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"Amethyste with iron oxide from Altenberg, Saxony" (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
"Amethyste with iron oxide fr
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"Cone sand" - gravel cementated by carbonate solution as a 13 cm wide figure from Ochsenhausen near Ulm, Baden-Württemberg. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
"Cone sand" - gravel cem
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"Menakan" - an old German name for ilmenite and sanidine from Laacher See, Eifel mtns. 1840s Senckenberg museum label. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
"Menakan" - an old Germa
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"Phosphorkupfer" - an old German name for pseudomalachite from the type locality. Dating from 1864. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
"Phosphorkupfer" - an ol
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"Porcelaine jasper", a mixture of indialite, mullite and other minerals. Old sample (4 cm) from Planitz, Zwickau, Saxony. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
"Porcelaine jasper", a m
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"Porzellanjaspis" (porcelaine jasper) - a mixture of indialite, mullite, quartz and clay minerals is often found on burning coal dumps or in basalt rocks. The shown one is a very old sample from Planitz near Zwickau, Saxony (5 cm). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
"Porzellanjaspis" (porce
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"Pseudoapatite", a pseudo of apatite after pyromorphite appearing as greyish crystals up to 4 mm on baryte matrix from the Churprinz Friedrich August mine, Großschirma, Freiberg district, Saxony. The more famous German locality for "pseudoapatites" is the Lorenz Gegentrum dump, Halsbrücke, Freiberg district, Saxony. With Bergakademie Freiberg label (1930). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
"Pseudoapatite", a pseud
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"Rabbit-ear"-gypsum from the Tonberg claypit, Bad Freienwalde, Brandenburg. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
"Rabbit-ear"-gypsum from
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"Tigererz" - ankerite with minor intergrown argentite: 8,5 cm sample from Himmelfahrt mine, Freiberg, Saxony. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
"Tigererz" - ankerite wi
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...and yet another one from Philadelphia Academy. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
...and yet another one from Philad
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...in 1845 man found out that the material is quite suitable for staining. With the help of various chemical substances in a rather complicated procedure the famous "German Lapis" came into being. Most of the rings, necklaces, brooches, even ashtrays and clocks were exported to the USA. The jasper mining ended in the 1970s. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
...in 1845 man found out that the
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...with old Krantz label... (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
...with old Krantz label...
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1 mm belendorffite grain from Moschellandsberg, Rhineland-Palatinate (type locality). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
1 mm belendorffite grain from Mosc
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1 mm uranospinite plate on hematite from the Hartkoppe quarry, Sailauf, Spessart mtns., Hesse. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
1 mm uranospinite plate on hematit
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12 cm smoky quartz crystal from Bärenstein, Bad Harzburg, Harz mtns. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
12 cm smoky quartz crystal from Bä
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13 cm wide amethyste geode from Juchem quarry, Niederwörresbach, Rhineland-Palatinate. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
13 cm wide amethyste geode from Ju
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1846 Senckenberg museum label of a galena from Fahr near Neuwied, Eifel mtns. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
1846 Senckenberg museum label of a
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1850s Senckenberg museum label of a galena from Siegen, Westphalia. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
1850s Senckenberg museum label of
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1894 label of a goslarite from the type locality. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
1894 label of a goslarite from the
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18th century label (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
18th century label
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1936 Bender collection label of a malachite from Neubulach, Black Forest. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
1936 Bender collection label of a
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1940s Fritz Schell (Bad Lauterberg) label of a whewellite from the Glückauf shaft, Burgk near Dresden, Saxony (type locality). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
1940s Fritz Schell (Bad Lauterberg
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1940s Hermann Kraft (Berlin) label of a klaprothite (mixture of wittichenite and emplectite) from Daniel mine, Wittichen, Black Forest (type locality). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
1940s Hermann Kraft (Berlin) label
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2 cm baryte aggregate from Vertrau auf Gott shaft, Himmelsfürst mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg district, Saxony. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
2 cm baryte aggregate from Vertrau
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2 mm tabular melilite crystal with green pyroxene, nepheline and apatite needles - "classic" paragenesis from Löhley quarry, Üdersdorf, Eifel. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
2 mm tabular melilite crystal with
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2 mm uranophane spray on quartz from a rather unusual locality: 235 shaft near Antonshöhe, Breitenbrunn district, Erzgebirge, Saxony. The Breitenbrunn district is known for some nice skarn minerals (as garnets ore rare borate minerals like ludwigite). But also silver veins occured and - uranium minerals. But the latter you normally don´t see any grain of on mineral market... (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
2 mm uranophane spray on quartz fr
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2,2 cm copper sheet from Reichenbach mine, Hohenstein near Reichenbach, Odenwald, Hesse. Some 30, 40 years ago you could pick sheets up to 10 cm out of the dump of this mine... (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
2,2 cm copper sheet from Reichenba
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25 cm Agate from St. Egidien near Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Saxony. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
25 cm Agate from St. Egidien near
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3 cm Pyrite floater aggregate (cubooctahedral crystals) from the "Calcite" quarry, Holzen, Sauerland, Westphalia. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
3 cm Pyrite floater aggregate (cub
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3 cm wolframite plate on smoky quarz crystal from Zinnwald, Erzgebirge, Saxony. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
3 cm wolframite plate on smoky qua
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3 mm faujasite octahedron (covered with manganese oxides). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
3 mm faujasite octahedron (covered
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3,5 cm galena crystal from Alter Grimberg mine, Niederdielfen, Siegerland. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
3,5 cm galena crystal from Alter G
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3,5 cm galena sample from Prophet Samuel mine (1780), Bleifeld district, Zellerfeld, Harz. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
3,5 cm galena sample from Prophet
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3,5 cm kutnahorite aggregate from Kaiser Wilhelm shaft, Bülten-Adenstedt, Lower Saxony. In my opinion one of the world´s best kutnahorite locations. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
3,5 cm kutnahorite aggregate from
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3,5 cm malachite aggregate on quartz from the Clara mine near Oberwolfach, Black Forest. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
3,5 cm malachite aggregate on quar
