Mineral Specimens - page 14
China

E36X6: Group of very sharp tetrahedral crystals on matrix, with Calcite and Magnetite. They have very well defined faces and edges, and are very bright, with a salmon color. They are zoned so the crystals are Helvite inside and Genthelvite on their edges. The sample has been individually analyzed and we’ll send a copy of this analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2012)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.8 × 3.7 cm = 1.7” × 1.1” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

MK99X6: Group of very sharp crystals, with the faces of the positive and negative tetrahedrons very well defined, very bright, with a salmon color. They are zoned so the crystals are Helvite inside and Genthelvite on their edges. This group of crystals has been individually analyzed and we’ll send a copy of this analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2012)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.8 × 2.7 cm = 1.7” × 1.1” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

EJ6X6: Aggregate of very sharp tetrahedral crystals with their faces and edges very well developed, very bright, with a salmon color. They are zoned so the crystals are Helvite inside and Genthelvite on their crust. The group, on matrix with Calcite, Quartz and chlorite coatings, has been individually analyzed and we’ll send a copy of this analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2012)

Specimen size: 5.4× 4.1 × 3.8 cm = 2.1” × 1.6” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

TG92W1: Group of very sharp tetrahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges. The crystals are translucent and brown, being implanted on a matrix of dodecahedral crystals of Magnetite. The crystals have been analyzed, they show a neat zonal growth, with an external layer of Genthelvite over the Helvite which comprises the interior of each crystal. We'll send both analytical results (Helvite and Genthelvite) to the buyer.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2011)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.3 × 3.1 cm = 2.4” × 1.7” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

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”

TJ74W1: Group of very sharp tetrahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are brown, with reddish reflections, and are locally coated by small crystals of Quartz. Analysis indicates that it is really Helvite, both externally and in the interior. We'll send both analytical results (external and internal) to the buyer.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2011)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.1 × 3.5 cm = 1.9” × 1.6” × 1.4”

TK16W1: Group of very sharp tetrahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are brown, with reddish reflections, and are with a group of Quartz crystals in parallel growths. Careful analyses indicate it is really Helvite, both externally and in the interior. We'll send both analytical results (external and internal) to the buyer.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2011)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 6 × 6.2 cm = 3.5” × 2.4” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3 cm = 1.4” × 1.2”

TM31W1: Perimorphic growth of Quartz overlying a tetrahedral crystal, crystal which was probably Helvite, whose morphology, very neat, remains after the process of coating. The crystal is very aerial, standing on a group of smoky Quartz crystals, with a dodecahedral crystal of Fluorite and it is completely hollow. Though it appears so, the hole on a vertex of the crystal is not a break, but a shape of dissolution, as the detailed photo neatly shows.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2011)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.3 × 3 cm = 2.4” × 1.7” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.4 cm = 1.2” × 0.9”

TP98X6: Crystals of Löllingite with polycrystalline growths that are extraordinarily well defined for the species. They are partially coated by bluish Molybdenite, with a colorless and transparent octahedral crystal of Fluorite, three white dipyramidal crystals of Scheelite, one of them clearly dominant, a group of Magnetite crystals at the base, and very sharp small and bright crystals of Arsenopyrite. The Scheelite 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 (2012)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 7.1 × 8.7 cm = 3.5” × 2.8” × 3.4”

Main crystal size: 6.2 × 4.6 cm = 2.4” × 1.8”

TY87W1: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Crystals of Löllingite, very well defined for the species, with polycrystalline growths, very bright, with clear colorless crystals of Fluorite showing the forms of the dodecahedron, the octahedron and the cube, all them well defined. They are on matrix, with Magnetite. The sample 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: 6.7 × 5.6 × 4.3 cm = 2.6” × 2.2” × 1.7”

TX88W1: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Crystals of Löllingite, very well defined for the species, with polycrystalline growths, very bright, with clear colorless crystals of Fluorite showing the forms of the dodecahedron, the octahedron and the cube, all them well defined. They are on matrix, with Magnetite. The sample 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: 7 × 5.5 × 4.9 cm = 2.8” × 2.2” × 1.9”

