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- 18th November 2017 - LIVE REPORT Tom and I will be reporting today from the Hayward’s Heath Show - here is the crowd waiting to come in Chris Mavris! Chris has some pyrites from Elba. And also some mimetite and ...
- 8th November 2017 - LIVE REPORT It's time for the 38th Annual New Mexico Mineral Symposium held at The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico. I've arrived a day early to spend some time in the New ...
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