Mineral Specimens - page 13
China

TB27AM5: Druse with spheroidal aggregates of sharp trapezohedral Spessartine crystals, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and an intense and uniform orange color. On a Feldspar matrix.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.20” × 1.73” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.20” × 0.20”

EP74AM0: Fluorite crystals with the combined faces of the cube and the dodecahedron. Very transparent, with good luster and a very intense violet color. On matrix with small Quartz crystals.
Yongchun, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2017)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.9 × 3.6 cm = 2.87” × 2.32” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.7 cm = 0.75” × 0.67”

MG89AM0: Cubic crystals clearly beveled by dodecahedron faces, transparent, very shiny, and somewhat bicolored between blue and green. On matrix, with small Quartz crystals.
Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2018)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 6.1 × 4.1 cm = 2.48” × 2.40” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.6 cm = 1.38” × 1.02”

MF70AJ1: A novelty at Tucson 2019. Fluorite crystals with the dominant faces of the dodecahedron, with slightly rough surfaces that are with smaller and smooth cube faces. The crystals, very transparent and bright, are dichroic and their color varies from the blue to the green depending on the kind of light that is used. On a matrix with small Quartz crystals.
Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2018)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.2 × 4.6 cm = 3.07” × 2.44” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3.6 cm = 1.57” × 1.42”

ME36Z9: Druse with spheroidal aggregates of very well defined trapezohedral Spessartine crystals. On a feldspar matrix, they are between translucent and transparent, very bright and have a very intense and uniform orange color. Relatively common just a few years ago, this kind of Spessartine is quickly disappearing from the mineral market.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.5 × 2.3 cm = 2.44” × 2.17” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.3 cm = 0.12” × 0.12”

TR50V2: Manganese oxides after tetrahedral crystals of Helvine. On a matrix with small crystals of Spessartine that also partially coat the former Helvine. These samples were initially described as the species “Helvine” but later they were confirmed as pseudomorphous after Helvine.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.3 × 2.4 cm = 2.24” × 1.69” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.42” × 0.83”

TD53AL7: Rosette-like growths of very flattened sharp lenticular Hematite crystals with good luster and on a matrix of Quartz crystals. A modern classic which is now scarce due to the disappearance of the locality where they used to be found.
Jinlong Hill, Longchuan, Heyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China

Specimen size: 18.1 × 10.2 × 7.3 cm = 7.13” × 4.02” × 2.87”

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, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (01/2003)

Specimen size: 7 × 4.5 × 5 cm = 2.76” × 1.77” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.20” × 0.20”

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, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2009)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.1 × 2.1 cm = 1.02” × 0.83” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.4 cm = 0.43” × 0.16”

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, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2009)

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.3 × 1.5 cm = 1.06” × 0.91” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1 cm = 0.71” × 0.39”

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, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2010)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3 × 2.5 cm = 1.54” × 1.18” × 0.98”

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, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2009)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.8 × 2.3 cm = 1.65” × 1.50” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.43” × 0.28”

LA69AK4: Floater group with parallel growths, very marked hopper formations and very sharp pyramidal polycrystalline terminations. Bright and a uniform yellowish green. The sample is from the Philippe Morelon collection (No. 680), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (±2009)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2 × 1.7 cm = 1.73” × 0.79” × 0.67”

EQ3AI8: Floater group of Pyromorphite crystals, some of them having a very well defined hexagonal shape and others with hollow growths and some unusual flat shapes and crystalline deformations. The luster is extraordinary, among the best for the Daoping mine, and the color, a uniform apple green, is intense.
The sample is from the Raúl Sanabria collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (±2012)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.3 × 2.5 cm = 2.36” × 1.69” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 1 cm = 1.10” × 0.39”

EG16AK9: Sharp translucent Pyromorphite crystals with very deep hopper faces, intense luster, bright and uniform green color, implanted on a white Baryte matrix.
The specimen is from the Raúl Sanabria collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (±2013)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 6.8 × 6.7 cm = 3.82” × 2.68” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.47” × 0.35”

TB6Z7: Botryoidal Plumbogummite growth with velvety surfaces and a very deep and intense greenish-blue color coating a matrix of yellow Pyromorphite crystals. Due to the softness of the surface the sample has some small whitish points produced by light scuffs. Both the Plumbogummite and Pyromorphite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of both analyses to the buyer
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.87” × 0.63” × 0.59”

TE17Z6: Botryoidal Plumbogummite growths, with velvety surfaces and a very deep and intense bluish-greenish color, coating a matrix of yellow Pyromorphite crystals. Due to the softness of the surfaces the sample has some small whitish points produced by light scuffs. Both the Plumbogummite and Pyromorphite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.4 × 2.3 cm = 1.22” × 0.94” × 0.91”

