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"Chimney Rock (quarry in back) (1964) Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA I lived in south Bound Brook for a couple of years. (Author: John Medici)
"Chimney Rock (quarry in back
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"Christmas tree ore" (rarified zinc ore) Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, New Jersey, USA 18 cm wide Two types of this ore adjacent to one another - collected by Dick Hauck et al., 2012. (SW UV) (Author: John Medici)
"Christmas tree ore" (ra
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"Mt. Fuji" pocket (2005) Graves Mt., Lincoln Co., Georgia 35 cm field of view (Author: John Medici)
"Mt. Fuji" pocket (2005)
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"turgite" (goethite/hematite) Graves Mt., GA around 6 cm across (Author: John Medici)
"turgite" (goethite/hema
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Apophyllite and Pectolite Snake (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA 2 cm long added note on Snake Hill - galena and magnetite are uncommon in the rest of NJ trap rocks. Snake Hill has also produced some interesting micros. (Author: John Medici)
Apophyllite and Pectolite Snake (L
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Apophyllite, Natrolite and Galena Snake (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA Apophyllite on natrolite & galena (Author: John Medici)
Apophyllite, Natrolite and Galena
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Barite Mex-Tex mine, Bingham, NM (Author: John Medici)
Barite Mex-Tex mine, Bingham, NM
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Barite (a floater) Mex-Tex Mine, Bingham, NM (Author: John Medici)
Barite (a floater) Mex-Tex Mine, B
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Beryl cat’s eye Albany, Maine, USA 6 cm (Author: John Medici)
Beryl cat’s eye Albany, Main
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Beryl tapered common Albany, Maine, USA 4 cm (Author: John Medici)
Beryl tapered common Albany, Maine
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Betafite Silver Crater Mine near Bancroft, Ontario, Canada (Author: John Medici)
Betafite Silver Crater Mine near B
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Brett M. and Jay M. at Silver Crater (Author: John Medici)
Brett M. and Jay M. at Silver Crat
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Brett Medici w. fluorite in celestite sand Lime City, Ohio, USA Fluorite cubes to 5 cm across (Author: John Medici)
Brett Medici w. fluorite in celest
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Calcite La Farge quarry, Medford, Maryland, USA 7 cm (Author: John Medici)
Calcite La Farge quarry, Medford,
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Calcite Snake Hill (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA Calcite (hematite-coated). Longest crystal 1.5 cm Snake hill was an isolated igneous hill in the meadowlands of northeastern NJ. It was completely leveled by quarrying, but in the process many interesting minerals were found. It is not far from an old clay pit in Moonachie where I have taken my family to collect clay concretions. (Author: John Medici)
Calcite Snake Hill (Laurel Hill),
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Calcite (twin?) (assocd. with barite) Mex-Tex Mine, Bingham, NM (Author: John Medici)
Calcite (twin?) (assocd. with bari
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Calcite cleavage La Farge quarry, Medford, Maryland, USA 7 cm (Author: John Medici)
Calcite cleavage La Farge quarry,
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Chalcedony Dugway, Juab County, Utah, USA Chalcedony geode (UV SW). 29 cm long dimension sorry for photo through showcase window! (Author: John Medici)
Chalcedony Dugway, Juab County, Ut
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Chalcopyrite and Bornite Chimney Rock quarry, Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA 8X6.5 cm chalcopyrite altering to bornite (Author: John Medici)
Chalcopyrite and Bornite Chimney R
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Copper Chimney Rock quarry, Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA 8.5X6.8 cm The Chimney Rock quarry was on the site of an old copper mine. A copper chunk around 90 lbs. jammed the crusher during the quarrying operation. I believe it is still in the Rutgers collection. During my collecting there, I found mainly calcites, analcimes, traces of copper minerals and a prehnite or two. (Author: John Medici)
Copper Chimney Rock quarry, Bound
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Dugway, Utah, USA (Author: John Medici)
Dugway, Utah, USA
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Fluorite Clay Center, Ohio, USA 1cm ring (small crystal is 3.5cm on edge) 1950’s (and 2006-the small one) (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite Clay Center, Ohio, USA 1c
