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Carbonates    
Ankerite  
Ankerite  CaFe[CO3]2

brown spar from Felsöbanya, Hungary.
Aragonite  
Aragonite  CaCO3

twinned needle spar from Corocoro, Bolivia.
Aragonite  
Aragonite  CaCO3

flower of iron from Eisenerz, Steiermark, Austria.
Azurite  
Azurite  Cu3[OH|CO3]2

blue copper ore with malachite from the Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, USA.
Azurite  
Azurite  Cu3[OH|CO3]2

blue copper ore from Tsumeb, South-West Africa.
Calcite  
Calcite  CaCO3

calc-spar from St. Andreasberg, Hartz Mountains, Germany.
Calcite  
Calcite  CaCO3

calc-spar from Oberhohendorf, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany.
Cerussite  
Cerussite  PbCO3

white lead ore from Broken Hill, Australia.
Dolomite  
Dolomite  CaMg[CO3]2

globular aggregates with ankerite and gypsum from Schemnitz, Hungary.
Dolomite  
Dolomite  CaMg[CO3]2

idiomorphic crystals with quartz and sphalerite from the Schauinsland Mine, Freiburg, Baden, Germany.
Dolomite  
Dolomite  CaMg[CO3]2

idiomorphic crystals from the Aurora Mine, Velbert, Rhineland, Germany.
Magnesite  
Magnesite  MgCO3

coarse crystalline magnesite from Sunk, Trieben, Steiermark, Austria.
Malachite  
Malachite  Cu2[(OH)2|CO3]

banded aggregates from Nishne Tagilsk, Ural Mountains, Russia.
Malachite  
Malachite  Cu2[(OH)2|CO3]

botryoidal aggregates from the Ural Mountains, Russia.
Malachite  
Malachite  Cu2[(OH)2|CO3]

banded aggregates from Nishne Tagilsk, Ural Mountains, Russia.
Rhodochrosite  
Rhodochrosite  MnCO3

spherical aggregates of manganese spar from Romania.
Rhodochrosite  
Rhodochrosite  MnCO3

manganese spar from the Mina Captillas, Argentina.
Siderite  
Siderite  FeCO3

globular aggregates of steel ore from the Levant Mine, Cornwall, Great Britain.
Siderite  
Siderite  FeCO3

steel ore with calcite from the Siegerland, Germany.
Smithsonite  
Smithsonite  ZnCO3

reniform smithsonite from Rezbanya, Hungary.
Strontianite  
Strontianite  SrCO3

aggregate from Bad Grund, Hartz Mountains, Germany.
Witherite  
Witherite  BaCO3

barium carbonate from Alston, Cumberland, Great Britain.
Borates    
Boracite  
Boracite  Mg3[Cl|B7O13]

idiomorphic crystals from Diekholzen, Hildesheim, Germany.
Borax  
Borax  Na2B4O7 · 10 H2O

idiomorphic crystals of tincal from Tibet.

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