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Quartz with Dolomite
Quartz with Dolomite. Quartz with Dolomite.

TF1Q7: Complex clusters of “artichoke” Quartz with clearly curved faces and edges, of greenish blue color and on a matrix of white rhombohedral crystals of Dolomite with mosaical growths on their faces. A very esthetic piece.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hunan  China (12/2007)

Specimen size: 22 × 12.5 × 10.8 cm = 8.7” × 4.9” × 4.3”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2.2 cm = 2.8” × 0.9”


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Cuprian Adamite

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.
Babu 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”

Fluorescent long UV & minor fluorescence short UV


Cuprian Adamite. Cuprian Adamite.
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ME31Q0: Group of flattened and deformed crystals, practically laminar but some of them with very well defined faces and edges and with hollow growths.
Linglong, Jiaodong, Shangdong  China (2008-2009)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.2 × 1.2 cm = 1.0” × 0.5” × 0.5”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.2 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”


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Gold

MG92Q0: Group of skeletal and deformed crystals some them of very well shaped forms.
Linglong, Jiaodong, Shangdong  China (2008-2009)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.3 × 1.2 cm = 0.7” × 0.5” × 0.5”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”


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Gold
Gold. Front
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Gold. Rear
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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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Scheelite with Quartz

TR37J7: Group of dipyramidal crystals, one of them clearly dominant, of very well defined faces and edges, an excellent luster and an unusual dark color that resembles the classic Korean specimens. The growth is not as simple as it looks at first view, and has mosaic and echeloned forms.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (2005)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.8” × 1.3” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.6 cm = 1.1” × 1.0”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV


Scheelite with Quartz. Front
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Scheelite with Quartz. Side
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Scheelite with Quartz and Dolomite
Scheelite with Quartz and Dolomite. Front
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Scheelite with Quartz and Dolomite. Side
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TV10N9: Group of dipyramidal crystals of Scheelite bigger than usual for the locality, with excellent definition of their faces and edges, an intense luster and a clearer color than is usual on the normal Yaogangxian pieces. With Quartz and partially coated by Calcite. Among the best for the locality.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (2004)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.3 × 4.9 cm = 2.4” × 2.1” × 1.9”

Fluorescence short UV & low fluorescence long UV


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Sphalerite with Quartz

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”


Sphalerite with Quartz.
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Sphalerite with Quartz
Sphalerite with Quartz. Front
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Sphalerite with Quartz. Top
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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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Pyromorphite

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”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV


Pyromorphite. Front
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Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Front
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Pyromorphite. Rear
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TG87N9: 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: 3.3 × 2.6 × 2.8 cm = 1.3” × 1.0” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.4 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV


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Pyromorphite

TH67N9: Very aerial group of crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with terminations in pinacoid in some of them and clearly hollow in some others. Their luster and color, very vivid and uniform, are excellent.
Daoping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi  China (2009)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.4 × 2.1 cm = 1.1” × 0.9” × 0.8”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1 cm = 0.7” × 0.4”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV


Pyromorphite. Front
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Bismuth
Bismuth. Front
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Bismuth. Top
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Bismuth. Rear
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TV64P1: Excellent sample whose penetrating angles had been molded by the faces of another preexisting mineral, probably Quartz. Those surfaces, then, aren’t real geometrical forms of Bismuth, but the small scales, echeloning and striations coating the surfaces correspond to crystalline growths of the mineral.
This specimen was photographed as a novelty at the 2009 Ste. Marie Show for the ‘Sainte-Marie Show 2009’ section of the magazine ‘Minιraux et Fossiles’ page 22, number 383 and also in the ‘Mineral up’ magazine, on page 29, number 2009/2 and in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 60 in the volume 14, number 3.
Laikeng, Chongyi County, Ganzhou, Jiangxi  China (2009)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.8” × 1.4” × 1.3”


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Rhodochrosite with Quartz, Pyrite, Sphalerite and Fluorite

EC37I1: Thick lenticular crystals of quite deep color, which stand on a surface of small crystals of Quartz and on a matrix of Sphalerite and Pyrite with minor Fluorite crystals.
Wudong Mine, Liubao ("Babu"), Cangwu County, Wuzhou, Guangxi  China (2006)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.5 × 4.8 cm = 3.1” × 2.6” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.7 cm = 0.9” × 0.7”