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4 cm "Baveno twin" of orthoclase from the Ochsenkopf quarry, Fichtelberg, Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
4 cm "Baveno twin" of or
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4 cm copper "tree" from Käusersteimel mine, Kausen, Siegerland. This mine is also known for excellent cuprite crystals. I´ve loved this piece since I saw it first time! (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
4 cm copper "tree" from
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4 cm marcasite aggregate from the Anna quarry, Lethmate, Sauerland, Westphalia. This quarry is regionally known for a small copper ore vein that gave nice malachite sprays a couple of years ago. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
4 cm marcasite aggregate from the
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5 cm chalcedony aggregate from Helmstedt, Lower Saxony. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
5 cm chalcedony aggregate from Hel
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5 cm gypsum crystal from Hordorf near Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. The crystal was found when the railway location line "Weddeler Schleife" was constructed in 1997. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
5 cm gypsum crystal from Hordorf n
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5 cm pectolite sample from the Kreimbach quarry, Niedernkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
5 cm pectolite sample from the Kre
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6 cm galena crystal from Bleiwäsche near Brilon, Sauerland, Westphalia. Some 20 or 30 years ago this location gave galena cubes up to 20 cm! (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
6 cm galena crystal from Bleiwäsch
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6 mm ferristrunzite spray from a very rare locality: Langes Tal (long valley) near Neustadt, Harz. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
6 mm ferristrunzite spray from a v
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6 x 5 cm brown grossulare from Hohe Waid near Schriesheim, Odenwald, Baden-Württemberg. It´s not a beauty, however, but for a German locality this is a huge garnet crystal. Maybe there are more but I only know a single German place that gave bigger garnets: Irchenrieth near Weiden, Bavaria. By 1900 almandin crystals up to 20 cm in diameter were found in a pegmatite mine. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
6 x 5 cm brown grossulare from Hoh
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6,5 cm long copper sheet, almost entirely replaced by tiny cuprite octahedrons and malachite. From Mina mine, Niedermarsberg, Sauerland, Westphalia. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
6,5 cm long copper sheet, almost e
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6,5 cm malachite sample from Bautenberg mine near Neunkirchen, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
6,5 cm malachite sample from Baute
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8 cm red hematite "bill" from Rehhübel near Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
8 cm red hematite "bill"
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A 1940 label (former Vogel collection) of an Eifel hauyne. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A 1940 label (former Vogel collect
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A 4 cm "Karlsbad twin" of sanidite in trachyte matrix from Ölberg, Siebengebirge, Rhineland - not far from the sanidite type locality Drachenfels. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A 4 cm "Karlsbad twin" o
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A christmas tree of gypsum - found at the Hammerthal (southern) claypit, Bad Freienwalde, Brandenburg. 6,5 cm high tree. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A christmas tree of gypsum - found
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A classic locality for siderite is Lobenstein in Thuringia. This is where the shown oldtimer is from: dark brown crystals with some pyrite scattered on. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A classic locality for siderite is
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A classic locality for wavellite is the Wachtelberg quarry, Langenstriegis, Freiberg district, Erzgebirge, Saxony. 5 cm high specimen. In this quarry grey, yellow, green and blue wavellites occured. A nearly black variety was named "Striegisan". (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A classic locality for wavellite i
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A detail of the vivianite crystal (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A detail of the vivianite crystal
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A famous location for German barytes is Zobes, Voigtland, Saxony. That´s where these nice platy crystals (up to 2 cm) with marcasite covering on smoky quartz come from. Not as famous as Pöhla barytes but in my opinion the best Zobes pieces can compete with. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A famous location for German baryt
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A good sample with greenish brown sphalerite crystals and some quartz. Old find (7 cm) from Lautenthal, Harz. There you can find nice crystals even today. But the shown quality I never saw during my visits on the dumps, so I had to buy this nice oldtimer... (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A good sample with greenish brown
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A hardly unknown locality for barytes is the Piesberg sandstone quarry, Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. The picture shows white plates up to 1 cm on quartz layer in sandstone (a 2001 find). Even pale blue crystals have been found. However, the quarry is far more reputated among fossil collectors. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A hardly unknown locality for bary
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A kind of my hobbyhorse are German precious stones like this clear quartz (2.5 ct) from the Ossling quarry near Hoyerswerda, Saxony. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A kind of my hobbyhorse are German
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A label of Charles Otley Groom-Napier ("Museum M&M") of a hematite from Schlema, Saxony. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A label of Charles Otley Groom-Nap
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A nice galena from Neudorf/Harz is hard to get, though. Nevertheless I´d say that getting a good fluorite from there is even harder. I bought this specimen with the declaration "Schönbrunn, Voigtland". But in fact it is an old classic from Neudorf with typical siderite and quartz crystals on the pale blue cubes as well as some sphalerite and galena in the shist matrix. Former collection of Bergdirector Geipel/Eisleben, dating from 1921 (without label, unfortunately). The cubes measure up to 2,5 cm. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A nice galena from Neudorf/Harz is
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A real German classic are these erythrite sprays (approx. 2,5 cm in diamater) in quartz vugs from Daniel mine, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony (type locality). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A real German classic are these er
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A simple label (about 1900) of a quartz crystal from Segen Gottes mine, Gersdorf, Saxony. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A simple label (about 1900) of a q
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A Stassfurt boracite label of the saxonian mineral dealer Albin Jahn/Plauen. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A Stassfurt boracite label of the
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A superb specimen for local collectors: very old antimonite ore in quartz from the Alte Hoffnung Gottes mine, Kleinvoigtsberg, Saxony (9 cm wide). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A superb specimen for local collec
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A very rare pseudo: asbolane after calcite crystals on quartz from the Gott segne beständig mine, Spitzleithe, Schneeberg district, Erzgebirge, Saxony (type locality of lithiophorite!). The mine produced a lot of pseudo´s in the old days, even very unusual ones like manganese oxide after pyromorphite. They are mentioned in the famous mineralogical lexicon of the saxonian localities by August Frenzel (1874). The shown 5 cm wide specimen comes from the well-known Bally-Prior collection of Schönenwerd, Switzerland. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
A very rare pseudo: asbolane after
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About 1920. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
About 1920.
