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azurite
Trigonal system
pyrite
franklinite, willemite, and calcite
pyrite crystals
azurite
Cueva de los Cristales
symmetry elements
examples of well-shaped crystals
A sample of wulfenite, a mineral displaying good crystal form, from Mexico.
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Edward Daniel Clarke
English mineralogist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée
French geochemist
Lacroix
Alfred Lacroix
French mineralogist
Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
German crystallographer
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish mineralogist and chemist

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