Fluorite extremely fluorescent long & short UV


Rhodochrosite with Quartz, Pyrite, Sphalerite and Fluorite. Rhodochrosite with Quartz, Pyrite, Sphalerite and Fluorite.
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Rhodochrosite with Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite and Quartz
Rhodochrosite with Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite and Quartz. Front
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Rhodochrosite with Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite and Quartz. Rear
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MD53N0: Big lenticular crystal of Rhodochrosite of an excellent color and luster, with small crystals of Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite and white undefined crystals of Calcite. The definition of the Rhodochrosite is quite better than usual for the samples from this find.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘what’s new at Tucson 2009’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 7 of number 3/2009 and also in the ‘Mineral up’ magazine, on page 28, number 2009/2.
Wudong Mine, Liubao ("Babu"), Cangwu County, Wuzhou, Guangxi  China (2007)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.6 × 2.1 cm = 2.0” × 1.8” × 0.8”


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Doyleite with Gibbsite

MB26J3: An esthetic specimen of this rare hydroxide, a polymorph of Gibbsite. Both species are together on the piece of spheroidal forms and quite uniform green color. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Baoshan, Hunan  China (07/2006)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 7.8 × 2.3 cm = 4.1” × 3.1” × 0.9”

Fluorescence short UV & low fluorescence long UV


Doyleite with Gibbsite.
Doyleite with Gibbsite.
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Doyleite with Gibbsite
Doyleite with Gibbsite. Doyleite with Gibbsite.

MK96I1: An excellent specimen of this rare hydroxide, a polymorph of Gibbsite. Both species are present on this beautiful miniature of botryoidal forms and esthetic greenish color with attractive clearer, almost white, stripes.
We’ll give the results of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2006 Munich Show in the magazine ‘Le Rθgne Minιral’ number 72, page 15.
Baoshan, Hunan  China (07/2006)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 9.3 × 4.5 cm = 4.2” × 3.7” × 1.8”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV


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Silver with Acanthite

TB16L7: Nice specimen, very aerial and esthetic. Hooked and curved wire-like growths of native Silver on a rich Barite matrix that contrasts with the darker deformed pseudoctahedrons of Acanthite. Very esthetic specimen with a color and luster of the Silver that is very attractive.
66 line Mine, Hongda, Lingqiu, Shanxi  China (2007)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.1 × 2.8 cm = 2.4” × 1.6” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.3 cm = 0.7” × 0.1”


Silver with Acanthite. Front
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Silver with Acanthite. Rear
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Silver with Acanthite. Top
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Silver with Acanthite.
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Acanthite with Silver
Acanthite with Silver. Front
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Acanthite with Silver. Side
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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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Acanthite with Silver

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”


Acanthite with Silver. Front
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Acanthite with Silver
Acanthite with Silver. Front
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Acanthite with Silver. Rear
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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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Acanthite with Silver

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”


Acanthite with Silver. Front
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Acanthite with Silver. Top
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Veszelyite with Hemimorphite
Veszelyite with Hemimorphite.
Veszelyite with Hemimorphite.

MV97M5: A novelty in Munich 2008. Crystals and groups of crystals of this rare phosphate. They are very well defined, very deep blue in color and on botryoidal growths of light blue Hemimorphite. The locality had been well identified, which is not very common with Chinese specimens.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a novelty from Munich 2008 in the magazine ‘Lapis’ on page 46, volume 33, number 12, December 2008 as well as the magazine ‘Mineral up’ on page 33 in number 2009/1 and ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 138 in number 2009/2.
Gexin, Laochang, Gejiu, Yunnan  China (08/2008)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 2.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.7” × 1.0” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”


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Twinned Calcite

TE56L0: An interesting novelty of Tucson 2008. A nice twin of two short Calcite crystals. Prism faces are totally clear and transparent. Pinacoidal terminations are translucent. To increase its beauty the specimen has a small matrix. Excellent miniature.
Wuzhou Mine, Guangxi  China (10/2007)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.7 × 2.2 cm = 1.1” × 1.1” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 1.0” × 0.9”


Twinned Calcite.
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Twinned Calcite
Twinned Calcite.

