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This page provides a selection of the specimens that have passed through the Fabre Minerals website and, due to their quality,
rarity, or significance as specimens from interesting locations, have been preserved as reference specimens in #MVM

ANHUI PROVINCE


Azurite with Malachite
Azurite with Malachite.
Azurite with Malachite. Azurite with Malachite.
 

TB54H6: A very rich group of crystals of very sharp faces and edges. We call your attention on the color and luster that are exceptional. The esthetics of the sample is enhanced by the contrast between Azurite and the green of the Malachite with it. A very special sample.
Liufengshan Mine, Guichi, Chizou, Anhui  China (2003)

Specimen size: 12 × 10 × 7 cm = 4.72” × 3.94” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”


FUJIAN PROVINCE


Spessartine with Feldspar
 

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”

Spessartine with Feldspar. Spessartine with Feldspar.
Spessartine with Quartz (variety smoky) and Feldspar
Spessartine with Quartz (variety smoky) and Feldspar. Spessartine with Quartz (variety smoky) and Feldspar.
Spessartine with Quartz (variety smoky) and Feldspar.
 

TA67AL8: Groups of trapezohedral Spessartine crystals, very shiny, transparent and with a vivid orange color. On matrix, on smoky Quartz and on a group of Feldspar crystals. These pieces were abundant at one time but have practically disappeared from the market.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (02/1999)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 5.4 × 5.9 cm = 3.35” × 2.13” × 2.32”

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

Octahedral Fluorite with Albite and smoky Quartz
 

TM98Q8: Group on matrix composed of two sharp transparent octahedral crystals, very bright and with geometrical zoned color, between violet and very deep inky blue. The best possible quality for the locality.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 4.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.81” × 1.81” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.2 cm = 0.91” × 0.87”

Octahedral Fluorite with Albite and smoky Quartz. Octahedral Fluorite with Albite and smoky Quartz.
Octahedral Fluorite on Orthoclase and Spessartine
Octahedral Fluorite on Orthoclase and Spessartine.
Octahedral Fluorite on Orthoclase and Spessartine.
 

HM96G0: Octahedral crystals, very sharp and of bigger size than usual for the locality. Matrix is a group of Orthoclase crystals sprinkled by little Spessartine crystals, clear, bright and with a nice color.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2003)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.1 × 3.2 cm = 2.64” × 2.01” × 1.26”

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

Extremely fluorescent short UV
Helvine with Spessartine and Chlorite
 

MB89X4: Very sharp Helvine 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 Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (±2004)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.7 × 4.3 cm = 2.76” × 2.64” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 0.91” × 0.71”

Helvine with Spessartine and Chlorite. Helvine with Spessartine and Chlorite.
Helvine with Spessartine, smoky Quartz and Feldspar
Helvine with Spessartine, smoky Quartz and Feldspar.
Helvine with Spessartine, smoky Quartz and Feldspar. Helvine with Spessartine, smoky Quartz and Feldspar.
 

MB53F1: Helvine is not well known and is rarely found in this locality, which has become very famous for its Spessartine. The crystals of Helvine in this specimen are really large, have octahedral faces, and well-defined edges. The smoky Quartz base supports the crystals of Spessartine and prisms of Feldspar, possibly Orthoclase. When combined with the Helvine this makes it one of the best for the species, and certainly for this locality. This specimen was photographed for the ‘what’s new at Munich 2004’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 7 of number 1/2005. We will send the purchaser a copy of the magazine.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2003)

Specimen size: 13 × 8 × 4 cm = 5.12” × 3.15” × 1.57”

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

Calcite with Quartz and Fluorite
 

TR27AH2: A novelty at Tucson 2018. Strongly elongated scalenohedral crystals with pinacoidal terminations. They are bright, have fine oriented growth striations, are rich with inclusions at their base and are on a white Quartz matrix with clear green Fluorite. As is usual with most of the new Chinese mineral discoveries the name of the mine (Khen Zhi Kou) that our supplier give us has not yet been checked, so we prefer to only give the known data, that is: Longyan Prefecture, Fujian Province.
Longyan Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2017)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.95” × 2.24” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 1.2 cm = 1.10” × 0.47”

Fluorite minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite with Quartz and Fluorite. Calcite with Quartz and Fluorite.

Spessartine

Spessartine on Feldspar
Spessartine on Feldspar.
 

MP96T6: Group of trapezohedral crystals of Spessartine, bright, transparent and with a very intense color. They are coating a group of Orthoclase crystals. The lack of some crystals at the top is probably due to a contact, not damage.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.9 × 2 cm = 1.81” × 1.54” × 0.79”

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

Spessartine with smoky Quartz
 

MR46V1: Trapezohedral crystals of Spessartine, very bright, transparent and with a vivid orange color. They are on matrix partially coating crystals of smoky Quartz and Orthoclase crystals. We especially note the inclusion of a complete crystal of Spessartine in the dominant Quartz crystal.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China

Specimen size: 5.5 × 5 × 4.1 cm = 2.17” × 1.97” × 1.61”

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

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

EX26I1: Crystals are trapezohedrons and they are transparent and have extraordinary luster and color. The specimen is very esthetic because Spessartine covers a group of Quartz crystals whose terminations appear in some points.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm = 2.24” × 1.38” × 0.98”

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

Spessartine with smoky Quartz
 

TR26AA3: Smoky Quartz crystal partially coated by trapezohedral Spessartine crystals that are very transparent, bright and with a very attractive honey color. We note that good samples from this mine are increasingly difficult to obtain.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China

Specimen size: 6.7 × 1.5 × 1.6 cm = 2.64” × 0.59” × 0.63”

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

Spessartine with smoky Quartz. Front
Front
Spessartine with smoky Quartz. Rear
Rear
Spessartine with manganese oxides after Helvine
Spessartine with manganese oxides after Helvine. Spessartine with manganese oxides after Helvine.
 

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 Helvine that has been completely altered to manganese oxides.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2010)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 5.3 × 2.9 cm = 3.66” × 2.09” × 1.14”

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

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

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

Specimen size: 9.6 × 7.8 × 3.5 cm = 3.78” × 3.07” × 1.38”

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

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

HA97F4: The sample is very rich in trapezohedral crystals, which have excellent color, brilliance and definition, on a matrix of white Feldspar. It is powerful.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2003)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 8 × 4.5 cm = 3.82” × 3.15” × 1.77”

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

Spessartine with smoky Quartz and Clinochlore
 

DB46E2: Very well defined crystals of Spessartine that are transparent and have lots of color. Smoky Quartz with good color and intense brilliance. Dotted across the matrix are groups of leafy crystals of Clinochlore. And all that is on a fine matrix, so it is a light specimen.
It was photographed for the ‘what’s new at St Marie 2004’ section of the magazine ‘Minéraux et Fossiles’ and appears on page 35 of number 331.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2004)

Specimen size: 10 × 5.5 × 3.2 cm = 3.94” × 2.17” × 1.26”

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

Spessartine with smoky Quartz and Clinochlore.
Spessartine with smoky Quartz
Spessartine with smoky Quartz.
Spessartine with smoky Quartz.
Spessartine with smoky Quartz.
 

EA89I2: Numerous trapezohedral crystals, very transparent and of a magnificent honey color covering a group of smoky Quartz crystals. It has an added curiosity, in one of the corners of the sample there is a small but transparent and well formed octahedral crystal of green Fluorite, very bright.
Tongbei, Yunxiao, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 9.6 × 5.5 cm = 4.06” × 3.78” × 2.17”

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


GUANGDONG PROVINCE


Octahedral Fluorite
 

AR98D5: Huge octahedron standing upright on the Quartz Matrix. Very impressive for its color and size. In fact very similar to the Fluorite from the Wise Mine (USA). The color is probably darker in this Chinese one, but the sharpness and the size...
Ruyuan Fluorite Mine, Ruyuan, Shaoguan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China

Specimen size: 9.5 × 8.5 × 6.7 cm = 3.74” × 3.35” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 8 × 7 cm = 3.15” × 2.76”

Fluorescent long UV
Octahedral Fluorite.
Azurite
Azurite. Front
Front
Azurite. Side
Side
 

MD27J0: A floater group of parallel growths of short prismatic crystals, of excellent color and luster. The specimen is very different from those from Morocco or Tsumeb and more similar to some of the Azurites from Chessy.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 352.
Shilu Mine, Yangchun, Yangjiang Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.2 × 4.1 cm = 1.97” × 1.65” × 1.61”

Malachite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TPQ76AN6: Botryoidal Malachite growth of extraordinarily aesthetic shapes, with bands of different shades of green and an intense silky luster, which gives it a peculiar chatoyant appearance.
Shilu Mine, Yangchun, Yangjiang Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±1995)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5 × 3 cm = 2.44” × 1.97” × 1.18”

Malachite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Malachite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Malachite
Malachite.
 

EY66K6: Botryoidal growth with radial growths lower on the specimen. Its very deep color and the silky luster made the sample very esthetic.
Shilu, Yangchun, Guangdong  China (2007)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.2 × 4.7 cm = 2.56” × 2.05” × 1.85”

Malachite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TZB27AN6: Botryoidal Malachite growth of extraordinarily aesthetic shapes, with bands of different shades of green and an intense silky luster, which gives it a peculiar chatoyant appearance.
Shilu Mine, Yangchun, Yangjiang Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±1995)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 4 × 4.2 cm = 2.68” × 1.57” × 1.65”

Malachite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Malachite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Malachite
Malachite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TFK96AN3: Botryoidal growth of very aesthetic forms, with bands of different shades of green, especially visible on the back of the specimen, and with an intense silky luster.
Shilu Mine, Yangchun, Yangjiang Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±1995)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 7.1 × 3 cm = 2.83” × 2.80” × 1.18”

Malachite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TZ99AN2: Floater botryoidal aggregate with regular parallel bands, brilliant, with different shades of green and superficial areas with a fibrous appearance. Very elegant.
Shilu Mine, Yangchun, Yangjiang Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±1995)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 5 × 3.8 cm = 3.27” × 1.97” × 1.50”

Malachite. Front
Front
Malachite. Rear
Rear
Malachite
Malachite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EBR90AP3: Columnar and stalactitic growths, very aerial, of Malachite with the intense silky luster typical of specimens from this locality and which gives them a peculiar chatoyant appearance. Deep green in color, it also has some curious Malachite concretions of much lighter tone and small holes recrystallized in the terminations, almost certainly due to very rapid growth.
Shilu Mine, Yangchun, Yangjiang Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±1995)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 5.4 × 6.7 cm = 3.31” × 2.13” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 0.6 cm = 1.54” × 0.24”

Malachite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TFM91AN5: Very aerial columnar Malachite growths, with matrix remnants, and very sharp, unusual and highly esthetic terminations, with a deep and uniform color and a silky luster.
Shilu Mine, Yangchun, Yangjiang Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±1995)

Specimen size: 9 × 3.6 × 3.5 cm = 3.54” × 1.42” × 1.38”

Malachite. Front
Front
Malachite. Rear
Rear
Scorodite with Pyrite
Scorodite with Pyrite.
Scorodite with Pyrite.
 

EY90L9: From a recent find at the Pingtouling Mine, the sample shows an excellent crystal growth of faces and edges perfectly defined, veery good luster and excellent color, between green to bluish depending on incident light.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2008 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 82, page 27.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (03/2008)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.8 × 3.7 cm = 2.28” × 1.89” × 1.46”

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


Mimetite

During the 2003 Tucson Show the main novelty was, without doubt, the new Chinese Mimetites.
As you can see their quality is exceptional. We selected the more colorful orange ones, leaving from those we saw the more yellowish ones as they are too similar in our opinion of the former Thailand ones. Also we tried to get the more perfect specimens with the nicer and sharper forms.