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About 3 cm measuring ulexite nodule (so-called "cotton ball") in massive anhydrite. Sample from the first place ulexite was found in Germany, the Niederellenbach quarry near Rothenburg, Hesse. From the collection of Sigmund Koritnig who described the mineral from Niederellenbach. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
About 3 cm measuring ulexite nodul
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Achat (Oberschlottwitz).jpg (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Achat (Oberschlottwitz).jpg
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Added Fritz Schell collection label (1948) with a nice slip of the pen: topaz from zöblitz (later corrected). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Added Fritz Schell collection labe
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Agate
Karrenberg quarry, Reichweiler, Hunsrück, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
6 x 4 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Agate
Karrenberg quarry, Reichweil
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Agate
Karrenberg quarry, Reichweiler, Hunsrück, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
6 x 4 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Agate
Karrenberg quarry, Reichweil
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Agate
Ratsbruch quarry, Hartmannsdorf, Chemnitz, Saxony.
7,5 x 5,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Agate
Ratsbruch quarry, Hartmannsd
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Agate
Dittmannsdorf Quarry, Penig, Mittelsachsen, Granulitgebirge, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
4,5 x 4 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Agate
Dittmannsdorf Quarry, Pe
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Albert Edward Foote label (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Albert Edward Foote label
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Albite twins up to 2 cm from Isselbach quarry, Rupbachtal near Katzenelnbogen, Hesse. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Albite twins up to 2 cm from Issel
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Alexandre Stuer label (1890) of a Schneeberg chloanthite. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Alexandre Stuer label (1890) of a
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Allophane
Germsbach, Baden-Baden, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
7 x 4,5 cm
About 1850 Germsbach was a well-known German locality for Allophane. Today... (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Allophane
Germsbach, Baden-Baden,
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Almandine
Ansprung, Zöblitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
2 cm crystal (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Almandine
Ansprung, Zöblitz, Erzge
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Almandine crystals up to 8 mm (some in calcite matrix). Old find from Dr. Linck marble mine, Auerbach, Hesse. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Almandine crystals up to 8 mm (som
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Although Berlin and Brandenburg are not even blessed with mineral deposits we have... amber! At some places masses of them but deep in the ground;-) Sometimes they raise up to daylight like this classic specimen (about 7 cm in width) from the gravel pit at the Pinnower Bernsteinsee (amber lake, sic!) near Velten, Brandenburg. The old pit is today a lake where you can waterski... (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Although Berlin and Brandenburg ar
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Alunite
Altenbach clay pit, Wurzen, Saxony, Germany.
5 x 4 cm
With Carl Droop label (1880-1890). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Alunite
Altenbach clay pit, Wurzen
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Amazonite
Hilbersdorf quarry, Königshain, Görlitz, Upper Lusatia, Saxony, Germany
8,5 x 6 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amazonite
Hilbersdorf quarry, Köni
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Amber
Frohe Zukunft coal mine, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
4 x 3 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amber
Frohe Zukunft coal mine, Hal
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Amber
Schwarzbach, Ruhland, Brandenburg, Germany.