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Fluorite National Lime & Stone Co. Quarry, Lima, Ohio, USA 3.5 cm field of view (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite National Lime & Stone
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Fluorite & calcite - acrylic painting by Susan Robinson Auglaize Quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA fluorite cube 3 cm across (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite & calcite - acrylic p
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fluorite & smoky quartz Sierra Blanca (Author: John Medici)
fluorite & smoky quartz Sierra
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Fluorite & sphalerite Bluffton Stone Co. quarry, Bluffton, Ohio, USA 5 cm field of view (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite & sphalerite Bluffton
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Fluorite (opaque, brown underneath) for Jordi Genoa, Ohio, USA (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite (opaque, brown underneath
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Fluorite (sphalerite inclusions) Bluffton Stone Co. quarry, Bluffton, Ohio, USA fluorite 1 cm across (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite (sphalerite inclusions) B
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Fluorite (tetrahex/cube exaggerated I think) Auglaize Quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA 1.3 cm across (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite (tetrahex/cube exaggerate
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Fluorite (tricolor) Auglaize quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA 1 cm (larger crystal) (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite (tricolor) Auglaize quarr
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Fluorite - cast & anhydrite Lime City, Ohio, USA cast 1.2 cm (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite - cast & anhydrite Li
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Fluorite - purple over iridescent Auglaize quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA 10 cm across (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite - purple over iridescent
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Fluorite - rare iridescent colors Auglaize quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite - rare iridescent colors
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Fluorite cast @ anhydrite (orig. calcite-filled) Bluffton, Ohio, USA 2.5 cm (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite cast @ anhydrite (orig. c
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Fluorite needle (bifurcated) SEM by George.Robinson Suever Quarry, Delphos, Ohio, USA around 6 mm (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite needle (bifurcated) SEM b
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Fluorite needles (on head of pin) Suever Quarry, Delphos, Ohio, USA 7 mm (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite needles (on head of pin)
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Fluorite phantom (cube/tetrahex) Auglaize quarry, Junction, Ohio, USA 1.0X0.8cm (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite phantom (cube/tetrahex) A
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Fluorite phantoms Pugh quarry, Custar, Ohio, USA cubes around 7 mm across (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite phantoms Pugh quarry, Cus
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Fluorite sheaves and cubes Delphos, Ohio, USA 4 cm (Author: John Medici)
Fluorite sheaves and cubes Delphos
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Franklin club field trip around 1967 Noble pit - Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, NJ My hammer was stolen on this trip, but I still found a floater jeffersonite and a decent franklinite crystal. Many of my early pictures have not been converted to digital form. I’m working on that. (This picture appeared on the cover of the Franklin "Picking Table" a few years back) (Author: John Medici)
Franklin club field trip around 19
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Gmelinite, Analcime, Apophyllite on Datolite Francisco Bros. quarry, Great Notch, New Jersey, USA 5.2 cm high (cast after anhydrite). This was on the (underexposed) cover of the Rocks & Minerals issue on NJ traprock minerals (1984). (Author: John Medici)
Gmelinite, Analcime, Apophyllite o
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Grossular (var. Hessonite) on Diopside Asbestos Mine, Eden Mills, Vermont, USA 1.3 cm across Jeff Scovil photo (Author: John Medici)
Grossular (var. Hessonite) on Diop
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Grossular on Diopside Belvedere Mt., Eden Mills, Vermont, USA 7X8 cm. (Author: John Medici)
Grossular on Diopside Belvedere Mt
