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Adamite Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico 5.5x4cm Tiny prismatic crystals completly covering one side of the matrix. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Adamite Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Duran
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Ankerite on Quartz after Calcite Silver Queen Mine, Maratoto, Paeroa New Zealand 8x7 cm ex Arline Broad Collection (Author: Greg Lilly)
Ankerite on Quartz after Calcite S
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Ankerite on Quartz after Calcite Silver Queen Mine, Maratoto Paeroa, New Zealand 6.5x5.5 cm ex Arline Broad Collection (Author: Greg Lilly)
Ankerite on Quartz after Calcite S
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Arsenopyrite Golden Cross Mine, Waihi, New Zealand 6x5 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Arsenopyrite Golden Cross Mine, Wa
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Arsenopyrite Golden Cross Mine, Waihi, New Zealand 6x4.5cm On a quartz base. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Arsenopyrite Golden Cross Mine, Wa
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Arsenopyrite Golden Cross Mine, Waihi, New Zealand 8x5cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Arsenopyrite Golden Cross Mine, Wa
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Arsenopyrite Golden Cross Mine, Waihi, New Zealand 8x5cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Arsenopyrite
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Barite Quiruvilca Mine, Santiago de Chuco, Peru 7.5x5.5cm I like this because it is stark white, hard to photograph. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Barite Quiruvilca Mine, Santiago d
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Calcite Dalnegorsk, Russia 5.5x4.5cm The main crystal is 3cm on edge, composed of stacked rhombahedra giving the termination a very rounded apperance. It is a soft pink colour with minor white calcite crystals surrounding it. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite Dalnegorsk, Russia 5.5x4.5
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Calcite Daye County, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei, China 5.7x5.7cm Striking striations on the termination of this crystal. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite Daye County, Huangshi Pref
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Calcite Golden Cross Mine, Waihi, New Zealand 12x9 cm The Golden Cross Mine was re opened in 1991 for gold and silver production, closing in 1998. Mostly calcite specimens were preserved (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite Golden Cross Mine, Waihi,
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Calcite Golden Cross Mine, Waihi, New Zealand 7x7cm A single crystal, fairly coarse surface but a good luster. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite Golden Cross Mine, Waihi,
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Calcite Hunan Province, China 8.3x6.3cm Colourless and lusterous calcite crystal cluster. Sorry, no more accurate location. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite Hunan Province, China 8.3x
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Calcite Hunan Province, China 8.3x6.3cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite Hunan Province, China 8.3x
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Calcite North Vernon, Indiana, USA 5.5x4.5cm Nicely balanced and great luster. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite North Vernon, Indiana, USA
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Calcite Pachapaqui Dist, Bolognesi Prov, Ancash Dept, Peru 6x5.5cm Another view. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite Pachapaqui Dist, Bolognesi
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Calcite Pachapaqui Dist, Bolognesi Prov, Ancash Dept, Peru 6x5.5cm Highly flattened rhombahedral crystals to 3x0.4cm of a soft pink colour. Minor quartz in association. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite Pachapaqui Dist, Bolognesi
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Calcite Second Sovietskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia 5.2x2.7cm Clear and lusterous on the top half with very defined striations on the termination faces. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite Second Sovietskiy Mine, Da
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Calcite Verkhnii Mine, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia 13x10.5x10.5 cm A large light pink calcite, the prism faces are all complete but two of them are roughly formed. Collected 2012. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite Verkhnii Mine, Dal’n
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Calcite Zeehan Mine, Puhoi Valley, Thames, New Zealand 8x6 cm ex John Collins Collection (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite Zeehan Mine, Puhoi Valley,
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Calcite Zeehan Mine, Puhoi Valley, Thames, New Zealand 8x6 cm ex John Collins Collection (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite Zeehan Mine, Puhoi Valley,
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Calcite on Sphalerite with Galena Dalnegorsk, Russia 8.7x5.5cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite on Sphalerite with Galena
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Calcite with Stilbite Lonavala, India 7x5cm A complete calcite rhomb of a very soft yellow colour 4cm on edge, sprinkled with tiny apophyllite crystals. Stilbite crystals to 4.5cm and bright green apophyllite to 5mm on the back. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Calcite with Stilbite Lonavala, In
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Cerussite Level 2, Tui Mine, Te Aroha, New Zealand 5x5 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Cerussite Level 2, Tui Mine, Te Ar
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Cerussite Level 2, Tui Mine, Te Aroha, New Zealand 6.5x4 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Cerussite Level 2, Tui Mine, Te Ar
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Cerussite Level 2, Tui Mine, Te Aroha, New Zealand 7x6 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Cerussite Level 2, Tui Mine, Te Ar
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Cerussite on Dundasite Level 2, Tui Mine, Te Aroha, New Zealand 4.5x3.5 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Cerussite on Dundasite Level 2, Tu
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Cobaltoan Calcite Agoudal MIne, Bou Azzer, Tazenakht, Morocco 8x6.3 cm Brilliant purplish pink slightly prismatic crystals in a complete mound. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Cobaltoan Calcite Agoudal MIne, Bo
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Entrance to Tinkers Gully. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Entrance to Tinkers Gully.
