Munich 2005 offered some samples from China that were offered as Manganbabingtonite. We had doubts about the composition so we did simple analysis and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The results leave no doubts: they are really Babingtonite. They are exceptional in size, their association with Prehnite and Quartz and their agreeable esthetics.
Once more, China amazes us with something surpassing the best previously known for a species!
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MA99V7: A sample of a very rare quality, a group of extremely sharp crystals, really large for the species, with very well defined faces and edges, undamaged , bright, with perfect terminations and on a matrix of aggregates of clear green crystals of Prehnite. A sample worth belonging to the best museums or private collections.
Qiaojia, Qiaojia County, Zhaotong, Yunnan China (2007)
Specimen size: 9.8 × 6.8 × 4.5 cm = 3.9” × 2.7” × 1.8”
Main crystal size: 5 × 4 cm = 2.0” × 1.6”
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Babingtonite with Prehnite and Quartz |
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ED64K6: Group of doubly terminated crystals of Babingtonite. They have a more than considerable size for the species. They are on a matrix of Prehnite with Quartz.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Sainte-Marie Show 2008’ section of the magazine ‘Minéraux et Fossiles’ and appears on page 24 of number 373. We will send the purchaser a copy of the magazine.
Qiaojia, Qiaojia County, Zhaotong, Yunnan China (2007)
Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.4 × 2.7 cm = 2.5” × 1.7” × 1.1”
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TA98R3: Extraordinary group of sharp Babingtonite crystals. They are very bright and with perfect terminations, on matrix with Prehnite and Quartz. A museum piece.
Qiaojia, Qiaojia County, Zhaotong, Yunnan China (2006)
Specimen size: 16.5 × 7.4 × 6.4 cm = 6.5” × 2.9” × 2.5”
Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.0” × 0.8”
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MX97G5: Crystals, very definite and bright, grown on a Quartz group standing on a Calcite crystal. We’ll give a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Qiaojia, Qiaojia County, Zhaotong, Yunnan China (2005)
Specimen size: 6.5 × 4 × 4.3 cm = 2.6” × 1.6” × 1.7”
Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”
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TA13V7: Fanlike aggregates of elongated crystals of Arsenopyrite with very well defined forms, bright and on matrix. Very aerial appearance.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R. China (2011)
Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.7 × 3.1 cm = 2.1” × 1.5” × 1.2”
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TX26V7: Bundled aggregates of prismatic crystals of Arsenopyrite with very well defined forms and well market curvatures, bright, and on a matrix of Ilvaite crystals.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R. China (2011)
Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.6 × 3.4 cm = 2.2” × 1.8” × 1.3”
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TC46V7: Fanlike aggregates of prismatic crystals of Arsenopyrite, with very well developed curvatures, on a matrix of Ilvaite crystals with fibrous aggregates of Hedenbergite.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R. China (2011)
Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.8 × 3.6 cm = 2.6” × 2.3” × 1.4”
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Hedenbergite with Quartz and Chlorite |
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MB48V4: Parallel growth of Hedenbergite crystals with olive-green color and silky luster. It has good terminations, partially coated by Chlorite and it is crowned by a group of elongated crystals of Quartz.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R. China (2010)
Specimen size: 12.7 × 6 × 4.4 cm = 5.0” × 2.4” × 1.7”
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MB47V2: Very aerial sharp tetrahedral crystal of Helvite with an excellent luster for the species. It is on matrix, with small crystals of Garnet. The crystal has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R. China (2011)
Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.4 × 1.9 cm = 1.0” × 0.9” × 0.7”
Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.7” × 0.6”
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TL27S0: A novelty at Tucson 2011. Sharp octahedral crystal of Fluorite, with very well defined faces and edges, and with color zoning. The matrix is a parallel growth of Arsenopyrite crystals. The association is a novelty for this locality, quite famous for Ilvaites.