9 x 8 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amber
Schwarzbach, Ruhland, Brande
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Amber
Thorwaldsenstraße, Steglitz, Berlin, Germany
5,2 x 2,6 cm
Found in the late 1970s during the construction of a house. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amber
Thorwaldsenstraße, Steglitz,
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Amber (variety siegburgite)
Vierneberg sand pit, Siegburg, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis District, Bonn, Rhineland (Rheinland), North Rhine-Westphalia/Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
5,5 x 3,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amber (variety siegburgite)
Vi
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Amber
Limestone quarries, Stienitzsee Lake, Rüdersdorf, Märkisch-Oderland, Brandenburg, Germany
4,5 x 4 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amber
Limestone quarries, Stie
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Amber
Postfenn Pit, Grunewald, Berlin, Germany
4 x 3,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amber
Postfenn Pit, Grunewald,
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Amber
Espenhain coal pit, Espenhain, Leipzig District, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
8,5 x 3,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amber
Espenhain coal pit, Espe
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Amberg-Etikett I (Opal Freiberg).JPG (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amberg-Etikett I (Opal Freiberg).J
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Amberg-Etikett I (Zellquarz Halsbrücke).JPG (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amberg-Etikett I (Zellquarz Halsbr
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Amberg-Etikett II (Holzopal Freiberg).JPG (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amberg-Etikett II (Holzopal Freibe
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Amethyst
Heidelbach, Purschenstein, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
4 x 3,5 cm
The legendary "Purschenstein amethyst", a Saxonian rarity. The colour of that material is distinctive. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amethyst
Heidelbach, Purschenstein
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Amethyst (Plauenscher Grund).JPG (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amethyst (Plauenscher Grund).JPG
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Amethyst crystals from Kirschbaum Stehender vein, 11th level, Himmelfahrt mine near Freiberg, Saxony. 7 cm wide sample. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Amethyst crystals from Kirschbaum
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An 18th century find: chalkopyrite in ankerite from Freiberg, Saxony (probably from the Junge Hohe Birke mine). 12 cm sample with Naturaliensammlung Amberg label. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
An 18th century find: chalkopyrite
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An extremely rare location: octahedron-like anhydrite crystals in a vial from the Conow potash mine, Lübtheen near Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Most collectors do not believe that there have been potash mines in Mecklenburg. But around 1920 there worked three mines on a small salt dome which has been developed in a lime quarry. There is not much been published about these potash mines and in fact there are no mineral pictures on web... (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
An extremely rare location: octahe
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An old Wölsendorf/Bavaria fluorite (which was bleached over the years...) with some baryte from the seldom documented location Staatsbruch quarry. 9 cm sample. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
An old Wölsendorf/Bavaria fluorite
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Analcime
Diekmann clay pit, Duingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
30 x 17 cm, crystals up to 2 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Analcime
Diekmann clay pit, Duinge
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Analcime
Samson mine, St. Andreasberg, Harz mtns., Lower Saxony, Germany
Sample width: 8 cm
With H. Fischer label. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Analcime
Samson mine, St. Andreasb
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Analcime
Samson mine, St. Andreasberg, Harz mtns., Lower Saxony, Germany
1-2 mm crystals (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Analcime
Samson mine, St. Andreasb
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Analcime
Richter Quarry, Hammerunterwiesenthal, Oberwiesenthal, Niederschlag-Bärenstein District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
7,2 x 6,2 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Analcime
Richter Quarry, Hamme
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Ancient french label (about 1860), probably from the famous dealer Louis Saemann/Paris. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Ancient french label (about 1860),
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And, of course, the hematite in person: tabular crystals up to 4 mm. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
And, of course, the hematite in pe
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Andalusite
Hohenbogen near Furth im Wald, Bavaria, Germany
3,5 cm
Andalusite crystal in quartz and gneiss matrix (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Andalusite
Hohenbogen near Furth
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Andalusite var. chiastolite
Gefrees, Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria, Germany.
8 x 6 cm
Old material from one of the most famous German andalusite localities, former August Krantz material (1870). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Andalusite var. chiastolite
Gefree
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Andradite crystals from Kottengrün near Oelsnitz, Vogtland, Saxony. Sample width 7 cm. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Andradite crystals from Kottengrün
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Andradite from Sparnberg near Hohefels, Thuringia. The red crystal measures 1,5 cm. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Andradite from Sparnberg near Hohe
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Anglesite
Friedrich mine, Wissen, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
8 mm crystal (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Anglesite
Friedrich mine, Wissen,
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Anglesite crystal (1 cm) on limonite matrix from Friedrich mine, Wissen, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate. Ex Salomon-Calvi collection. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Anglesite crystal (1 cm) on limoni
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Anglesite label (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Anglesite label
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Anglesite, Cerussite, Galena
Gertrud Mine, Tanne, Oberharz am Brocken, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt/Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Largest crystal: 1 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Anglesite, Cerussite, Galena
G
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Anhydrit (Salzgitter).jpg (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Anhydrit (Salzgitter).jpg
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Anhydrite
Conow shaft, Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany
4 - 6 mm crystals (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Anhydrite
Conow shaft, Ludwigslust
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Another BAF label of a zircone from Niedermendig, Eifel mtns. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Another BAF label of a zircone fro
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Another good locality in Brandenburg are the claypits around Bad Freienwalde, some 80 km in the east of Berlin. There come very good gypsum samples, occuring in christmas tree-like aggregates up to 40 cm. From the northern claypit is this cute specimen with greenish calcite on lime stone. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Another good locality in Brandenbu
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Another mineral which is widespread in northern Germany is flintstone. Some collectors do not understand why to pick up that stuff... But if they are as pretty as the shown zebra-like stone from the Segeberg forest near Bad Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein it is worth it, I would say. 10 cm sample from a 1975 find. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Another mineral which is widesprea
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Another Piesberg specimen is this aragonite on clay shist. Picture width: 9 cm. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Another Piesberg specimen is this
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Another rare design of a Bergakademie label is this one of a Bad Ems pyromorphite (from Friedrichssegen mine). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Another rare design of a Bergakade
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Another Sonnenwirbel opale with 1920s label (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Another Sonnenwirbel opale with 19
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Another systematic killer: native selenium with sulfur in vial (as old as the hills...) from the known selenium mineral locality Tilkerode, Harz (type locality of naumannite and eskebornite and - as some experts say - even clausthalite). The vial is about 5,5 cm in length. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Another systematic killer: native
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ANSP-label (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
ANSP-label
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Anthophyllite asbestos from the Kuhlenberg quarry, Silbach, Sauerland, Westphalia. About 8,5 cm in width. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Anthophyllite asbestos from the Ku
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Antimonite crystals up to 1 cm on quartz matrix. Very old sample from Brandholz-Goldkronach (in the old days district of Bayreuth or "Baireuth" as the label tells), Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Antimonite crystals up to 1 cm on
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Antimonite crystals up to 3,5 cm from the Caspari mine, Arnsberg, Sauerland, Westphalia. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Antimonite crystals up to 3,5 cm f
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Antimonite needles (5-20 mm) on quartz crystals from Bautenberg mine, Neunkirchen, Siegerland. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Antimonite needles (5-20 mm) on qu
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Apatite
Einigkeiter mine, Sauberg, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
6 x 4 cm
Old specimen from the 1850s. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Apatite
Einigkeiter mine, Sauberg,
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Apatite, quartz, pyrite
Kupfergrube mine, Sadisdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.