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Hematite & bixbyite @ garnet Thomas range mountains, Utah, USA 2.5 cm high (Author: John Medici)
Hematite & bixbyite @ garnet T
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hematite ("turgite"-coated) (2004) Graves Mt., GA stalactite length to 5 cm (Author: John Medici)
hematite ("turgite"-coat
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hematite @ pyrite Graves Mt., GA modified cube 1.5 cm (Author: John Medici)
hematite @ pyrite Graves Mt., GA m
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Hematite @ pyrite ( kyanite inside) Graves Mt., GA (1 cm ring) (Author: John Medici)
Hematite @ pyrite ( kyanite inside
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hematite @ pyrite? L-main pit, R-other pit Graves Mt., Lincoln Co., Georgia (Author: John Medici)
hematite @ pyrite? L-main pit, R-o
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J.M. in uraninite-apatite-massive fluorite pocket. Wilberforce, Cardiff Twp., Ontario, Canada (Author: John Medici)
J.M. in uraninite-apatite-massive
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Jay M. with 22.5 kg geode Dugway, Utah, USA (Author: John Medici)
Jay M. with 22.5 kg geode Dugway,
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Jay Medici at work (Author: John Medici)
Jay Medici at work
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Joey Galt around 1100 ft. down in Faraday Mine. (Joey’s husband Eric had his ID stolen by James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King’s assassin, during his flight to Canada) (Author: John Medici)
Joey Galt around 1100 ft. down in
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John Sinkankas, age 10, Paterson, New Jersey John Sinkankas grew up in Paterson - no wonder he developed a keen interest in minerals since North Jersey is so prolific in them. When he gave me this early picture, he said he eventually flew the plane the model of which he is holding. (Author: John Medici)
John Sinkankas, age 10, Paterson,
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Malachite on Quartz Blanchard mines, Bingham,NM specimen 8cm across (Author: John Medici)
Malachite on Quartz Blanchard mine
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Natrolite Snake (Laurel Hill), New Jersey, USA 1 cm (Author: John Medici)
Natrolite Snake (Laurel Hill), New
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Natrolite with Prehnite & Laumontite Sowerbutt Quarry, Prospect Park, New Jersey, USA 6 cm across I collected this at the top of a quarry bench. When the overseer realized that numerous pockets of natrolites were there, I was ushered away from there (He collected and sold minerals on the side.). (Author: John Medici)
Natrolite with Prehnite & Laum
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Ohio-Michigan fluorite localities (Author: John Medici)
Ohio-Michigan fluorite localities
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Pachan with Barite specimen Desert Rose claim, Bingham, NM heavy (Author: John Medici)
Pachan with Barite specimen Desert
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Prehnite Millington, New Jersey, USA 1.8 cm ring This one looks like it originally formed on an anhydrite (small cast is present which terminates the 2nd ring). (Author: John Medici)
Prehnite Millington, New Jersey, U
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Prehnite Sowerbutt Quarry, Prospect Park, New Jersey, USA 6 cm across (back of the natrolite specimen). A "floater" - most trap rock minerals in this North Jersey area are much harder to collect intact! (Author: John Medici)
Prehnite Sowerbutt Quarry, Prospe
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pseudo Graves Mt., GA (1 cm ring) (Author: John Medici)
pseudo Graves Mt., GA (1 cm ring)
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pseudo Graves Mt., GA 6 cm across (Author: John Medici)
pseudo Graves Mt., GA 6 cm across
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pseudo (side view of next photo) Graves Mt., GA (1 cm ring) (Author: John Medici)
pseudo (side view of next photo) G
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Pyrite Duff quarry, Huntsville, Ohio, USA around 2 cm field of view (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite Duff quarry, Huntsville, Oh
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Pyrite Duff Quarry, Huntsville, Ohio, USA 2 cm field of view (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite Duff Quarry, Huntsville, Oh
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Pyrite Ross County, Ohio, USA 17 cm high (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite Ross County, Ohio, USA 17 c
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Pyrite Ross County, Ohio, USA (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite Ross County, Ohio, USA
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Pyrite & dolomite Duff Quarry, Huntsville, Ohio, USA 6 cm field of view (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite & dolomite Duff Quarry,