TF47Z6: Botryoidal Plumbogummite growths, with velvety surfaces and a very deep and intense bluish-greenish color, coating a matrix of yellow Pyromorphite crystals. Due to the softness of the surfaces the sample has some small whitish points produced by light scuffs. Both the Plumbogummite and Pyromorphite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.26” × 1.26” × 0.94”

MP48AA7: Aggregate of Pyromorphite crystals, on matrix, with parallel growths and slight curvatures on their faces and edges, with a yellowish green color and coated by bluish-green Plumbogummite with yellowish shades in some areas. Both the Pyromorphite and the Plumbogummite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (02/2014)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.6 × 1.8 cm = 1.34” × 1.02” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.3 cm = 0.67” × 0.12”

MK87AA7: Aggregate of Pyromorphite crystals with parallel growths and slight curvatures on their faces and edges, with a yellowish green color and coated by bluish-green Plumbogummitewith yellowish shades in some areas. Both the Pyromorphite and the Plumbogummite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (02/2014)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.9 × 2.1 cm = 1.54” × 1.14” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.7 cm = 0.51” × 0.28”

TC94AB6: Parallel aggregate of elongated Pyromorphite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with hollowed terminations and partially coated and embedded by bluish Plumbogummite. The samples are from a very recent find and have different morphological characteristics compared to those previously known. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (01/2015)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 3.3 × 2.6 cm = 2.17” × 1.30” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.5 cm = 1.57” × 0.59”

TA50AB6: Fanlike aggregate of elongated Pyromorphite crystals with hollowed terminations and partially coated and embedded by intense sky blue Plumbogummite. The samples are from a very recent find and have different morphological characteristics compared to those previously known. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (01/2015)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5.1 × 2.2 cm = 2.20” × 2.01” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.35”

ET53AI4: Divergent aggregates of very large Pyromorphite crystals with very well defined skeletal terminations, coated and almost completely replaced by pale blue Plumbogummite. The sample has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2017)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.8 × 3.9 cm = 2.76” × 2.68” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1 cm = 0.91” × 0.39”

ET87AM1: Very aerial growth of Fluorite crystals with cubic habit, but with curious deformations and marked polycrystalline growths. The crystals are translucent, lustrous, and have an intense violet color that is concentrated especially on the edges. Different….
Qinglong Mine, Dachang, Qinglong, Qianxi'nan Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China (2018)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 4.6 × 3.2 cm = 4.92” × 1.81” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.1 cm = 0.63” × 0.43”

AX11AL9: Felted aggregates of filiform crystals of Carbonatecyanotrichite, a different species from the better known Cyanotrichite, with an intense and uniform blue color. On matrix, with Calcite and small Fluorite crystals.
Qinglong Mine, Dachang, Qinglong, Qianxi'nan Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China

Specimen size: 1.4 × 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.55” × 0.35” × 0.28”

AV13AL9: Felted aggregates of filiform crystals of Carbonatecyanotrichite, a different species from the better known Cyanotrichite, with an intense and uniform blue color. On matrix, with Calcite and small Fluorite crystals.
Qinglong Mine, Dachang, Qinglong, Qianxi'nan Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China

Specimen size: 1.5 × 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.59” × 0.39” × 0.31”

AR12AL9: Felted aggregates of filiform crystals of Carbonatecyanotrichite, a different species from the better known Cyanotrichite, with an intense and uniform blue color. On matrix, with Calcite and small Fluorite crystals.
Qinglong Mine, Dachang, Qinglong, Qianxi'nan Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China

Specimen size: 2,7 × 1.3 × 1.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.51” × 0.55”

TD47Z2: Parallel Chalcopyrite growths coating two large Tetrahedrite crystals. The Chalcopyrite crystals along the Tetrahedrite edges are clearly more developed. This Chalcopyrite-Tetrahedrite association is very scarce at the locality, better known for very good Chalcopyrite with Siderite.
Kaiwu Mine, Hezhang, Bijie Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China (2013)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.7 × 3.1 cm = 1.50” × 1.46” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 3 cm = 1.26” × 1.18”

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, Bijie Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China (2012)

Specimen size: 8 × 6.5 × 6.3 cm = 3.15” × 2.56” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.47” × 0.39”

MV14AG9: Large tetrahedral Tetrahedrite crystal with irregular surfaces and almost completely coated with bright and very well defined Chalcopyrite crystals, and some white Siderite crystals.
The sample is from the Carles Manresa collection (num. 1091), who’s label and collection card we’ll send to the buyer.
Kaiwu Mine, Hezhang, Bijie Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China (2017)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.8 × 4.7 cm = 1.89” × 1.89” × 1.85”

MZ74AH1: Globular Fluorite Crystal of great size. It is translucent with deep green color and white inclusions and is implanted on a crystalline Quartz matrix.
Guxian, Minggang, Shihe District, Xinyang Prefecture, Henan Province  China (2016)