10 x 6,5 cm
Blue crystals up to 9 mm, excellent material for that locality! (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Apatite, quartz, pyrite
Kupfergrub
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Apatite, var. staffelite
Wilhelmine mine, Dehrn, Nassau, Hesse, Germany.
10 x 9 cm
Same specimen, old label on backside (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Apatite, var. staffelite
Wilhelmin
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Apatite, var. staffelite
Wilhelmine mine, Dehrn, Nassau, Hesse, Germany.
10 x 9 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Apatite, var. staffelite
Wilhelmin
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Apatite
Pente Pit, Osnabrück, Osnabrück District, Lower Saxony/Niedersachsen, Germany
7 mm crystal (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Apatite
Pente Pit, Osnabrück,
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Aphthitalite with Syngenite and - propably - Görgeyite in 7 cm glass vial with original label and box. From Volkenroda potash mine, Menteroda, Thuringia. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Aphthitalite with Syngenite and -
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Apophyllite (Series), Calcite, Julgoldite (Series)
Andesite Quarry, Kreimbach-Kaulbach, Lauterecken-Wolfstein, Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
5 x 4 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Apophyllite (Series), Calcite, Julgoldite (Series)
Andesite Quarry, Kreimbach-Kaulbach, Lauterecken-Wolfstein, Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rhe
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Aquamarine
Irfersgrün, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany.
1,1 x 0,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Aquamarine
Irfersgrün, Vogtland, S
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Aragonit (Niedersachswerfen).JPG (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Aragonit (Niedersachswerfen).JPG
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Aragonite
Leilenkopf quarry, Nickenich, Eifel, Germany.
6 x 3,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Aragonite
Leilenkopf quarry, Nicke
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Aragonite (var. flos ferri)
Philippshoffnung Mine, Siegen, Siegen-Wittgenstein District, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia/Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
60 x 55 x 45 mm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Aragonite (var. flos ferri)
Ph
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Aragonite (variety flos ferri)
Storch und Schöneberg Mine, Gosenbach, Siegen, Siegen-Wittgenstein District, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia/Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
3,5 x 3 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Aragonite (variety flos ferri)
Storch und Schöneberg Mine, Gosenbach, Siegen, Siegen-Wittgenstein District, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia/Nordrhein-Westfalen, German
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Aragonite var. flos ferri
Merkur mine, Bad Ems, Taunus, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
7,5 x 6,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Aragonite var. flos ferri
Merkur m
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Aragonite var. flos ferri
Neugeboren Kindlein mine, Stenn, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany
5 x 3,5 cm
Ex Bergakademie Freiberg stock (1850s). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Aragonite var. flos ferri
Neugebor
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Aragonite var. flos ferri
Pfingstwiese mine, Bad Ems, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
7,5 x 6,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Aragonite var. flos ferri
Pfingstw
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Aragonite
Schlüsselstollen adit, Klostermansfeld, Mansfeld-Südharz District, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt/Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
82 x 67 x 18 mm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Aragonite
Schlüsselstollen ad
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Argentit (Freiberg).JPG (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Argentit (Freiberg).JPG
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Arsenic
Wenzel mine, Oberwolfach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
4,3 x 2,2 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Arsenic
Wenzel mine, Oberwolfach,
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Arsenic, nat.
Himmelsfürst mine, Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.
7 x 4 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Arsenic, nat.
Himmelsfürst mine, F
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Arsenolith (St. Andreasberg).JPG (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Arsenolith (St. Andreasberg).JPG
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Arsenopyrite
Neuer Morgenstern Mine, Muldenhütten, Freiberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
Crystals up to 2 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Arsenopyrite
Neuer Morgenstern
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As I saw this azurite first, I thought: gosh! What a colour! There´s no PhotoShop "addition". Old 6 cm wide sample from Kamsdorf near Saalfeld, Thuringia. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
As I saw this azurite first, I tho
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Augite crystals in gneiss matrix from Sayda, Saxony. Specimen width: 8,5 cm. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Augite crystals in gneiss matrix f
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Autunite
Heilmann quarry, Kirchberg, Saxony, Germany.
2 x 1,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Autunite
Heilmann quarry, Kirchber
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Autunite crystals up to 5 mm from Schlossberg granite quarry, Flossenbürg, Bavaria. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Autunite crystals up to 5 mm from
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Autunite
Rockelmann Quarry, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
5,5 x 3 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Autunite
Rockelmann Quarry, Sc
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Autunite
Leipziger Glück Mine, Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
4,5 x 3,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Autunite
Leipziger Glück Mine
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Azurit (Cornberg).JPG (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Azurit (Cornberg).JPG
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Azurite
Güte Gottes mine, Mechernich, Eifel, Germany
6,5 cm
Small azurite aggregates on sandstone. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Azurite
Güte Gottes mine, Mecherni
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Azurite
Neubulach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
8 x 6 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Azurite
Neubulach, Black Forest, B
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Azurite
Schmitt quarry, Altenmittlau, Hesse, Germany.