TV69W1: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Group of very bright crystals of Löllingite with polycrystalline growths. They have an extraordinary size for the species and have radial, not epitactic, dipyramidal crystals of Arsenopyrite on the surfaces of their faces. They are on matrix, with Calcite, Fluorite and Magnetite. Both the Löllingite and Arsenopyrite have been analyzed and we'll send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2011)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.8 × 4.4 cm = 3.3” × 2.3” × 1.7”

TT88W1: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Group of crystals of Löllingite, very well defined for the species, with polycrystalline growths, very bright, and with some radial, not epitactic, small dipyramidal crystals of Arsenopyrite on the surface of their faces. They are on matrix, with Calcite and Magnetite. Both the Löllingite and Arsenopyrite have been analyzed and we'll send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2011)

Specimen size: 9 × 6.7 × 4.5 cm = 3.5” × 2.6” × 1.8”

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”

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”

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”

EJ88X1: Parallel growth of two very sharp octahedral crystals of Fluorite. They are transparent, with a sky blue color and they have grown, very aerially, on a matrix of crystallized Calcite.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2012)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.9 × 3.1 cm = 2.4” × 1.9” × 1.2”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.4 cm = 1.0” × 0.9”

MK90X5: Group of clear and extraordinarily bright Fluorite crystals. They are morphologically complex, as they have equilibrated growth of the cube, the octahedron and the dodecahedron. The sample, also rich in inclusions, is with small Pyrite and Dolomite crystals. We note that the photograph doesn’t do justice to the exemplary, very much better, beauty of the piece.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2012)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 4.5 × 4 cm = 3.0” × 1.8” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 3.7 cm = 1.5” × 1.5”

MV96X5: Very aerial crystal of Ilvaite with very well defined faces and edges and partially doubly terminated, implanted on a Quartz crystal with very notable polycrystalline growths. An excellent sample of the progressively scarce Chinese Ilvaites.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.1 × 1.9 cm = 2.2” × 1.2” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.7” × 0.5”

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”

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”

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”

MX52X4: Group of crystals with very well defined faces and edges, perfect terminations, a good size, and especially with a splendid luster. The supply of samples with these characteristics has currently decreased because most of the pieces now seen have a dull matte luster.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (10/2010)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4 × 3.7 cm = 3.1” × 1.6” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 7.8 × 3.7 cm = 3.1” × 1.5”

EV14X3: Divergent group of prase Quartz crystals with very well defined faces and edges and a very uniform deep dark green color. They are with black deformed Ilvaite crystals.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2012)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.2 × 4 cm = 2.4” × 1.7” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 1 cm = 1.8” × 0.4”

EM97W7: Divergent polycrystalline growth of prase Quartz. It is bright, has very well defined faces and edges, and it is crowned by a group of laminar Hematite crystal in rosettes. Due its association with the Hematite, this prase is different from other common samples from the locality.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2012)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 5.4 × 3.7 cm = 3.2” × 2.1” × 1.5”

TT96W2: Parallel growth of crystals with a dipyramidal habit, sometimes erroneously described as β-Quartz. They are translucent, rich with inclusions, and have very well defined faces and edges.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2012)

Specimen size: 12.3 × 4.7 × 4 cm = 4.8” × 1.9” × 1.6”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 4 cm = 1.7” × 1.6”

MA94X1: A novelty at Munich 2012. Phenakite is a new species for Huanggang, or at least it was not previously referenced, and we must add it to the already long list of species from this mine. The elongated Phenakite crystals that coat the entire sample are very small but show very well defined faces and edges. They are transparent and intensely bright. They are with sharp octahedral crystals of Fluorite with smaller faces of the cube. These crystals are translucent, with a very deep marine blue color and very well marked phantom growths. There are also some isolated crystals of Orthoclase (adularia variety). We’ll send a copy of the analysis of the Phenakite and the Orthoclase.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2012 Munich Show of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 24 of number 1/2013
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2012)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 6.7 × 4.3 cm = 3.3” × 2.6” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.1 cm = 0.2” × 0.0”