This specimen was photographed and published in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 102, page 21 and also in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 258 in number 2011/4
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R. China (2010)
Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.6 × 2.7 cm = 1.5” × 1.4” × 1.1”
Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 1.0” × 0.9”
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MB99R5: A novelty in Munich 2010. Divergent growths and parallel growths of bright crystals of Ilvaite, with very well defined faces and edges with perfect terminations and small coatings of Quartz.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R. China (10/2010)
Specimen size: 6.4 × 2 × 2 cm = 2.5” × 0.8” × 0.8”
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Ilvaite with Quartz |
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MA28R5: A novelty in Munich 2010. Parallel growth of bright Ilvaite crystals with perfect terminations and a notable crystal of Quartz on the back side.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 45 in number 2011/1
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R. China (10/2010)
Specimen size: 6.6 × 2.2 × 2.3 cm = 2.6” × 0.9” × 0.9”
Main crystal size: 5.2 × 1.8 cm = 2.0” × 0.7”
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MV34R5: A novelty in Munich 2010. Aggregate of prismatic crystals with slightly curved edges. They are very bright and have big polycrystalline terminations and small coatings of Quartz.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R. China (10/2010)
Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.2 × 5.2 cm = 2.7” × 2.0” × 2.0”
Main crystal size: 6.2 × 3.8 cm = 2.4” × 1.5”
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MZ68R5: A novelty in Munich 2010. Parallel growth of bright Ilvaite crystals with slightly curved lateral edges. They have perfect terminations and are with Quartz and Calcite crystals.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Börsenreport - Mineralientage München 2010’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 12 of number 1/2011 and also in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 254 in number 2011/4
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R. China (10/2010)
Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.2 × 3.2 cm = 2.0” × 1.3” × 1.3”
Main crystal size: 5.1 × 2.7 cm = 2.0” × 1.1”
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MM87V2: Group of laminar crystals of Rhodonite showing parallel growths and rosettes, with very intense pink color and brownish concretionary growths of Tremolite. Both species have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2012 Tucson Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 104, page 39
Chaobuleng Mine, Dongwu Qí, Xilinguole, Inner Mongolia A. R. China (2011)
Specimen size: 5.3 × 5.1 × 2.8 cm = 2.1” × 2.0” × 1.1”
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TR87V4: Transparent crystal of Cassiterite with a very transparent brown color. It is very bright and shows an uncommon morphology due to its extraordinary flatness. It is on Quartz matrix.
Amo, Ximeng, Yunnan China (08/2011)
Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.7 × 1.7 cm = 2.0” × 1.9” × 0.7”
Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.3 cm = 1.2” × 0.9”
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TR50V2: Goethite pseudomorph after tetrahedral crystals of Helvite. On a matrix with small crystals of Spessartine that also partially coat the Goethite. These samples were initially described as the species “Helvite” but later they were confirmed as pseudomorphous after Helvite.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou, Fujian China (2005)
Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.3 × 2.4 cm = 2.2” × 1.7” × 0.9”
Main crystal size: 3.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.4” × 0.8”
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MP96T6: Group of trapezohedral crystals of Spessartine, bright, transparent and with a very intense color. They are coating a group of Orthoclase crystals. The lack of some crystals at the top is probably due to a contact, not damage.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou, Fujian China (2005)
Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.9 × 2 cm = 1.8” × 1.5” × 0.8”
Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”
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MR46V1: Trapezohedral crystals of Spessartine, very bright, transparent and with a vivid orange color. They are on matrix partially coating crystals of smoky Quartz and Orthoclase crystals. We especially note the inclusion of a complete crystal of Spessartine in the dominant Quartz crystal.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou, Fujian China
Specimen size: 5.5 × 5 × 4.1 cm = 2.2” × 2.0” × 1.6”
Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”
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TQ27T2: Group of crystals with slightly curved faces and edges, with good terminations, some of them doubly terminated, bright and with an excellent color, very uniform, with a thin geometrical color zone near the termination between the prism and the pinacoid.
Daoping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi China (2009)
Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.5 × 2.4 cm = 1.1” × 1.0” × 0.9”
Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.6 cm = 0.5” × 0.2”
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TH67T2: Group of crystals with slightly curved faces and edges, with excellent terminations and most of them doubly terminated, very bright and with excellent color, very uniform.
