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	Need help on cleaning a specimen	7	AleaBankston	2512	Oct 07, 2020 13:48 lluis
	Cleaning Quartz	14	MSrockhound	28926	Sep 04, 2020 19:18 SteveB
	Sodium Dithonite, Waller solution, Oxalic acid or HCl	9	al mar	2933	Jul 26, 2020 12:34 al mar
	Calcite	7	Ricky hartzog	10486	Apr 05, 2020 12:21 lluis
	To Enhance or Not to Enhance that is the question!!	8	marvinlewinsky	13302	Feb 17, 2020 13:03 Peter Lemkin
	Between mineral collecting and woodworking	0	dontgogreen	24097	Feb 10, 2020 16:23 dontgogreen
	Preserving Calcite	4	Brandonh	10194	Jan 26, 2020 08:43 Brandonh
	Display cabinets	17	bugrock	15262	Jan 14, 2020 23:17 Bob Morgan
	Cleaning Nifontovite	10	Linus	13669	Jan 14, 2020 15:21 Linus
	The "etched from xxxx" should be part of the for sale label?	1	Bob Harman	9161	Jan 07, 2020 10:55 Enrique Llorens
	vivianite and light	8	Deborah Deitsch-Perez	10679	Dec 28, 2019 03:46 alfredo
	Mounting Sulfur Crystals	7	DanZellner	9844	Nov 15, 2019 17:05 rweaver
	Unstable pyrite	15	John S. White	9439	Nov 14, 2019 09:19 Jordi Fabre
	Uraninite storage [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	31	Xaranar	15046	Oct 06, 2019 17:02 cascaillou
	Unreliable Water Guns?	14	daviddillman	19929	Sep 12, 2019 19:30 Joseph DOliveira
	Artificially dyed agates = a legitimate use of water	0	Bob Harman	23020	May 13, 2019 10:32 Bob Harman
	Cr-rich green Tremolite	6	R Saunders	9620	Mar 25, 2019 18:18 Bob Harman
	Quartz polishing. tips please!!	3	ed7232004	7149	Feb 14, 2019 01:27 Peter Lemkin
	Damaging a specimen	4	tchai	5156	Jan 20, 2019 04:41 R Saunders
	Help! how to remove build up from citrine geode [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	20	ed7232004	12087	Jan 16, 2019 16:53 ed7232004
	Best Labeling Material for Collection Numbers on Specimens	15	Peter Lemkin	10618	Dec 16, 2018 10:36 RayStraw
	Bismuth lost its colours.	4	cornz	5258	Nov 06, 2018 01:32 mmauthner
	Abrasives repairing polishing crystals	11	Diamond	8329	Sep 05, 2018 14:23 Diamond
	How to "Defrost" crystals in quartz	4	al mar	5726	Aug 26, 2018 10:28 GneissWare
	The Illinois Fluorites with Calcite are chemically etched?	13	R Saunders	8066	Jul 29, 2018 13:22 lluis
	Aiguille Verte pink fluorite specimen	2	Mathias	5263	Jul 01, 2018 11:24 Jesse Fisher
	Phosgenite	0	Mathias	19483	Jul 01, 2018 05:07 Mathias
	Making acrylic or Polycarbonate stands for mineral specimens	6	Pierre Joubert	7685	Jun 27, 2018 06:02 Pierre Joubert
	Cleaning mixed sulfides.	4	vic rzonca	6132	May 16, 2018 14:19 Peter Lemkin
	Hinged boxes for crystal collections wanted	8	John S. White	21360	May 15, 2018 09:16 vic rzonca
	Help how do I clean anhydrite?	2	Greg Lilly	4901	Apr 29, 2018 18:40 Greg Lilly
	A terrible nuisance	17	John S. White	15540	Nov 10, 2017 01:47 Michael mc mullen
	Potential Toxicity of Handling Raw Malachite Specimens. [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	26	Joseph DOliveira	36901	Nov 03, 2017 20:33 Tracy
	Cleaning Carrolite specimens	2	Pierre Joubert	5996	Oct 02, 2017 16:50 Pierre Joubert
	Cleaning with Water/ Spot Cleaning Guns (Agate?)	13	Ceanna	13395	Aug 25, 2017 10:36 Ceanna
	Removing stubborn minerals from quartz [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	32	Pierre Joubert	35298	Apr 20, 2017 11:26 Pierre Joubert
	Information about turquoise mineral	7	Lundy	9422	Apr 01, 2017 21:39 SteveB
	How to clean golden calcite	16	jtozier	19393	Mar 14, 2017 15:01 jtozier
	Cleaning Pyrite [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	23	John S. White	40642	Jul 21, 2016 05:07 Carles Millan
	How to remove biological materials from minerals	7	Pete Richards	10263	Jun 13, 2016 18:13 Ivan Blanco (PDM)
	Fading fluorite.	5	vic rzonca	17052	May 12, 2016 11:28 Jamison Brizendine
	Why a "delicate subject"?	3	Tom Mazanec	9133	May 01, 2016 08:55 Roy Starkey
	How to remove iron stains? [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	24	daviddillman	50487	Feb 19, 2016 06:25 basti
	Stilbite and sandblasting - unexpected result	6	Rei	12562	Feb 08, 2016 16:35 Mike Wood
	Cleaning off the "white stuff" on Milpillas Brochantities	2	bob kerr	9504	Dec 23, 2015 09:29 bob kerr
	Fluorite cleaning !	9	h.abbasi	16576	Dec 14, 2015 13:14 h.abbasi
	Trimming methods - wulfenite	4	dontgogreen	10134	Dec 04, 2015 09:05 Les Presmyk
	Mounting very tiny specimens	10	rocks2dust	14144	Nov 26, 2015 12:29 rocks2dust
	Light sensitivity of pink fluorapatite	3	Tobi	9722	Nov 04, 2015 06:41 prcantos
	Removing Tarnish From Pyrite	11	Casimir Sarisky	17879	Aug 24, 2015 14:39 Casimir Sarisky
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