Specimen size: 10 × 9.7 × 4.7 cm = 3.94” × 3.82” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 6.3 × 5.4 cm = 2.48” × 2.13”

EX47AL4: Clusters of tabular Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) crystals, very sharp, transparent and shiny, with dark inclusions of small Hubeite crystals that are concentrated mainly on the edges. On matrix and with related Quartz and Calcite crystals.
Daye mining area, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.5 × 3.8 cm = 2.68” × 2.17” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.2 cm = 0.63” × 0.47”

MG67AJ4: Hubeite crystals with a very good length for the species. They are very well defined and bright with a dark brown color and implanted on very fine Inesite crystals that are between translucent and transparent, bright and with an intense pink color. The Chinese Hubeites that even during their best times were scarce are currently very difficult to find.
Fengjiashan Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China

Specimen size: 11.2 × 9 × 4 cm = 4.41” × 3.54” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.47” × 0.08”

TT89AE3: Two generations of Calcite crystals, one of them in small white scalenohedral crystals and the other in two large, colorless, clear and very bright crystals with the faces of a dominant scalenohedron and terminal rhombohedron. They are on matrix, with cubic Pyrite crystals. A very elegant sample, very different from specimens previously seen from the locality.
Fengjiashan Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2015)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 7.4 × 8.6 cm = 4.61” × 2.91” × 3.39”

Main crystal size: 7.6 × 5.1 cm = 2.99” × 2.01”

EP89AM0: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, extraordinarily transparent, with good luster and a very vivid and uniform color.
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2018)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 2.4 × 3.7 cm = 3.70” × 0.94” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2 cm = 0.98” × 0.79”

EK89AM0: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, extraordinarily transparent, with good luster and a very vivid and uniform color.
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2018)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 7 × 3 cm = 4.41” × 2.76” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.59”

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 Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2000)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 6.5 × 6 cm = 3.74” × 2.56” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 6 × 4.5 cm = 2.36” × 1.77”

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 Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (1998)

Specimen size: 16 × 12.5 × 5.7 cm = 6.30” × 4.92” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 4.1 cm = 1.69” × 1.61”

TE49AL5: A sharp lustrous brownish floater bipyramidal Scheelite crystal, partially covered by what appears to be a gray colored sulfide, perhaps Molybdenite. Among the best known for the locality.
We will send the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Xianghualing Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.6 × 2 cm = 1.38” × 1.02” × 0.79”

MA89AG7: Spheroidal aggregates of radial Valentinite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright, with a color between yellow and orange, both intense and uniform. On a rocky matrix with Quartz coatings.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2016)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 8.9 × 3.5 cm = 3.58” × 3.50” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.31” × 0.31”

JM76X9: Floater aggregate of crystals, formed by the dodecahedron, the octahedron and the cube, with a small coating of Quartz crystals, some of them doubly terminated. The sample is from the first Fluorite finds at the Yaogangxian mine.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±1992)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.9 × 4.2 cm = 1.97” × 1.93” × 1.65”

GC29AK0: Group of cubo-octahedral crystals whose forms are disguised due to the intense polycrystalline growth which is translucent, bright with an uniform green color and on a Quartz matrix. The sample is from the Casado Margolles collection (number FRM 212) whose file we will send to the buyer.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2006)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 8.1 × 4.8 cm = 4.06” × 3.19” × 1.89”

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 Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 18 × 9 × 6.2 cm = 7.09” × 3.54” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4.2 cm = 1.77” × 1.65”

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 Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 4 × 3.3 × 2.6 cm = 1.57” × 1.30” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.9 cm = 0.79” × 0.75”

TA78Z0: Spheroidal, almost a floater, aggregate of twinned Chalcopyrite crystals with parallel growths of Ferberite crystals and small mossy Boulangerite (variety plumosite) aggregates.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 4 × 4 × 3.9 cm = 1.57” × 1.57” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.6 cm = 0.55” × 0.24”

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 Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2004)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.4 × 3.9 cm = 2.44” × 2.13” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 0.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.12” × 0.08”

EF97AC6: Dipyramidal Scheelite crystals with a very good smoky color, an unusual shape, flattened and with parallel growths, with very well defined faces and edges, very bright and on matrix, with Quartz, Calcite and small cubic Fluorite crystals.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2012)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.5 × 1.7 cm = 2.05” × 1.38” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 1.6 cm = 1.10” × 0.63”

MJ16R4: Aggregate of complex crystals, very rich of faces, bright, translucent and with good color. Partially covered by microcrystals of Quartz.
Rucheng Mine, Caojia, Nuanshui, Rucheng, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.4 × 2.8 cm = 1.46” × 1.34” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.8 cm = 0.43” × 0.31”