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Fluorite on Quartz Burtree Pasture Mine, Cowshill, Weardale Co, UK 8.7x6.5cm Slightly elongated crystals, the underside of the specimen is crystaline quartz. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Fluorite on Quartz Burtree Pasture
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Fluorite on sphalerite with barite Elmwood Mine, Smith County, Tennessee, USA 10.5x10cm A fluorite cube with 2 transparent corners on sphalerite. Small barite cluster at the back. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Fluorite on sphalerite with barite
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Fluorite, Sphalerite and Dolomite Elmwood Mine, Smith County, Tennessee, USA 8.5x5.7cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Fluorite, Sphalerite and Dolomite
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Gold in Quartz Thames area, Coromandel Peninsular, New Zealand 6.3x4.5 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Gold in Quartz Thames area, Coroma
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Gypsum Bannockburn, Otago, New Zealand 5x4.5 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Gypsum Bannockburn, Otago, New Zea
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Gypsum Bannockburn, Otago, New Zealand 5x4 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Gypsum Bannockburn, Otago, New Zea
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Gypsum South Australia 14x12 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Gypsum South Australia 14x12 cm
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Level 2, Tui Mine, Te Aroha, New Zealand 7.5x2.5 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Level 2, Tui Mine, Te Aroha, New Z
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Linarite on Cerussite Level 2, Tui Mine, Te Aroha, New Zealand 8.5x6.5 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Linarite on Cerussite Level 2, Tui
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Opal (variety Hyalite) Square Top Mt., Queensland, Australia 5.5x4.5 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Opal (variety Hyalite) Square Top
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Pyrrhotite, Quartz and Calcite Dalnegorsk, Russia 7.7x4.7cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Pyrrhotite, Quartz and Calcite Dal
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Quartz 2nd Sovietskiy mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia 8.5x6cm A complete floater cluster of colourless bipyramidal quartz crystals to approx 2cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz 2nd Sovietskiy mine, Dalneg
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Quartz 309 Rd, Whitianga, New Zealand 18x12cm A larger cluster of fat quartz crystals with a secondary quartz overgrowth, no matrix. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz 309 Rd, Whitianga, New Zeal
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Quartz 309 Rd, Whitianga, New Zealand 7x6cm Another shot of the same. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz 309 Rd, Whitianga, New Zeal
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Quartz 309 Rd,Whitianga, New Zealand 7x6cm A cluster of 3 fat quartz crystals witha secondary quartz overgrowth, no matrix. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz 309 Rd,Whitianga, New Zeala
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Quartz Brandberg, Namibia 8.5x7.5cm Smokey Quartz with really well defined windows. I have tried to photograph this so many times, this is as good as I can get it! (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Brandberg, Namibia 8.5x7.5c
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Quartz Jeffrey Quarry, Arkansas, USA 9x5cm Complete floater cluster of solution quartz. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Jeffrey Quarry, Arkansas, U
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Quartz Jeffrey Quarry, Jeffrey, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA 9x5cm Solution Quartz. A better view I hope? (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Jeffrey Quarry, Jeffrey, Pu
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Quartz Kaimarama Stream, Whitianga, New Zealand 12.5x9cm Another milky quartz cluster with crystals to 3cm. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Kaimarama Stream, Whitianga
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Quartz Kaimarama Stream, Whitianga, New Zealand 9x7cm Cluster of milky quartz crystals to approx 2cm. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Kaimarama Stream, Whitianga
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Quartz Kulu Valley, North India 5.2x5.2cm Quartz w Chlorite Phantoms (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Kulu Valley, North India 5.
