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Quartz, iridescent rainbow pyrite, calcite pseudomorph after fluorite, Nikolaerskiy mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia. https://goldenhourminerals.etsy.com/listing/1440724920
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jaybe11 · 23 days
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The Best documented UFO crash in history, the remarkable 1986 Dalnegorsk...
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stymul · 1 year
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Beta Quartz from Dalnegorsk, Russia
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siberianprototype · 2 years
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On The Road, For Real This Time pt. 2
Knowing there was an irradiated wasteland countless kilometers wide somewhere to his southwest didn’t do his nerves any favors, but as Over neared Dalnegorsk, he had to admit that Russia was strangely untouched– the parts of it he'd traveled through, at least. The average radiation was markedly higher than ‘pre-Cataclysm', as Alexis called it, but other than that, the areas he went through were practically pristine.
Then again, he had been in ‘the ass end of nowhere.' The silent peace of the snow probably didn’t exist anywhere else, not when there'd been so many nuclear weapons. 
There’d been no trace of the century-old roads Over was following for all this time, but a few kilometers from Dalnegorsk, time-weathered concrete started to litter the sides of the too-level to be natural ground. Covered by snow though they were, it was enough to confirm that the map hadn’t led him wrong.
When he crested the final hill, Alexis let out a low whistle. Over silently agreed.
The town was a ruin. The snow covered any visible damage there might have been, but you didn’t have to see the details to know what happened. It looked more like a pile of matchsticks than a former place of civilization.
But the Highway?
There were clear signs of disrepair even from this far away, but the concrete gleamed in the late afternoon sun. A testament to the ingenuity of a century past reached over the icy waters and past the horizon.
They were here. This was the path to North America.
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{Given how the highway was built, it should be intact enough for you to ride the whole way through. Now we just need several dozen Wily Numbers here to put us and several hostages in mortal peril!}
Huh? That made no sense. “You say a lot of weird stuff, Alexis.”
{Nah, you’re just not that worldly yet.}
“Because you’re the one with all the memories.” He didn’t have immediate access to the ones Alexis was referencing.
{Hey, cut me some slack!}
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Datolite on quartz.
Dalnegorsk, Primorsky krai, Russia
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The Dalnegorsk UFO Crash of 1986
By Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle
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“Out of the corner of my eye I saw something that fell on the mountain. There was an indistinct impact, not reverberating, but quite strong. The noise of the impact lasted less than a second. There was an explosion, and large reddish-white flames. It seemed something was engulfed in powerful fire. The sphere was approximately one meter in diameter. The fire roared. I observed all of it for about 5 minutes. The fire burned for 1 to 2 minutes, and then stopped.”
Source: Inoplanetyane v Moskve article, published in Lipetskaya Nedelya newspaper, issue dated April 7, 2004.
Dalnegorsk
The Primorsky Krai region occupies the South Eastern extremity of Russia. Primorsky means “maritime” in Russian, therefore the region is sometimes referred to as Maritime Province.  Primorsky Krai is bordered by China, North Korea, and the Sea of Japan.  The picturesque town of Dalnegorsk (a former mining settlement) is located in the Primorsky Krai, in a narrow valley by the Rudnaya River, surrounded on all sides by forests and hills. These hills are also riddled with a number of deep caves.
International fame came to Dalnegorsk in 1986, on January 29; at 7:55 p.m. to be precise. Some have called the event that occurred there on that winters night the Roswell Incident of the Soviet Union.
That cold January day an orange-reddish sphere flew over this town from the southeast, crossed part of Dalnegorsk, and crashed at the Izvestkovaya (Lime) Mountain; also known as Height or Hill 611, because of its size. The object flew noiselessly and parallel to the ground. Its shape was described of being near perfectly round with no projections, wings or windows and its color was similar to that of burnished stainless steel.
The Crash
Some local witnesses at the time assumed it was a meteorite, while others thought it was something quite out of the ordinary.