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, Caojia, Nuanshui, Rucheng, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.2 × 3.8 cm = 1.93” × 1.26” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.59” × 0.47”

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, Caojia, Nuanshui, Rucheng, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2008)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 9.6 × 4.8 cm = 3.82” × 3.78” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 0.87” × 0.71”

TR51AE1: Equant complex Sphalerite crystals that are transparent, very bright with a very intense color and on a matrix coated by microcrystalline Quartz and cubo-octahedral Galena crystals that have very well defined faces and edges.
Rucheng Mine, Caojia, Nuanshui, Rucheng, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 10.5 × 7 × 5.5 cm = 4.13” × 2.76” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3 cm = 1.38” × 1.18”

EV28AI0: Druse, on matrix, of well-differentiated elongated crystals that are transparent, colorless and extraordinarily bright with very sharp crystalline forms. On the Olshanskyite small Andradite crystals have grown. The Olshanskyite from the Shijiangshan mine was previously well-known for its quality, largely overtaking the best known to date for the species, but a recent find has raised the roof of quality to unforeseen levels. The sample has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Shijiangshan Mine, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.4 × 3.8 cm = 1.89” × 1.73” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.2 cm = 0.35” × 0.08”

EF89AF9: Aggregates of laminar Roweite crystals of great size and quality for what has been known of this species. They are on matrix, with colorless and translucent Olshanskyite crystals and small Andradite crystals. The Roweite crystals, that are well differentiated, have a light creamy color with very well defined faces and edges. The quality of the specimens is undoubtedly superior to what was previously known, both for the individuality of the crystals and for their sharpness, but also for the size of the crystals and their association with first class Olshanskyite which makes them deserving to be in the best private collections and museums. We have analyzed specimens to confirm the identity of the species and we will send a copy of the different species to buyers.
Shijiangshan Mine, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 3.9 × 2.9 cm = 2.60” × 1.54” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”

TX69AF7: Chalcopyrite crystals with tetrahedral morphology superficially substituted for and recrystallized by Sphalerite. The Chalcopyrite-Sphalerite crystals are implanted on a transparent Quartz crystal.
East Ujimqin Banner (Dongwu Qi), Xilin Gol League (Xilinguole Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (05/2016)

Specimen size: 19.8 × 5 × 4.1 cm = 7.80” × 1.97” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.59” × 0.55”

TK48AF7: Chalcopyrite crystals with tetrahedral morphology superficially substituted for and recrystallized by Sphalerite. The Chalcopyrite-Sphalerite crystals are implanted on a transparent Quartz crystal.
East Ujimqin Banner (Dongwu Qi), Xilin Gol League (Xilinguole Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (05/2016)

Specimen size: 20.3 × 3.2 × 3.4 cm = 7.99” × 1.26” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.67” × 0.59”

MR50AE9: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Translucent quartz crystals that are between white and colorless, with zones of intense pinkish color due to Hematite staining, and with rosette aggregates (iron rose variety) of laminar Hematite crystals. We’ll send a copy of the Hematite analysis to the buyer. Due to their similarity to the samples from the Huanggang mines they can easily be confused with those.
East Ujimqin Banner (Dongwu Qi), Xilin Gol League (Xilinguole Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2016)

Specimen size: 21.5 × 8.5 × 7.8 cm = 8.46” × 3.35” × 3.07”

Main crystal size: 21.5 × 4.8 cm = 8.46” × 1.89”

MT87AL3: Single crystal of Quartz, very large and also very special for two reasons: it comes from a deposit from which only a few pieces are known and the Hematite inclusions give it a very attractive reddish color. The presence of small Hematite iron roses also completes its appeal.
East Ujimqin Banner (Dongwu Qi), Xilin Gol League (Xilinguole Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2016)

Specimen size: 23 × 4.8 × 4.6 cm = 9.06” × 1.89” × 1.81”

CR13AM5: Parallel growth of two octahedral Fluorite crystals, translucent, with an intense pink color, on a Calcite matrix. The specimen comes from the Carles Curto collection (number 2015.27), whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (±2015)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.4 × 3.9 cm = 1.85” × 1.34” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 3.1 cm = 1.54” × 1.22”

MT66AK7: New in Denver 2019: Sharp octahedral deep pink Fluorite crystal, translucent, with growth figures on the faces and partially covered with white Calcite crystals and small cubic pyrite crystals.
This sample has been referenced and pictured, as a novelty in Munich 2019, in the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 66 of number 1/2020

Huanggang Mines, shaft 6, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2019)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.8 × 5.9 cm = 2.44” × 2.28” × 2.32”

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 Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 4.5 × 4 cm = 2.95” × 1.77” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 3.7 cm = 1.54” × 1.46”