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Quartz Lechang Mine, Shaoguan Prefecture, Gandong Prov, China 7x5cm This is very similar to the quartz known as Herkimer Diamonds, all double terminated on a small shard of matrix (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Lechang Mine, Shaoguan Pref
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Quartz Level 7 United MIne, Maratoto, New Zealand 16x13x11cm Quartz Vug (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Level 7 United MIne, Marato
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Quartz Level 7 United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand 7.5x5cm A close up. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Level 7 United Mine, Marato
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Quartz Level 7 United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand 7.5x5cm These are like a corroded epimorph after calcite. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Level 7 United Mine, Marato
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Quartz Level 7 United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand 12x7.5cm A close up. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Level 7 United Mine, Marato
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Quartz Level 7 United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand 12x7.5cm When I found this I could only feel the tops of the spikey crystals, a nice surprise when I washed it off. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Level 7 United Mine, Marato
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Quartz Level 7 United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand 5.5x4cm Another view (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Level 7 United Mine, Marato
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Quartz Level 7 United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand 5.5x4cm This is complete all around, the crystals are milky at the base and clear at the ends. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Level 7 United Mine, Marato
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Quartz Level 7, United Mine, Maratoto, Coromandel Peninsular, New Zealand 11x7cm The outside of this vug is composed of quartz pseudomorphs after calcite, the inside small but bright quartz crystals. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Level 7, United Mine, Marat
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Quartz Level 7, United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand 8x7cm A partial vug lined with tiny quartz crystals, the exterrior of the vug shows pseudomorphic quartz after calcite. Ex Arline Broad collection. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Level 7, United Mine, Marat
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Quartz Level 7, United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand 13.5x7cm A mound of crystals milky at the base and clear at the points on a bed of smaller crystals. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Level 7, United Mine, Marat
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Quartz Level 8, Komata Reefs Mine, Komata, New Zealand 10.5x5.5cm A burr of quartz crystals, the top crystals lying flat are double terminated. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Level 8, Komata Reefs Mine,
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Quartz Maratoto, Coromandel Peninsular, New Zealand 2x7cm A complete covering of tiny but very prismatic quartz crystals on a solid quartz matrix. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Maratoto, Coromandel Penins
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Quartz Porretta Terme, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy 10x7 cm A complete floater cluster of nearly colourless fenster quartz, brilliant luster. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Porretta Terme, Bologna, Em
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Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Zealand 9x7cm Again, quartz crystals with a heavy secondary overgrowth of quartz. Main crystal approx 7cm. Self collected 2006 (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Z
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Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Zealand 8.5x8.5cm A slender crystal approx 5cm long with heavy secondary growth of quartz over the prism faces. This sitting on a bed of smaller quartz crystals. ex George Judge collection (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Z
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Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Zealand 9x8cm The same piece from the back. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Z
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Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Zealand 9x8cm Two large crystals, frosty but lusterous with a heavy overgrowth of secondary crystals. This is far above average for NZ quartz. ex George Judge collection (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Z
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Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Zealand 11x6cm A cluster of clear prismatic quartz crystals with a secondary quart overgrowth along the prism faces. This growing paralell to the main crystals. ex George Judge collection (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Z
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Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Zealand 8.5x6.5cm A mound of stubby terminations (typical for this area) with crystals to 3cm which are coated in tiny sugary quartz crystals. Self collected 2003 (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Z