ME87W5: Parallel growth of Hedenbergite crystals with perfect terminations. The prismatic faces have a slightly fibrous aspect, grayish-green color and silky luster. They are partially coated on their base by lenticular crystals of Calcite and crystals of Quartz.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2010)

Specimen size: 11.3 × 4 × 3.3 cm = 4.4” × 1.6” × 1.3”

MF97W5: Parallel growth of Hedenbergite crystals with perfect termination. The prismatic faces have a slightly fibrous aspect, grayish-green color and silky luster. They are partially coated on their base by crystals of Quartz and small crystals of Calcite.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2010)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 6.2 × 4.5 cm = 4.9” × 2.4” × 1.8”

MA56W5: Parallel growth of Hedenbergite crystals with perfect terminations. The prismatic faces have a slightly fibrous aspect, grayish-green color and silky luster. They are partially coated, especially on their back side, by crystals of Quartz.
Huanggang Mine, Kèshíkèténg Qí, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia A.R.  China (2010)

Specimen size: 14 × 4.2 × 5.3 cm = 5.5” × 1.7” × 2.1”

TM16X6: Aggregate of very sharp cubic crystals that are very bright and have very well marked phantom growths, translucent in the central area and transparent on the edges. They have an intense and uniform green color. A great decorative sample.
Xianghualing, Linwu County, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (1998)

Specimen size: 16 × 12.5 × 5.7 cm = 6.3” × 4.9” × 2.2”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 4.1 cm = 1.7” × 1.6”

JR50X5: Group of very well defined octahedral crystals with clear green color, polycrystalline growths on their faces and small cubic recrystallizations on some of their octahedral points.
Xianghualing, Linwu County, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (±2000)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 6.5 × 6 cm = 3.7” × 2.6” × 2.4”

Main crystal size: 6 × 4.5 cm = 2.4” × 1.8”

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, Hengyang, 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”

TT37X3: Fluorite crystal showing the faces of the dodecahedron and the cube. It is implanted on a matrix of Quartz crystals, with a small cubic Pyrite crystal and a yellowish lenticular crystal of Calcite. The Fluorite is translucent, with a clear blue color with a very well marked change of shade on the cube faces that are deep violet. The dodecahedral faces have echeloned polycrystalline growths.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang, Hunan  China (2009)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5 × 3.8 cm = 2.6” × 2.0” × 1.5”

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

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”

EE96X1: Two crystals, implanted on a matrix coated by small Quartz crystals, consisting of cube faces that are completely smooth and bright, and dodecahedron faces that are micro-polycrystalline and rough. The Fluorite crystals, translucent and showing very well marked phantom growths, have a deep green color and a good luster. As sometimes happens with Chinese localities we regret we cannot provide a more precise locality. We are waiting for more detailed data.
  China

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.7 × 2.5 cm = 2.1” × 1.5” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.0” × 0.8”

TB17X6: Druse of very well defined trapezohedral crystals, between translucent and transparent and with a very intense and uniform orange color. Smaller Spessartine crystals partially coat a pseudomorph after Helvite that has been completely altered to manganese oxides.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou, Fujian  China (2010)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 5.3 × 2.9 cm = 3.7” × 2.1” × 1.1”

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

TR50V2: Manganese oxides after tetrahedral crystals of Helvite. On a matrix with small crystals of Spessartine that also partially coat the former Helvite. 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”

MA87X4: Very sharp Helvite crystals formed by the positive and negative rhombohedron, with the color between dark honey brown and yellow and implanted on a matrix coated by leafy aggregates of Chlorite and with orange trapezohedral Spessartine crystals. The species has been analyzed and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou, Fujian  China (±2004)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.9 × 3.6 cm = 2.6” × 1.9” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 2 × 2 cm = 0.8” × 0.8”

MD86X4: Very sharp Helvite crystals formed by the positive and negative rhombohedron, with the color between dark honey brown and yellow and implanted on a matrix coated by leafy aggregates of Chlorite and with orange trapezohedral Spessartine crystals. The species has been analyzed and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou, Fujian  China (±2004)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 3.7 × 3.6 cm = 2.6” × 1.5” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.6” × 0.5”