EB37AL4: Group of cubic Fluorite crystals with edges bevelled by the rhombododecahedron, with an unusual habit for the species due to the balanced growth of these isometric forms, polycrystalline and with deep hoppers and smooth rhombododecahedral faces, but with pronounced curvatures on faces and edges. The color is very deep and vivid, between indigo and navy blue. On Quartz matrix. Totally different from other Huanggang specimens.
Huanggang Mines, shaft 4, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (05/2014)

Specimen size: 9 × 4.7 × 4.3 cm = 3.54” × 1.85” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.4 cm = 0.94” × 0.94”

EY87AL4: Group of cubic Fluorite crystals with edges bevelled by the rhombododecahedron, with an unusual habit for the species due to the balanced growth of these isometric forms, polycrystalline and with deep hoppers and smooth rhombododecahedral faces, but with pronounced curvatures on faces and edges. The color is very deep and vivid, between indigo and navy blue. On Quartz matrix. Totally different from other Huanggang specimens.
Huanggang Mines, shaft 4, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (05/2014)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 7.4 × 6.6 cm = 4.13” × 2.91” × 2.60”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.3 cm = 1.06” × 0.91”

MG98AM2: Parallel growth of octahedral Fluorite crystals finely beveled by dodecahedron faces and with polycrystalline growths at some vertices. Translucent, with an intense violet color, on a matrix of rhombohedral Calcite crystals with Quartz crystals.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2017)

Specimen size: 11.4 × 10.4 × 6.1 cm = 4.49” × 4.09” × 2.40”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.8 cm = 1.18” × 1.10”

MC26AE6: Extraordinarily sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals on matrix. They are very clear and bright, colorless, and are with thick tabular Calcite crystals. The sample has a great quality, both for the species and for the best known from this locality.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 19.5 × 8.5 × 6.5 cm = 7.68” × 3.35” × 2.56”

Main crystal size: 4 × 3 cm = 1.57” × 1.18”

TT7AC4: Single Scheelite crystal on a matrix of very well developed dodecahedral Magnetite crystals. The Scheelite, with a white color and dipyramidal shape, has very well defined faces and edges, is translucent, bright and has noticeable Molybdenite inclusions that create grayish areas that give the crystal a kind of different fluorescence. The sample has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.2 × 2.3 cm = 1.46” × 1.26” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 2 × 2 cm = 0.79” × 0.79”

TY29AL3: Group of Scheelite crystals with bipyramidal habit rich in faces, very well defined, of unusual color, white with reddish areas, translucent, shiny and implanted on matrix with Magnetite and Arsenopyrite crystals. Also it has notable Molybdenite inclusions, giving a kind of peculiar fluorescence. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 5.6 × 3.9 cm = 2.72” × 2.20” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 2.3 cm = 1.77” × 0.91”

MF68AL3: Group of Löllingite crystals with polycrystalline growths, very sharp for the species, brilliant, and with small bipyramidal Arsenopyrite crystals scattered non-epitactically on the surface of the faces. Both the Löllingite and Arsenopyrite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 6.1 × 3.6 cm = 2.56” × 2.40” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3.2 cm = 1.61” × 1.26”

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 Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2011)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.6 × 4.3 cm = 2.64” × 2.20” × 1.69”

EX66AG9: Löllingite crystal with strongly curved edges, completely coated by equant Arsenopyrite crystals and on matrix, with aggregates of Quartz crystals.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.5 × 4.7 cm = 2.68” × 2.17” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 6 × 4.6 cm = 2.36” × 1.81”

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 Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2011)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.5 × 4.9 cm = 2.76” × 2.17” × 1.93”

TR99AL3: Group of Löllingite crystals with polycrystalline growths, very sharp for the species, with great luster and with small bipyramidal Arsenopyrite crystals scattered non-epitactically on the surface of the faces. On a matrix of Quartz crystals with water-clear Fluorite crystals dominated by octahedral and rhombododecahedral forms. Both the Löllingite and Arsenopyrite have been analyzed and we will send copies of both analyses to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 7.1 × 3.7 cm = 2.87” × 2.80” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 3.3 cm = 1.89” × 1.30”

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 Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2011)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.8 × 4.4 cm = 3.27” × 2.28” × 1.73”

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 Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2011)

Specimen size: 9 × 6.7 × 4.5 cm = 3.54” × 2.64” × 1.77”

TT37AC4: Very aerial aggregate, on matrix, of Sphalerite crystals with rounded and poorly defined faces. The crystals are translucent, with a clear yellow color, and with small but very sharp Arsenopyrite crystals.
Huanggang Mines, shaft 5, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (10/2014)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.1 × 2.9 cm = 2.05” × 1.61” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.5 cm = 0.83” × 0.59”

TJ29AC4: Twinned Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, with a greenish-yellow color and on matrix, with very sharp and bright Arsenopyrite crystals, lenticular Calcite and small Magnetite crystals.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 5.5 × 2.5 cm = 2.17” × 2.17” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.2 cm = 0.75” × 0.47”