2,5 cm crystal aggregate (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Azurite
Schmitt quarry, Altenmittl
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Azurite crystal on grey calcite from a classic German azurite location - Thalitter, Hesse. Picture width: 5 mm. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Azurite crystal on grey calcite fr
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Azurite, Malachite
Altväter samt Eschig mine, Sayda, southern Freiberg district, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.
9 x 5 cm
Kidney-like malachite covered by azurite crystals. Good specimen for that locality. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Azurite, Malachite
Altväter samt E
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Azurite, malachite
Kronprinz mine, Kamsdorf, Thuringia, Germany
6 x 4 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Azurite, malachite
Kronprinz mine,
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Azurite, malachite
Ueckermünde, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
10 x 7,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Azurite, malachite
Ueckermünde, Me
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Azurite, malachite
Ueckermünde, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany
11 x 8 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Azurite, malachite
Ueckermünde, Me
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Azurite, Malachite
Stahlberg Mine, Trusetal, Floh-Seligenthal, Schmalkalden-Meiningen District, Thuringia/Thüringen, Germany
10,5 x 6 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Azurite, Malachite
Stahlberg M
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Azurite
Schmitt dolomite Quarry, Altenmittlau, Freigericht, Main-Kinzig-Kreis District, Spessart, Hesse/Hessen, Germany
2 cm crystal aggregate (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Azurite
Schmitt dolomite Quarr
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BAF-Etikett (Christophit Breitenbrunn).jpg (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
BAF-Etikett (Christophit Breitenbr
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BAF-Etikett Cerussit Bad Ems.jpg (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
BAF-Etikett Cerussit Bad Ems.jpg
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BAF-Etikett Fichtelit.jpg (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
BAF-Etikett Fichtelit.jpg
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Banded fluorite with quartz (polished) from Schwemmpfennig Erbstolln, Muldenhütten, Freiberg district, Saxony. Picture width: 15 cm. There are, I think, only two specimens existing. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Banded fluorite with quartz (polis
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Barite with minor cinnabar inclusions
Clarashall mine, Baumholder, Hunsrück, Germany
Up to 3 cm
Colourless baryte crystals with minor cinnabar inclusions (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Barite with minor cinnabar inclusi
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Barite, Dolomite, Hematite
Schlema-Hartenstein District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
6 x 4 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Barite, Dolomite, Hematite
Sch
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Barite, Dolomite, Hematite
Schlema-Hartenstein District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
6 x 4 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Barite, Dolomite, Hematite
Sch
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Barite, fluorite
Erika Mine, Säulnhof, Stulln, Wölsendorf West District, Upper Palatinate/Oberpfalz, Bavaria/Bayern, Germany
6 x 5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Barite, fluorite
Erika Mine, S
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Barite
Bärenstein Quarry, Altenberg, Weißeritzkreis District, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
4,5 x 4 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Barite
Bärenstein Quarry, Alt
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Baryt (Großschirma).jpg (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryt (Großschirma).jpg
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Baryte
Altenberg mine, Müsen, Siegerland, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany
7,5 x 6,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Altenberg mine, Müsen, Sieg
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Baryte
Beihilfe mine, Halsbrücke, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
12 x 8 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Beihilfe mine, Halsbrücke,
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Baryte
Christian Levin coal mine, Essen, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany.
7 x 5,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Christian Levin coal mine,
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Baryte
Herzog August zu Randeck mine, Mulda, Freiberg district, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
9,5 x 7 cm
Very large crystals for that mine. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Herzog August zu Randeck mi
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Baryte
Iberg, Bad Grund, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany
6 x 6 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Iberg, Bad Grund, Harz, Low
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Baryte
Karlstollen mine, Badenweiler, Black Forest, Germany
Specimen width: 6,5 cm.
Pale blue baryte xls (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Karlstollen mine, Badenweil
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Baryte
Reust mine, Ronneburg, Thuringia, Germany
5,5 x 3,8 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Reust mine, Ronneburg, Thur
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Baryte (blue)
Dorothea mine, Clausthal, Harz mtns., Lower Saxony, Germany.
6 x 5,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte (blue)
Dorothea mine, Claus
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Baryte, ankerite
Jupiter Stehender vein, Himmelsfürst mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg district, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.
6 x 5 cm
Neat cabinet with yellow tabular crystals on ankerite matrix from an 1982 find. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte, ankerite
Jupiter Stehender
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Baryte, Chalcopyrite
Dreislar Mine, Dreislar, Winterberg, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia/Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
12 x 10 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte, Chalcopyrite
Dreislar
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Baryte, fluorite
Inselt shaft, Frohnau, Annaberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
5 x 3,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte, fluorite
Inselt shaft, Fro
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Baryte, Fluorite
Reiche Empfängnis Mine, Schlettau, Annaberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
10 x 6,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte, Fluorite
Reiche Empfä
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Baryte, malachite
Christiane mine, Adorf, Hesse, Germany.
