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	Are there pyrite balls found in Verzino?	7	Dany Mabillard	1647	Jul 12, 2025 00:49 Herwig
	Treatments, Synthetics and Simulants: FLUORITE	0	cascaillou	6751	Mar 11, 2025 11:02 cascaillou
	An interesting Colorado "Gold Specimen" Story	1	bob kerr	6300	Jun 19, 2024 10:14 Peter Megaw
	Does this high end amethyst/calcite piece seem artificially altered? I can’t work it out.	7	Ning	8958	Feb 14, 2024 06:54 Ning
	Possible Fake: Blue Hemimorphite from Ojuela [ Goto page: 1, 2, 3 ]	41	Ibrahim Jameel	83396	Dec 31, 2023 13:23 alfredo
	Fake chrysocollas from Congo	0	FMF Forum	26376	Jun 13, 2023 10:19 FMF Forum
	Does Citrine Occur Naturally as a Geode?	11	Stone Mania	20447	May 25, 2023 15:40 Jordi Fabre
	Interesting fake Cavansite	3	Joseph DOliveira	16517	Feb 01, 2023 22:09 alfredo
	Blue herderites? from Badakhshan Afghanistan?	4	Christophe Gobin	21715	Mar 25, 2022 00:19 Christophe Gobin
	Goethite from Imini mine (Morocco)	0	Cesar M. Salvan	25675	Mar 13, 2022 14:57 Cesar M. Salvan
	Aura Coating [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	15	AleaBankston	35864	Jun 06, 2021 14:38 Riccardo Modanesi
	Is there Proof of Kobyashevite Fakes?	5	rgangue	27209	Sep 23, 2020 11:59 Dan Kniffin
	Please help! Is this "Ocean Jasper" Real or Dyed/Fake/Enhanced?	14	Garret	46337	Sep 12, 2020 15:22 Garret
	Fake Colombian Emeralds [ Goto page: 1, 2, 3 ]	35	Fiebre Verde	103003	Dec 14, 2019 11:24 John Betts
	Opinions appreciated....Citrine or glass?	6	AmyinTX	23860	Nov 30, 2019 03:03 James Catmur
	Specimens incorrectly labeled Bravoite coating Pyrite from Colorado	11	John S. White	54077	Nov 23, 2019 07:55 Mathias
	Milpillas "Electric Blue" Azurites AND Malachites - Natural or Chipped? [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	20	bob kerr	57771	Aug 07, 2019 17:26 Birdbrain59
	Are there any Sicilian Sulphur fakes still around?	12	Bob Harman	29800	Jun 09, 2019 09:46 Bob Harman
	Specimens from near the Coronel Manuel Rodriguez Mine, Chile	11	Kevin Conroy	27483	Jun 02, 2019 16:55 Kevin Conroy
	Irradiated fluorite from China?	5	Pierre Joubert	20808	Jan 07, 2019 15:59 Joseph DOliveira
	The intense oiling of Chinese minerals [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	16	nitana2000	54274	Dec 09, 2018 13:34 Gary White
	Who to trust with gemstone identification? Are some gemologists better than others?	11	Adrian August	27379	Sep 09, 2018 10:10 LeadMineGal
	Fake specimens from the Erongo and Brandberg region. [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	23	Pierre Joubert	47148	May 04, 2018 09:31 Pierre Joubert
	Iron Man	7	vic rzonca	20482	Aug 28, 2017 07:57 vic rzonca
	Tanzanite?	6	Harald	19042	Aug 02, 2017 22:31 SteveB
	Quarter million fake Tourmaline cluster. [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	19	texasdigger	34648	May 22, 2017 11:36 markbeckett
	Please help me identify if these are fake or treated [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	16	TomS	36434	Feb 09, 2017 22:10 Bob Harman
	Treatments, Synthetics and Simulants: QUARTZ & CHALCEDONY	3	cascaillou	20654	Dec 20, 2015 20:34 cascaillou
	Fake silver crystals Morocco	1	Christophe Gobin	13888	Nov 24, 2015 03:59 Jordi Fabre
	Chinese "Hydrozincite" specimens?	4	Barry Vincent	16624	Oct 08, 2015 03:23 Jordi Fabre
	Bismutoferrite from China...Caveat Emptor	3	Peter Megaw	15123	May 31, 2015 18:56 alfredo
	Milpillas Azurite - fake specimen [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	27	Cascavel1	70747	Dec 04, 2014 09:47 Cascavel1
	Huanggang Mine scheelite color	11	Josele	27495	Jul 21, 2014 17:48 GneissWare
	Scorodite from Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango... Sulfur Isotope results	5	Peter Megaw	21509	Feb 08, 2014 11:16 Peter Megaw
	Goethite -not cacoxenite- inclusions in amethyst from Brazil	10	Antonio Alcaide	54900	Jan 22, 2014 10:45 cascaillou
	Why an organic substance should not be called a mineral? [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	18	Mike P.	49201	Oct 12, 2013 18:46 cascaillou
	Perfect replicas of natural crystals?	4	David	17818	May 20, 2013 19:46 Josele
	What is it?	10	wade	33092	Apr 01, 2013 22:37 Perritovm
	Azeztulite - Himalaya gold ????	7	Kristen	26609	Sep 12, 2012 08:41 Pierre Joubert
	The bismuth eggs are they a home grow?	4	trtlman	28167	Jul 12, 2012 12:52 Urza
	Palladium-rich gold from Icabaru, Venezuela [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	24	Cesar M. Salvan	86107	Jul 06, 2012 15:26 Leza Junnila
	Amethyst Black Agate Sphere	7	thehippi	27909	Jun 05, 2012 14:49 cascaillou
	Blue Barytes from Baia Sprie (Felsobanya) Mine, Romania	14	GneissWare	47484	Apr 11, 2012 22:07 nicu
	A fake Chinese cinnabar disclosed [ Goto page: 1, 2, 3 ]	30	Carles Millan	72555	Jan 21, 2012 06:14 Riccardo Modanesi
	Detecting Filling with Polymers	3	daviddillman	14232	Jan 06, 2012 12:24 cascaillou
	List of synthetics and artificial compounds	4	cascaillou	23602	Nov 27, 2011 23:20 cascaillou
	Hollow Galena from Madan, Bulgaria [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	17	Jessica Simonoff	51234	Jan 05, 2011 13:38 Darren
	Are These All Correct?	5	Screenname	20427	May 28, 2010 19:54 Screenname
	"Red Quartz" and "Celestite"?	1	Jordi Fabre	10958	May 04, 2010 10:27 Debbie Woolf
	Loliondo spessartine garnet fakes	5	Duncan Miller	16195	Apr 13, 2010 14:08 Carles Millan
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