EC49AK7: Group of complex twinned crystals of Sphalerite, translucent, intense yellow, on white Calcite matrix. A very aesthetic specimen and with the Sphalerite being quite large for the locality.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2016)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.1 × 4.4 cm = 2.28” × 2.01” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.6 cm = 1.34” × 1.02”

EG88AK7: Complex crystal of Sphalerite with sharp faces and edges, translucent, intense yellow, on matrix, with very sharp small crystals of Arsenopyrite, white lenticular Calcite crystals, Quartz crystals and other small, darker and more metallic looking Sphalerite crystals.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2016)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.4 × 3.2 cm = 3.31” × 2.13” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.6 cm = 0.67” × 0.63”

EF97AA5: Parallel growths of dipyramidal Quartz crystals with sceptered terminations, some of them doubly terminated. Some of the crystals have no prism faces and such crystals have sometimes been erroneously described as β-Quartz. The crystals are very rich in inclusions and are partially coated by aggregates of acicular carbonate crystals and by Magnetite.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 11.6 × 6.9 × 4.2 cm = 4.57” × 2.72” × 1.65”

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 Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 12.3 × 4.7 × 4 cm = 4.84” × 1.85” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 4 cm = 1.73” × 1.57”

EV50AA8: Divergent parallel growths of Quartz crystals with dipyramidal-shaped sceptered terminations, and very rich with inclusions, with Magnetite and Calcite. Most of the crystals have no prism faces and such crystals have sometimes been erroneously described as β-Quartz.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 15.5 × 7.1 × 4.6 cm = 6.10” × 2.80” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 7.1 × 1.6 cm = 2.80” × 0.63”

TR97AC9: Divergent polycrystalline growths of prase Quartz, bright and with very well defined faces and edges and small rosette growths of laminar Hematite crystals.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 9.2 × 8 cm = 4.21” × 3.62” × 3.15”

Main crystal size: 7.8 × 2.9 cm = 3.07” × 1.14”

EA72AE6: Very well defined spear-shaped crystals that are dipyramidal, with absent prismatic faces. They are bright with an intense green color due to inclusions, probably Actinolite and/or Hedenbergite. On the sample there is Quartz with a very different shape, probably a first growth phase, a coating or a substitution of Calcite crystals which have disappeared. The Quartz has formed parallel polycrystalline growths with flattened, almost laminar forms filling and following the empty spaces left by the earlier Calcite.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2016)

Specimen size: 13.6 × 11.4 × 6.2 cm = 5.35” × 4.49” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.3 cm = 0.94” × 0.91”

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 Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (10/2010)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 2 × 2 cm = 2.52” × 0.79” × 0.79”

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 Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (10/2010)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.2 × 5.2 cm = 2.68” × 2.05” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 6.2 × 3.8 cm = 2.44” × 1.50”

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 Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (10/2010)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4 × 3.7 cm = 3.07” × 1.57” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 7.8 × 3.7 cm = 3.07” × 1.46”

MA66AD2: Aggregate of very thick short prismatic crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are partially coated by small octahedral Fluorite crystals and are on a Quartz matrix. The crystals are really large, and brighter than usual with Ilvaite from this mine whose samples are progressively scarce.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 8.5 × 10.5 cm = 4.13” × 3.35” × 4.13”

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 Helvine, both externally and in the interior. We'll send both analytical results (external and internal) to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2011)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.1 × 3.5 cm = 1.89” × 1.61” × 1.38”

TR91Z0: Group of very sharp tetrahedral Helvine crystals with very well defined faces and edges, a very intense luster, deep color and on matrix. The crystals, carefully analyzed, note the absence of Genthelvite, so the crystals are only Helvine. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 3.9 × 2.8 cm = 2.28” × 1.54” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”

MJ27Z5: Aggregate of very sharp tetrahedral Helvine crystals with very well defined parallel growths and partially coated by Quartz crystals. The crystals have been Raman analyzed on their surface and in the interior, both analyses giving Helvine. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Due the size and perfection of the crystals it is a sample worthy being in a Museum.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 5 × 4.1 cm = 2.40” × 1.97” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 4.2 cm = 1.69” × 1.65”

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 Helvine, both externally and in the interior. We'll send both analytical results (external and internal) to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2011)

Specimen size: 8.9 × 6 × 6.2 cm = 3.50” × 2.36” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 3 cm = 1.38” × 1.18”

TD88Z7: Aggregate of very sharp tetrahedral crystals, bright with a dark brown color and with small parallel Quartz aggregates. They are between transparent and translucent, as the picture under intense light shows, and this confers a special quality to the samples from this cavity. The sample has been analyzed showing dominant Helvine forming a solid solution with Genthelvite. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm = 0.98” × 0.98” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.39” × 0.28”