Daoping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi China (2009)
Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.1 × 2.1 cm = 1.0” × 0.8” × 0.8”
Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.4 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”
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TJ97N9: Very aerial group of crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with multiple terminations as pinacoid. Their luster and color, very vivid and uniform, are excellent.
Daoping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi China (2009)
Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.9 × 1.7 cm = 1.1” × 0.7” × 0.7”
Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.9 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”
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TJ87S9: Group of translucent crystals with an intense green color and on matrix. Some of them are doubly terminated, with slight curvatures on their edges and hollow terminations.
Daoping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi China (2009)
Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.7” × 1.5” × 0.9”
Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”
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TE57N9: Very aerial group of crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with multiple terminations as pinacoid. Their luster and color, very vivid and uniform, are excellent.
Daoping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi China (2009)
Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.3 × 1.5 cm = 1.1” × 0.9” × 0.6”
Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1 cm = 0.7” × 0.4”
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MH89T2: Arborescent growth, of excellent color and luster, of elongated and flattened crystals and of laminar formations.
Linglong, Jiaodong, Shangdong China (2008-2009)
Specimen size: 2.1 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 0.8” × 0.7” × 0.5”
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MD50T2: Arborescent and skeletal growths, with excellent luster and color, with deformed crystals and laminar and wire growths.
Linglong, Jiaodong, Shangdong China (2008-2009)
Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 1.1” × 0.6” × 0.4”
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MB70T2: Arborescent and skeletal growths, with excellent luster and color, with deformed crystals and laminar and wire growths.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section, report #29, August 27, 2011 edition.
Linglong, Jiaodong, Shangdong China (2008-2009)
Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.7” × 0.7” × 0.3”
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MJ51T2: Aggregate of partially skeletal crystals with well defined faces and edges, excellent luster and color, and of considerable size and on matrix.
Linglong, Jiaodong, Shangdong China (2008-2009)
Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.7” × 0.5”
Main crystal size: 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”
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MB71Q0: Group of flattened and deformed crystals, practically laminar, some them forming very well shaped skeletal growths.
Linglong, Jiaodong, Shangdong China (2008-2009)
Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 0.7” × 0.5” × 0.4”
Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”
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MT16Q0: A novelty at Tucson 2010. Botryoidal growth of microcrystals, of intense yellowish green color, on limonite matrix. Recently discovered in China, closely resembles the typical Mexican samples. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Pinggui area, Hezhou, Guangxi China (06/2009)
Specimen size: 4.7 × 2.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.9” × 1.0” × 0.8”
Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”
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EB13J0: A practically spherical group of small crystals of bright and very well defined faces and edges, on a matrix of prismatic crystals of Quartz. The specimen is much more esthetic than the picture suggests.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan China
Specimen size: 4 × 3.3 × 2.6 cm = 1.6” × 1.3” × 1.0”
Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”
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EX56K1: Complex group of Sphalerite crystals in parallel growth, giving the appearance of a single crystal with very well defined faces, bright and with bluish reflections, on a group of Quartz crystals.
The specimen has been published in the book ‘China’, by Berthold Ottens, on page 524.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2007)
Specimen size: 3.4 × 3 × 2.9 cm = 1.3” × 1.2” × 1.1”
Main crystal size: 2.9 × 3 cm = 1.1” × 1.2”
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EA56K0: Group of cuboctahedral crystals with strange curvatures and deformations. Hooked and coiled wirelike crystals of native Silver contrast with the darker Acanthite.
66 line Mine, Hongda, Lingqiu, Shanxi China (2007)
Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.8 × 3.6 cm = 1.5” × 1.1” × 1.4”
Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”
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EC48K0: Very stylized group of deformed cubic crystals. Hooked and coiled wirelike crystals of native Silver contrast with the darker Acanthite.
66 line Mine, Hongda, Lingqiu, Shanxi China (2007)
Specimen size: 3.8 × 2 × 2.6 cm = 1.5” × 0.8” × 1.0”
Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.6” × 0.4”
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ED89K0: Very stylized group of deformed cubic crystals. An aerial branch is partially covered by mossy native Silver that contrasts with the darker Acanthite. Very esthetic.