7 x 5,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte, malachite
Christiane mine,
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Baryte, quartz
Zentralschacht, Zobes, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany
6 x 4 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte, quartz
Zentralschacht, Zob
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Baryte, sphalerite, quartz
Roggenbach vein, Schauinsland, Freiburg, Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, German
11,5 x 9,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte, sphalerite, quartz
Roggenb
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Baryte
Gertraud sand pit, Altforweiler, Saarlouis, Saarland, Germany
9 x 5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Gertraud sand pit, Altf
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Baryte
Gertraud sand pit, Altforweiler, Saarlouis, Saarland, Germany
10 x 6 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Gertraud sand pit, Altf
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Baryte
Inselt shaft, Frohnau, Annaberg-Buchholz, Annaberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
7 x 5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Inselt shaft, Frohnau,
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Baryte
St. Johannes Mine, Wolkenstein, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
9 x 6 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
St. Johannes Mine, Wolk
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Baryte
Sauberg Mine, Marienberg cleft, Lorenz Stehender vein, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
13 x 9,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Sauberg Mine, Marienber
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Baryte
Elisabeth Spat vein, Tiefer Gideon adit, Großolbersdorf, Marienberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
7 x 6 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Elisabeth Spat vein, Ti
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Baryte
Brandbach adit (Brandbachtal), Wolkenstein, Warmbad, Marienberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
7,5 x 5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Brandbach adit (Brandba
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Baryte
Abtsberg, Friedrichroda, Gotha District, Thuringia/Thüringen, Germany
7 x 5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Baryte
Abtsberg, Friedrichroda
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Before being named as antlerite this mineral was known as arnimite. The original locality for arnimite was the Heinrich shaft, Planitz, Zwickau, Saxony. The picture shows a 8 cm wide sample of this rarity on nacrite matrix. With old label (around 1860). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Before being named as antlerite th
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Beraunite vein in limonite
Maffei mine, 105 m level, Auerbach-Nitzelbuch, Bavaria, Germany
8,5 cm
Red brown beraunite vein in limonite (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Beraunite vein in limonite
Maffei
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Bergakademie Freiberg label (1900) (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bergakademie Freiberg label (1900)
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Bergakademie Freiberg label of a boracite from the Schildstein quarry, Lüneburg, Lower Saxony. The Kalkberg quarry is the type locality of boracite. However, Schildstein boracites are very rare! About 1900. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bergakademie Freiberg label of a b
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Bergakademie Freiberg label of a pyrargyrite from Schneeberg, Saxony. About 1920, rare label design. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bergakademie Freiberg label of a p
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Bergakademie Freiberg label. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bergakademie Freiberg label.
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Berggießhübel/Saxony has been a known locality for bornite crystals. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Berggießhübel/Saxony has been a kn
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Berlin amber. The upper three from the left to the right: reddish brown sample from Postfenn gravel pit in Grunewald forest - very clear one (5,5 cm) from the tower block construction at Thorwaldsen street/Steglitz in the 1970s - small tumbler, having been found during the construction of the tube at Bayerischer Platz station/Schöneberg. The two in the middle: yellow opaque from Gatow (having been found during construction works at the army airport in 1985) - old find from Seddinberg gravel pit/Müggelheim. The two lower ones: small pebble from Parey gravel pit/Spandau - clear one from a building pit at the Wall street near Alexanderplatz. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Berlin amber. The upper three from
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Berthierite, antimonite
Neue Hoffnung Gottes mine, Bräunsdorf, Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.
6 x 5 cm
Bluish berthierite in massive antimonite ore. With late 1920s label. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Berthierite, antimonite
Neue Hoffn
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Beryl
Hühnerkobel Mine, Rabenstein, Zwiesel, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria/Bayern, Germany
10,4 cm crystal (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Beryl
Hühnerkobel Mine, Raben
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Beryl
Hirschgasse, Heidelberg, Stadtkreis, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
6,8 x 5,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Beryl
Hirschgasse, Heidelberg,
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Beryl
Henneberg Quarry, Weitisberga, Wurzbach, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Thuringia/Thüringen, Germany
Picture width 19 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Beryl
Henneberg Quarry, Weitis
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Besides for the classic "astrolite"-mica Neumark in Voigtland, Saxony is well-known for calcite specimens like the shown up to 3 cm crystals covered with pyrite. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Besides for the classic "astr
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Beyerite
Siebenschlehen Mine, Jung Zeche Spat vein, Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
Picture width: 1,7 mm. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Beyerite
Siebenschlehen Mine,
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Bismuth
Mackenheim, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany
sample width: 5 cm
Crystallized "trees" covered with safflorite. From the famous 1975 find. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bismuth
Mackenheim, Odenwald, Hess
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Bismuth
Gang Opal, shaft 38, - 855 m level, Niederschlema, Bad Schlema (Schlema), Schlema-Hartenstein District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
6 x 4,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bismuth
Gang Opal, shaft 38, -
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Bismuth
Gang Opal, shaft 38, - 855 m level, Niederschlema, Bad Schlema (Schlema), Schlema-Hartenstein District, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany
6 x 4,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bismuth
Gang Opal, shaft 38, -
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Bizarre corroded fluorite crystal from Michaelis Flacher vein, 270 shaft, Annaberg district, Erzgebirge, Saxony. It is remarkable that just the edges of the crystals are clear and show the strange figures. From an awesome find some years ago. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bizarre corroded fluorite crystal
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Bizarre gypsum aggregate (10 cm width) from Nietleben near Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bizarre gypsum aggregate (10 cm wi
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Black ilmenite inclusions (labelled as "kibdelophane") in sanidinite from Laacher See volcano, Niedermendig, Eifel mtns., Rhineland-Palatinate. 6 cm sample. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Black ilmenite inclusions (labelle
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Black siderite in the variety sphaerosiderite on basalt rock from the Steinheim quarry, Hanau, Hesse. 5,5 cm in width. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Black siderite in the variety spha