One eyewitness, Yevgeny Serebrov, a schoolboy at the time (nowadays he’s a scientist), mentioned that the object had neither tail nor trail behind it. There was no explosion, only a powerful impact when it hit the mountain. Scientists, who arrived later in Dalnegorsk from Vladivostok and Khabarovsk, used a chronometer to determine that the object moved at 15 meters per second. They told Yevgeny and other boys that meteorites and fragments of rockets cannot fly in such fashion. Source: Shariki iz parallel’nogo mira, article by N. Leskova, published in a Russian newspaper Trud (Moscow), January 17, 2003.
Duration of the Fire
V. Korotko, editor of the local newspaper Trudovoye Slovo, was near the mountain during the crash of this mysterious object. He stated that a small fire broke out at the impact site but that it burned for only a short while.
Height 611 is located across from a local bus station (avtovokzal).V Kondakov, a local mechanic, was at the bus station at the moment the sphere flew over the town. He said the sphere was flying so low that it seemed it would cut off part of the chimney of Dalnopolimetall industrial enterprise. It was round, without any protrusions or holes. It seemingly was made from metal, and its color resembled slightly incandescent stainless steel. Kondakov thought the sphere a shell, a projectile. He did not hear any noises. Kondakov observed how the object crashed down on the hill, but heard no sounds of the impact. The ground at the site of the impact began to burn.
According to Mikhail Gershtein, Russia’s top UFO researcher and author of numerous books about ufology and paranormal phenomena, many eyewitnesses compared the fire burning at the site to electrical welding. The extent of the fire was alternatively described as one to two minutes, about an hour, or even late into the night.
Recovery of the Fragments
On February 2, 1986 a parent of one of the children that observed the crash, accompanied by an adult and some schoolchildren, made an excursion to the site. They found a burned tree stump, a hollow that was not deep, and branches that seemed to have been cut off the tree by the object as it descended. There were no large fragments of material like that of an airplane crash.
They collected, very methodically, melted drops of some substance that had a metallic tint, rocks, and a piece of the tree stump. They took everything to the local museum of regional studies. Its director was Valeri Viktorovich Dvuzhilni. The drops resembled soft metal. Several various acids were used on them, but there was no reaction. Then they decided to obtain further scientific opinion from V. Berlizov, a local expert, and a member of the 1947 scientific expedition to the site of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite. V. Dvuzhilni wanted an expert opinion on what this material could be. Source: Dalnegorskaya zagazka, article by S. Glukhov and V. Popov, published in Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya newspaper, issue dated April 5, 1986.
There was no quick reply from the experts, and Dvuzhilni decided to use the other means at his disposal. His group was able to climb the mountain three days after the crash. The UFO, Dvuzhilni told Soviet journalists from Magadansky Komsomolets, broke off a terrace of the rock, about two cubic meters of it, and 10 square meters of snow had ‘evaporated’ at the site. The vegetation had been burnt away and the ground seemed to have been burnt as well.
The newspaper revealed that the team found magnetized fragments of silicic shale.  Can you imagine a brick that attracts metal? High temperatures annul magnetism, but in this case it was quite the contrary. This, mentioned Dvuzhilni, once more confirmed that it was not a ball lightning or a plasmoid that arrived in Height 611, but a UFO. Source: Puteshevstviye v Dal’negorsk article, author A. Molchanov published in Magadansky Komsomolets newspaper, issue dated June 24, 1990.
The team was amazed that the area burned by fire was strictly defined, as if separated. A rhododendron bush growing at the very edge of the area burned to ashes remained absolutely untouched by fire. But the rock, composed of light brown silica shale, cracked and fissures were formed, and it turned black as coal. A thin layer of soil was mixed with ashes. Careful examination of the site turned up some thirty grams of an unusual substance. It consisted of solidified droplets of dark colors. Most droplets were tiny, from half a millimeter to two millimeters in diameter, and some were larger, from three to five millimeters.
Dvuzhilni contacted the laboratory of Bor and Dalnopolimetall industrial enterprises. The analyses performed there revealed that smaller droplets consisted of an incredible alloy of lead, and it contained up to 17 elements of the Mendeleev Table.
Large-sized droplets turned out to be compounds of chromium, nickel, and aluminum. Only a diamond saw blade was able to cut through them. Another incongruity was revealed: the alloy of metals had to have crystalline structure but was actually amorphous, like soap. Such amorphous metals can be produced in laboratory settings (using liquid helium to cool melted extremely hot metal), but the crash took place on a naked rocky mountainside.
