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Lost and Stolen Specimens

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7w Memorable "Lost Not (Yet) Found"?Posted by William Godley. 26 replies.15w Stolen SpecimensPosted by JILL BRUNNER. 81 replies.Mar 2025 Wire Gold stolen and now foundPosted by Ruggy Holloway. 8 replies.Nov 2024 The Blomqvist heist, Oslo, Norway: Kongsberg silver stolenPosted by The Evje og Hornnes geomuseum, Fennefoss. 5 replies.Aug 2024 Stolen ShattuckitePosted by Timothy Gorski. One reply.Jun 2024 Found a crystal once owned by “Rob Wortman”. Is he still alive?Posted by Craig Morrison. One reply.May 2024 6kg Quartz Crystal Point with Titanium InclusionsPosted by Will Rav. 5 replies.Mar 2024 Stolen MineralsPosted by Barratt Phillips. One reply.Jan 2024 Rice NW Museum TheftPosted by Steve Ewens. 7 replies.Dec 2023 holotype specimens of scottyite and lavinskyite - where are they now? ex PINCHPosted by Herwig Pelckmans. 27 replies.Aug 2023 Galena xls with siderite xls from Neudorf, Harz Mts., GermanyPosted by Eberhard Riech. 8 replies.Aug 2023 Theft at Västerbottens Amatörgeologer, Umeå (Sweden), lots of specimens stolenPosted by Gianna Ragagnin. 6 replies.Aug 2023 Stolen Kyanite???Posted by Amy M Wingate. One reply.Mar 2023 Stolen Citrine CathedralPosted by Eugene Pavlico.Feb 2023 Stolen TourmalinePosted by Steve Hardinger.Nov 2022 Minerals Stolen from Kathy and John AttardPosted by Steve Hardinger. One reply.Jan 2022 Wing Long Tung quartz theftPosted by Ben Grguric.Sep 2021 Stolen mineral art?Posted by Linda Hilton. 2 replies.Jul 2021 Minerals still missing from December 2014 - Johannesburg, South AfricaPosted by Steffnie Adendorff. One reply.Feb 2021 Stolen Ammonites from University of BremenPosted by Frank Armin Raquet.Sep 2020 Stolen Kongsberg silverPosted by Chris Stanley. 39 replies.Jul 2020 Could be mistakenly known as an industrial relic.Posted by Toruko Ishi. 3 replies.Apr 2020 StolenPosted by Jonathan Cothran. 3 replies.Aug 2019 Stolen specimen alert - Stolen from the University of California, Santa BarbaraPosted by Kevin Conroy.Aug 2019 Theft of Pieter de Bruyn's collectionPosted by Kevin Conroy. 4 replies.

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