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Blackish grey jordisite - a rare mo-sulfide from the Glückauf Shaft (type locality), Langenau, Freiberg district, Erzgebirge, Saxony. 6,5 cm sample. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Blackish grey jordisite - a rare m
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Blue cyanotrichite with white chalkoalumite and green brochantite from St. Briccius mine, Annaberg district, Erzgebirge, Saxony. Picture width 5 mm. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Blue cyanotrichite with white chal
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Blue mansfieldite on quartz from Himmelfahrt mine, Neubulach, Black Forest, Baden-Wurttemberg. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Blue mansfieldite on quartz from H
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Blue violet fluorite cubes on dolomite - a classic from Caaschwitz quarry, Gera, Thuringia. The cube aggregate measures about 3 cm in width. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Blue violet fluorite cubes on dolo
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Bluish apatite crystals (5 cm aggregate) in illite matrix from Riesenberg quarry, Hinterohlsbach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bluish apatite crystals (5 cm aggr
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Bluish grey baryte crystals from the Lanwehr quarry, Müschede, Sauerland, Westphalia. Müschede is a known German locality for barytes, samples up to 20 x 20 cm and more, over and over covered with light grey "Meißelspat" crystals have been found here. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bluish grey baryte crystals from t
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Bodenite is a variety of allanite-(Y). Label from 1926. From type locality Boden limestone deposit, near Marienberg, Saxony. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bodenite is a variety of allanite-
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Boracite
Ludwig II shaft, Staßfurt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
crystal width: 4-6 mm
A 1923 find in original glass vial. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Boracite
Ludwig II shaft, Staßfurt
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Boracite
Frischglück potash mine, Eime, Lower Saxony, Germany
3 mm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Boracite
Frischglück potash mine,
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Boracite
Lüneburg Kalkberg, Lüneburg, Lower Saxony/Niedersachsen, Germany
11 mm crystal (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Boracite
Lüneburg Kalkberg, L
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Bornite
Neue Haardt Mine, Weidenau, Siegen, Siegen-Wittgenstein District, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia/Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
9 x 6,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bornite
Neue Haardt Mine, Weid
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Bournonite
Beihilfe mine, Halsbrücke, Freiberg district, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.
3 x 2,5 cm
Rather big crystals up to 2 cm forming a cluster. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bournonite
Beihilfe mine, Halsbrüc
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Bournonite
Georg mine, Willroth, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
4 x 3 cm
Single crystal on scarse siderite matrix. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bournonite
Georg mine, Willroth, W
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Bournonite
Wittmannsgereuth, Saalfeld, Thuringia, Germany.
1,1 x 1 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bournonite
Wittmannsgereuth, Saalf
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Bournonite, malachite
Georg mine, Willroth, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4 x 3 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bournonite, malachite
Georg mine,
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Bournonite
Silberwiese Mine, Oberlahr, Westerwaldkreis District, Rhineland-Palatinate/Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
11,5 x 7 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bournonite
Silberwiese Mine, O
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Bournonite
Neudorf, Harzgerode mining district, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt/Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
4,2 x 2,6 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Bournonite
Neudorf, Harzgerode
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Brown bariopharmacosiderite cubes (3 mm each) on baryte and fluorite from the type locality Clara mine, Oberwolfach, Black Forest. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Brown bariopharmacosiderite cubes
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Brown sphaleite xls up to 1,5 cm with pyrite from the Graf Moltke coal mine, Gladbeck, Westphalia. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Brown sphaleite xls up to 1,5 cm w
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Brownish bodenite, a Mg-bearing variety of allanite-(Y) in oligoclase from Boden limestone quarry, Marienberg, Saxony. 1 cm crystal. With 1926 label. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Brownish bodenite, a Mg-bearing va
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Cacoxenite
Hoff auf mich Mine, Ullersreuth, Hirschberg (Saale), Saale-Orla-Kreis, Thuringia/Thüringen, Germany
8,5 x 7 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Cacoxenite
Hoff auf mich Mine,
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Calcite
Allmendingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
10,5 x 5,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Calcite
Allmendingen, Baden-Württe
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Calcite
Bleiwäsche, Sauerland, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany.
8 x 7,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Calcite
Bleiwäsche, Sauerland, Nor
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Calcite
Frischglück mine, St. Roman, Wittichen, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
8,8 x 6 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Calcite
Frischglück mine, St. Roma
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Calcite
Langer Köchel quarry, Murnauer Moos, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
10 x 8 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Calcite
Langer Köchel quarry, Murn
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Calcite
Leopold Stehender vein, Beschert Glück mine, Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony.
7 x 3 cm. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Calcite
Leopold Stehender vein, Be
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Calcite
Mahlscheid quarry, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
8 x 5 cm
After analysis all "aragonites" turned out to be calcite! (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Calcite
Mahlscheid quarry, Herdorf
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Calcite
Mahlscheid quarry, Herdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
8 x 5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Calcite
Mahlscheid quarry, Herdorf
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Calcite
Rabenstein limestone mine, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
3 x 2,5 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Calcite
Rabenstein limestone mine,
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Calcite
Rüdersdorf, Brandenburg, Germany
7 x 5 cm
Ex Berlin Natural History Museum. (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Calcite
Rüdersdorf, Brandenburg, G
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Calcite
Sauberg mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
5,5 x 4,5 cm
The so-called "wave calcite" from the "Dölling vug", 6018 working, 6th level (found 1982 by Walther Dölling). (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Calcite
Sauberg mine, Ehrenfrieder
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Calcite
Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.
8,5 x 3,8 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Calcite
Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Sa
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Calcite
Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
8 x 4 cm (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)
Calcite
Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Sa