Analyses of Recovered Objects
The objects collected at the site were later dubbed as “tiny nets” or “mesh), “little balls,” “lead balls,” “and glass pieces” (that is what each resembled).  Closer examination revealed very unusual properties. One of the “tiny nets” contained torn and very thin (17 micrometers) threads. Each of the threads consisted of even thinner fibers, tied up in plaits. Intertwined with the fibers were very thin gold wires.
The study of the droplets determined that the distance between atoms in the crystalline array of metal balls was 3.84 angstroms, not the usual 3.86 angstroms, as is usual in metal. Most of all the specialists were amazed by items which were dubbed “net” (“mesh”). They were composed of amorphous carbon. The rare earth atoms there were distanced from each other. Scientists calculated 18 elements in the “net”. The gold content of the “net” was equivalent to 1100 gram per ton (only 4 grams per ton are needed for industrial exploitation of ore-deposit); and silver content was equivalent to 3100 grams per ton. Using electronic microscopes, scientists discovered that the surface of the “net” contained quartz threads of 17 microns in thickness. The threads intertwined and tied together into a precise cord.  One of the threads revealed a sort of golden section: an extremely thin gold line somehow placed in the very middle of the “net”.
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Quartz, iridescent rainbow pyrite, calcite pseudomorph after fluorite, Nikolaerskiy mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia 2.75 inch. See video and details here
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(Credit: Greenstone Fine Minerals)
Minerals of the Calamity Box (Scroll for Cool Pictures)
I am a major enthusiast of minerals. I find them fascinating; I have always been meaning to hypothesize about which minerals are incorporated in the Calamity Box. I know this is not relevant to the show’s canon, but I wanted to show you all some interesting photographs and talk about a mineral that I think would be rather pertinent: fluorite.
~(Time for me to quit fooling around with theories; I’ll make a reputation for myself as a joculatrix if I pose any more wild, baseless theories about the story’s plot, haha).~
My apologies in advance for such an obscure topic; I bet that nobody really cares about this except me.
Now, why in the world would I suggest fluorite as a mineral to focus on? Well, fluorite that does not possess appreciable impurities or structural defects is usually quite colorless. This variation of the mineral is what you see as the first image on this post: it is colorless, cubic fluorite on hexagonal quartz with actinolite inclusions (responsible for green coloration) embedded in matrix material. This particular specimen is from Dalnegorsk, Russia and happens to be an excellent example of the colorless fluorite. It appears much like the uncharged Calamity gems. Fluorite also happens to express a wide variety of colorations; in fact, it is likely one of the minerals with the widest variation of hues. It exhibits some exquisite colors that match the gems of the box quite well.
Mineralogy Basics
First, a quick chemical and physical characterization of fluorite. The composition of fluorite is known to hold this stoichiometric proportionality: Ca ≏ 2 F, or CaF2. Seeing as fluorine is a halogen according to periodic table classifications, fluorite is categorized as a halide mineral. It is also a member of the isometric crystal system, which means that this mineral is expected to behave isotropically in polarized light. In other words, the mineral will be fully extinct (darkened) in cross polarized light regardless of how the microscope stage is rotated. 
The general isometric crystal system follows a scheme in which three crystallographic axes- termed a, b, and c or a1, a2, and a3- are each equal in length and orthogonal to one another. Visually, this is depicted as follows:
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Fluorite has a variety of different habits within the isometric crystal system that it can exhibit, each with point groups formed by symmetries . These are some examples:
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A: Cubic
B: Octahedral
C: Dodecahedral
D: Modified Cubic 
E: Highly Modified Cubic
F: Modified Dodecahedral
Taking a look at the geochemistry and temperature of formation of fluorite, some interesting things can be deduced. Firstly, fluorite has late-stage mineralization in the lifespan of magmatic events or features. This is in part due to the lower temperatures (~500 C) that are required in order for fluorite to begin to nucleate from metasomatic solution or magma. The habit that fluorite crystals exhibit is dependent upon two main factors, among other contributing influences. These predominant modes would happen to be solution saturation and temperature. Schemes of temperature, cooling, and solution saturation have been elucidated to better understand the nature of fluorite deposits. The evolution of crystallographic morphology through time and space has been understood using fluorite as a primary example, thus it was possible to create the following figure. This figure is specific to a certain deposit of fluorite, but the general morphological scheme that considers physicochemical parameters remains accurate. 