66 line Mine, Hongda, Lingqiu, Shanxi China (2007)
Specimen size: 5.2 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm = 2.0” × 1.0” × 0.8”
Main crystal size: 3 × 1.1 cm = 1.2” × 0.4”
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EB37K0: Deformed cubic crystals. Hooked and wirelike growths of native Silver contrast with the darker Acanthite.
66 line Mine, Hongda, Lingqiu, Shanxi China (2007)
Specimen size: 3.2 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm = 1.3” × 0.7” × 0.6”
Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 0.7” × 0.5”
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EA96T6: Transparent lenticular crystal with a yellow color and a very neat phantom growth corresponding to a first very flattened rhombohedron. It is on matrix, with small acicular crystals of Stibnite on the contact zone between the cristal and the matrix.
Xikuangshan Mine, Lengshuijiang, Hunan China (2009)
Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.1 × 3.9 cm = 2.4” × 1.2” × 1.5”
Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.8 cm = 1.3” × 1.1”
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TR94R9: Group of acute scalenohedral crystals of Calcite that formed on a stalactitic growth with a very neat central cannel.
Wenshan area, Yunnan China (09/2008)
Specimen size: 16.2 × 10.4 × 10.4 cm = 6.4” × 4.1” × 4.1”
Main crystal size: 7.2 × 2.7 cm = 2.8” × 1.1”
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MF14V4: Group of Quartz crystals, one of them clearly dominant. It is very transparent and bright, with rhombohedral crystals of Dolomite and small dipyramidal crystals, slightly gray, of Scheelite.
Huya, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang, Sichuan China (2011)
Specimen size: 7.7 × 3.8 × 6.2 cm = 3.0” × 1.5” × 2.4”
Main crystal size: 7 × 2.7 cm = 2.8” × 1.1”
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TK26S0: Floater group of crystals formed by the alternating faces of two very acute dipyramids with a very deep orange color. It is from a not well-known locality 20 kilometers from the classic Xuebaoding. The crystal morphology is different from Huya-Xuebaoding Scheelites. Also, the Shuijing Scheelite is commonly associated with Quartz, not with Muscovite, Cassiterite or Beryl.
Shuijing, Pingwu, Mianyang, Sichuan China
Specimen size: 7.2 × 7 × 3 cm = 2.8” × 2.8” × 1.2”
Main crystal size: 5.9 × 4.2 cm = 2.3” × 1.7”
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TH98M0: Translucent dipyramidal Scheelite crystal, with a delicious honey yellow color and good brilliance. With a very aerial position on a crystallized Muscovite matrix.
Huya, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang, Sichuan China (2007)
Specimen size: 5.9 × 5.1 × 4.3 cm = 2.3” × 2.0” × 1.7”
Main crystal size: 4.7 × 4 cm = 1.9” × 1.6”
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TE27N9: Esthetic group of flattened crystals formed by a dipyramid and the pinacoid. They are bright, with a good transparency and a slight bluish color. The group is on matrix and partially coated by small crystals of Albite.
Huya, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang, Sichuan China (2009)
Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.5 × 3.3 cm = 2.6” × 1.8” × 1.3”
Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.4 cm = 1.1” × 0.9”
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EM99T7: Tabular crystal of Beryl (Aquamarine), more aerial than usual with samples from this locality, very transparent and bright, clear color, very rich in faces and on a matrix of Albite and Muscovite crystals.
Huya, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang, Sichuan China (06/2011)
Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.8 × 4.2 cm = 2.6” × 2.3” × 1.7”
Main crystal size: 3.6 × 3.5 cm = 1.4” × 1.4”
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TG16M9: Growth of complete (so doubly terminated) tabular crystals of Beryl. They are transparent, very bright and have a slightly bluish color. They are with crystallized Muscovite.
