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	Re: Campylite spring cleaning !	4	Forrestblyth	4875	Apr 13, 2025 07:46 jose luis jara jara
	Creating “fitted” clear acrylic mineral display stands. How is it done?	2	Ning	9358	Mar 03, 2025 10:19 Juan Roberto Rivera
	Cleaning a hematite rose	4	Robson Vieira	2593	Jan 14, 2025 07:31 Robson Vieira
	Waller solution With Citric acid sodium bicarbonate	4	al mar	2591	Dec 16, 2024 08:11 James Catmur
	Curating your collection	11	Michael Shaw	66433	Nov 19, 2023 07:51 James Catmur
	Caring Collection	3	alibaba	19098	Aug 14, 2023 10:26 Jordi Fabre
	Clean and Polish Calcite	3	Kowen	22061	May 18, 2023 16:44 Matt_Zukowski
	Tips on building display cases	4	Ning	73158	Jan 19, 2023 07:00 Ning
	How to secure a mineral inside a plastic box?	8	cascaillou	25112	Dec 27, 2022 13:55 Roger Warin
	Linarite or azurite	5	Gregor	26499	Jul 12, 2021 14:52 Pete Richards
	Rust remover UK	3	al kirky	18754	Jun 07, 2021 12:59 al kirky
	I thought I might show how I keep these large examples	0	Bob Harman	23555	May 27, 2021 09:47 Bob Harman
	Airtight display boxes ?	14	cascaillou	41618	May 26, 2021 03:35 vicen
	Rescuing massive 13 lb tremolite/actinolite	10	Charly H	24462	Apr 16, 2021 13:31 James Catmur
	Need help on cleaning a specimen	7	AleaBankston	22184	Oct 07, 2020 13:48 lluis
	Cleaning Quartz	14	MSrockhound	88734	Sep 04, 2020 19:18 SteveB
	Sodium Dithonite, Waller solution, Oxalic acid or HCl	9	al mar	21573	Jul 26, 2020 12:34 al mar
	Calcite	7	Ricky hartzog	23348	Apr 05, 2020 12:21 lluis
	To Enhance or Not to Enhance that is the question!!	8	marvinlewinsky	21957	Feb 17, 2020 13:03 Peter Lemkin
	Between mineral collecting and woodworking	0	dontgogreen	30026	Feb 10, 2020 16:23 dontgogreen
	Preserving Calcite	4	Brandonh	17768	Jan 26, 2020 08:43 Brandonh
	Display cabinets [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	17	bugrock	33471	Jan 14, 2020 23:17 Bob Morgan
	Cleaning Nifontovite	10	Linus	26084	Jan 14, 2020 15:21 Linus
	The "etched from xxxx" should be part of the for sale label?	1	Bob Harman	13408	Jan 07, 2020 10:55 Enrique Llorens
	vivianite and light	8	Deborah Deitsch-Perez	19995	Dec 28, 2019 03:46 alfredo
	Mounting Sulfur Crystals	7	DanZellner	17316	Nov 15, 2019 17:05 rweaver
	Unstable pyrite [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	15	John S. White	24834	Nov 14, 2019 09:19 Jordi Fabre
	Uraninite storage [ Goto page: 1, 2, 3 ]	31	Xaranar	43262	Oct 06, 2019 17:02 cascaillou
	Unreliable Water Guns?	14	daviddillman	36061	Sep 12, 2019 19:30 Joseph DOliveira
	Artificially dyed agates = a legitimate use of water	0	Bob Harman	28143	May 13, 2019 10:32 Bob Harman
	Cr-rich green Tremolite	6	R Saunders	16557	Mar 25, 2019 18:18 Bob Harman
	Quartz polishing. tips please!!	3	ed7232004	11980	Feb 14, 2019 01:27 Peter Lemkin
	Damaging a specimen	4	tchai	11642	Jan 20, 2019 04:41 R Saunders
	Help! how to remove build up from citrine geode [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	20	ed7232004	33557	Jan 16, 2019 16:53 ed7232004
	Best Labeling Material for Collection Numbers on Specimens [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	15	Peter Lemkin	26306	Dec 16, 2018 10:36 RayStraw
	Bismuth lost its colours.	4	cornz	12044	Nov 06, 2018 01:32 mmauthner
	Abrasives repairing polishing crystals	11	Diamond	19078	Sep 05, 2018 14:23 Diamond
	How to "Defrost" crystals in quartz	4	al mar	12146	Aug 26, 2018 10:28 GneissWare
	The Illinois Fluorites with Calcite are chemically etched?	13	R Saunders	20839	Jul 29, 2018 13:22 lluis
	Aiguille Verte pink fluorite specimen	2	Mathias	9722	Jul 01, 2018 11:24 Jesse Fisher
	Phosgenite	0	Mathias	23010	Jul 01, 2018 05:07 Mathias
	Making acrylic or Polycarbonate stands for mineral specimens	6	Pierre Joubert	15208	Jun 27, 2018 06:02 Pierre Joubert
	Cleaning mixed sulfides.	4	vic rzonca	11914	May 16, 2018 14:19 Peter Lemkin
	Hinged boxes for crystal collections wanted	8	John S. White	39942	May 15, 2018 09:16 vic rzonca
	Help how do I clean anhydrite?	2	Greg Lilly	9536	Apr 29, 2018 18:40 Greg Lilly
	A terrible nuisance [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	17	John S. White	29553	Nov 10, 2017 01:47 Michael mc mullen
	Potential Toxicity of Handling Raw Malachite Specimens. [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	26	Joseph DOliveira	80119	Nov 03, 2017 20:33 Tracy
	Cleaning Carrolite specimens	2	Pierre Joubert	10843	Oct 02, 2017 16:50 Pierre Joubert
	Cleaning with Water/ Spot Cleaning Guns (Agate?)	13	Ceanna	30728	Aug 25, 2017 10:36 Ceanna
	Removing stubborn minerals from quartz [ Goto page: 1, 2, 3 ]	32	Pierre Joubert	60382	Apr 20, 2017 11:26 Pierre Joubert
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