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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 213067, member: 54&quot;]Those have really had a tough life, lots of chips, and since fluorite is relatively soft, the chips are evidence that it may indeed be fluorite as opposed to some similar-looking mineral.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, the one on the right is eating a marshmallow, an odd activity for such a figurine.&nbsp; Fluorite mining was a big industry not far from where I once lived in Illinois, but it is mined in many different countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>They are most likely to be no older than about 60 years, that time in my mind very roughly marking the beginning of massive importation of cheap Chinese-made souvenirs to the US.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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