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	Caring Collection	3	alibaba	2119	Aug 14, 2023 10:26 Jordi Fabre
	Clean and Polish Calcite	3	Kowen	3650	May 18, 2023 16:44 Matt_Zukowski
	Tips on building display cases	4	Ning	5462	Jan 19, 2023 07:00 Ning
	How to secure a mineral inside a plastic box?	8	cascaillou	9480	Dec 27, 2022 13:55 Roger Warin
	Linarite or azurite	5	Gregor	12968	Jul 12, 2021 14:52 Pete Richards
	Rust remover UK	3	al kirky	7865	Jun 07, 2021 12:59 al kirky
	I thought I might show how I keep these large examples	0	Bob Harman	9346	May 27, 2021 09:47 Bob Harman
	Airtight display boxes ?	14	cascaillou	13051	May 26, 2021 03:35 vicen
	Rescuing massive 13 lb tremolite/actinolite	10	Charly H	11818	Apr 16, 2021 13:31 James Catmur
	Need help on cleaning a specimen	7	AleaBankston	13491	Oct 07, 2020 13:48 lluis
	Cleaning Quartz	14	MSrockhound	43099	Sep 04, 2020 19:18 SteveB
	Sodium Dithonite, Waller solution, Oxalic acid or HCl	9	al mar	13008	Jul 26, 2020 12:34 al mar
	Calcite	7	Ricky hartzog	18043	Apr 05, 2020 12:21 lluis
	To Enhance or Not to Enhance that is the question!!	8	marvinlewinsky	18034	Feb 17, 2020 13:03 Peter Lemkin
	Between mineral collecting and woodworking	0	dontgogreen	27494	Feb 10, 2020 16:23 dontgogreen
	Preserving Calcite	4	Brandonh	14353	Jan 26, 2020 08:43 Brandonh
	Display cabinets	17	bugrock	24953	Jan 14, 2020 23:17 Bob Morgan
	Cleaning Nifontovite	10	Linus	20464	Jan 14, 2020 15:21 Linus
	The "etched from xxxx" should be part of the for sale label?	1	Bob Harman	11657	Jan 07, 2020 10:55 Enrique Llorens
	vivianite and light	8	Deborah Deitsch-Perez	15556	Dec 28, 2019 03:46 alfredo
	Mounting Sulfur Crystals	7	DanZellner	13567	Nov 15, 2019 17:05 rweaver
	Unstable pyrite	15	John S. White	16365	Nov 14, 2019 09:19 Jordi Fabre
	Uraninite storage [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	31	Xaranar	27565	Oct 06, 2019 17:02 cascaillou
	Unreliable Water Guns?	14	daviddillman	25449	Sep 12, 2019 19:30 Joseph DOliveira
	Artificially dyed agates = a legitimate use of water	0	Bob Harman	25743	May 13, 2019 10:32 Bob Harman
	Cr-rich green Tremolite	6	R Saunders	13351	Mar 25, 2019 18:18 Bob Harman
	Quartz polishing. tips please!!	3	ed7232004	9750	Feb 14, 2019 01:27 Peter Lemkin
	Damaging a specimen	4	tchai	8253	Jan 20, 2019 04:41 R Saunders
	Help! how to remove build up from citrine geode [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	20	ed7232004	22559	Jan 16, 2019 16:53 ed7232004
	Best Labeling Material for Collection Numbers on Specimens	15	Peter Lemkin	19093	Dec 16, 2018 10:36 RayStraw
	Bismuth lost its colours.	4	cornz	8585	Nov 06, 2018 01:32 mmauthner
	Abrasives repairing polishing crystals	11	Diamond	13684	Sep 05, 2018 14:23 Diamond
	How to "Defrost" crystals in quartz	4	al mar	8742	Aug 26, 2018 10:28 GneissWare
	The Illinois Fluorites with Calcite are chemically etched?	13	R Saunders	13248	Jul 29, 2018 13:22 lluis
	Aiguille Verte pink fluorite specimen	2	Mathias	7338	Jul 01, 2018 11:24 Jesse Fisher
	Phosgenite	0	Mathias	21278	Jul 01, 2018 05:07 Mathias
	Making acrylic or Polycarbonate stands for mineral specimens	6	Pierre Joubert	11215	Jun 27, 2018 06:02 Pierre Joubert
	Cleaning mixed sulfides.	4	vic rzonca	9014	May 16, 2018 14:19 Peter Lemkin
	Hinged boxes for crystal collections wanted	8	John S. White	35966	May 15, 2018 09:16 vic rzonca
	Help how do I clean anhydrite?	2	Greg Lilly	7147	Apr 29, 2018 18:40 Greg Lilly
	A terrible nuisance	17	John S. White	22064	Nov 10, 2017 01:47 Michael mc mullen
	Potential Toxicity of Handling Raw Malachite Specimens. [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	26	Joseph DOliveira	48825	Nov 03, 2017 20:33 Tracy
	Cleaning Carrolite specimens	2	Pierre Joubert	8077	Oct 02, 2017 16:50 Pierre Joubert
	Cleaning with Water/ Spot Cleaning Guns (Agate?)	13	Ceanna	20231	Aug 25, 2017 10:36 Ceanna
	Removing stubborn minerals from quartz [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	32	Pierre Joubert	46987	Apr 20, 2017 11:26 Pierre Joubert
	Information about turquoise mineral	7	Lundy	13318	Apr 01, 2017 21:39 SteveB
	How to clean golden calcite	16	jtozier	27392	Mar 14, 2017 15:01 jtozier
	Cleaning Pyrite [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	23	John S. White	51235	Jul 21, 2016 05:07 Carles Millan
	How to remove biological materials from minerals	7	Pete Richards	13413	Jun 13, 2016 18:13 Ivan Blanco (PDM)
	Fading fluorite.	5	vic rzonca	22578	May 12, 2016 11:28 Jamison Brizendine
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