titanite
Bright X, 1.5cm tall, in evidence on quartzitic
matrix
6x6cm
Puyua, Urals. Russia
Specimen
n.369
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