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Now, minerals are in part defined by their regularity in repetitive, long-range structure. The fundamental subunit that is repeated in minerals- much like a monomer being repeated in the structure of polymers- is known as a unit cell. The unit cell of fluorite is shown below featured as the ball-and-sticks that are shown prominently. In this scheme, the dark green is calcium and the light green is fluorine.
Dark Green: Calcium
Light Green: Fluorine
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The line-structures above represent the same unit cell being repeated over long-range order, thus propagating an overall structure and crystal habit. To show all of these as balls-and-sticks, the image below is included:
Reminder:
Dark Green: Calcium
Light Green: Fluorine
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Coloration Connection to Box
Now, we see that when the Calamity Box has the faceted gemstones that are not charged, they are rather colorless with a faint hint of their intended coloration. 
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This could be analogous to colorless fluorite. Fluorite is a mineral with a wide variety of colorations; the color they exhibit is dependent on their impurity nature and concentration in conjunction with the magnitude and duration of external energy received during mineralization; these contributing stimuli influence the mineral’s optical properties and behavior in plane polarized and cross polarized light. Mineralogically speaking, fluorite is known as an allochromatic mineral since its coloration is dependent on the concentration and identity of impurities as well as the presence and magnitude of exogenic sources of energy that impact the mineral during its formation (radiation, heat, etc.). Take a look at the following varieties of fluorite:
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Mineral(s): Druzy Quartz with Cubic, Green Fluorite
Colloquial Variety/Coloration: Green
Locality: Fujian Province, China
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Mineral(s): Cubic Fluorite on Matrix
Colloquial Variety/Coloration: Purple + Red (Possibly Fluorescing Red)
Locality: Yunnan Province, China
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Mineral(s): Octahedral Red Fluorite on Albite Feldspar and Quartz Matrix
Colloquial Variety/Coloration: Red Fluorite
Locality: Mont Blanc Massif, Haute-Savoie, France
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Mineral(s): Opaque Quartz and Blue, Subhedral Fluorite
Colloquial Variety/Coloration: Blue
Locality: Chifeng City, China
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You can see that there are colorations of fluorite that match the colors of the gemstones in the Calamity Box, albeit the minerals of the box have been altered through faceting. 
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Factors Influencing Fluorite Coloration
In large part, the coloration of fluorite is derived from color centers of the crystal lattice. Color centers essentially propagate from vacancies, interstitials, and related impurities within the crystalline lattice, which alter the optical behavior of the mineral such that it deviates from the characteristics of pure, rigidly aligned samples. Some examples of lattice defects that contribute to the skewing of the color of fluorite are as follows:
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Electron Microscopy Photomicrographs of Molybdenum Disulfide Defects
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(Scale Bar = 1 nanometer).
These schemes provide us with the context of various defects that can occur in lattices. Intrinsic point defects refer to defects that involve the primary constituents of the lattice or mineral in question. In this case, we would be considering calcium and fluorine. In the case of extrinsic point defects, we would be considering a similar arrangement of lattice defects; these would involve elements that are not considered predominant components of the chemical formula. In the case of fluorine, rare earth elements acting as substitutional or interstitial atoms may influence the color in a variety of ways. For example, the following elements or ionic groups are known to produce certain colors:
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Now, there is another underlying consideration to be made that involves the subject of physical chemistry. In the instance that external energy is provided to the lattice as it is crystallizing- such as in the form of background radiation, light, or thermal energy- it may be possible that this energy is sufficient to meet or exceed the binding energy of electrons within the electron configuration of atoms in the crystal. In the case that the binding energy of the electron is compromised, it is possible that electron vacancies will form, leaving “radical,” free electrons within the lattice and leaving “holes” in their absence. These free electrons may influence the transmission of light through the lattice, absorbing some wavelengths of visible light while allowing others to be transmitted through the lattice. In this scenario, the color is influenced by the presence of these unbound electrons and the resulting electronic configuration of the constituent elements.