MB89X4: Very sharp Helvite crystals formed by the positive and negative rhombohedron, with the color between dark honey brown and yellow and implanted on a matrix coated by leafy aggregates of Chlorite and with orange trapezohedral Spessartine crystals. The species has been analyzed and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou, Fujian  China (±2004)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.7 × 4.3 cm = 2.8” × 2.6” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 0.9” × 0.7”

MH89X4: Very sharp Helvite crystals formed by the positive and negative rhombohedron, with the color between dark honey brown and yellow and implanted on a matrix coated by leafy aggregates of Chlorite and with orange trapezohedral Spessartine crystals. The species has been analyzed and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou, Fujian  China (±2004)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 5.1 × 3.5 cm = 3.2” × 2.0” × 1.4”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.8” × 0.7”

TF88X5: Sharp short disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with a false appearance of the tetrahedron. They have parallel growths, are extraordinarily bright and have very well defined faces and edges. They are on matrix with brown strongly flattened lenticular Siderite crystals and with small white Dolomite crystals and colorless crystals of Calcite on the back.
Kaiwu Mine, Hezhang County, Bijie Prefecture, Guizhou, China  China (2012)

Specimen size: 8 × 6.5 × 6.3 cm = 3.1” × 2.6” × 2.5”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

TD89X4: Rhombohedral Cinnabar crystals, one of them clearly dominant, cut by the pinacoid, with good color and luster and on a matrix coated by white Dolomite crystals and with a small clear Quartz crystal.
Chatian, Fenghua, Hunan  China

Specimen size: 6.4 × 5.6 × 2.6 cm = 2.5” × 2.2” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.5” × 0.4”

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”

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”

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”

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”

EQ46X3: Very aerial miniature formed by divergent aggregates of very elongated prismatic crystals, almost acicular but with good terminations. Those crystals show a good luster and a uniform apple-green color.
Daoping Mine, Guilin, Guangxi  China (2010)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3 × 2.5 cm = 1.5” × 1.2” × 1.0”

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”

TZ10X0: Botryoidal and microbotryoidal growths with a very intense turquoise color, with vivid vitreous and resinous reflections, and on a rocky matrix. As is usual with Chinese localities we regret we cannot provide a more precise locality. We are waiting for more detailed data.
  China (2011)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.9” × 1.9” × 0.9”

TA8X0: Botryoidal and microbotryoidal growths with a very intense turquoise color, with vivid vitreous and resinous reflections, and on a rocky matrix. As is usual with Chinese localities we regret we cannot provide a more precise locality. We are waiting for more detailed data.
  China (2011)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 2.9 × 1.9 cm = 2.6” × 1.1” × 0.7”

TR26X0: Botryoidal and microbotryoidal growths with a very intense turquoise color, with vivid vitreous and resinous reflections, and on a rocky matrix. As is usual with Chinese localities we regret we cannot provide a more precise locality. We are waiting for more detailed data.
  China (2011)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 6.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.9” × 2.4” × 1.3”

TB11X0: Botryoidal and microbotryoidal growths with a very intense turquoise color, with vivid vitreous and resinous reflections, and on a rocky matrix. As is usual with Chinese localities we regret we cannot provide a more precise locality. We are waiting for more detailed data.
  China (2011)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 5.5 × 2.7 cm = 3.3” × 2.2” × 1.1”

TR49W8: Curious parallel growth of packed crystals of Calcite on a first generation of yellowish crystals of the same mineral. The crystals are geometrically very well defined and have deeply hollowed. Those late crystals are very bright, colorless and between transparent and translucent.
Wenshan area, Yunnan  China (28/11/2010)

Specimen size: 15.5 × 13 × 9.5 cm = 6.1” × 5.1” × 3.7”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.2 cm = 1.4” × 0.9”

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”

MF89W5: Sharp dipyramidal crystals of Scorodite. They are translucent, have a color between blue-green and green, have a considerable size and are on matrix, with small crystals of Pyrite.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Sanjiang, Guangdong  China

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.8 × 4.3 cm = 3.3” × 2.7” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”

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”

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”

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”

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: 1.8 × 1.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.7” × 0.7” × 0.3”

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”

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”

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”