TQ87Z7: Aggregate of very sharp tetrahedral crystals, bright with dark a brown color and with small parallel Quartz aggregates. They are between transparent and translucent, as the picture under intense light shows, and this confers a special quality to the samples from this cavity. The sample has been analyzed showing dominant Helvine forming a solid solution with Genthelvite. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.14” × 0.87” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”

TP48Z7: Aggregate of very sharp tetrahedral crystals, bright with a dark brown color and with small parallel Quartz aggregates and a very flattened Calcite crystal with its contour complete. They are between transparent and translucent, as the picture under intense light shows, and this confers a special quality to the samples from this cavity. The sample has been analyzed showing dominant Helvine forming a solid solution with Genthelvite. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.14” × 0.87” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.20” × 0.20”

TP88Z7: Aggregate of very sharp tetrahedral crystals, bright with a dark brown color and with small parallel Quartz aggregates and a strongly flattened Calcite crystal with its contour complete. They are between transparent and translucent, as the picture under intense light shows, and this confers a special quality to the samples from this cavity. The sample has been analyzed showing dominant Helvine forming a solid solution with Genthelvite. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 3.1 × 2.3 cm = 1.26” × 1.22” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.9 cm = 0.47” × 0.35”

TB98Z7: Aggregate of very sharp tetrahedral crystals, bright with a dark brown color and with small parallel Quartz aggregates. They are between transparent and translucent, as the picture under intense light shows, and this confers a special quality to the samples from this cavity. The sample has been analyzed showing dominant Helvine forming a solid solution with Genthelvite. We will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 2.9 × 2.6 cm = 1.50” × 1.14” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.43” × 0.35”

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 Helvine 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 Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.8 × 3.7 cm = 1.65” × 1.10” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.31” × 0.20”

EN99Y6: Very aerial group, on a Calcite matrix, of very sharp tetrahedral crystals with a clear salmon color and zonal growth. The analysis indicates that both the external zone and the inner crystal are Genthelvite. We’ll send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (±2012)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.6 × 3.8 cm = 1.61” × 1.42” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 1 cm = 0.43” × 0.39”

MR32AB1: Very sharp polycrystalline Genthelvite growth with a neatly tetrahedral shape and dark brown color. It is on a matrix with Quartz crystals and extremely flattened Calcite crystals (papierspat). Analyzed by Raman, the sample is Genthelvite both on its surface and its interior. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Ulanhad (Chifeng), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.5 × 4 cm = 3.27” × 2.17” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 3 cm = 1.30” × 1.18”

EC48K0: Very stylized group of deformed cubic crystals. Hooked and coiled wirelike crystals of native Silver contrast with the darker Acanthite.
66 line Mine, Gaoliangchun, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province  China (2007)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 2 × 2.6 cm = 1.50” × 0.79” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1 cm = 0.63” × 0.39”

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, Gaoliangchun, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province  China (2007)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.8 × 3.6 cm = 1.54” × 1.10” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.08” × 0.08”

TM69AL7: Very aerial and aesthetic specimen with growths of highly stylized Silver crystals, with hooked terminations and lateral twists. The luster and state of preservation are excellent. On matrix with deformed pseudo-octahedral crystals of Acanthite.
Hongda Mine, Xiaoqinggou, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province  China (10/2017)

Specimen size: 7.3 × 5.2 × 2.7 cm = 2.87” × 2.05” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 0.2 cm = 1.42” × 0.08”

TQ49Z7: Aggregate of elongated octahedral crystals with skeletal and hollow growths but with very well defined crystalline forms. The crystals are extraordinarily bright and have a very intense color.
Dongbeizhai Mine, Songpan, Ngawa Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 1.1 × 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.43” × 0.35” × 0.20”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.3 cm = 0.39” × 0.12”

TX26AF0: Very aerial growth with elongated forms and very well defined octahedral crystals with hoppered faces. Some of the Quartz matrix remains dispersed throughout the Gold crystals
Dongbeizhai Mine, Songpan, Ngawa Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2014-2015)

Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.1 × 1.5 cm = 1.22” × 0.83” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.1 cm = 0.20” × 0.04”

MH21AJ8: Complete and partially dipyramidal Scheelite crystal that is translucent, very bright and has a very intense orange color. It is partially coated by laminar Muscovite crystals and white cubic Fluorite crystals.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2016)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.9 × 6 cm = 2.56” × 2.32” × 2.36”

TT50AE1: Very sharp dipyramidal Scheelite crystals, with parallel growths, translucent, very bright, with a color between yellow and orange and implanted on a matrix of Muscovite crystals.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 8 × 5 × 5.5 cm = 3.15” × 1.97” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 6 × 5.7 cm = 2.36” × 2.24”