Huya, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang, Sichuan China (2007)
Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.9 × 3.7 cm = 1.9” × 1.5” × 1.5”
Main crystal size: 3.8 × 2.8 cm = 1.5” × 1.1”
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In the Kanjianwan mine they found these excellent Sphalerites. They have very well defined crystal forms and are red (a little darker than the ones from Aliva, Spain). They are accompanied by Quartz and Galena so the overall effect is esthetic and competitive.
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MH86V1: Complex crystals of Sphalerite, translucent and very bright, with slight curvatures on some of their faces and edges and on a matrix of microcrystalline Quartz.
Rucheng Mine, Chaojia, Rucheng County, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2005)
Specimen size: 9.8 × 5.5 × 3.1 cm = 3.9” × 2.2” × 1.2”
Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.1 cm = 0.9” × 0.8”
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HK26S9: Druse of complex Sphalerite crystals. They are transparent, very bright, and have a very intense orange color with red shades being partially coated by microcrystalline Quartz.
Rucheng Mine, Chaojia, Rucheng County, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2009)
Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.2 × 3.8 cm = 1.9” × 1.3” × 1.5”
Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”
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MA26R9: Complex crystals of Sphalerite, very rich in faces, transparent and having excellent color and luster. They are on a matrix of microcrystalline Quartz and are with rhombohedral crystals of Calcite.
Rucheng Mine, Chaojia, Rucheng County, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2009)
Specimen size: 8.8 × 7.4 × 3.2 cm = 3.5” × 2.9” × 1.3”
Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”
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MJ16R4: Aggregate of complex crystals, very rich of faces, bright, translucent and with good color. Partially covered by microcrystals of Quartz.
Rucheng Mine, Chaojia, Rucheng County, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2009)
Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.4 × 2.8 cm = 1.5” × 1.3” × 1.1”
Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”
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MA47N8: Complex isolated crystals of good luster and transparency and a very deep color, on a matrix coated by very small Quartz crystals.
Rucheng Mine, Chaojia, Rucheng County, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2008)
Specimen size: 9.7 × 9.6 × 4.8 cm = 3.8” × 3.8” × 1.9”
Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 0.9” × 0.7”
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TR96M9: Group of complex crystals of Sphalerite. They are complex, twinned, translucent and have and attractive dark honey color. The matrix is a group of laminar crystals of transparent Barite covered by small white Quartz crystals. A very esthetic piece.
Rucheng Mine, Chaojia, Rucheng County, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2007)
Specimen size: 12 × 9.2 × 5 cm = 4.7” × 3.6” × 2.0”
Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 0.9” × 0.7”
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TM99N0: The crystal is almost complete with very well defined faces and edges. It is translucent and has excellent color and luster, very intense. It is implanted on a matrix totally coated by microcrystalline Quartz.
Rucheng Mine, Chaojia, Rucheng County, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2007)
Specimen size: 18 × 12 × 7 cm = 7.1” × 4.7” × 2.8”
Main crystal size: 3.6 × 3.4 cm = 1.4” × 1.3”
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EC27R3: Complex crystals of Sphalerite. Transparent, very bright and of a very intense red color. They are on a matrix of the same Sphalerite, partially coated by microcrystalline Quartz and with cuboctahedral crystals of Galena.
Rucheng Mine, Chaojia, Rucheng County, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2010)
Specimen size: 7.6 × 5.6 × 4.7 cm = 3.0” × 2.2” × 1.9”
Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”
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EA27R3: Group of complex crystals of Sphalerite. They are transparent, bright and with an excellent red color, being on matrix, partially coated by white lenticular crystals of Calcite and small cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena.
Rucheng Mine, Chaojia, Rucheng County, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2010)
Specimen size: 8.2 × 7.7 × 3.3 cm = 3.2” × 3.0” × 1.3”
Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.4” × 0.4”
Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
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During the 2003 Tucson Show the main novelty was, without doubt, the new Chinese Mimetites.
As you can see their quality is exceptional. We selected the more colorful orange ones, leaving from those we saw the more yellowish ones as they are too similar in our opinion of the former Thailand ones. Also we tried to get the more perfect specimens with the nicer and sharper forms.