TD46L0: An interesting novelty of Tucson 2008. A nice twin of two short Calcite crystals. Prism faces are totally clear and transparent. Pinacoidal terminations are translucent. Excellent miniature.
Wuzhou Mine, Guangxi  China (10/2007)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2 × 1.5 cm = 1.1” × 0.8” × 0.6”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.2 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”


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Beryl

Beryl with Albite

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.
Shaobaodin Mountains, Pingwu, 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”


Beryl with Albite. Front
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Beryl with Muscovite
Beryl  with Muscovite. Beryl  with Muscovite.

MR51Q6: Complete tabular crystals, one of them clearly dominant and of considerable size for the locality. The crystals, on Muscovite matrix, are very bright and have good transparency and an excellent clear uniform blue color. They are formed by a short prism, a big terminal pinacoid and the faces of three dipyramids, which is relatively infrequent in Beryl.
Shaobaodin Mountains, Pingwu, Sichuan  China (08-09/2009)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 7 × 5.4 cm = 2.9” × 2.8” × 2.1”

Main crystal size: 6 × 5 cm = 2.4” × 2.0”


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Beryl with Mica

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.
Shaobaodin Mountains, Pingwu, 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”


Beryl with Mica.
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Beryl
Beryl.

CF36F2: The flat crystals have significant growth of the face of the pinacoid, are brilliant and transparent, and are finely grouped to form an attractive specimen. On the base, near the back, there are crystals of Muscovite.
Shaobaodin Mountains, Pingwu, Sichuan  China (2002)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.5 × 3.8 cm = 1.6” × 1.4” × 1.5”


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Beryl with Tourmaline inclusions

MJ16L0: Colorless tabular Beryl crystal, very bright, with sharp faces and edges. Very rich in acicular Tourmaline inclusions.
Shaobaodin Mountains, Pingwu, Sichuan  China (2007)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3 × 0.8 cm = 1.9” × 1.2” × 0.3”


Beryl with Tourmaline inclusions. Front
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Beryl with Tourmaline inclusions. Rear
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Beryl with Mica
Beryl with Mica. Front
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Beryl with Mica. Side
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Beryl with Mica. Top
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EA68J7: Group of tabular crystals, one of them dominant, very rich of faces, with slightly blue shades and on a matrix of laminar crystals of Muscovite, also present as inclusions in the Beryl.
Shaobaodin Mountains, Pingwu, Sichuan  China (2003)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 5.5 × 5 cm = 3.5” × 2.2” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 4.6 × 4 cm = 1.8” × 1.6”

Zoned fluorescence short UV


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Beryl with Quartz, Albite and Mica

ER92H3: Tabular crystal very bright and especially intense green color, very different from the common well-known samples from the locality. It stands on a second clearer crystal and on a matrix of Quartz, Albite and Mica. Under ultraviolet light shows a vivid zoned fluorescence.
Shaobaodin Mountains, Pingwu, Sichuan  China (2003)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 4.5 × 4.5 × cm = 3.3” × 1.8” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3.8 cm = 1.6” × 1.5”

Zoned fluorescence short UV


Beryl with Quartz, Albite and Mica. Front
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Beryl with Quartz, Albite and Mica. Side
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Scheelite

Scheelite with Muscovite
Scheelite with Muscovite. Front
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Scheelite with Muscovite. Side
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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.
Shaobaodin Mountains, Pingwu, 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”

Very fluorescent long & short UV


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Scheelite with Albite and Muscovite

MX46N8: Parallel growth of big dipyramidal crystals of Scheelite of excellent color and luster. They are on matrix, with Albite and Muscovite.
Shaobaodin Mountains, Pingwu, Sichuan  China (09/2008)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 9 × 6.3 cm = 4.4” × 3.5” × 2.5”

Main crystal size: 8.8 × 8.2 cm = 3.5” × 3.2”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV


Scheelite with Albite and Muscovite. Front
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Scheelite with Albite and Muscovite. Side
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Fluorite

Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Front
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Fluorite with Calcite. Rear
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TQ76N9: Group of cube-octahedral crystals, with secondary growth on the faces of the octahedron. They are transparent, very deep blue with color zoning and with small crystals of Calcite.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hunan  China (2009)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3 × 2.5 cm = 1.5” × 1.2” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.4 cm = 0.9” × 0.9”


