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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 4494, member: 56&quot;]I like those trilobites as well.&nbsp; Sometimes I look at the ones available on eBay.&nbsp; Some remarkable specimens come from Morocco.&nbsp; (And even fossils get faked.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I never found a whole trilobite.&nbsp; Apparently they molted - like crabs - and all I&#039;ve ever found are fragments:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]851[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have this beautiful fossil horn coral:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]852[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>These are pink dolomite crystal with gypsum:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]857[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sphalerite crystals ( a zinc ore - very small):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]855[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]859[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is chalcopyrite on talc.&nbsp; This was collected from a rock dump at a talc mine.&nbsp; (I remember someone at the mine saying that the pyrites were a problem as they stained the talc.):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]861[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And this is a piece of slag I picked up from a mine somewhere.&nbsp; I just liked the flow pattern:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]864[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have other crystal specimens I&#039;ve bought here and there, but the above are pieces I collected myself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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