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July 04, 2008

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	1 6swl ((CLEAVELANDITE, LEPIDOLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Pederneira Mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 4.5 x 4.5 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Plately white Albite variety Cleavelandite crystals mixed with purplish brown Lepidolite.

	2 6swl ((TOURMALINE in QUARTZ with CLEAVELANDITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Pederneira Mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 13 x 7.5 x 6 cm, Cabinet, Terminated Quartz crystal with bluish green Tourmaline and plately white Albite.


	3 7hlkmr ((APATITE, CALCITE, FLUORITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Yates Mine, Otter Lake, Quebec, Canada, 11 x 10 x 7 cm, Cabinet, Two terminated green Apatite crystals 4.5 and 5.5 cm in length on a matrix of orange Calcite and minor purple Fluorite. Base and back have been sawn to sit up for display.

	4 misc1152is ((HEMATITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Bouse, Arizona, 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm, Thumbnail, Lustrous cluster of Hematite crystals with small needle Quartz. Hematite hexagonal in shape.

	5 7hlkmr ((CHROME ANTIGORITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Wood's Chromite Mine, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 8 x 4.5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Wavy layers of purplish Chrome Antigorite from Wood's Chromite Mine.

	6 al4008in ((TOPAZ, QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 7 x 3 x 2 cm, Cabinet, Cluster of colorless Topaz crytals from Brazil on Quartz. The Quartz and Topaz are similar looking but the Quartz is slightly Smokey and the striations are vertical on the Topaz and horizontal on the Quartz faces.

	7 bru3nr ((UVITE on MAGNESITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Brumado Mine, Bahia, Brazil, 10 x 8 x 5.4 cm, Cabinet, Large rhombs of whitish Magnesite with several olive green Tourmaline variety Uvite crystals.

	8 6fbdjis ((VANADINITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Apache Mine, Gila County, Arizona, 16 x 8 x 4.5 cm, Cabinet, Small red orange hexagonal crystals of Vanadinte cover this cabinet sized specimen.

	9 7atkrls ((CALCITE, MALACHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 15 x 9 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Large cabinet sized specimen of Calcite intermixed with green Malachite.

	10 7ddcees ((HEMATITE Rose)), Old Lidstrom label, $10 MINIMUM BID, St Gotthard, Switzerland, 7 x 4 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Here is an older specimen with a Lidstrom's label of a Hematite Rose aka eisenrose from Switzerland. ex Arch Obler collection. Minor damage as seen in the close up photos.

	11 7ddcea ((HARMOTOME)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Bellsgrove Mine, Strontian, Argyllshire, Scotland, 4 x 4 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Large white Harmotome crystals from Scotland on matrix. Two crystals have damage. The center large crystal is undamaged.

	12 7atkrit ((CALCITE, DUFTITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 10 x 6 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Cabinet sized specimen of Calcite intermixed with light olive green Duftite and perhaps dark Mottramite on the reverse.

	13 7hhjdg ((WAVELLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Pleasant Mills Quarry, Synder County, Pennsylvania, 5 x 3.5 x 5 cm, Miniature, Fine spherical Wavellite crystals from the new find in Pennsylvania last year.

	14 7atkrts ((MIMETITE, MOTTRAMITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, 9 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Cabinet sized specimen of light yellow Mimetite on constrasting dark green Mottramite. Reverse side also has white Calcite rhombs.

	15 7ddceit ((NATROLITE, ANALCIME, MICROCLINE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Poudrette Quarry aka Demix Quarry, Mont Saint-Hillaire, Quebec, Canada, 6.5 x 6 x 3 cm, Miniature, Large white Analcime crystals with terminated Natrolite crystals on a matrix of Microcline. Reverse also contains black Aegerine and micaceous Polylithonite.

	16 7ddceit ((EPIDOTE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mali, Northwest Africa, 4.5 x 3 x 3 cm, Miniature, Cluster of dark greenish black Epidote crystals with terminated and double terminated crystals.

	17 0atdmns ((CALCITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ticaboo Mesa, Garfield County, Utah, 15 x 11 x 10 cm, Cabinet, Here is a large cabinet with a undamaged vug of large yellowish modified rhombs of Calcite crystals. This is the largest specimen of these Calcites that I have had.