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Fluorite

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”


Fluorite. Front
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Fluorite. Rear
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Fluorite with Quartz, Arsenopyrite and Muscovite
Fluorite with Quartz, Arsenopyrite and Muscovite. Front
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Fluorite with Quartz, Arsenopyrite and Muscovite. Side
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Fluorite with Quartz, Arsenopyrite and Muscovite. Side
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EX96K9: Cuboctahedron crystal with well defined faces and edges. Really good transparency and excellent and very uniform green color. With minor Quartz matrix.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (2005)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5 × 5.1 cm = 2.2” × 2.0” × 2.0”

Main crystal size: 5.1 × 4.6 cm = 2.0” × 1.8”

Fluorescent long & short UV


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Fluorite with Quartz

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”


Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
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Fluorite with Muscovite
Fluorite with Muscovite.

DF64F9: The picture doesn’t reflect clearly the transparency of the cubic crystals, which allow one to observe the micaceous matrix through them. The architecture of the piece is especially handsome and the color is intense.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (2003)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.4 × 3.4 cm = 2.0” × 1.3” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.2 cm = 1.1” × 0.9”

Fluorescent long & short UV


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Sphalerite

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.

Sphalerite with Quartz

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”


Sphalerite with Quartz. Sphalerite with Quartz.
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Sphalerite with Barite and Quartz
Sphalerite with Barite and Quartz. Sphalerite with Barite and Quartz.

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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Sphalerite with Quartz and Calcite

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”


Sphalerite with Quartz and Calcite.
Sphalerite with Quartz and Calcite.
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Spessartine

Spessartine with smoky Quartz
Spessartine with smoky Quartz.
Spessartine with smoky Quartz. Spessartine with smoky Quartz.

EX68P6: Drusy growth of trapezohedral crystals of Spessartine. They are very bright and have a honey color. They are with Quartz crystals and on Orthoclase matrix.
Yunling, Zhangzhou, Fujian  China (2005)

Specimen size: 15 × 10.5 × 4.7 cm = 5.9” × 4.1” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.2” × 0.2”


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Spessartine with smoky Quartz and Feldspar
Spessartine with smoky Quartz and Feldspar

TM46N8: Groups and isolated crystals of Spessartine with very marked trapezohedral forms. On Feldspar matrix (probable partially kaolinized Orthoclase) and with smoky Quartz crystals.
The sample is from the Dr. Marvin D. Rausch collection whose label we'll send to the buyer with another two labels.
Yunling, Zhangzhou, Fujian  China (02/1999)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 7.8 × 3.5 cm = 3.8” × 3.1” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.3” × 0.3”


Spessartine with smoky Quartz and Feldspar.
Spessartine with smoky Quartz and Feldspar.
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Babingtonite

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!

Babingtonite with Calcite and Quartz
Babingtonite with Calcite and Quartz.
Babingtonite with Calcite and Quartz.

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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Babingtonite with Prehnite and Quartz

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 ‘Minιraux 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”


Babingtonite with Prehnite and Quartz. Front
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Babingtonite with Prehnite and Quartz. Rear
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Babingtonite with Prehnite and Quartz. Top
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Mimetite

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.

Mimetite
Mimetite.

PL36C8: Very aerial crystals with a intense reddish orange color.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Sanjiang, Guangdong  China (01/03)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3 × 1.6 cm = 1.5” × 1.2” × 0.6”


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Mimetite

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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Mimetite
Mimetite. Mimetite.

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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Mimetite

PM64F9: In this piece the color is surely the most winning feature, but also the crystals, of very sharp hexagonal faces, are esthetically growing on a Limonite matrix.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Sanjiang, Guangdong  China (01/2003)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.3 × 1.2 cm = 1.0” × 0.9” × 0.5”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.3 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”


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Mimetite
Mimetite. Mimetite.

PC88C8: This one has good color, brilliance and lots of crystals. A complete and luminous specimen.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Sanjiang, Guangdong  China (01/03)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.9 × 4.8 cm = 2.1” × 1.9” × 1.9”


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Hubeite

After a long wait the IMA have published Hubeite as a new mineral species (see IMA listing ). This mineral, which has a strong structural resemblance to Manganbabingtonite, is now officially a new member of the mineral family. To celebrate this we have looked through the stock that we have held since the specimens first appeared, awaiting this moment, and are now publishing them. As we have not seen new material for quite a while, we think that these are interesting specimens, especially as they all show good quality.