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Mineral Zonation in Colors and Growth Phases
Another interesting phenomenon that can be exhibited in fluorite is mineral zonation. There are some famous examples of this, such as in some specimens that are referred to as “rainbow fluorite.” This is the scheme for this zonation in a cubic habit for this mineral:
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Mineral(s): Fluorite Exhibiting Color Zonation in Growth Phases in Fluorite Matrix
Colloquial Variety/Coloration: Rainbow
Locality: Denton Mine, Hardin County, Illinois
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These color zones are also colloquially referred to as “phantoms” by collectors, although this term is not necessarily accepted as scientific.
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Mineral(s): Zoned, Intergrown, Cubic Fluorite
Colloquial Variety/Coloration: Blue and Purple Zoned Fluorite
Locality:  Denton Mine, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA
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This zonation may also be exhibited as banding, in which the color zones are called bands.
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Mineral(s): Fluorite Exhibiting Differential Banding
Colloquial Variety/Coloration: Banded Fluorite
Locality: Carbon County, Wyoming
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Mineral Twinning
Fluorite can even exhibit a mineralogical and inorganic chemistry phenomenon known as twinning. In this case, this is a penetration twin, which is a twinning geometry that occurs when two lattices are “combined” with a rather irregular composition surface. In this case, there is an axis or vector of central rotation- a twin axis- that a clone of one lattice can be positioned about in order to achieve the composition of the two forms.
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Mineral: Cubic Penetration Twinned Fluorite
Colloquial Variety/Coloration: Blue-Green Fluorite
Locality:  Heights Mine, Westgate, Weardale District, County Durham, England
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The twin axis in this instance is [111]; this is the Miller index notation for what would essentially be the form produced when connecting points (1,0,0), (0,1,0), and (0,0,1) when plotted in three dimensions.
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Now this is probably enough about the technicalities, here are some more interesting photos!
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Mineral(s) : Colorless to Purple Fluorite with Barite on Albite Feldspar
Colloquial Variety/Coloration: Colorless and Purple Fluorite
Locality: Berbes Mining Area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
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Mineral(s) : Blue Fluorite on Druzy Quartz with Minor Pink Rhodochrosite
Colloquial Variety/Coloration: Blue Fluorite
Locality: Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan Province, China
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Mineral(s) : Calcite Rose on Blue Fluorite and  Lower White Quartz
Colloquial Variety/Coloration: Blue Fluorite
Locality: Hunan Province, China
Photo Credit: James Eliott
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Mineral(s): Pink-Purple Fluorite on Albite Feldspar (or other Plagioclase)
Colloquial Variety/Coloration: Pink-Purple Fluorite
Locality: Unknown, Central or South America
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Mineral(s): Purple Fluorite with Pink Dolomite on Quartz Matrix
Colloquial Variety/Coloration: Purple Fluorite
Locality: Hunan Province, China
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Under the cut are some details about the optical properties of fluorite, including videos of fluorite being rotated on the stage of a petrographic microscope.
Here is a quick glance at some photomicrographs of fluorite in thin section- a thin plate of rock that is ground down to a width of about 30 micrometers such that light is transmissible through the rock material.
Outlined Areas Indicate the Fluorite Grain(s)
Fluorite Grain(s) in Thin Section - Mt. Vesuvius Stratovolcano, Italy
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(Photomicrographs credit to Alessandro Da Mommio - Annotations by ParkerQuink).
Here are videos of fluorite in thin section. Fluorite behaves isotropically and thus will be extinct in cross polarized light but may show some of its details (such as coloration and cleavage/twinning) in plane polarized light (or “normal” white light for that matter). 
(I can promise that the videos are safe; they just show the view through a microscope).
PPL (Plane Polarized Light) View of Fluorite in Thin Section with Stage Rotation 
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XPL (Cross Polarized Light) View of Fluorite in Thin Section with Stage Rotation
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Well, that’s all for now. I will focus on some other mineral options that suit the gemstones of the box as well. Fluorite definitely seems almost like a cop-out due to its wide variety of colors. I hope you enjoyed seeing some cool photographs. :)
Bye!
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Axinite-Mn (Manganaxinite)
Locality: Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia
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Quartz  amethyst
Russia, Primorsky Krai, Dalnegorsk
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