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Pyrite (diploid) on fluorite sheaves Suever Quarry, Delphos, Ohio, USA 1 cm high (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite (diploid) on fluorite sheav
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Pyrite (donated to Smithsonian) (pictured in ExtraLapis Pyrite issue (German)) Ross County, Ohio, USA (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite (donated to Smithsonian) (p
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Pyrite (Jay Medici collection) Ross County, Ohio, USA (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite (Jay Medici collection) Ros
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Pyrite (longest found in past 45 years) Ross County, Ohio, USA 52 inches long (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite (longest found in past 45 y
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Pyrite in fluorite Duff quarry, Huntsville, Ohio, USA Crystal 6 mm (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite in fluorite Duff quarry, Hu
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Pyrite/fluorite simultaneous growth Suever Quarry, Delphos, Ohio, USA fluorite 1 cm on edge (Author: John Medici)
Pyrite/fluorite simultaneous growt
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Quartz Dugway, Utah, USA Quartz geode (Author: John Medici)
Quartz Dugway, Utah, USA Quartz g
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Quartz (Pecos "diamonds") Chavez County, NM (1cm ring) (Author: John Medici)
Quartz (Pecos "diamonds"
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Quartz (smoky) Prospect Park, New Jersey, USA 30 cm across This specimen was collected by Gene Vitali pre-1950 I believe; he called it "blueberry pie". (Author: John Medici)
Quartz (smoky) Prospect Park, New
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Quartz and Glauberite West Paterson, New Jersey, USA These are a curiosity in this locale. quartz @ glauberite (Excalibur) (Author: John Medici)
Quartz and Glauberite West Paterso
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rattlesnake Carlsbad, NM (Author: John Medici)
rattlesnake Carlsbad, NM
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Rutile (eightling twin) Graves Mt., Lincoln Co., Georgia (Author: John Medici)
Rutile (eightling twin) Graves Mt.
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Samarskite Webb Mine, Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA 4.5X2.6 cm (Author: John Medici)
Samarskite Webb Mine, Yancey Co.,
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Silver Crater entrance road in April (Author: John Medici)
Silver Crater entrance road in Apr
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Smoky quartz (amethyst phantom) Sierra Blanca, Lincoln Co., New Mexico, USA 7cm long (Author: John Medici)
Smoky quartz (amethyst phantom) Si
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Smoky quartz pocket Sierra Blanca, New Mexico (Author: John Medici)
Smoky quartz pocket Sierra Blanca,
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Sylvite and Langbeinite Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA 4 cm on edge (Author: John Medici)
Sylvite and Langbeinite Carlsbad,
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Thorite Kemp Prospect, Cardiff Township, Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada Thorite in calcite matrix (Author: John Medici)
Thorite Kemp Prospect, Cardiff Tow
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Thorite Kemp Prospect, Cardiff Township, Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada (Author: John Medici)
Thorite Kemp Prospect, Cardiff Tow
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Uraninite Fission Mine area, Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada 4 cm (larger crystal) (Author: John Medici)
Uraninite Fission Mine area, Wilbe
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Uranophane Faraday Uranium mine, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada Field of view 6 cm across (Author: John Medici)
Uranophane Faraday Uranium mine, B
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Vivianite and calcite-replaced belemnites Mullica Hill (vivianite) and Arneytown, New Jersey, USA 13.5, 8.5, 5.3 cm long, resp. The vivianite replaced fossils are unusual (crystals showing in smaller one). Calcite replacements are common in the US, as is opal in Australia. (Author: John Medici)
Vivianite and calcite-replaced bel
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Zincite, Willemite, Calcite Franklin, New Jersey, USA 16 cm (Author: John Medici)
Zincite, Willemite, Calcite Frankl
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Zircons (slightly radioactive) with betafite Silver Crater Mine (1 cm ring) (Author: John Medici)
Zircons (slightly radioactive) wit