AF27Q0: Botryoidal growths of Stannite crystals whose faces and edges have very pronounced curvatures, of deep grey color, with very well defined crystals of Arsenopyrite and Quartz. The piece has a slight fissure but the matrix is stable. The Stannite, which in this locality is easily confused with Sphalerite, has been properly analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (2004)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.4 × 3.9 cm = 2.4” × 2.1” × 1.5”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.1” × 0.1”

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”

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”

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”

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”

MM87V2: Group of laminar crystals of Rhodonite showing parallel growths and rosettes, with very intense pink color and brownish concretionary growths of manganoan Tremolite. Both species have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis 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”

MR38W9: Floater fanlike growth of very large crystals of Rhodonite, one of them clearly dominant, with groups of Magnetite crystals and small brown crystals of manganoan Tremolite. The sample has been adequately analyzed and we’ll send a copy to the buyer of both analysis, the Rhodonite and the manganoan Tremolite.
This Rhodonite has been referenced in ‘Mineral Up’ 2012-2 (page 48, figure 73)
Chaobuleng Mine, Dongwu Qí, Xilinguole, Inner Mongolia A. R.  China (2011)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.8 × 2 cm = 2.4” × 1.5” × 0.8”

AA90N4: Group of black twinned crystals of excellent luster and very well defined forms. They are with small tabular crystals of Beryl.
Huya, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang, Sichuan  China

Specimen size: 5.9 × 4.9 × 2.3 cm = 2.3” × 1.9” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.1 cm = 0.7” × 0.4”

TT50X5: Polycrystalline growths of Cassiterite with a very prominent twinning, very bright deep black color and with a small matrix of colorless beryl and leafy growths of Muscovite.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang, Sichuan  China (2012)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5 × 3.5 cm = 2.6” × 2.0” × 1.4”

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”

TG99W4: Parallel growths of dipyramidal crystals of Kësterite. They have very well defined faces and edges and are almost completely coated by Mushistonite. The samples of Chinese Kësterite, which have never been especially abundant, are now more difficult to obtain.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang, Sichuan  China (2009)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm = 1.2” × 1.0” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.5 cm = 0.6” × 0.6”

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”

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”

MX91W7: Cubic crystal of Fluorite with very well defined faces and edges and with a deep sky blue color. It is with a yellow dipyramidal crystal of Scheelite, all on a matrix of leafy Muscovite crystals. Due its size and quality, it is one of the best Fluorites that we had seen from this locality, which rarely produces good Fluorites and even more rarely associated with Scheelite.
The sample is with a card from the Jan Buma collection (num. 990634) that we'll send to the buyer.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang, Sichuan  China (±1999)

Specimen size: 10 × 9.5 × 4.7 cm = 3.9” × 3.7” × 1.9”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 3.6 cm = 1.5” × 1.4”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

BG89W8: Divergent growth, more compact than usual, of elongated and flattened crystals almost feathery at their terminations, and with vivid and intense reddish reflections. In some limited areas the Kermesite is partially coated by small masses of Gypsum. Actually it is very difficult to obtain these quality Kermesite specimens.
Caiwa Mine, Danfeng County, Shangluo, Shaanxi  China (2002)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 3.6 × 2.3 cm = 2.7” × 1.4” × 0.9”

BJ67W8: Divergent growths of elongated and flattened crystals, almost feathery at their terminations, and with vivid and intense reddish reflections. Actually it is very difficult to obtain these high quality Kermesite specimens.
Caiwa Mine, Danfeng County, Shangluo, Shaanxi  China (2002)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 1.6 × 1.2 cm = 3.8” × 0.6” × 0.5”

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”

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”

BG49W8: Divergent growth, more compact than usual, of elongated and flattened crystals almost feathery at their terminations, and with vivid and intense reddish reflections. In some limited areas the Kermesite is partially coated by small crystals of Gypsum. Actually it is very difficult to obtain these quality Kermesite specimens.
Caiwa Mine, Danfeng County, Shangluo, Shaanxi  China (2002)

Specimen size: 13.5 × 2.1 × 2 cm = 5.3” × 0.8” × 0.8”