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        <title>Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
        <description> A group of specimens were stolen from the MineralZone warehouse on early Friday morning. If you have any information please contact:

email: marcus@mineralzone.com

phone: 520-624-4096</description>
        <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88130#msg-88130</link>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88627#msg-88627</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88627#msg-88627</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ For the sake of Markus I hope that he not only gets most of his minerals back,but that he also gets his computer back.  I know just how earthshaking <br />
losing your business computer can be, from personal experience.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Ray Hill</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88508#msg-88508</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88508#msg-88508</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ it happened in the night following Valentine's Day]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Rob2</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88445#msg-88445</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88445#msg-88445</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ How did this all happen???? This is quite a lot of specimens...was it overnight?<br />
joe]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Joseph Freilich</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88433#msg-88433</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88433#msg-88433</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ - 12 cm beryl from Brazil]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Rob2</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88431#msg-88431</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88431#msg-88431</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ third cabinet:<br />
<br />
- 6 meta-autunites from Washington State<br />
<br />
- yellow barite from Cumberland<br />
<br />
- aragonite from Cumberland<br />
<br />
- pink calcite on matrix from Mexico<br />
<br />
- 2 euclases, xls -1cm on matrix from China]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Rob2</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88428#msg-88428</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88428#msg-88428</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ more detail:<br />
<br />
- bright galena on sphalerite from China<br />
<br />
- babingtonite in big xls on quartz/prehnite from China<br />
<br />
- big blue quartz from China<br />
<br />
- transparent calcite cluster from China<br />
<br />
- tricolor elbaite from Vietnam<br />
<br />
- big pyromorphite xl from China<br />
<br />
- pyrite micro xls on white calcite xl from China]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Rob2</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88427#msg-88427</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88427#msg-88427</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ more detail:<br />
<br />
- 2 smaller pyros on matrix from China<br />
<br />
- stepped yellowish-purple fluorite xls on quartz from China<br />
<br />
- two grossular xls on light matrix from China<br />
<br />
- babingtonite in big xls (v-shape) with quartz/prehnite from China]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Rob2</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88426#msg-88426</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88426#msg-88426</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ more detail:<br />
<br />
- 5 pink kunzites (except the two biggest ones) from Afghanistan<br />
<br />
- 16 purple scapolite xls, mounted on plastic bases, from Afghanistan<br />
<br />
- 9 linarites (big xls) and/or caledonites on matrix from California<br />
<br />
- yellow montebrasite from Brasil<br />
<br />
- pale yellow etched scapolite from Afghanistan<br />
<br />
- yellow-green adamite on matrix from Mexico<br />
<br />
- tricolor elbaite from Vietnam<br />
<br />
- bright galena on sphalerite from China<br />
<br />
- blue quartz from China<br />
<br />
- big pyromorphite xl from China<br />
<br />
- 2 smaller pyros on matrix from China<br />
<br />
- 2 babingtonites in big xls on quartz/prehnite from China<br />
<br />
- transparent calcite cluster from China<br />
<br />
- two grossular xls on light matrix from China<br />
<br />
- stepped yellowish-purple fluorite xls on quartz from China]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Rob2</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88425#msg-88425</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88425#msg-88425</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ second cabinet, please note: not all the pieces are missing, the thieves picked<br />
<br />
<br />
- 5 pink kunzites (except the two largest) from Afghanistan<br />
<br />
- 16 purple scapolite xls, mounted on plastic bases, from Afghanistan<br />
<br />
- 9 linarites (big xls) and/or caledonites on matrix from California<br />
<br />
- yellow montebrasite from Brasil<br />
<br />
- pale yellow etched scapolite from Afghanistan<br />
<br />
- yellow-green adamite on matrix from Mexico<br />
<br />
- tricolor elbaite from Vietnam<br />
<br />
- bright galena on sphalerite from China<br />
<br />
- blue quartz from China<br />
<br />
- big pyromorphite xl from China<br />
<br />
- 2 smaller pyros on matrix from China<br />
<br />
- 2 babingtonites in big xls on quartz/prehnite from China<br />
<br />
- transparent calcite cluster from China<br />
<br />
- two grossular xls on light matrix from China<br />
<br />
- stepped yellowish-purple fluorite xls on quartz from China<br />
<br />
- pyrite micro xls on white calcite xl from China<br />
<br />
- small pyrite xls along edges of light pink calcite blades from China]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Rob2</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88415#msg-88415</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88415#msg-88415</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ again in more detail:<br />
<br />
- large greenish-purple kunzite <br />
<br />
- big emerald cluster, some edge wear and frosting <br />
<br />
- 20 spessartines from Tanzania <br />
<br />
- 6 phosphophyllite on matrix specimens <br />
<br />
- 9 meta-torbernites from France]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Rob2</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88200#msg-88200</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88200#msg-88200</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ More pictures, with a short description of the pieces the burglars took from the cases. For scale: the labels in front of the specimens are 5 cm wide.<br />
<br />
- large greenish-purple kunzite<br />
<br />
- big emerald cluster, some edge wear and frosting<br />
<br />
- 20 spessartines from Tanzania<br />
<br />
- 6 phosphophyllite on matrix specimens<br />
<br />
- 9 meta-torbernites from France<br />
<br />
- 6 light green fluorites on galena from Naica]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Rob2</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88135#msg-88135</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88135#msg-88135</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ last photo]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Jolyon Ralph</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88134#msg-88134</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88134#msg-88134</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ fourth photo]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Jolyon Ralph</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88133#msg-88133</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88133#msg-88133</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ third photo]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Jolyon Ralph</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88131#msg-88131</guid>
            <title>Re: Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88131#msg-88131</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ another]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Jolyon Ralph</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88130#msg-88130</guid>
            <title>Tucson - Spessartines and other minerals stolen</title>
            <link>http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,56,88130,88130#msg-88130</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ A group of specimens were stolen from the MineralZone warehouse on early Friday morning. If you have any information please contact:<br />
<br />
email: <a href="mailto:marcus@mineralzone.com">marcus@mineralzone.com</a><br />
<br />
phone: 520-624-4096]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Jolyon Ralph</dc:creator>
            <category>Lost and Stolen Specimens</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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