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PL36C8: Very aerial crystals with a intense reddish orange color.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Sanjiang, Guangdong China (01/2003)
Specimen size: 3.7 × 3 × 1.6 cm = 1.5” × 1.2” × 0.6”
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PM16N0: Excellent thumbnail with sharp hexagonal crystals on matrix. Their color, very deep, and their luster are extraordinary.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Sanjiang, Guangdong China (01/2003)
Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.5 × 2 cm = 0.7” × 0.6” × 0.8”
Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”
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PZ67F2: Two generation of Mimetite, of a different color, come together in this specimen. The orange of the first is very intense and the second is a yellow.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Sanjiang, Guangdong China (01/2003)
Specimen size: 7 × 4.5 × 5 cm = 2.8” × 1.8” × 2.0”
Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”
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TM67T6: A crystal composed of the cube and a very well developed dodecahedron. The faces of the cube are neat and completely transparent, contrasting with a rough and translucent dodecahedron. In matrix, with Quartz crystals.
Xianghuapu Mine, Linwu, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2008)
Specimen size: 9.8 × 5.6 × 4.5 cm = 3.9” × 2.2” × 1.8”
Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3.4 cm = 1.6” × 1.3”
Minor fluorescence long & short UV
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MP94R1: Two cubic crystals of sky blue color, with geometrical zoning of the color parallel to the cube faces. They are translucent and bright and are implanted on a group of Quartz crystals, most of them doubly terminated. Pretty architecture!
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan China (2005)
Specimen size: 14.5 × 11.2 × 6.4 cm = 5.7” × 4.4” × 2.5”
Main crystal size: 3.9 × 3.6 cm = 1.5” × 1.4”
Fluorescent long & short UV
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TZ72J8: Group of cubic crystals, very transparent and extraordinarily bright, with echeloned growths on vertices and a very well marked zonation of color on corners and edges. The matrix is a group of Quartz crystals.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan China
Specimen size: 18 × 9 × 6.2 cm = 7.1” × 3.5” × 2.4”
Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4.2 cm = 1.8” × 1.7”
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TX17N9: Group of cube-octahedral crystals, with polysynthetic growths on the faces of the octahedron. They are transparent, with a very deep lilac zoning.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hunan China (2009)
Specimen size: 5.8 × 4 × 3.6 cm = 2.3” × 1.6” × 1.4”
Main crystal size: 3.7 × 3.7 cm = 1.5” × 1.5”
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This find represents the best samples ever found of this species. The size, perfect form as well as the cherry red color (when back lit) make them, in our opinion, one of the most significant finds of the last few years. We have selected solid specimens from our stock, so that shipping will not be a problem.
Please note that all this photos was taken with a strong light source at the rear of the specimen, in order to show its deep red color, under normal lighting this is not so visible.
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BC6L5: Fan-shaped group of flattened crystals of Kermesite that has a considerable length. With intense reddish reflections. Actually it is very difficult to obtain these quality Kermesite specimens.
Caiwa Mine, Danfeng County, Shangluo, Shaanxi China (2002)
Specimen size: 10 × 0.8 × 0.5 cm = 3.9” × 0.3” × 0.2”
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BD27L5: Fan-shaped group of flattened crystals of Kermesite that has a considerable length. With intense reddish reflections. Actually it is very difficult to obtain these quality Kermesite specimens.
Caiwa Mine, Danfeng County, Shangluo, Shaanxi China (2002)
Specimen size: 13 × 1.8 × 0.7 cm = 5.1” × 0.7” × 0.3”
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BT98L5: Fan-shaped group of very thin prismatic Kermesite crystals whose terminations become near plumose, with very intense reddish reflections. There are also some minor Valentinite creamy crystals. Actually it is very difficult to obtain these quality Kermesite specimens.
Caiwa Mine, Danfeng County, Shangluo, Shaanxi China (2002)
Specimen size: 11 × 3.5 × 2.7 cm = 4.3” × 1.4” × 1.1”
With a copy of the analysis of the Valentinite
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