Mimetite
 

PA11D1: Nice isn't it? When I purchased it I wasn't very excited due to its really small size. However given its extremely original form, like a flower that includes the stem on the rear, its luster, and color I decided to offer it on the web looking for a collector of smaller than miniature specimens who is searching for a beauty.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (2003)

Specimen size: 1 × 1 × 1 cm = 0.39” × 0.39” × 0.39”

Mimetite.
Mimetite
Mimetite.
 

PM16N0: Excellent thumbnail with sharp hexagonal crystals on matrix. Their color, very deep, and their luster are extraordinary.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (01/2003)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.5 × 2 cm = 0.67” × 0.59” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.28” × 0.24”

Mimetite
 

MN50F1: The color and brilliance of this specimen are both great. The central crystal is large and shows exceptional quality, with the pinacoid facing forwards, so that one can easily see the hexagonal symmetry of the prism.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (2003)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2 × 2.5 cm = 0.98” × 0.79” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.59” × 0.39”

Mimetite. Front
Front
Mimetite. Side
Side
Mimetite
Mimetite.
 

EQ89D4: Extremely well colored and very lustrous Mimetite with a huge euhedral crystal at the top of the specimen. Minor matrix on its rear.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (01/03)

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

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

Mimetite
 

PT16E2: This one has good color and brilliance. And luminous specimen.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (01/03)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.4 × 2.1 cm = 1.34” × 0.94” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.5 cm = 0.39” × 0.20”

Mimetite.
Mimetite
Mimetite. Mimetite.
 

ER36R5: Group of short prismatic crystals, many of them doubly terminated, of excellent color, between orange and yellow, and very bright. Relatively common just a few years ago, their high quality and their growing scarcity have made them modern-classics.
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (01/2003)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 5.3 × 3.2 cm = 3.74” × 2.09” × 1.26”

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


GUANGXI ZHUANG AUTONOMOUS REGION


Twinned Calcite
 

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

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.7 × 2.2 cm = 1.10” × 1.06” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.87”

Twinned Calcite.
Calcite with Stibnite
Calcite with Stibnite. Front
Front
Calcite with Stibnite. Side
Side
 

TQ26N9: Crystal of Calcite, complex and rich in faces, of excellent yellow color, very transparent and bright, on a base of Stibnite crystals with very well defined edges and terminations.
Hechi Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (1999)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.8 × 2.2 cm = 1.54” × 1.10” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.63”

Calcite
Calcite  

EB50AJ8: Group of complex Calcite crystals, one of then clearly dominant and mainly with a scalenohedral shape. They are translucent and very bright with a very intense yellow-orange color and are on matrix.
Nandan, Hechi Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2005)

Specimen size: 14.9 × 10.7 × 7 cm = 5.87” × 4.21” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 14.9 × 7.5 cm = 5.87” × 2.95”

Minor fluorescence short UV

Former collection of Raúl Sanabria
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Side
Side
Axinite-(Fe)
Axinite-(Fe).
 

TT88Q8: Group of crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very well defined faces and edges and a considerable size and thickness. The crystals are translucent, bright and have an excellent deep color.
Nandan, Hechi Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2010)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.1 × 3 cm = 1.97” × 1.61” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 4.2 cm = 1.38” × 1.65”

Aragonite
 

MP12AC5: A novelty at Munich 2015. Slightly divergent aggregate of untwined Aragonite crystals. They are transparent, very bright, have a deep honey color and acute terminations. As is usual with Chinese novelties, we cannot provide better locality information. We hope to know more in a short time.
This sample has been photographed and published in the magazine Le Règne Minéral number 126, page 39
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2015)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 1.7 × 1 cm = 1.61” × 0.67” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 0.4 cm = 1.26” × 0.16”

Intense fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Aragonite. Front
Front
Aragonite. Rear
Rear
Scorodite with Pyrite
Scorodite with Pyrite. Scorodite with Pyrite.
Scorodite with Pyrite  

MA16AJ3: Aerial group of Scorodite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, translucent, very bright with a very deep greenish-blue color and with small Pyrite crystals.
The sample is from the Thomas P. Moore collection whose label we will send to the buyer.
Hezhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.6 × 2 cm = 0.87” × 0.63” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.31” × 0.28”

Former collection of Thomas P. Moore
Cuprian Adamite
 

MR63R9: Parallel fan growths of small crystals with very well defined faces and edges and with an intense yellowish green color. On Limonite matrix. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Pinggui area, Hezhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (06/2009)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 6.2 × 2.6 cm = 2.48” × 2.44” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.47” × 0.31”

Cuprian Adamite.
Cuprian Adamite.
Rhodochrosite with Fluorite and inclusions
Rhodochrosite with Fluorite and inclusions. Rhodochrosite with Fluorite and inclusions.
 

FP97AB1: Lenticular Rhodochrosite crystal with very well defined polycrystalline surfaces, translucent, with a very intense color and with small groups of cubic Fluorite crystals that are transparent, practically colorless, with octahedral phantom growths and unidentified white small inclusions. The base of the crystal has a neat cleavage surface that doesn’t alter the aesthetics of the whole.
Wutong Mine, Liubao, Cangwu, Wuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (±2006)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.6 × 1.7 cm = 1.50” × 1.42” × 0.67”

Former collection of Jan Buma

Fluorite minor fluorescence short UV
Rhodochrosite with Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite and Quartz
 

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

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.6 × 2.1 cm = 2.05” × 1.81” × 0.83”

Rhodochrosite with Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite and Quartz. Front
Front
Rhodochrosite with Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite and Quartz. Rear
Rear
Rhodochrosite
Rhodochrosite. Front
Front
Rhodochrosite. Rear
Rear
 

ER96Y3: Unusually large crystal with a very vivid and deep pink color. It is rhombohedral, flattened and has very well marked parallel polycrystalline growths. A sample for a museum.
Wutong Mine, Liubao, Cangwu, Wuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (±2008)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 10 × 3 cm = 4.53” × 3.94” × 1.18”

Rhodochrosite with Fluorite and Quartz
 

EF49AE2: Aggregates of extremely flattened platy Rhodochrosite crystals with very well defined crystals, a very intense pink color and on matrix, with Quartz and small cubic Fluorite crystals that are transparent and have a color between lilac and pale blue. Different from all material previously found at this mine.
Wutong Mine, Liubao, Cangwu, Wuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2016)

Specimen size: 10 × 6.3 × 3.7 cm = 3.94” × 2.48” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.28” × 0.16”

Rhodochrosite with Fluorite and Quartz. Front
Front
Rhodochrosite with Fluorite and Quartz. Rear
Rear
Rhodochrosite with Fluorite and Quartz.
Rhodochrosite with Fluorite and Quartz
Rhodochrosite with Fluorite and Quartz. Rhodochrosite with Fluorite and Quartz.
 

EB72AE2: Aggregates of extremely flattened platy Rhodochrosite crystals with very well defined crystals, a very intense pink color and on matrix, with Quartz and small cubic Fluorite crystals that are transparent and have a color between lilac and pale blue. Different from all material previously found at this mine.
Wutong Mine, Liubao, Cangwu, Wuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2016)

Specimen size: 13 × 8.3 × 5.6 cm = 5.12” × 3.27” × 2.20”

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


Guilin area

Pyromorphite
 

TF66AL8: Floater group of Pyromorphite crystals with slightly curved faces and edges, many of them doubly terminated, bright and with an intense and uniform green color.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China

Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.06” × 1.06” × 0.67”

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

Former collection of Bob Noble
Pyromorphite. Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite. Rear
Rear
 

NG48AH6: Group of partially doubly terminated crystals with parallel growths and hollow terminations. They are bright and have a very intense and uniform grass green color.
The sample is from the Ignacio Gaspar Sintes collection, whose label and collection card we’ll send to the buyer.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China

Specimen size: 3.3 × 1.3 × 1.8 cm = 1.30” × 0.51” × 0.71”

Former collection of Ignacio Gaspar
Pyromorphite
 

TR69N9: Very aerial group of crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with terminations in pinacoid. Their luster and color, very vivid and uniform, are excellent.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2009)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.5 × 2 cm = 1.38” × 0.98” × 0.79”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Pyromorphite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite. Rear
Rear
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite.
 

EM46J7: One of the notable novelties from Ste. Marie-aux-Mines 2007. Group of prismatic crystals of very well defined faces and edges with skeletal terminations, on matrix. Their color and luster are really extraordinary, but we also especially note their translucency, easily visible under a strong light.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 287 in number 2007/4.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2007)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2 × 2.5 cm = 1.42” × 0.79” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.35” × 0.31”

Fluorescent long UV & minor fluorescence short UV
Pyromorphite
 

TA77M0: Curious and esthetic cluster of Pyromorphite formed by multiple crystals which show curved faces and edges. Color is not usual and varies between green and white.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2003)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.7 × 2.9 cm = 1.57” × 1.46” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.35” × 0.24”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite. Rear
Rear
 

EA92Z0: Parallel growths of short prismatic hollow crystals. They are very bright and have a very vivid and uniform green color. A sample of great quality.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 2.9 × 2.3 cm = 1.65” × 1.14” × 0.91”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Pyromorphite
 

M70LF2: Among the many good things about this one the color and length of the crystals, some of which are hoppered.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (05/2000)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 4 × 2.5 cm = 1.77” × 1.57” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.6 cm = 0.47” × 0.24”

Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite. Rear
Rear
Pyromorphite. Side
Side

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Pyromorphite
 

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”

Minor fluorescence short UV

Former collection of Raúl Sanabria
Pyromorphite
 

EZ92L3: Great specimen with some well defined Pyromorphite crystals and other structures like acicular growths and a complex crystallization in the form of crests. Excellent green color and luster. So, it is a really great specimen.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2007)

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

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.35” × 0.24”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Pyromorphite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite. Side
Side
Pyromorphite. Rear
Rear
Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite with Baryte
Pyromorphite with Baryte. Pyromorphite with Baryte.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
Pyromorphite with Baryte
 

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”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

Former collection of Raúl Sanabria
Pyromorphite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EG54AJ8: Druse, on matrix, of slightly tapered Pyromorphite crystals with deep hollow terminations. They have greasy luster and a uniform clear green color.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2016)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 8.6 × 5.5 cm = 3.62” × 3.39” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1 cm = 0.67” × 0.39”

Pyromorphite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite. Rear
Rear
Pyromorphite.
Plumbogummite with Pyromorphite
Plumbogummite with Pyromorphite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TAX15AO1: Botryoidal growth of Plumbogummite with a very deep and intense greenish blue color and with velvety surfaces that cover a matrix of yellow Pyromorphite crystals. Both the Plumbogummite and the Pyromorphite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.
Yangshuo / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.75” × 0.71” × 0.47”

With analysis copy
Plumbogummite with Pyromorphite
 

TB96Z6: Botryoidal Plumbogummite growths, with velvety surfaces and a very deep and intense blue 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 / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.9 × 1.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.75” × 0.47”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Plumbogummite with Pyromorphite.
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite.
 

MB56AA7: Aggregate of elongated Pyromorphite crystals forming parallel growths, with a yellowish-green color and coated by bluish-green Plumbogummite with yellowish shades in some zones. Both the Pyromorphite and the Plumbogummite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.

Yangshuo / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (02/2014)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.6 × 2 cm = 0.94” × 0.63” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.39” × 0.24”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite
 

ME7AA7: Aggregate of elongated Pyromorphite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, on matrix and coated by bluish-green Plumbogummite with yellowish shades in some zones. Both the Pyromorphite and the Plumbogummite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section, report #39, December 06, 2014 edition.
Yangshuo / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (02/2014)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.8 × 1.9 cm = 1.14” × 1.10” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.12”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite.
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite. Rear
Rear
 

MC28AC3: Aggregate of Pyromorphite crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with an apple green color and with slightly curved faces and edges and polycrystalline terminations. The Pyromorphite, on matrix, is partially coated by pale blue Plumbogummite, also present on the matrix.
Yangshuo / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (02/2014)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.7 × 2.8 cm = 1.50” × 1.46” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.5 cm = 0.47” × 0.20”

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Plumbogummite with Pyromorphite
 

TG47Z6: Botryoidal Plumbogummite growths, with velvety surfaces and a very deep and intense blue 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 / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 2.9 × 1.6 cm = 1.61” × 1.14” × 0.63”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Plumbogummite with Pyromorphite.
Plumbogummite with Pyromorphite and Quartz
Plumbogummite with Pyromorphite and Quartz.
 

TP87AB3: Translucent botryoidal Plumbogummite aggregate with a uniform clear blue color and free of damage. It is on Quartz with yellow Pyromorphite impregnations.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ number 02/2014, page 54
Yangshuo / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (02/2014)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.6 × 3.8 cm = 1.73” × 1.81” × 1.50”

Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite
 

TQ6AC3: Divergent aggregates of very large Pyromorphite crystals with skeletal terminations coated and replaced by pale blue Plumbogummite. The sample is from a very recent find and has different morphological characteristics compared to those previously known. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Yangshuo / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (01/2015)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.9 × 4 cm = 1.97” × 1.93” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.46” × 0.67”

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite. Rear
Rear
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite. Front
Front
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite. Rear
Rear
 

TF16AC3: Aggregate of very large Pyromorphite crystals with skeletal terminations coated and replaced by blue Plumbogummite. The sample is from a very recent find and has different morphological characteristics compared to those previously known. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Yangshuo / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (01/2015)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4 × 2.7 cm = 2.20” × 1.57” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.89” × 0.71”

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Pyromorphite and Plumbogummite
 

TP70AB5: Aggregate of elongated Pyromorphite crystals on matrix, a lot 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.
Yangshuo / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (01/2015)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 5.5 × 2.9 cm = 2.44” × 2.17” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.3 cm = 0.75” × 0.51”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Pyromorphite and Plumbogummite. Pyromorphite and Plumbogummite.
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite. Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite.
Pyromorphite with Plumbogummite.
 

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 / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, 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”

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Pyromorphite and Plumbogummite
 

TR69AB7: Aggregate of Pyromorphite crystals, on matrix, with parallel growths, slight curvatures on their faces and edges and hollow terminations. They have a yellowish green color and are 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 / Laohu area, Haiyang Mountains, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (01/2015)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 5 × 2.4 cm = 3.35” × 1.97” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.24”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Pyromorphite and Plumbogummite. Pyromorphite and Plumbogummite.
Cerussite
Cerussite. Front
Front
Cerussite. Rear
Rear
 

TB66M0: Flattened Cerussite crystals with an intense yellow color and green inclusions of Pyromorphite. Due to its color we had doubts if it was Cerussite. Another sample from the same pocket has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2003)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2 × 1.5 cm = 1.34” × 0.79” × 0.59”

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Cerussite
 

TR47AC4: Two fanlike aggregates that are translucent and very bright with flat and smooth surfaces, phantom growths and transparent and bright terminal faces with very well defined edges. Very unusual and fine for the locality.
Daoping Mine, Gongcheng, Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.7 × 1.4 cm = 1.34” × 1.06” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.94”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Cerussite. Front
Front
Cerussite. Rear
Rear

Kermesite

This find represents the best samples ever found of this species. The size, perfect form as well as the cherry red color (when back lit) make them, in our opinion, one of the most significant finds of the last few years. We have selected solid specimens from our stock, so that shipping will not be a problem.

Please note that all this photos was taken with a strong light source at the rear of the specimen, in order to show its deep red color, under normal lighting this is not so visible.

Kermesite with Stibnite
Kermesite with Stibnite. Front
Front
Kermesite with Stibnite. Rear
Rear
 

BF96K1: Centered group of Kermesite crystals, red and flattened, that forms a fan on a group of prismatic crystals of Stibnite. The specimens of Kermesite from Yizhang, considered among the best known, are very scarce.
Kermesite occurrence, Damingshan Range, Dafeng, Shanglin, Nanning Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2002)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 4.1 × 1.3 cm = 2.09” × 1.61” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 1 cm = 2.17” × 0.39”

Kermesite
 

BB42: One of the few pieces with matrix. The matrix is a mix of massive and crystallized Stibnite. The Kermesite is standing free on its small matrix and shows very well its morphology and its transparency (with intense light from the back) due its aerial position. A minor Stibnite crystal is crosses the left corner of the specimen.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 170
Kermesite occurrence, Damingshan Range, Dafeng, Shanglin, Nanning Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2002)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 3.5 × 2.1 cm = 2.95” × 1.38” × 0.83”

Kermesite.
Kermesite
Kermesite.
 

BF50J1: Divergent groups of extraordinarily defined crystals. It has an excellent color and comes from the famous find in 2002 and even then they were scarce, and it is very difficult to obtain good samples. The specimen has high quality and it is a perfect representation of the species.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 505
Kermesite occurrence, Damingshan Range, Dafeng, Shanglin, Nanning Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2002)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 3.1 × 1.9 cm = 3.78” × 1.22” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 8.5 × 0.5 cm = 3.35” × 0.20”

Kermesite
 

BB57L5: Fan-shaped group of very thin prismatic Kermesite crystals whose terminations become near plumose. With very intense reddish reflections. Actually it is very difficult to obtain these quality Kermesite specimens.
Kermesite occurrence, Damingshan Range, Dafeng, Shanglin, Nanning Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2002)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 3 × 0.9 cm = 3.86” × 1.18” × 0.35”

Kermesite. Front
Front
Kermesite. Rear
Rear
Kermesite with Stibnite
Kermesite with Stibnite. Front
Front
Kermesite with Stibnite. Rear
Rear
Kermesite with Stibnite. Top
Top
 

BA89J1: Divergent group of extraordinarily defined crystals. It has an excellent color and comes from the famous find in 2002 and even then they were scarce, and it is very difficult to obtain good samples. The specimen has high quality and it is a perfect representation of the species.
Kermesite occurrence, Damingshan Range, Dafeng, Shanglin, Nanning Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2002)

Specimen size: 10.6 × 2.6 × 1.9 cm = 4.17” × 1.02” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 10.6 × 0.4 cm = 4.17” × 0.16”

Kermesite with Valentinite
 

BK99K1: Fan-shaped group of red and flattened crystals of Kermesite that has a considerable length. They are partially covered by Valentinite crystals. The specimens of Kermesite from Yizhang, considered among the best known, are very scarce. The Valentinite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer of the specimen.
Kermesite occurrence, Damingshan Range, Dafeng, Shanglin, Nanning Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region  China (2002)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 2.8 × 0.8 cm = 4.53” × 1.10” × 0.31”

Main crystal size: 9.5 × 0.4 cm = 3.74” × 0.16”

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

GUIZHOU PROVINCE


Twinned Cinnabar with Quartz and Dolomite
Twinned Cinnabar with Quartz and Dolomite. Twinned Cinnabar with Quartz and Dolomite.
 

ZA73G7: An excellent group of twinned crystals of Cinnabar, the biggest one reaching a considerable size. They are on a very rich matrix of Quartz crystals. The red color is better than usual on the specimens with this kind of twin. The main crystal, in its upper right faces, is partially covered by little white Quartz crystals. Matrix has been cut on the back, as is usual with Chinese Cinnabar, due to the fragility of the Cinnabar crystals.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 155
Yanwuping Mine, Wanshan, Tongren Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China (2004)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 6.4 × 3.7 cm = 3.23” × 2.52” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.59”

Cinnabar with Calcite
 

TR90AF9: Thick tabular and very sharp Cinnabar crystals with very well defined faces and edges, bright and on matrix, with Calcite crystals.
The sample is from the Vallecillo collection (Madrid).
Tongren Mine, Tongren, Tongren Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China

Specimen size: 10.2 × 8.8 × 4.2 cm = 4.02” × 3.46” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.43”

Former collection of José Luis Vallecillo
Cinnabar with Calcite. Cinnabar with Calcite.
Cinnabar with Calcite.
Chalcopyrite coating Tetrahedrite
Chalcopyrite coating Tetrahedrite. Front
Front
Chalcopyrite coating Tetrahedrite. Rear
Rear
 

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”

Chalcopyrite coating Tetrahedrite and with Siderite
 

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”

Former collection of Carles Manresa
Chalcopyrite coating Tetrahedrite and with Siderite. Front
Front
Chalcopyrite coating Tetrahedrite and with Siderite. Rear
Rear
Chalcopyrite with Siderite
Chalcopyrite with Siderite.
 

EM99W2: Short disphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite, with a false appearance of the tetrahedron, with very well defined faces and edges and very bright. They have a considerable size and have grown paragenetically with a group of dark brown lenticular crystals of Siderite, translucent and bright. They have some minor damage on some edges, the least that we have been able to obtain because these samples usually are badly broken.
Kaiwu Mine, Hezhang, Bijie Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China (2012)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.4 × 4.3 cm = 3.31” × 2.52” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.6 cm = 0.83” × 0.63”

Chalcopyrite with Siderite
 

TV73AC4: Disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals with a false appearance of the tetrahedron, of a considerable length, sharp and with very well defined faces and edges, magnificent color and very bright. The Chalcopyrite has grown paragenetically with a group of translucent, bright and dark brown lenticular Siderite crystals.
Kaiwu Mine, Hezhang, Bijie Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China (2014)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.8 × 6 cm = 3.43” × 2.68” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 5 × 4.8 cm = 1.97” × 1.89”

Chalcopyrite with Siderite. Front
Front
Chalcopyrite with Siderite. Side
Side
Chalcopyrite with Siderite
Chalcopyrite with Siderite. Chalcopyrite with Siderite.
 

EP90W2: Short diesphenoidal crystals of Chalcopyrite, with a false appearance of tetrahedron, with very well defined faces and edges and very bright. They are on a matrix of dark brown lenticular crystals of Siderite translucent and bright. They have some minor damages on some edges, the really minimal that we have achieved to obtain due to these samples usually are clearly broken.
Kaiwu Mine, Hezhang, Bijie Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China (2012)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 6.9 × 5.3 cm = 4.92” × 2.72” × 2.09”

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

Chalcopyrite with Siderite
 

MX54AI0: Complex growths of disphenoidal Chalcopyrite crystals that have the false appearance of a tetrahedron, with very well defined faces and edges and extraordinarily bright. The Chalcopyrite has grown paragenetically with a group of lenticular Siderite crystals that are translucent, bright and have a dark brown color. The sample is undamaged, something unusual because most of the samples from this mine are usually more or less broken.
Kaiwu Mine, Hezhang, Bijie Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China (2017)

Specimen size: 14.9 × 8.2 × 3.1 cm = 5.87” × 3.23” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 7.8 × 3 cm = 3.07” × 1.18”

Chalcopyrite with Siderite. Chalcopyrite with Siderite.
Carbonatecyanotrichite with Calcite and Fluorite
Carbonatecyanotrichite with Calcite and Fluorite. Carbonatecyanotrichite with Calcite and Fluorite.
 

AT46AL9: 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: 2.8 × 2.2 × 2.9 cm = 1.10” × 0.87” × 1.14”

Fluorite with Baryte and Dolomite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MBT98AO0: Druse of very sharp Fluorite crystals, transparent, lustrous and with a very marked color zoning, with a pale lilac color through almost the entire crystal and a very deep violet tone along the edges. With small parallel aggregates of lamellar yellow Baryte crystals and white Dolomite crystals.
Qinglong Mine, Dachang, Qinglong, Qianxi'nan Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 11.6 × 7.9 × 6.5 cm = 4.57” × 3.11” × 2.56”

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

Fluorite with Baryte and Dolomite. Fluorite with Baryte and Dolomite.
Fluorite with Baryte and Dolomite.

HEBEI PROVINCE


Vesuvianite
Vesuvianite.
 

EY10Z5: Very sharp floater crystal, bright and formed by a very sort prism, a much flattened dipyramid and the pinacoid.
Fushan Mine, She, Handan Prefecture, Hebei Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 3.1 × 4.5 cm = 1.85” × 1.22” × 1.77”

Epidote with Grossular
 

TH76R4: Group of flattened prismatic crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with good multiple terminations, bright, and on Grossular (Hessonite) matrix also in small crystals coating and suturing the natural fracture lines of the Epidote.
Handan Iron Mine, Wu'an County, Handan, Hebei  China (2009)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.6 × 2.5 cm = 2.48” × 1.81” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.46” × 0.67”

Epidote with Grossular. Front
Front
Epidote with Grossular. Rear
Rear

HENAN PROVINCE


Fluorite
Fluorite. Fluorite.
 

EM91AE2: Very esthetic globular Fluorites similar to those discovered at Myanmar some years ago, but this fine piece is better because of its size and the quality of its blue color, crossed by curious white star-like forms, and because it is on matrix.
Guxian, Tongbai, Nanyang Prefecture, Henan Province  China

Specimen size: 10.7 × 7.8 × 4.5 cm = 4.21” × 3.07” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 3.6 cm = 1.54” × 1.42”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Fluorite with Quartz
 

MB53AI0: Globular Fluorite ball on a Quartz matrix. Looking very esthetic, it is similar to those found some years ago at the locality, but it has better quality due both to its size and the beauty of its deep green color with white inclusions.
Guxian, Tongbai, Nanyang Prefecture, Henan Province  China (2016)

Specimen size: 11.9 × 8.5 × 5.1 cm = 4.69” × 3.35” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 5.7 × 5.6 cm = 2.24” × 2.20”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz. Side
Side
Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite
Fluorite.
Fluorite.
 

MD89I1: These esthetic and curious globular crystallizations are similar to those discovered at Myanmar some years ago, but they have better quality due both to their size and color and because they are on matrix.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 245.
Guxian, Tongbai, Nanyang Prefecture, Henan Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 17.5 × 9.5 × 6.5 cm = 6.89” × 3.74” × 2.56”

Zoned fluorescence long & short UV

HUBEI PROVINCE


Daye mining area

Analcime

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MDR99AO2: Very sharp trapezohedral Analcime crystals, transparent, and lustrous. On matrix, with small Calcite crystals. The specimen comes from a recent find, in December 2021, and is characterized by the great transparency of the crystals.
Fengjiashan Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.3 × 2 cm = 1.65” × 1.30” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.5 cm = 0.71” × 0.59”

Analcime. Front
Front
Analcime. Side
Side
Analcime.
Inesite on Quartz
Inesite on Quartz. Front
Front
Inesite on Quartz. Rear
Rear
 

MZ96H3: An esthetic double group of acicular crystals forming open fans, on a Quartz crystal.
Fengjiashan Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.42” × 1.26” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 4 × 2.2 cm = 1.57” × 0.87”

Quartz (variety amethyst)
 

MF96: Single crystal, recrystallized at the bottom, of brilliant amethyst with a nice deeply colored phantom inside. Its rear is covered by minor orange Fluorapophyllite-(K). We will provide a copy of the analysis of it to the customer.
Fengjiashan Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2002)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 5 × 4 cm = 3.62” × 1.97” × 1.57”

Quartz (variety amethyst).
Chalcopyrite
Chalcopyrite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Chalcopyrite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EJK97AP1: From an unusual discovery made in the year 2022. Botryoidal, spheroidal and very aerial stalagmites of brilliant Chalcopyrite microcrystals.
Tongshankou Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (18/03/2022)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.4 × 3 cm = 2.28” × 2.13” × 1.18”

Chalcopyrite with Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EXX68AP1: From an unusual discovery made in the year 2022. Very aerial botryoidal and spheroidal growths of very shiny Chalcopyrite microcrystals, with Calcite crystals.
Tongshankou Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (06/2022)

Specimen size: 9.7 × 7.1 × 4.5 cm = 3.82” × 2.80” × 1.77”

Chalcopyrite with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Chalcopyrite with Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Chalcocite with Chalcopyrite
Chalcocite with Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Chalcocite with Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
 

TF66AL3: Remarkably elongated Chalcocite crystals and stalagmitic clusters. The Chalcocite is completely covered by iridescent Chalcopyrite, with dominant blue, violet, green and yellow tones. From the existing bibliography, it seems that in some cases the Chalcocite crystals are partially replaced by Djurleite.
Tongshankou Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2013)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.6 × 1.6 cm = 1.42” × 1.02” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.51” × 0.08”

Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite
 

TZ66Z2: A novelty at Tucson 2014. Aggregate of extraordinarily elongated Chalcocite crystals and coralloid growths completely coated by iridescent Chalcopyrite, with dominant blue and violet shades. By recent reports, it seems that in some cases the Chalcocite crystals are partially replaced by Djurleite.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section, report #37, April 14, 2014 edition, and in the book 'China II', by Berthold Ottens, on page 128

Tongshankou Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2013)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.69” × 0.75” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 0.2 cm = 1.46” × 0.08”

Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite
Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
 

TB96Z2: A novelty at Tucson 2014. Aggregate of extraordinarily elongated Chalcocite crystals completely coated by iridescent Chalcopyrite, with dominant violet and golden yellow shades. By recent reports, it seems that in some cases the Chalcocite crystals are partially replaced by Djurleite.
Tongshankou Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2013)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.6 × 2.8 cm = 1.77” × 1.42” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 0.4 cm = 1.65” × 0.16”

Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite
 

TX96Z2: A novelty at Tucson 2014. Aggregate of elongated Chalcocite crystals with very well defined faces and edges finished with an arborescent growth and completely coated by iridescent Chalcopyrite, with dominant blue shades. By recent reports, it seems that in some cases the Chalcocite crystals are partially replaced by Djurleite.
Tongshankou Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2013)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 1.5 × 2.1 cm = 1.93” × 0.59” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.7 cm = 1.18” × 0.67”

Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite
Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
 

TM36Z2: A novelty at Tucson 2014. Aggregate of extraordinarily elongated Chalcocite crystals completely coated by iridescent Chalcopyrite, with dominant blue shades. By recent reports, it seems that in some cases the Chalcocite crystals are partially replaced by Djurleite.
Tongshankou Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2013)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm = 2.09” × 0.24” × 0.20”

Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite
 

TY38Z2: A novelty at Tucson 2014. Aggregate of extraordinarily elongated Chalcocite crystals and arborescent growths completely coated by iridescent Chalcopyrite, with dominant blue shades. By recent reports, it seems that in some cases the Chalcocite crystals are partially replaced by Djurleite.
Tongshankou Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2013)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.17” × 1.85” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.6 cm = 1.57” × 0.63”

Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite
Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
 

TJ66Z2: A novelty at Tucson 2014. Aggregate of extraordinarily elongated Chalcocite crystals completely coated by iridescent Chalcopyrite, with dominant blue, violet and golden shades. By recent reports, it seems that in some cases the Chalcocite crystals are partially replaced by Djurleite.
The specimen has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Lapis’ on page 31, volume 39, number 5, May 2014
Tongshankou Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2013)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 0.5 × 0.3 cm = 2.28” × 0.20” × 0.12”

Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite
 

TX66Z2: A novelty at Tucson 2014. Aggregate of extraordinarily elongated Chalcocite crystals completely coated by iridescent Chalcopyrite, with dominant green and violet shades. By recent reports, it seems that in some cases the Chalcocite crystals are partially replaced by Djurleite.
Tongshankou Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2013)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 2.83” × 0.20” × 0.20”

Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Chalcocite and Djurleite with Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
Calcite
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Side
Side
Calcite. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TXM37AP3: From a discovery in the year 2022 in the Daye area: Parallel growths of lenticular and very aerial Calcite crystals, on matrix. They are translucent, lustrous, yellow in color with red Hematite inclusions and geometric color zoning. Very aesthetic.
Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2022)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.2 × 3 cm = 1.97” × 1.65” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.8 cm = 0.39” × 0.31”

Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TFM67AP3: From a discovery in the year 2022 in the Daye area: Parallel growths of lenticular and very aerial Calcite crystals, on matrix. They are translucent, lustrous, yellow in color with red Hematite inclusions and geometric color zoning. Very aesthetic.
Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2022)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.9 × 3.2 cm = 2.13” × 1.54” × 1.26”

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

Calcite.
Calcite
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Rear
Rear
Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TBB47AO8: From a very recent discovery in the Daye area. Parallel growths of lenticular and very aerial Calcite crystals, on matrix. They are translucent, lustrous, yellow, with red Hematite inclusions and geometric color zoning. Very aesthetic.
Daye mining area, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (03/2022)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 6.2 × 5.3 cm = 2.52” × 2.44” × 2.09”

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

Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TXA27AO7: From a very recent discovery in the Daye area. Parallel growths of crystals of lenticular Calcite, very aerial and on matrix. They are a translucent yellow, shiny, with red Hematite inclusions, geometric color zoning. Very aesthetic.
Daye mining area, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (03/2022)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 4.3 × 4.2 cm = 2.60” × 1.69” × 1.65”

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

Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Rear
Rear
Calcite
Calcite. Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TFM87AO8: From a very recent discovery in the Daye area. Parallel growths of lenticular and very aerial Calcite crystals, on matrix. They are translucent, lustrous, yellow, with red Hematite inclusions and geometric color zoning. Very aesthetic.
Daye mining area, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (03/2022)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.8 × 6.4 cm = 2.64” × 1.89” × 2.52”

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

Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TJA87AP3: From a discovery in the year 2022 in the Daye area: Parallel growths of lenticular and very aerial Calcite crystals, on matrix. They are translucent, lustrous, yellow in color with red Hematite inclusions and geometric color zoning. Very aesthetic.
Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2022)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 4.8 × 3.8 cm = 2.72” × 1.89” × 1.50”

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

Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Rear
Rear
Calcite.
Calcite
Calcite. Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TRB87AO7: From a very recent discovery in the Daye area. Parallel growths of crystals of lenticular Calcite, very aerial and on matrix. They are a translucent yellow, shiny, with red Hematite inclusions, geometric color zoning. Very aesthetic.
Daye mining area, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (03/2022)

Specimen size: 8.1 × 6.4 × 4 cm = 3.19” × 2.52” × 1.57”

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


Hubeite

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

Hubeite with Inesite
 

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

Specimen size: 5.3 × 3.5 × 1.7 cm = 2.09” × 1.38” × 0.67”

Hubeite with Inesite. Front
Front
Hubeite with Inesite. Rear
Rear
Hubeite with Inesite
Hubeite with Inesite.
Hubeite with Inesite.
 

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

Specimen size: 7.6 × 4.7 × 1.3 cm = 2.99” × 1.85” × 0.51”


Manganilvaite

These Manganilvaites have a curious history: in the year 2002 we obtained these samples and ignoring what they were then called we analyzed them. The analysis gave as a result that it could be a new species: Manganilvaite, not previously existing. We thought to present them to be approved but we decided not to due to the complexity of the process and the conviction that some other people could be working on them. Sure nough, a little time later Manganilvaite was officially published as new species.
We re-analyzed the samples we have and we can confirm they are Manganilvaite. Now we present them on our Web. A really long way to arrive to this point!
As we normally do in these cases we will send the buyer a copy of the analysis.

Manganilvaite with Quartz, Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Calcite
 

MR27I5: The specimen is more esthetic than usual for the species. It has a base of Quartz crystals with white rhombohedral crystals of Calcite and a coverage of Fluorapophyllite-(K) and black prismatic crystals of Manganilvaite, small but very well defined. We’ll send the analysis of the Manganilvaite to the buyer.
Fengjiashan Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2002)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 8.5 × 6.5 cm = 3.62” × 3.35” × 2.56”

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

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Manganilvaite with Quartz, Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Calcite. Front
Front
Manganilvaite with Quartz, Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Calcite. Side
Side
Manganilvaite with Quartz, Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Calcite.
Manganilvaite on Fluorapophyllite-(K)
Manganilvaite on Fluorapophyllite-(K).
Manganilvaite on Fluorapophyllite-(K).
 

AD96H6: Spheroidal groups, very rich of small, black, very bright crystals in oriented growth on a matrix of very sharp, tabular crystals of Fluorapophyllite-(K).
Fengjiashan Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province  China (2002)

Specimen size: 10 × 6.2 × 4.5 cm = 3.94” × 2.44” × 1.77”


HUNAN PROVINCE


Fluorite
 

EM73AK7: Group, on matrix, of very sharp cubic crystals of Fluorite, extraordinarily transparent, lustrous, and very intense green. Although thousands of these have come out, so far I have not seen any that had the intense color and transparency of these.
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2018)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.4 × 5.4 cm = 3.07” × 2.52” × 2.13”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Side
Side
Fluorite.
Fluorite with inclusions and Calcite
Fluorite with inclusions and Calcite. Front
Front
Fluorite with inclusions and Calcite. Side
Side
 

TQ37Z3: Group of very transparent equant cubic Fluorite crystals with a clear and uniform green color, with inclusions on their phantom surfaces and on matrix, with small Calcite crystals.
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2012)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 4.7 × 3.9 cm = 3.43” × 1.85” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.8 cm = 0.75” × 0.71”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EG69AM6: Druse of very transparent and shiny cubic Fluorite crystals with a uniform and intense green color, with inclusions oriented in growth phantoms.
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2018)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 6.9 × 4.8 cm = 3.70” × 2.72” × 1.89”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite. Fluorite.
Fluorite
Fluorite.
 

MG46G8: An esthetic group of transparent cubic crystals, very bright and with a beautiful and vivid green color. The piece will enhance any collection due to its beauty.
Xianghuapu Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 11 × 8.6 × 5.5 cm = 4.33” × 3.39” × 2.17”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.18” × 1.02”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite
 

ME6C2: Nice contrast between the gemmy green Fluorite and the white Carbonates outside and inside the Fluorite.
Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2001)

Specimen size: 7 × 6 × 2.8 cm = 2.76” × 2.36” × 1.10”

Fluorite.
Fluorite with Calcite and Dolomite
Fluorite with Calcite and Dolomite. Front
Front
Fluorite with Calcite and Dolomite. Side
Side
 

TR89Z0: A single Fluorite crystal consisting of smooth cube faces and the dodecahedron with strongly polycrystalline surfaces. The crystal, transparent, bright and with a very uniform, intense and deep color, is implanted on a matrix of scalenohedral Calcite crystals, with small white Dolomite crystals.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2011)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.5 × 4.5 cm = 1.54” × 1.38” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 3.5 cm = 1.54” × 1.38”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Dolomite and Quartz
 

MT86AH0: Very aerial Fluorite crystal with smooth cube faces and polycrystalline dodecahedron faces, both very well balanced. The single crystal on matrix, with Dolomite, is translucent and has an intense violet color.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2016)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.8 × 4.2 cm = 1.73” × 1.10” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2 cm = 0.91” × 0.79”

Fluorite with Dolomite and Quartz. Fluorite with Dolomite and Quartz.
Calcite
Calcite.
 

T46EA0: Calcite twin, the tips are perfect both at the front and the back. It is well positioned on the matrix.
Leiping Mine, Leiping, Guiyang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (1997)

Specimen size: 3 × 3.5 cm = 1.18” × 1.38”

Fluorite with Quartz and Calcite
 

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 Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5 × 3.8 cm = 2.56” × 1.97” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.6 cm = 1.06” × 1.02”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Quartz and Calcite. Fluorite with Quartz and Calcite.
Calcite with inclusions
Calcite with inclusions. Front
Front
Calcite with inclusions. Rear
Rear
 

MC36E2: A really very unusual spray of crystals of Calcite that have good brilliance and are partially colored by red oxides. The specimen is a floater with a re-crystallized base. Not just esthetic, it is also different from the others we have seen.
Leiping Mine, Leiping, Guiyang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2000)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.5 × 2.5 cm = 2.17” × 1.77” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1 cm = 0.98” × 0.39”

Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz
 

MC50AJ4: Cubo-octahedral Fluorite crystal with smooth cube faces and the octahedron has polycrystalline growths. It is transparent, very bright and has a very intense lilac color, darker on cubic faces. The crystal, implanted on a Quartz matrix, is coated by white scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 9.4 × 8.1 × 4.6 cm = 3.70” × 3.19” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.9 cm = 1.18” × 1.14”

Calcite fluorescent short UV
Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz. Fluorite with Calcite and Quartz.
Fluorite with Calcite, Quartz and Pyrite
Fluorite with Calcite, Quartz and Pyrite. Fluorite with Calcite, Quartz and Pyrite.
 

ER99AK7: Cube-octahedral Fluorite crystals with their cube faces being smooth and the octahedron faces showing marked polycrystalline growths. Transparent, very lustrous, with bright lilac color, denser in the cubic faces. The crystal is implanted on a Quartz matrix coated with white scalenohedral Calcite crystals and with small Pyrite crystals.
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2016)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 8.1 × 4.1 cm = 4.09” × 3.19” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.6 cm = 1.26” × 1.02”

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite
 

DX86E4: Such intense color, it is so transparent, and has such a regular form as you can see in the photo. Yes, one that is as good is it appears to be!
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2004)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.7 × 4.5 cm = 2.36” × 1.85” × 1.77”

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

Fluorite.
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
 

TR13AF0: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Fluorite crystals that are composed of very well balanced cube and the octahedron faces. Transparent and very bright, they have a very deep uniform blue color and are on matrix with white scalenohedral Calcite crystals.
Shizhuyuan Mine, Dongpo, Yizhang District, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2016)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.6 × 3.1 cm = 2.24” × 1.42” × 1.22”

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

Calcite fluorescent short UV
Quartz with Dolomite
 

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

Specimen size: 22 × 12.5 × 10.8 cm = 8.66” × 4.92” × 4.25”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2.2 cm = 2.76” × 0.87”

Quartz with Dolomite. Quartz with Dolomite.
Stibnite
Stibnite. Front
Front
Stibnite. Side
Side
 

MA13AM9: Isolated crystal of Stibnite with its faces and edges defined by strong mechanical distorsion produced during its formation, lustrous, and finely striated along the prism.
We will send the specimen, which comes from the Robert J. Noble collection, in its original Perky box from that collection, which also contains the label.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 3.2 × 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 1.26” × 0.20” × 0.16”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Calcite with Stibnite
 

EH6P5: A thin crystal of Stibnite with a good termination, on a transparent discoidal twinned crystal of Calcite, all on a small matrix.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.1 × 1.4 cm = 1.93” × 1.22” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.6 cm = 1.10” × 1.02”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Calcite with Stibnite. Front
Front
Calcite with Stibnite. Rear
Rear
Calcite with Stibnite
Calcite with Stibnite. Front
Front
Calcite with Stibnite. Rear
Rear
 

EA96T6: Transparent lenticular crystal with a yellow color and a very neat phantom growth corresponding to a first very flattened rhombohedron. It is on matrix, with small acicular crystals of Stibnite on the contact zone between the cristal and the matrix.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.1 × 3.9 cm = 2.44” × 1.22” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 2.8 cm = 1.26” × 1.10”

Calcite with Stibnite
 

EB27P8: Lenticular crystal formed by an extremely flattened rhombohedron and a thin prism. It has very well defined faces and edges, is bright and translucent, of yellow color, and is on matrix. It has, as an inclusion, a Stibnite crystal at the bottom of the Calcite crystal.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.3 × 3.9 cm = 2.56” × 2.09” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 5.3 cm = 2.13” × 2.09”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Calcite with Stibnite.
Stibnite with Calcite
Stibnite with Calcite. Stibnite with Calcite.
 

TK47Q6: Stibnite crystals partially included in groups of scalenohedral Calcite crystals that are very transparent, much of them doubly terminated and, as a curiosity, some of them forming a “butterfly” twin.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (10/2009)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 6.7 × 4.6 cm = 2.72” × 2.64” × 1.81”

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

Calcite minor fluorescence short UV
Baryte with Stibnite
 

ER69P6: Divergent growth of very well defined and bright crystals of Stibnite implanted on a complete floater crystal of Baryte, tabular, translucent and very bright. Unusual.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.2 × 3.2 cm = 3.03” × 2.44” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 7 × 5.2 cm = 2.76” × 2.05”

Baryte with Stibnite. Front
Front
Baryte with Stibnite. Top
Top
Stibnite with Sulfur
Stibnite with Sulfur. Front
Front
Stibnite with Sulfur. Rear
Rear
Stibnite with Sulfur.
 

EX6F4: It is not a Stibiconite, as these are often labeled. We have analyzed it and we can confirm that it is a Stibnite that is covered with native Sulfur. The crystal is quite large, with perfectly defined edges and faces and it is almost completely covered by the sulfur, which makes it a neat yellow color.
As we normally do in these cases we will send a copy of the analysis.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (1999)

Specimen size: 27.7 × 3.7 × 1.7 cm = 10.91” × 1.46” × 0.67”

Sulfur fluorescent long & short UV
Valentinite with Quartz
 

MB37AG7: Radial aggregates of acicular Valentinite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, very bright, whose color is between yellow and orange, both intense and uniform. On a limonite matrix.
Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2016)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 5.9 × 3.4 cm = 3.74” × 2.32” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.35” × 0.31”

Valentinite with Quartz. Valentinite with Quartz.
Cinnabar with Dolomite
Cinnabar with Dolomite. Cinnabar with Dolomite.
 

TG14AJ1: Elongated Cinnabar crystals with excellent rhombohedral terminal faces cut by the pinacoid. The crystals, on a matrix of rhombohedral Dolomite, are transparent, extraordinarily bright and have a very intense color.
We will send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Chatian Mine, Chatian District, Fenghuang, Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 2.7 × 1.8 × 1 cm = 1.06” × 0.71” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”

Former collection of Bob Noble
Cinnabar on Dolomite
 

TB56H3: Subtle sample. On a matrix of Calcite crystals perch two perfect crystals of Cinnabar. They have sharp faces and edges, transparent and bright, and the color is incredible. A little jewel.
Chatian Mine, Chatian District, Fenghuang, Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2003-2006)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 1.6 × 2 cm = 1.50” × 0.63” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.31” × 0.24”

Cinnabar on Dolomite.
Cinnabar with Dolomite
Cinnabar with Dolomite. Cinnabar with Dolomite.
 

MP88S7: Translucent rhombohedral crystals, very bright with an intense red color. They have very well defined faces and edges, with growth curvatures on some of their forms, and are on a matrix of rhombohedral crystals of white Dolomite. As usual with this kind of Chinese material, the matrix has a saw cut on the back side.
Chatian Mine, Chatian District, Fenghuang, Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2004)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.7 × 2.2 cm = 2.40” × 2.24” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 0.47” × 0.31”

Cinnabar on Dolomite
 

TB70H7: Crystal of Cinnabar of thick tabular habit and hexagonal shape. Both the faces and the edges are very sharp and bright and the crystals strongly contrast with the matrix of yellowish Dolomite. As usually happens with Chinese Cinnabars, the matrix has been sawn on the back, but not affecting, in this case, the esthetics of the specimen.
Chatian Mine, Chatian District, Fenghuang, Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2003-2006)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 6.8 × 4.5 cm = 2.44” × 2.68” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.51”

Dolomite fluorescent long & short UV
Cinnabar on Dolomite. Cinnabar on Dolomite.
Cinnabar on Dolomite
Cinnabar on Dolomite. Cinnabar on Dolomite.
 

EV37K0: Sharp prismatic crystal of hexagonal shape and parallel growths. It has bright and very well defined faces and edges and strongly contrasts with the Dolomite matrix. As usual with this kind of Chinese samples, the matrix is more or less sawn, but in this case it doesn’t affect the esthetics of the specimen.
Chatian Mine, Chatian District, Fenghuang, Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.5 × 5 cm = 2.91” × 1.77” × 1.97”

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

Dolomite Intense fluorescence long & short UV

Yaogangxian Mine

Fluorite with Quartz
 

EK16I1: A beautiful miniature, of excellent esthetics due to the matrix of Quartz crystals and the luster and shape of the Fluorite crystal, but it is also mineralogically interesting for the extreme definition of the color zones in the cube, with a strong concentration of deep violet near the edges and the clear blue on corners and at the center which permit seeing the white inclusions in the crystal.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm = 1.38” × 0.98” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.51”

Zoned fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Muscovite
Fluorite with Muscovite.
 

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

Specimen size: 5 × 3.4 × 3.4 cm = 1.97” × 1.34” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 2.2 cm = 1.14” × 0.87”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Quartz, Arsenopyrite and Muscovite
 

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

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5 × 5.1 cm = 2.24” × 1.97” × 2.01”

Main crystal size: 5.1 × 4.6 cm = 2.01” × 1.81”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Quartz, Arsenopyrite and Muscovite. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz, Arsenopyrite and Muscovite. Side
Side
Fluorite with Quartz, Arsenopyrite and Muscovite. Side
Side
Fluorite with inclusions
Fluorite with inclusions. Front
Front
Fluorite with inclusions. Side
Side
Fluorite with inclusions.
 

TH48K9: Group of cubic crystals with well defined faces and very sharp edges, good brilliance and transparency. It is very aesthetic by the irregular distribution of the color and the presence of several inclusions.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2007)

Specimen size: 11.3 × 6.9 × 5 cm = 4.45” × 2.72” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 5 × 4.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.85”

Bournonite
 

BK96C5: Fabulous luster in what if often a dull species. China has provided us an esthetic specimen of something that often is not so nice. Tabular cluster of crystals well terminated, with flat pinacoidal faces.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (07/02)

Specimen size: 2.9 × 2 × 2 cm = 1.14” × 0.79” × 0.79”

Bournonite.
Doubly terminated Bournonite
Doubly terminated Bournonite. Front
Front
Doubly terminated Bournonite. Side
Side
 

EQ66K1: Group of prismatic crystals. with an excellent luster and the special feature that practically all them are doubly terminated.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2004)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3 × 1.6 cm = 1.38” × 1.18” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 1.2 cm = 1.38” × 0.47”

Fluorapatite with Quartz
 

MB47L1: Short prismatic crystals, doubly terminated, with color zonations. On a matrix of doubly terminated Quartz crystals. All of the Fluorapatite specimens from Yaogangxian we have seen so far usually were smaller and poorer in quality than this.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4 × 3 cm = 1.93” × 1.57” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.4 cm = 0.98” × 0.55”

Intense zoned fluorescence long & short UV
Fluorapatite with Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorapatite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Fluorapatite with Quartz. Top
Top
Sphalerite with Quartz
Sphalerite with Quartz. Front
Front
Sphalerite with Quartz. Top
Top
 

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 Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2007)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3 × 2.9 cm = 1.34” × 1.18” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.9 × 3 cm = 1.14” × 1.18”

Tetrahedrite pseudo Bournonite
 

BB9C6: Analysis some times gives agreeable surprises, as in this case: a really sharp Tetrahedrite pseudomorphosed by Bournonite. Pretty uncommon! Plus this specimen is very well placed on its Fluorite matrix. As usual in unusual things we will provide the analysis to the buyer of the specimen.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China

Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.2 × 1.2 cm = 1.02” × 0.87” × 0.47”

Tetrahedrite pseudo  Bournonite.
Chalcopyrite
Chalcopyrite.
 

EC64I2: The specimen is a miniature but the main crystal is of a considerable size. It has an extraordinary sharpness of its faces and edges. Also extraordinary are its luster and the presence, on the back, of growths looking like sawteeth.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.2 × 1.8 cm = 1.26” × 0.87” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.4 cm = 0.87” × 0.55”

Arsenopyrite with Quartz
 

ET50P4: Groups of crystals with very well marked curvatures that confer on them a curious mushroom shape. The Arsenopyrite is on matrix of very neat crystals of Quartz.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2005)

Specimen size: 12 × 8.8 × 7.3 cm = 4.72” × 3.46” × 2.87”

Arsenopyrite with Quartz.
Arsenopyrite with Quartz. Arsenopyrite with Quartz.
Scheelite with Quartz
Scheelite with Quartz. Front
Front
Scheelite with Quartz. Side
Side
 

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

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.77” × 1.30” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.6 cm = 1.06” × 1.02”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Scheelite with Quartz and Dolomite
 

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

Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.3 × 4.9 cm = 2.40” × 2.09” × 1.93”

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Scheelite with Quartz and Dolomite. Front
Front
Scheelite with Quartz and Dolomite. Side
Side
Scheelite with Quartz, Muscovite and Arsenopyrite
Scheelite with Quartz, Muscovite and Arsenopyrite. Front
Front
Scheelite with Quartz, Muscovite and Arsenopyrite. Rear
Rear
 

EA93I1: A complex group, very rich with dipyramidal crystals, bright and with very well-defined faces and edges on a matrix of Quartz crystals with Arsenopyrite and Muscovite. The specimen deserves to be in the most accredited collections due to its quality and the locality which it is from.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 7.7 × 6.2 cm = 4.25” × 3.03” × 2.44”

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

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Stannite on Quartz and Ferberite
 

TR26I1: The sample is magnificent both for its size and the quality and definition of the groups of Stannite crystals on Quartz with Ferberite. The specimen had been analyzed to confirm it is really Stannite and not Sphalerite, because on Chinese samples such confusion is possible.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 526
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (±2000)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 9.2 × 6.7 cm = 4.41” × 3.62” × 2.64”

Stannite on Quartz and Ferberite. Stannite on Quartz and Ferberite.

Sphalerite

In the Kanjianwan mine they found these excellent Sphalerites. They have very well defined crystal forms and are red (a little darker than the ones from Aliva, Spain). They are accompanied by Quartz and Galena so the overall effect is esthetic and competitive.

Sphalerite with Quartz and Galena
Sphalerite with Quartz and Galena.
 

DC96H1: The crystal has excellent color and transparency and clearly shows the formation of the Spinel twin, which is defined by the numerous entrant angles. Its centered position on the matrix of Quartz crystals, with darker zones of Galena, is especially esthetic.
Kangjianwan Mine, Shuikoushan ore field, Changning, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2004)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.2 × 3 cm = 2.95” × 2.05” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.6 cm = 1.18” × 1.02”

Sphalerite with Quartz
 

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.
Kangjianwan Mine, Shuikoushan ore field, Changning, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 5.5 × 3.1 cm = 3.86” × 2.17” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2.1 cm = 0.91” × 0.83”

Fluorescence on the matrix (short and long UV)
Sphalerite with Quartz. Sphalerite with Quartz.
Sphalerite with Baryte and Quartz
Sphalerite with Baryte and Quartz. Sphalerite with Baryte and Quartz.
 

TR96M9: Group of complex crystals of Sphalerite. They are complex, twinned, translucent and have and attractive dark honey color. The matrix is a group of laminar crystals of transparent Baryte covered by small white Quartz crystals. A very esthetic piece.
Kangjianwan Mine, Shuikoushan ore field, Changning, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2007)

Specimen size: 12 × 9.2 × 5 cm = 4.72” × 3.62” × 1.97”

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

Sphalerite with Galena and Quartz
 

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.
Kangjianwan Mine, Shuikoushan ore field, Changning, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2010)

Specimen size: 7.6 × 5.6 × 4.7 cm = 2.99” × 2.20” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.51”

Sphalerite with Galena and Quartz. Sphalerite with Galena and Quartz.
Galena with Sphalerite and Quartz
Galena with Sphalerite and Quartz. Galena with Sphalerite and Quartz.
 

ED87R3: Cuboctahedral crystals of Galena, very aerial, twinned, with very well defined faces and edges and on a matrix with Sphalerite crystals that are bright, transparent and of an intense red color and partially coated by microcrystals of Quartz.
Kangjianwan Mine, Shuikoushan ore field, Changning, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2010)

Specimen size: 8 × 5.2 × 4.1 cm = 3.15” × 2.05” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.4 cm = 0.94” × 0.55”

Sphalerite with Quartz and Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

ET66AM3: Complex Sphalerite crystals, very rich in faces, transparent, and of excellent color and luster. On a microcrystalline Quartz matrix, with rhombohedral Calcite crystals. Of the best possible quality for the deposit.
Kangjianwan Mine, Shuikoushan ore field, Changning, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province  China (2019)

Specimen size: 12.1 × 8.7 × 3.8 cm = 4.76” × 3.43” × 1.50”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.71”

Sphalerite with Quartz and Calcite. Front
Front
Sphalerite with Quartz and Calcite. Side
Side
Sphalerite with Quartz and Calcite.

Hübnerite

Ferberite is often found at the Yao-gan-xian mine, so the surprise for us was to find that some of the Wolframites, as Chinese geologists had told us, are not of iron (Ferberite) but of manganese (Hübnerite). They are also very pure (almost all manganese and very little iron).
As we often do with novelties, we will send the client that buys one a copy of our analysis.

Hübnerite
Hübnerite. Front
Front
Hübnerite. Rear
Rear
 

HE96F3: Doubly terminated crystals, very flat, with well-defined faces and edges, and marked striations along the prism. There are light, but noticeable, hints of red reflections that show its true composition to be Hübnerite.
Level 37, Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (2004)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4 × 0.8 cm = 2.64” × 1.57” × 0.31”

Main crystal size: 6.7 × 2.3 cm = 2.64” × 0.91”

Doubly terminated Hübnerite with Quartz
 

HB48F3: A powerful group of numerous crystals, most of which are doubly terminated. The striations let one see how each member of the group grew. One can see red reflections from the edges of the crystals.
Level 37, Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan  China (2004)

Specimen size: 10.5 × 4.3 × 3 cm = 4.13” × 1.69” × 1.18”

Doubly terminated Hübnerite with Quartz. Front
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Doubly terminated Hübnerite with Quartz. Rear
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INNER MONGOLIA AUTONOMOUS REGION


Huanggang Mines

Ilvaite with Quartz and Calcite
Ilvaite with Quartz and Calcite. Front
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Ilvaite with Quartz and Calcite. Rear
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Ilvaite with Quartz and Calcite. Top
Top
 

MZ68R5: A novelty in Munich 2010. Parallel growth of bright Ilvaite crystals with slightly curved lateral edges. They have perfect terminations and are with Quartz and Calcite crystals.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Börsenreport - Mineralientage München 2010’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 12 of number 1/2011 and also in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 254 in number 2011/4
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (10/2010)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.2 × 3.2 cm = 2.01” × 1.26” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 5.1 × 2.7 cm = 2.01” × 1.06”

Ilvaite with Quartz
 

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

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.1 × 1.9 cm = 2.24” × 1.22” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.65” × 0.51”

Ilvaite with Quartz. Front
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Ilvaite with Quartz. Rear
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Ilvaite with Calcite
Ilvaite with Calcite. Front
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Ilvaite with Calcite. Rear
Rear
Ilvaite with Calcite. Top
Top
 

MT54R5: A novelty in Munich 2010. Irregular aggregate very rich with prismatic crystals with very well defined faces and edges. The crystals are very bright; they have perfect terminations and are partially coated by Calcite. A great and uncommon sample.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Börsenreport - Mineralientage München 2010’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 12 of number 1/2011 and also in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 255 in number 2011/4
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (10/2010)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 5 × 3.5 cm = 2.28” × 1.97” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.85” × 0.67”

Ilvaite with Quartz and Calcite
 

MY94W2: Divergent aggregate of very well defined crystals with good terminations. They have marked curvatures of the prism edges, are bright and are with small Quartz growths. The sample is very representative of the first finds in Huanggang in 2010, in which some of the samples had an intense luster.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (10/2010)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.1 × 3.1 cm = 2.80” × 2.40” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 6 × 1.9 cm = 2.36” × 0.75”

Ilvaite with Quartz and Calcite. Front
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Ilvaite with Quartz and Calcite. Top
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Arsenopyrite with Ilvaite
Arsenopyrite with Ilvaite. Front
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Arsenopyrite with Ilvaite. Rear
Rear
 

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

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.6 × 3.4 cm = 2.17” × 1.81” × 1.34”

Löllingite with Fluorite and Arsenopyrite
 

TD87Y4: Löllingite crystals with polycrystalline growths, extraordinarily defined and with good size for the species. They are on a Magnetite matrix, with small Arsenopyrite crystals and an octahedral, clear and colorless Fluorite crystal.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 6.5 × 6.2 cm = 2.95” × 2.56” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 5.8 × 5.7 cm = 2.28” × 2.24”

Löllingite with Fluorite and Arsenopyrite. Löllingite with Fluorite and Arsenopyrite.
Löllingite with Molybdenite, Scheelite, Fluorite and Magnetite
Löllingite with Molybdenite, Scheelite, Fluorite and Magnetite. Front
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Löllingite with Molybdenite, Scheelite, Fluorite and Magnetite. Side
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Löllingite with Molybdenite, Scheelite, Fluorite and Magnetite. Löllingite with Molybdenite, Scheelite, Fluorite and Magnetite.
 

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.
This specimen has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Lapis’ on page 26, volume 38, number 10, October 2013
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 7.1 × 8.7 cm = 3.46” × 2.80” × 3.43”

Main crystal size: 6.2 × 4.6 cm = 2.44” × 1.81”

Scheelite very fluorescent long & short UV
Löllingite with Molybdenite, Scheelite and Magnetite
 

EF99Y4: Löllingite crystals with polycrystalline growths, extraordinarily defined and of good size for the species. They are almost completely coated by bluish Molybdenite and are on a Magnetite matrix with dipyramidal Scheelite crystals. The Löllingite and Scheelite have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of these analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 7.7 × 6.1 cm = 4.06” × 3.03” × 2.40”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4.8 cm = 1.77” × 1.89”

Scheelite very fluorescent long & short UV
Löllingite with Molybdenite, Scheelite and Magnetite. Front
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Löllingite with Molybdenite, Scheelite and Magnetite. Side
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Löllingite with Molybdenite, Scheelite and Magnetite. Side
Side
Löllingite with Molybdenite, Calcite, Arsenopyrite, Fluorite and Quartz
Löllingite with Molybdenite, Calcite, Arsenopyrite, Fluorite and Quartz. Front
Front
Löllingite with Molybdenite, Calcite, Arsenopyrite, Fluorite and Quartz. Side
Side
Löllingite with Molybdenite, Calcite, Arsenopyrite, Fluorite and Quartz.
 

ET16Z0: Extraordinarily well defined, for this species, lenticular Löllingite crystals with a polycrystalline growth and partially coated by bluish Molybdenite, with small Fluorite crystals and very sharp Arsenopyrite crystals. They are on a matrix of large rhombohedral Calcite crystals.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 14 × 12.5 × 8.5 cm = 5.51” × 4.92” × 3.35”

Octahedral Fluorite with Arsenopyrite
 

TL27S0: A novelty at Tucson 2011. Sharp octahedral crystal of Fluorite, with very well defined faces and edges, and with color zoning. The matrix is a parallel growth of Arsenopyrite crystals. The association is a novelty for this locality, quite famous for Ilvaites.
This specimen was photographed and published in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 102, page 21 and also in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 258 in number 2011/4
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2010)

Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.6 × 2.7 cm = 1.50” × 1.42” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.87”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Octahedral Fluorite with Arsenopyrite.
Fluorite with Calcite
Fluorite with Calcite. Fluorite with Calcite.
 

TQ27Z5: Aggregate of very Sharp crystals formed by the octahedron, cube and dodecahedron. They are absolutely colorless, completely transparent and extraordinarily bright and are on a small Calcite matrix. Very esthetic.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.1 × 2.5 cm = 2.24” × 1.22” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.4 cm = 0.71” × 0.55”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Octahedral Fluorite with Calcite
 

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

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.9 × 3.1 cm = 2.44” × 1.93” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2.4 cm = 0.98” × 0.94”

Fluorite & Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Octahedral Fluorite with Calcite. Front
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Octahedral Fluorite with Calcite. Top
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Fluorite and Calcite-Dolomite on Quartz
Fluorite and Calcite-Dolomite on Quartz. Fluorite and Calcite-Dolomite on Quartz.
Fluorite and Calcite-Dolomite on Quartz.
 

EV86AA5: A Quartz crystal with parallel polycrystalline growths, partially coated by calcite-dolomite, black Magnetite microcrystals and bluish, transparent Fluorite crystals with the forms of the octahedron, cube and dodecahedron developed about equally. Some of the crystals have no prism faces and such crystals have sometimes been erroneously described as β-Quartz.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 7.8 × 2.6 × 2.9 cm = 3.07” × 1.02” × 1.14”

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

Octahedral Fluorite with Magnetite
 

EF90Z0: Very sharp, transparent and colorless octahedral Fluorite crystals on a matrix of dodecahedral Magnetite crystals.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 9.2 × 6 cm = 3.66” × 3.62” × 2.36”

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

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Octahedral Fluorite with Magnetite. Octahedral Fluorite with Magnetite.
Octahedral Fluorite with Magnetite.
Löllingite with Arsenopyrite and Fluorite
Löllingite with Arsenopyrite and Fluorite. Löllingite with Arsenopyrite and Fluorite.
 

TA98AC1: Aggregates of colorless and transparent Fluorite crystals formed by dominant cube and dodecahedron faces, and the octahedron. The Fluorite is on a matrix of large lenticular Löllingite crystals with small, very sharp, Arsenopyrite crystals. A sample worthy of any great museum.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 15 × 13.5 × 7.3 cm = 5.91” × 5.31” × 2.87”

Main crystal size: 6.5 × 4.5 cm = 2.56” × 1.77”

Fluorite with Quartz
 

EX38AA5: A novelty from Ste. Marie 2014. Fluorite crystals in vivid shades that vary between indigo and navy blue on a Quartz matrix. The crystals are cubic with well developed dodecahedron bevels, both forms having curved faces and edges: a very uncommon habit for Fluorite, completely different from other, previous finds in Huanggang. This is a kind of dream for lovers of unusual crystallography.
Huanggang Mines, shaft 4, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (05/2014)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.7 × 3.9 cm = 2.52” × 1.85” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.9 cm = 0.87” × 0.75”

Fluorite with Quartz. Front
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Fluorite with Quartz. Side
Side
Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Fluorite with Quartz.
 

TV99Z9: A novelty from Ste. Marie 2014. Vivid deep blue Fluorite crystals, with shades that vary between indigo and navy blue on a matrix of white crystallized Quartz. The smaller Fluorite crystals are neatly cubic, with small dodecahedron bevels and with very well defined curvatures on faces and edges, while the largest ones are unusually strongly rounded, a very uncommon shape for Fluorite. This shape is due to the balanced forms of the cube, polycrystalline and deeply edged, and the smooth dodecahedral faces, both dodecahedron and cube have curved faces and edges. Completely different from other, previous finds in Huanggang, it is a kind of dream for lovers of unusual crystallography.
Huanggang Mines, shaft 4, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (05/2014)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 6.1 × 3.8 cm = 3.46” × 2.40” × 1.50”

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

Fluorite with Quartz
 

TY50Z9: A novelty from Ste. Marie 2014. Vivid deep blue Fluorite crystals, with shades that vary between indigo and navy blue on a matrix of white crystallized Quartz. The smaller Fluorite crystals are neatly cubic, with small dodecahedron bevels and with very well defined curvatures on faces and edges, while the largest ones are unusually strongly rounded, a very uncommon shape for Fluorite. This shape is due to the balanced forms of the cube, polycrystalline and deeply edged, and the smooth dodecahedral faces, both dodecahedron and cube have curved faces and edges. Completely different from other, previous finds in Huanggang, it is a kind of dream for lovers of unusual crystallography.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2014 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 118, page 47
Huanggang Mines, shaft 4, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (05/2014)

Specimen size: 10 × 6.2 × 5.1 cm = 3.94” × 2.44” × 2.01”

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

Fluorite with Quartz. Front
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Fluorite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Front
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Fluorite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Fluorite with Quartz.
 

TM30AA1: A novelty from Ste. Marie 2014. Vivid deep blue Fluorite crystals, with shades that vary between indigo and navy blue on a matrix of white Quartz crystals. The crystals are neatly cubic, with well developed dodecahedron bevels and with very prominent curvatures on faces and edges, a very uncommon shape for Fluorite due to the balanced forms of the cube, polycrystalline and deeply edged, and the smooth dodecahedral faces, both forms having curved faces and edges. Completely different from other, previous finds in Huanggang, it is a kind of dream for lovers of unusual crystallography.
Huanggang Mines, shaft 4, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (05/2014)

Specimen size: 10.8 × 6.5 × 7.2 cm = 4.25” × 2.56” × 2.83”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 1.7 cm = 0.91” × 0.67”

Fluorite with Quartz
 

TX50Z9: A novelty from Ste. Marie 2014. Vivid deep blue Fluorite crystals, with shades that vary between indigo and navy blue on a matrix of white crystallized Quartz. The smaller Fluorite crystals are neatly cubic, with small dodecahedron bevels and with very well defined curvatures on faces and edges, while the largest ones are unusually strongly rounded, a very uncommon shape for Fluorite. This shape is due to the balanced forms of the cube, polycrystalline and deeply edged, and the smooth dodecahedral faces, both dodecahedron and cube have curved faces and edges. Completely different from other, previous finds in Huanggang, it is a kind of dream for lovers of unusual crystallography.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines 2014’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 20 of number 5/2014
Huanggang Mines, shaft 4, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (05/2014)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 7.4 × 6.3 cm = 4.65” × 2.91” × 2.48”

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

Fluorite with Quartz. Front
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Fluorite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
 

MY67AA7: Isolated cubic Fluorite crystals, transparent and showing a very well defined color zoning that concentrates the more intense violet shades on the edges with a whitish, almost circular, area in the center of the faces. They are on a matrix of white Quartz crystals. A very unusual Fluorite for Huanggang.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China II', by Berthold Ottens, on page 197
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 9.4 × 8 × 3.3 cm = 3.70” × 3.15” × 1.30”

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

Fluorite (octahedral) with inclusions and Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MR96AK7: New in Denver 2019: Outstanding group of octahedral Fluorite crystals, with well defined shapes, translucent, intense and uniform pink color, with inclusions of Calcite, and whose matrix is a crystal of the same Fluorite but of cubic habit and whitish color.
Huanggang Mines, shaft 6, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2019)

Specimen size: 9 × 4.7 × 4.9 cm = 3.54” × 1.85” × 1.93”

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

White Fluorite fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite (octahedral) with inclusions and Calcite. Front
Front
Fluorite (octahedral) with inclusions and Calcite. Side
Side
Fluorite (octahedral) with inclusions and Calcite. Side
Side
Octahedral Fluorite with Quartz and Chlorite
Octahedral Fluorite with Quartz and Chlorite. Octahedral Fluorite with Quartz and Chlorite.
 

ER50AE4: Single Fluorite crystal implanted on a Quartz crystal. The Fluorite has a neat octahedral shape but clearly shows two different growth phases, a crystal within a crystal!. The first one has slightly curved faces and edges and rough surfaces. The second phase has very sharp forms with perfectly defined faces and edges. It is translucent and has a very deep and uniform green color.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2016)

Specimen size: 14.2 × 2.8 × 3.2 cm = 5.59” × 1.10” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 0.94” × 0.87”

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Andradite
 

TK47AE3: A very large Andradite crystal with smaller satellite crystals at its base, showing very well defined faces of the dodecahedron and the trapezoedron. They are bright, with a dark brown color with yellowish areas.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 6 × 4.9 cm = 2.40” × 2.36” × 1.93”

Andradite. Front
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Andradite. Side
Side
Calcite with Siderite
Calcite with Siderite. Calcite with Siderite.
 

TM27AA2: Double spherical Calcite growth, with a yellowish-white color, implanted on an aggregate of prismatic crystals with rhombohedral terminations, also Calcite, but coated by a thin film of small Siderite crystals with a bright bronze color. The three components of the sample: spherical Calcite, crystalline Calcite and Siderite have been analyzed and we will send a copy of those analyses to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.3 × 4.5 cm = 2.01” × 1.69” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.8 cm = 0.75” × 0.71”

Calcite
 

TP92AC9: Spheroidal aggregates of Calcite crystals, with defined faces and edges and with an unusually intense pink color. Very different from other Calcite samples from this mine.

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

Specimen size: 14.7 × 9.4 × 7.8 cm = 5.79” × 3.70” × 3.07”

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Calcite. Calcite.
Calcite. Calcite.
Helvine with Andradite
Helvine with Andradite.
 

MB47V2: Very aerial sharp tetrahedral crystal of Helvine 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 Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2011)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.4 × 1.9 cm = 0.98” × 0.94” × 0.75”

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

Helvine-Genthelvite with Quartz and Calcite
 

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), Chifeng (Ulanhad), 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”

Helvine-Genthelvite with Quartz and Calcite. Front
Front
Helvine-Genthelvite with Quartz and Calcite. Light behind
Light behind
Helvine-Genthelvite with Quartz and Calcite. Rear
Rear
Helvine-Genthelvite with Quartz
Helvine-Genthelvite with Quartz. Front
Front
Helvine-Genthelvite with Quartz. Light behind
Light behind
Helvine-Genthelvite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
 

TM98Z7: 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), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.6 × 2.2 cm = 1.18” × 1.02” × 0.87”

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

Helvine-Danalite with Quartz and Chlorite
 

EA40Z2: Group of very sharp tetrahedral Helvine-Danalite crystals with a dark brown color and reddish shades. The group is on matrix, with Calcite and Chlorite. The crystals have zonal growths, so we have done an external and an internal analysis, the external one showing Danalite and the internal Helvine. We’ll send a copy of both analysis to the buyer. We specially note that Danalite, the iron rich member of the series, is very uncommon, being very rare on the samples where it is present.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.4 × 2.5 cm = 1.34” × 0.94” × 0.98”

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

Helvine-Danalite with Quartz and Chlorite. Front
Front
Helvine-Danalite with Quartz and Chlorite. Rear
Rear
Helvine-Danalite with Quartz and Chlorite.
Helvine-Genthelvite on Calcite
Helvine-Genthelvite on Calcite.
Helvine-Genthelvite on Calcite. Helvine-Genthelvite on Calcite.
 

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

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.8 × 2.7 cm = 1.73” × 1.10” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.39”

Calcite fluorescent long & short UV
Helvine-Genthelvite with Calcite, Quartz and chlorite
 

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

Specimen size: 5.4× 4.1 × 3.8 cm = 2.13” × 1.61” × 1.50”

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

Helvine-Genthelvite with Calcite, Quartz and chlorite. Front
Front
Helvine-Genthelvite with Calcite, Quartz and chlorite. Side
Side
Helvine-Genthelvite, Quartz and Calcite
Helvine-Genthelvite, Quartz and Calcite. Helvine-Genthelvite, Quartz and Calcite.
 

EE51X9: Group of very sharp tetrahedral Helvine crystals with a superficial layer of Genthelvite. It is on matrix, with white Calcite rhombohedrons, dodecahedral Magnetite and parallel growths of Quartz. Very esthetic due to the contrast between the salmon Helvine-Genthelvite and the Calcite and Quartz matrix. We’ll send a copy of the Helvine-Genthelvite analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.2 × 3.7 cm = 2.95” × 2.05” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.51”

Helvine with Ilvaite, Quartz and Chlorite
 

TF72AD6: Rosette growth of very sharp tetrahedral Helvine crystals that have well defined faces and edges. With the Helvine there are large Ilvaite crystals with polycrystalline surfaces and also very elongated Quartz crystals with parallel growths perpendicular to their main axis. All them are on matrix and partially coated by chlorite, which is also included in the Quartz. The sample is of an exceptional quality, among the best found at Huanggang. We’ll send a copy of the Helvine analysis to the buyer of the sample.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 13 × 10.5 × 17 cm = 5.12” × 4.13” × 6.69”

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

Helvine with Ilvaite, Quartz and Chlorite. Front
Front
Helvine with Ilvaite, Quartz and Chlorite. Front 2
Front 2
Helvine with Ilvaite, Quartz and Chlorite. Side
Side
Helvine with Ilvaite, Quartz and Chlorite.
Genthelvite with Andradite
Genthelvite with Andradite. Front
Front
Genthelvite with Andradite. Side
Side
 

MV70T6: A novelty at Munich 2011. Group of sharp tetrahedral crystals of Genthelvite, one of them clearly dominant, with a dark brown color, translucent edges, in matrix, and related dodecahedral crystals of Andradite. Excellent quality for the species. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 259 in number 2011/4
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2011)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.7 × 2.3 cm = 1.61” × 1.46” × 0.91”

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

Genthelvite
 

TF92AA0: Parallel aggregates of very Sharp tetrahedral crystals with a clear salmon color and zonal growth. The analysis indicates that both the external zone and the interior are Genthelvite. We’ll send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.4 × 3.2 cm = 1.73” × 1.34” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.71” × 0.47”

Genthelvite. Front
Front
Genthelvite. Side
Side
Genthelvite with Magnetite and Arsenopyrite
Genthelvite with Magnetite and Arsenopyrite. Front
Front
Genthelvite with Magnetite and Arsenopyrite. Rear
Rear
Genthelvite with Magnetite and Arsenopyrite.
 

EG36Z0: Aggregates of very sharp tetrahedral Genthelvite crystals on matrix, with Magnetite and Arsenopyrite crystals. The Genthelvite crystals clearly show zonal growth, so we did two analyses (inner and external), both resulting in Genthelvite. We will send a copy of both analyses to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.7 × 6.3 cm = 2.52” × 1.85” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1.2 cm = 0.51” × 0.47”

Genthelvite with Magnetite and Quartz
 

MJ66Y3: Very aerial group of Genthelvite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, a warm cream color and on a matrix of dodecahedral Magnetite crystals with small Quartz crystals. An analysis of both the core and the surface indicates it is only Genthelvite, without Helvine. We’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 5.7 × 5 cm = 3.03” × 2.24” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 1 cm = 0.59” × 0.39”

Genthelvite with Magnetite and Quartz. Front
Front
Genthelvite with Magnetite and Quartz. Side
Side
Genthelvite with Magnetite and Quartz.
Genthelvite with Magnetite, Quartz, Fluorite, Arsenopyrite, Calcite-Dolomite
Genthelvite with Magnetite, Quartz, Fluorite, Arsenopyrite, Calcite-Dolomite. Front
Front
Genthelvite with Magnetite, Quartz, Fluorite, Arsenopyrite, Calcite-Dolomite. Side
Side
Genthelvite with Magnetite, Quartz, Fluorite, Arsenopyrite, Calcite-Dolomite. Genthelvite with Magnetite, Quartz, Fluorite, Arsenopyrite, Calcite-Dolomite.
 

EQ26AA8: Aggregate of very sharp tetrahedral Genthelvite crystals on a Magnetite matrix, with white rhombohedral Calcite-Dolomite crystals, Arsenopyrite, Quartz and Fluorite. As the close-up view photo shows, the Fluorite is especially clear. The analyses at different depths of the crystals reveal they are uniformly Genthelvite, without other species in zones. We will send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 9.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm = 3.86” × 2.56” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.3 cm = 1.02” × 0.91”

Helvine-Danalite with Calcite and Chlorite
 

ED99Z2: Group of very sharp tetrahedral Helvine-Danalite crystals with a dark brown color and reddish shades. The group is on matrix, with Calcite and Chlorite. The crystals have zonal growths, so, we have done an external an internal analysis, the external one showing Danalite and the internal Helvine. We’ll send a copy of both analysis to the buyer. We specially note that Danalite, the iron rich member of the series, is very uncommon, being very rare on the samples where it is present.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.3 × 1.9 cm = 1.46” × 1.30” × 0.75”

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

Calcite fluorescent short UV
Helvine-Danalite with Calcite and Chlorite. Helvine-Danalite with Calcite and Chlorite.
Quartz after Helvine with Fluorite and smoky Quartz
Quartz after Helvine with Fluorite and smoky Quartz. