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Cleaning from laterite by Tomasz Praszkier	18	04/27/2009 04:55PM Last Post by Jesse Fisher
Remove Quartz using bases by Konstantinos Charalampidis	3	04/27/2009 03:45AM Last Post by Donald Vaughn
Removing clay from copper by Linda Smith	10	04/25/2009 02:47AM Last Post by Linda Smith
Iron stained Quartz... by Tom Rayeski	15	04/24/2009 04:38PM Last Post by Jesse Fisher
cleaning hemimorphite by Donovan Wood	7	04/21/2009 03:09PM Last Post by John Duck
How do I cut an agate? by Robert Colianni	11	04/21/2009 07:19AM Last Post by Joe Mork
Cleaning zeos and other NJ trap rock by Everett Harrington	8	04/20/2009 11:45PM Last Post by Rock Currier
Cleaning pocket mud out of tubes in beryl crystals by Neal Luppescu	6	04/20/2009 05:07PM Last Post by Rick Sinclair
Removing Apatite from Calcite? by Andrew Johns	13	04/20/2009 11:57AM Last Post by Philippe M. Belley
Waxes and resins for apatite and calcite by Francisco Nuno Paulino	4	04/19/2009 09:48PM Last Post by Rock Currier
Sapphire (Corundum) sand conglomerate? by Matthew Boeck	6	04/19/2009 09:21PM Last Post by Donald Vaughn
How do you clean iron stained quartz with pyromorphite? by Jon Ertman	2	04/10/2009 05:32PM Last Post by John Duck
Tourmaline Cleaning Help, please? by William Atwell	8	04/04/2009 05:24AM Last Post by Matteo Chinellato
removing calcite by Matt House	6	04/02/2009 04:25PM Last Post by Matt House
hydrofluoric acid (Pages: 1 2 3) by Albert Russ	57	03/27/2009 01:43PM Last Post by Peter Haas
Waller Method -- Anyone had success with it? by Jason B. Smith	5	03/14/2009 11:45PM Last Post by John Duck
cleaning prasen quartz Serifos by Albert Russ	7	03/08/2009 09:15PM Last Post by Konstantinos Charalampidis
Need advice on cleaning pyrite cubes specimen by Jos	7	03/08/2009 09:05PM Last Post by Konstantinos Charalampidis
Native Copper from the U.P. by Josh Ball	10	03/05/2009 05:05PM Last Post by Peter Haas
A 'mindat' mineral cleaning compendium by Jens Schadebrodt	3	03/05/2009 03:53PM Last Post by Steve Hardinger

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