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Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Zealand 12x8cm A cluster of quartz crystals, the crystals standing up at the back quite flattened. Collected by George Judge ex Arline Broad collection (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Tararu Creek, Thames, New Z
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Quartz Tararu River, Thames, New Zealand 7x5cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Tararu River, Thames, New Z
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Quartz Tararu River, Thames, New Zealand 10x9.5cm Self collected from a large pocket we broke into. Small crystals but very bright (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Tararu River, Thames, New Z
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Quartz Te Puru River, Thames, New Zealand 10.5x9cm Colourless crystals with overgrowth of white quartz. Collected by George Judge ex collection of Arline Broad (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Te Puru River, Thames, New
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Quartz Telluride Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand 17x13cm Quartz Vug. The outside of this piece shows the cast of previous calcite crystals. This is typical of material from this area. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Telluride Mine, Maratoto, N
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Quartz Tinkers Gully, Tararu Creek, Thames, New Zealand 9.5x7.5 cm And another, virtually no prism faces (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Tinkers Gully, Tararu Creek
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Quartz Tinkers Gully, Tararu Creek, Thames, New Zealand 10.5x7.5 cm Another example (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Tinkers Gully, Tararu Creek
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Quartz Tinkers Gully, Tararu Creek, Thames, New Zealand 12x8.5 cm Fairly typical of the material from this find/location, small slightly prismatic crystals in fairly large clusters (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Tinkers Gully, Tararu Creek
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Quartz Waziristan, Pakistan 10x3.7cm Quartz Faden (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Waziristan, Pakistan 10x3.7
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Quartz Whangapoa Area, Coromandel Peninsular, New Zealand 7x5cm Another view of the above specimen. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Whangapoa Area, Coromandel
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Quartz Whangapoa Area, Coromandel Peninsular, New Zealand 7x5cm Large quartz crystals on a bed of tiny quartz crystals. Ex George Judge Collection (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz Whangapoa Area, Coromandel
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Quartz with Actinolite Inclusions on Garnet Sinerechenskoe Dept, Primorskiy Kray, Russia 8.5x6cm Prismatic crystals flaring out towards the terminations on a garnet matrix. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz with Actinolite Inclusions
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Quartz, Calcite Level 7 United MIne, Maratoto, New Zealand 19x15cm Quartz on small blades after Calcite. The back of this piece is composed of coarse casts of quartz after calcite (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz, Calcite Level 7 United MIn
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Quartz, Calcite Level 7, United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand 12x7.5cm Quartz on Quartz after Calcite (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz, Calcite Level 7, United Mi
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Quartz, Calcite Level 7, United Mine, Maratoto, New Zealand Area shown 3x3cm Quartz on Quartz after Calcite (Author: Greg Lilly)
Quartz, Calcite Level 7, United Mi
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Quartz
United Mine (United Gold Mine), Maratoto, North Island, New Zealand
5.5cm tall (Author: Greg Lilly)Quartz
United Mine (United Gol -
Quartz
Waiomu Valley, Thames, Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand
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Rhodochrosite with fluorite, pyrite & apatite Nates Pocket, Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado, USA 4.5x3.3cm This is my honeymoon rock, our honeymoon just happened to coincide with the Australian Gemboree :) (Author: Greg Lilly)
Rhodochrosite with fluorite, pyrit
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Rhodochrosite with fluorite, pyrite & fluorapatite Nates Pocket, Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park Co., Colorado, USA 4.5x3.3cm Re post, you can now see the fluorite! (Author: Greg Lilly)
Rhodochrosite with fluorite, pyrit
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Road along side Tararu River. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Road along side Tararu River.
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Siderite, Sphalerite Aggeneys, Northern Cape Prov, South Africa 9.8x6cm Siderite and Sphalerite after Calcite (Author: Greg Lilly)
Siderite, Sphalerite Aggeneys, Nor
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Smithsonite Broken Hill, NSW Australia 8x5.5 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Smithsonite Broken Hill, NSW Austr
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Stilbite with Quartz Coonabarabran, NSW Australia 9x6.5 cm (Author: Greg Lilly)
Stilbite with Quartz Coonabarabran
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Tinkers Gully. (Author: Greg Lilly)
Tinkers Gully.