	18 7hhjdii ((GALENA)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Chief Mine, Tintic District, Eureka, Juab County, Utah, 4 x 3 x 3 cm, Miniature, Galena with alteration around the outer surface. Possibly micro Anglesite or Cerussite.

	19 8fmmrs ((OZOCERITE aka natural mineral wax)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Soldier Summit Mine, Wasatch County, Utah, 7 x 5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Here is a strange and light weight substance. It is natural occurring mineral wax. It was once used for candles in mines by the early miners. Its melting temperature was higher than bees wax.

	20 0atdmi ((TOURMALINE and TOURMALINE Included QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, P C Mine, Basin, Jefferson County, Montana, 3.5 x 2.5 x 1 cm, Miniature, Hairlike sprays of dark Tourmaline crystals both external and internal with the small cluster of terminated Quartz crystals.

	21 7hhjdr ((EUXENITE-Y)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Froland, Arendal, Norway, 3 x 2 x 1.2 cm, Thumbnail, Black rather ugly thumbnail of this rarer mineral Norway with Y, Ce, U, Th, Nb, Ta, Ti.

	22 6dwtgno ((FLUORITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mina Navidad, Durango, Mexico, 13 x 10 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Larger cabinet sized specimen of this attractive magenta octahedral crystals of Fluorite. Location is reported to be exhausted. I got this one two years ago when they were no longer coming out. This one is a fairly flat plate with nice octahedral crystals.

	23 8fbdjr ((QUARTZ with PYRITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Butte, Montana, 14 x 9 x 2 cm, Cabinet, At the recent Butte show, I was fortunate in picking up some examples of local specimen. Butte is highly collectable and becoming more and more only available out of collections. This is a specimen of terminated Quartz crystals with Pyrite.

	24 8fbdje ((PYRITE with QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Butte, Montana, 8 x 5 x 5 cm, Cabinet, At the recent Butte show, I was fortunate in picking up some examples of local specimen. Butte is highly collectable and becoming more and more only available out of collections. This is a specimen of Pyrite with some iridescent crystals.

	25 7kljdis ((SCAPOLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mica Pit, Yates Uranium Mine, Sandy Creek, Otter Lake, Quebec, 4 x 4 x 3.5 cm, Miniature, Scapolite crystals on matrix collected by Credo Schwab fall of 1982.

	26 8dgrris ((SILVER)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Quincy Mine, Hancock, Houghton County, Michigan, 4.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm, Here is a specimen of native Silver. This belonged to a worker at the Quincy Mine and several other specimens were labeled Quincy and so this also may be from the Quincy Mine. The large native Silver nugget is attached to the matrix with a wire Silver. There is also another Native Silver nugget still mostly in the matrix which could be further removed.

	27 6swg ((SMOKEY QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Dalnegorsk, Russia, 5.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm, Miniature, Excellent gemmy Smokey Quartz with multiple phantoms. There are a couple micro chips on the edges but escentually undamaged. ex Douglas Robinson collection.

	28 8dgrris ((DOMEYKITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mohawk Mine, Mohawk, Keweenaw County, Michigan, 5 x 3.5 x .6 cm, Here is a classic sliced ore specimen of brassy colored Domeykite which is a copper arsenide. This is the last one of these I have.

	29 7ddceg ((GYPSUM)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Lockport, New York, 6.5 x 6 x 4.5 cm, Miniature, New York Gypsum specimen. ex Ernie Schlicter collection.

	30 7atkrr ((SIDERITE with PYRITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Chihuahua, Mexico, 4 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Light tan Siderite crystals with a peppering of Pyrite from Mexico.

	31 5atdbl ((STIBNITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Raura, Lima Department, Peru, 3.5 x 1 x 1 cm, Miniature to thumbnail, Small grey black spray of terminated Stibnite crystals.

	32 7ddceo ((CALCITE)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Warren Bros. Quarry, Acushnet, Massachusetts, 8 x 6 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Cluster of modified rhombs of Calcite from Massachusetts. ex Ernie Schlicter collection.

	33 8atlmir ((VARISCITE on QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Canarana, Mato Grosso, Brazil, 4 x 3.5 x 3 cm, Miniature, This looks like a gemmy Emerald in a vug but is actually a gemmy emerald green Variscite in a vug.