TM37AF6: Isolated groups of twinned Cassiterite crystals with very well defined forms. The highly lustrous crystals are implanted on a rocky matrix coated by sharp, bright, laminar Muscovite crystals. Because of its size and quality, this could be called a “museum” specimen.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 16.7 × 16.5 × 6.2 cm = 6.57” × 6.50” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 3.6 cm = 1.50” × 1.42”

TZ99AA0: Aggregate of thick tabular crystals very rich in forms. They are transparent, extraordinarily bright and have a very uniform sky-blue color. They are on matrix with aggregates of very Sharp small Muscovite crystals.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2013)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 3.7 × 4.2 cm = 3.43” × 1.46” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 1.9 cm = 1.14” × 0.75”

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 = 6.38” × 4.09” × 4.09”

Main crystal size: 7.2 × 2.7 cm = 2.83” × 1.06”

EB68AE8: Double elongated cluster of cubic Fluorite crystals beveled by the faces of the dodecahedron. They are translucent, with lilac color on their faces and strongly saturated violet color on the edges. They are partially coated by Baryte and they growth around a Stibnite crystal that is partially visible by transparence.
Weishan, Dali Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2016)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.5 × 2.7 cm = 1.85” × 1.77” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39”

EC66AE8: Elongated cluster of cubic Fluorite crystals that have clear lilac color on their faces and dark purple on their edges. They are partially coated on the back by Baryte with hoppered surfaces and they have grown around a Stibnite crystal that is partially visible through the transparent Fluorite.
Weishan, Dali Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2016)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 2.2 × 2.2 cm = 2.09” × 0.87” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.43”

MV68AL3: Multiple twin of Cassiterite with elongated habit, very rich in crystal forms, partially doubly terminated, translucent, shiny and of uniform dark brown color. From a locality that has given just few specimens.
Amo deposit, Ximeng, Pu'er Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.1 × 2.8 cm = 1.46” × 1.22” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 1.34” × 0.94”

TP70AA0: Transparent cyclic twinned crystals with very well defined faces and edges, transparent, with a brown color and toasted honey reflections and on a Quartz matrix. Good Cassiterite samples from this locality are currently very scarce, especially, as in this case, for crystals free of damage.
Amo, Ximeng, Yunnan  China (2013)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.8 × 4.4 cm = 2.13” × 1.89” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 2 × 2 cm = 0.79” × 0.79”

TC92AL5: Groups of crystals of Veszelyite with fairly well defined crystalline forms, intense color, randomly distributed in a matrix with white botryoidal coatings of Hemimorphite.
The specimen comes from the Rock Currier collection (no. 8979), whose label we will send to the buyer. It has a sawn matrix on the rear.
Laochang ore field, Gejiu, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan  China

Specimen size: 7.5 × 7.4 × 2.6 cm = 2.95” × 2.91” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.08” × 0.04”

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.
Babingtonite occurrences, Qiaojia, Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4 × 4.3 cm = 2.56” × 1.57” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.24” × 0.20”

MD89AK0: Group of very sharp Babingtonite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with very well defined faces and edges, very bright and on a matrix of transparent Quartz crystals. Also there are groups of green spheroidal Prehnite crystals and white trapezohedral Analcime crystals. Specimens of such quality are already classics for global mineralogy.
Babingtonite occurrences, Qiaojia, Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2010)

Specimen size: 14.7 × 12.5 × 5.9 cm = 5.79” × 4.92” × 2.32”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.8 cm = 1.18” × 0.71”

TC51AM0: Doubly terminated floater Calcite crystal with dominant elongated faces and a very flattened terminal rhombohedron. Translucent, lustrous and very rich in oriented inclusions. The back is complete and exhibits a curious recrystallized growth that makes the crystal appear to be hemihedral.
Lishui Prefecture, Zhejiang Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4.4 × 2.6 cm = 1.85” × 1.73” × 1.02”

TT51AE9: Floater aggregate of thick tabular Calcite crystals with clear and very bright prismatic faces and a greatly flattened terminal rhombohedron, transparent in the interior and whitish and translucent on their borders. We especially note the unusual crystalline morphology of the sample, but typical for this locality.
Lishui Prefecture, Zhejiang Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.3 × 5.2 cm = 2.36” × 1.69” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 4.9 × 4 cm = 1.93” × 1.57”

TA71AF1: Floater aggregate of crystals that have a thick tabular shape, with clear and very bright prismatic faces, with inclusions, and a greatly flattened terminal rhombohedron, transparent in the interior and whitish and translucent on their borders. We especially note the unusual morphology of the crystals and, typical for this locality, the curious “mossy” inclusions of, very probably, iron oxides.
Lishui Prefecture, Zhejiang Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 3.4 × 3.8 cm = 3.39” × 1.34” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 2.7 cm = 1.69” × 1.06”