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	Tips on building display cases	4	Ning	1413	Jan 19, 2023 07:00 Ning
	How to secure a mineral inside a plastic box?	8	cascaillou	5307	Dec 27, 2022 13:55 Roger Warin
	Linarite or azurite	5	Gregor	8837	Jul 12, 2021 14:52 Pete Richards
	Rust remover UK	3	al kirky	3736	Jun 07, 2021 12:59 al kirky
	I thought I might show how I keep these large examples	0	Bob Harman	3038	May 27, 2021 09:47 Bob Harman
	Airtight display boxes ?	14	cascaillou	8632	May 26, 2021 03:35 vicen
	Rescuing massive 13 lb tremolite/actinolite	10	Charly H	7703	Apr 16, 2021 13:31 James Catmur
	Need help on cleaning a specimen	7	AleaBankston	9719	Oct 07, 2020 13:48 lluis
	Cleaning Quartz	14	MSrockhound	39804	Sep 04, 2020 19:18 SteveB
	Sodium Dithonite, Waller solution, Oxalic acid or HCl	9	al mar	10265	Jul 26, 2020 12:34 al mar
	Calcite	7	Ricky hartzog	16398	Apr 05, 2020 12:21 lluis
	To Enhance or Not to Enhance that is the question!!	8	marvinlewinsky	17431	Feb 17, 2020 13:03 Peter Lemkin
	Between mineral collecting and woodworking	0	dontgogreen	27190	Feb 10, 2020 16:23 dontgogreen
	Preserving Calcite	4	Brandonh	13819	Jan 26, 2020 08:43 Brandonh
	Display cabinets	17	bugrock	23426	Jan 14, 2020 23:17 Bob Morgan
	Cleaning Nifontovite	10	Linus	19668	Jan 14, 2020 15:21 Linus
	The "etched from xxxx" should be part of the for sale label?	1	Bob Harman	11383	Jan 07, 2020 10:55 Enrique Llorens
	vivianite and light	8	Deborah Deitsch-Perez	14347	Dec 28, 2019 03:46 alfredo
	Mounting Sulfur Crystals	7	DanZellner	12868	Nov 15, 2019 17:05 rweaver
	Unstable pyrite	15	John S. White	15000	Nov 14, 2019 09:19 Jordi Fabre
	Uraninite storage [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	31	Xaranar	25157	Oct 06, 2019 17:02 cascaillou
	Unreliable Water Guns?	14	daviddillman	24397	Sep 12, 2019 19:30 Joseph DOliveira
	Artificially dyed agates = a legitimate use of water	0	Bob Harman	25433	May 13, 2019 10:32 Bob Harman
	Cr-rich green Tremolite	6	R Saunders	12739	Mar 25, 2019 18:18 Bob Harman
	Quartz polishing. tips please!!	3	ed7232004	9321	Feb 14, 2019 01:27 Peter Lemkin
	Damaging a specimen	4	tchai	7708	Jan 20, 2019 04:41 R Saunders
	Help! how to remove build up from citrine geode [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	20	ed7232004	20803	Jan 16, 2019 16:53 ed7232004
	Best Labeling Material for Collection Numbers on Specimens	15	Peter Lemkin	17633	Dec 16, 2018 10:36 RayStraw
	Bismuth lost its colours.	4	cornz	8031	Nov 06, 2018 01:32 mmauthner
	Abrasives repairing polishing crystals	11	Diamond	12656	Sep 05, 2018 14:23 Diamond
	How to "Defrost" crystals in quartz	4	al mar	8254	Aug 26, 2018 10:28 GneissWare
	The Illinois Fluorites with Calcite are chemically etched?	13	R Saunders	12203	Jul 29, 2018 13:22 lluis
	Aiguille Verte pink fluorite specimen	2	Mathias	6993	Jul 01, 2018 11:24 Jesse Fisher
	Phosgenite	0	Mathias	20968	Jul 01, 2018 05:07 Mathias
	Making acrylic or Polycarbonate stands for mineral specimens	6	Pierre Joubert	10498	Jun 27, 2018 06:02 Pierre Joubert
	Cleaning mixed sulfides.	4	vic rzonca	8522	May 16, 2018 14:19 Peter Lemkin
	Hinged boxes for crystal collections wanted	8	John S. White	35228	May 15, 2018 09:16 vic rzonca
	Help how do I clean anhydrite?	2	Greg Lilly	6724	Apr 29, 2018 18:40 Greg Lilly
	A terrible nuisance	17	John S. White	20757	Nov 10, 2017 01:47 Michael mc mullen
	Potential Toxicity of Handling Raw Malachite Specimens. [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	26	Joseph DOliveira	46895	Nov 03, 2017 20:33 Tracy
	Cleaning Carrolite specimens	2	Pierre Joubert	7664	Oct 02, 2017 16:50 Pierre Joubert
	Cleaning with Water/ Spot Cleaning Guns (Agate?)	13	Ceanna	18870	Aug 25, 2017 10:36 Ceanna
	Removing stubborn minerals from quartz [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	32	Pierre Joubert	44613	Apr 20, 2017 11:26 Pierre Joubert
	Information about turquoise mineral	7	Lundy	12541	Apr 01, 2017 21:39 SteveB
	How to clean golden calcite	16	jtozier	25835	Mar 14, 2017 15:01 jtozier
	Cleaning Pyrite [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	23	John S. White	49428	Jul 21, 2016 05:07 Carles Millan
	How to remove biological materials from minerals	7	Pete Richards	12815	Jun 13, 2016 18:13 Ivan Blanco (PDM)
	Fading fluorite.	5	vic rzonca	21228	May 12, 2016 11:28 Jamison Brizendine
	Why a "delicate subject"?	3	Tom Mazanec	10866	May 01, 2016 08:55 Roy Starkey
	How to remove iron stains? [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	24	daviddillman	61563	Feb 19, 2016 06:25 basti
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