	34 arins ((19 pcs TWINNED RUTILE)), $20 MINIMUM BID, Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina, 1 to 1.7 cm, 19 Thumbnails, Here is a riker box mounting with 19 twinned North Carolina Rutile crystals. They are from Hiddenite which is the type locality for green Spodumene and also famous for its Emeralds.

	35 7hmmsis ((TALC)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Argonaut Mine, Ludlow, Vermont, 10.5 x 4.5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Here is a gemmy light green Talc from Vermont. Talc is softest mineral on the MOH hardness scale.

	36 8ddmwa ((STICHTITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Kaapsche Hoop, Barberton District, Mpumalange Province, South Africa, 8.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm, Cabinet, Purple Stichtite from South Africa. Rose pink color from the chrome content of Stichtite.

	37 8edbfns ((GYPSUM variety SELENITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico, 9.5 x 9.5 x 3 cm, Cabinet, Cluster of terminated and double terminated Gypsum crystals from Naica which is famous for its Selenite crystals.

	38 8ectgns ((WULFENITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 7.5 x 4.5 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Double Terminated Bipyramidal Wulfenite from the fairly recent finds.

	39 8ectgn ((WULFENITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 2.7 x 2 x 1.5 cm, Thumbnail, Double Terminated Bipyramidal Wulfenite from the fairly recent finds.

	40 7ihjhis ((HALITE on SELENITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Great Salt Lake, Tooele County, Utah, 8.5 x 7.5 x 4 cm, Cabinet, cubic Halite crystals completely cover Selenite which grew on the top of pebble. This impression is still on the bottom side.

	41 8fcewi ((3 JASPER pseudomorphs after BARITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, near Moab, Utah, 1.7 to 2.5 cm, Thumbnails, Here are three of the Jasper pseudomorphs after Barite from Utah. The smallest has parted into two halfs. The inside is whitish and so mainly Barite and not totally pseudomorphed.

	42 ari ((WAVELLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mauldin Mtn, Arkansas, 9 x 8 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Green spherical Wavelite crystals made up of many acicular radiating crystals. ex Clyde Hardin collection.

	43 7hlkmn ((LAB GROWN QUARTZ ca. W W II)), $10 MINIMUM BID, 17.5 x 6 x 4.5 cm, Cabinet, Large gemmy lab grown Quartz of the W W II era. Used as military collectible, faceting, or making capping material for Opals, or just an example of lab grown Quartz. C axis is the bubble like surface.

	44 5atmdi ((FOSSIL SHARK TOOTH, Otodus obliquus)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Khouribga, Morocco, 4.5 x 4.2 cm, Miniature, Nice specimen with the eye teeth original. Up to 95% of these are put together from pieces or bondo. This one is one of the few complete specimens hand picked from thousands of shark teeth. The type is Otodus obliquus.

	45 7hlkmn ((LAB GROWN QUARTZ ca. W W II)), $10 MINIMUM BID, 16 x 3 x 2 cm, Cabinet, Gemmy lab grown Quartz of the W W II era. Used as military collectible, faceting, or making capping material for Opals, or just an example of lab grown Quartz. C axis is the bubble like surface. This is the wand like shape or form.

	46 5swi ((FOSSIL FISH, Lycoptera sp.)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Lycoptera Beds, Liaoning Province, China, 16 x 13 cm, Cabinet, Here is an excellent specimen which is complete and shows all the bones and fins and an open mouth.



	47 8atadi ((GOLD)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Olinghouse Mine, Washoe County, Nevada, 11 x 4 x cm, Cabinet, Your have to look with a loop but there is Gold can be seen.

	48 ari ((WAVELLITE on PLANERITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mauldin Mtn, Arkansas, 7 x 4.5 x 1.5 cm, Cabinet, Green spherical Wavelite crystals made up of many acicular radiating crystals. Looks like a coating of Planerite that the Wavellites are sitting on. ex Clyde Hardin collection.

	49 8atjkns ((HEMIMORPHITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico, 14 x 9.5 x 4.5 cm, Cabinet, Large cabinet specimen of white terminated clusters of Hemimorphite crystals from the find about two years ago.

	50 6hmtgg ((GALENA)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Reynolds County, Missouri, 7 x 5 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Extreme luster on this Galena specimen. NOTE that this is a cleaved specimen and the faces are not the crystal faces but are cleavage faces.