Hubeite with Inesite

T96DE1: Larger crystals of Hubeite than is typical that completely cover the surface of this floater plate, which also has some Inesite mixed in with the Hubeite and on the back of it. There is a second generation of Hubeite crystals that are smaller and a lighter color. These partially cover the larger, darker crystals
Fengjiashan Mine, Daye, Hubei  China (2001)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 4.7 × 1.3 cm = 3.0” × 1.9” × 0.5”


Hubeite with Inesite.
Hubeite with Inesite.
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Hubeite with Inesite
Hubeite with Inesite. Front
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Hubeite with Inesite. Rear
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T56KE1: This has a large number of crystals of Hubeite that have excellent color and brilliance, along with a little Inesite to add color. A good floater specimen.
Fengjiashan Mine, Daye, Hubei  China (2001)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.5 × 1.7 cm = 2.1” × 1.4” × 0.7”


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Kermesite

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.

Kermesite

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, Shaanxi  China (2002)

Specimen size: 10 × 0.8 × 0.5 cm = 3.9” × 0.3” × 0.2”


Kermesite. Front
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Kermesite. Rear
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Kermesite with Stibnite
Kermesite with Stibnite. Front
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Kermesite with Stibnite. Rear
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BF96K1: Centered group of Kermesite crystals, red and flattened, that forms a fan on a group of prismatic crystals of Stibnite. The specimens of Kermesite from Yizhang, considered among the best known, are very scarce.
Caiwa Mine, Danfeng County, Shaanxi  China (2002)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.1 × 1.3 cm = 2.1” × 1.6” × 0.5”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 1 cm = 2.2” × 0.4”


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Kermesite

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, Shaanxi  China (2002)

Specimen size: 13 × 1.8 × 0.7 cm = 5.1” × 0.7” × 0.3”


Kermesite. Front
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Kermesite. Rear
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Kermesite
Kermesite. Front
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Kermesite. Rear
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BC67L5: 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, Shaanxi  China (2002)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 1.6 × 0.6 cm = 4.1” × 0.6” × 0.2”


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Kermesite

BB57L5: Fan-shaped group of very thin prismatic Kermesite crystals whose terminations become near plumose. With very intense reddish reflections. Actually it is very difficult to obtain these quality Kermesite specimens.
Caiwa Mine, Danfeng County, Shaanxi  China (2002)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 3 × 0.9 cm = 3.9” × 1.2” × 0.4”


Kermesite. Front
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Kermesite with Valentinite
Kermesite with Valentinite. Front
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Kermesite with Valentinite. Rear
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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, 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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Kermesite with Valentinite

BK99K1: Fan-shaped group of red and flattened crystals of Kermesite that has a considerable length. They are partially covered by Valentinite crystals. The specimens of Kermesite from Yizhang, considered among the best known, are very scarce. The Valentinite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the specimen.
Caiwa Mine, Danfeng County, Shaanxi  China (2002)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 2.8 × 0.8 cm = 4.5” × 1.1” × 0.3”

Main crystal size: 9.5 × 0.4 cm = 3.7” × 0.2”


Kermesite with Valentinite. Front
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Kermesite with Valentinite. Rear
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Kermesite with Valentinite.
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Kermesite with Valentinite, Gypsum and Stibnite
Kermesite with Valentinite, Gypsum and Stibnite. Front
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Kermesite with Valentinite, Gypsum and Stibnite. Rear
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Kermesite with Valentinite, Gypsum and Stibnite.

BB30L5: Fan-shaped group of flattened crystals of Kermesite that has a considerable length. With very intense reddish reflections. On some Kermesite crystals we can see small white Gypsum crystals, creamy tone Valentinite rosettes and small gray and metallic luster Stibnite crystals. Actually it is very difficult to obtain these quality Kermesite specimens.
Caiwa Mine, Danfeng County, Shaanxi  China (2002)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 4.5” × 1.0” × 0.8”

With a copy of the analysis of the Valentinite

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