	51 ari ((EUDIALYTE, AEGERINE, MICROCLINE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, The Branch, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, 12 x 7.5 x 4 cm, Cabinet, Pink crystals of Eudialyte to 5 mm, with black crystals of Aegerine and light colored Microcline. ex Clyde Harding collection.

	52 7hlkmns ((LABRADORITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Quebec, Canada, 19 x 15 x 7.5 cm, Large Cabinet, Here is a huge specimen of unpolished natural Labradorite. It does show much color when orientated correctly to the light. Weight is just over 7 pounds.

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	54 7hlkmir ((STRONTIANITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mt Pleasant Mills, Synder County, Pennsylvania, 10 x 5 x 3.3 cm, Cabinet, Fine specimen of Strontianite which is a fairly uncommon mineral. Nice spherical mounds of acicular white crystals with also should fluoresce under UV.




	55 5hhshns ((MIXITE)), $40 MINIMUM BID, Northern Spy Mine, Tintic District, Utah, 13 x 9.5 x 4.5 cm, Large Cabinet, Here is a very large specimen of the Mixite which is small spherical masses of acicular aka fuzzy robin egg blue Mixite. This was collected 10 years ago and I bought a few flats off the collector and set then back. Only a few pieces left and this is probably the largest.

	56 6atadis ((ARAGONITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Northern Lights Mine, Mineral county, Nevada, 6 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm, Miniature, Somewhat heavy pointed cream colored Aragonite crystals. Featured one month soon after it was first collected by the mineral of the month and extremely popular on another well known auction site and usually bargained priced here, another Northern Lights Aragonite Miniature.

	57 8fbjtir ((VAUXITE, PARAVAUXITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Potosi, Bolivia, 2.5 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm, Thumbnail, Light blue crystals of the rare phosphate Vauxite with perhaps light green crystals of the rare phosphate Paravauxite or cream colored Sigloite or both. Mounted in a thumbnail perky box with elmers glue which is soluble in water.

	58 8dgrris ((SILVER)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Quincy Mine, Hancock, Houghton County, Michigan, 4.5 x 2.5 x .5 cm, This lots like a classic halfbreed of Silver and Copper but it does not have any Copper. This belonged to a worker at the Quincy Mine and several other specimens were labeled Quincy and so this also may be from the Quincy Mine. The silver colored area had mintack which hindered the oxidation. The nugget could be cleaned or left with the dark patina.

	59 8fbjtt ((WAVELLITE on QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Llallagua, Potosi, Bolivia, 2.8 x 1.8 x 1.8 cm, Thumbnail, Terminated water clear Quartz crystal with several spheres of yellowish Wavellite from Bolivia. One sphere has a slight groove from another Quartz crystal once laying across it. The fouth sphere is half a sphere showing the acicular Wavellite forming the sphere.

	60 8dgrris ((SILVER)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Quincy Mine, Hancock, Houghton County, Michigan, 3 x 3 x .3 cm, Here is a specimen of native Silver. This belonged to a worker at the Quincy Mine and several other specimens were labeled Quincy and so this also may be from the Quincy Mine. The silver colored area had mintack which hindered the oxidation. The specimen could be cleaned or left with the dark patina.

	61 5atxtis ((CHALCOPYRITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, San Martin Mine, San Martin, Zacatecas, Mexico, 6 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Fine Chalcopyrite with minor Quartz and Calcite which have some damage but the main Chalcopyrite crystals are undamaged. The Chalcopyrite has an iridescent and colorful patina with magenta, blues, and purple. This color is nature and not added as with the Mexican Chalcopyrite know as peacock ore or mislabeled bornite.

	62 8dgrris ((DOMEYKITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Mohawk Mine, Mohawk, Keweenaw County, Michigan, 5 x 3 x .7 cm, Here is a classic sliced ore specimen of brassy colored Domeykite which is a copper arsenide.

	63 5atdbn ((CALCITE with SAND inclusions)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Rattlesnake Butte, Jackson County, South Dakota, 9 x 6 x 4 cm, Cabinet, 5 intergrown Calcite crystals heavily included with sand. 5 Calcites are complete and undamaged. One has an indent that looks like there may have been another crystal attached at some time.

	64 3hlcdtr ((8 pcs NATIVE SILVER)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada, 1.5 to 3 cm, Thumbnails, This is the last of this Native Silver specimens from Canada. There are 8 thumbnail sized specimens.

	65 6dwtgr ((SPESSARTINE, SMOKEY QUARTZ)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Tongbei, Fujian Province, China, Mexico, 3 x 3 x 2 cm, Miniature, Undamaged lustrous dark orange Spessartine Garnets on three terminated undamaged Smokey Quartz crystals.

	66 5atshiss ((PYRITE, QUARTZ)), $50 MINIMUM BID, Silver King Mine, Park City, Summit County, Utah, 14 x 10 x 94.5 cm, Large Cabinet, Here is a large specimen of historic Park City Pyrite. Some roughness on the edges of the striated cubic Pyrite crystals but overall in good shape. Hard to come by, this is a large Utah Pyrite specimen.

	67 6dwtges ((FLUORITE)), $30 MINIMUM BID, Erongo Mtn, Usakos and Omaruru Districts, Erongo Region, Namibia, 12 x 9 x 6 cm, Cabinet, Undamaged lustrous cubic Fluorite from Namibia. Sawn base and back.

	68 7hljdr ((APOPHYLLITE on PECTOLITE)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Millington Quarry, New Jersey, 10 x 8.5 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, The outside resembles the outside of the amethyst Brazilian cathedrals. Only this is filled with radial botryoidal Pectolite cover with colorless Apophyllite crystals. A little hard to photograph but a neat New Jersey zeolite specimen.

	69 7ddskes ((FRESNOITE)), $25 MINIMUM BID, Junnila Property, San Benito County, California, 2.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm, Thumbnail, Here is a large yellow Fresnoite crystal which is also very fluorescent under UV. These were collected 10 years ago and although not a complete crystals it is larger than most.






	70 7hljder ((ANGLESITE)), $65 MINIMUM BID, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 9.5 x 7.5 x 5 cm, Cabinet, Here is a heavy specimen consisting of many crystals of cream colored Anglesite from the famous Australian location of Broken Hill.

	71 6hlgkg ((DICKITE on QUARTZ)), $30 MINIMUM BID, St Clair, Pennsylvania, 10 x 6 x 3.5 cm, Cabinet, Here is specimen which looks like it has been snowed on. Its a great specimen of white Dickite profusely covering undamaged and actually double terminated Quartz crystal cluster with several tabular Quartz crystals.

	72 7hljdnr ((CALCITE)), $25 MINIMUM BID, Andreasberg, Hartz Mts., Germany, 6 x 5 x 5 cm, Miniature, Classic old German location in the Hartz Mts. This Calcite consists of stacked white poker chips of Calcite.

	73 5ecvm1280ns ((PINK TOPAZ on QUARTZ)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Brumado Mine, Bahia, Brazil, 4.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Terminated pink Topaz on Quartz from Bramado. Specimen can be displayed from either side but the small pink Topaz are only on one side.

	74 5ecvm1280ns ((PINK TOPAZ on QUARTZ)), $1 MINIMUM BID, Brumado Mine, Bahia, Brazil, 4.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm, Miniature, Terminated pink Topaz on Quartz from Bramado. Specimen can be displayed from either side but the small pink Topaz are only on one side.

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	MRZ114 � Picromerite (Schonite) on Halite - $300 (SOLD) Potash Mine, Rossleben, Querfurt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Large Miniature, 5.7 x 4.5 x 3.6 cm A sharply crystallized example of this rare sulfate species, formerly known as Schonite, from a classic locality long abandoned. Minor halite is associated underneath and around the backside. It is, overall, a very attractive miniature. It carries an old label from the Bergakadmemie Freiberg. Sharp and complete all around, very 3-dimensional.	7hhlmit ((FLUORESCENT APATITE)), $30 MINIMUM BID, Sapo Mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 4 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm, Miniature, Here is a great miniature. It is double terminated stacked crystals of Apatite which has a hollow core and is Fluorescent orange under UV. Completely undamaged.
		7jgcdl ((NAN DAN METEORITES)), $10 MINIMUM BID, Nan Dan, Hunan, China, 2.5 cm, 2 thumbnails, Two 2.5 cm length iron meteorites from Nan Dan China. They are lightly varnished to protect from rusting but this man be removed with thinner or nail polish remover.

Fluororichterite - George Earle Farm, Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada (small cabinet)

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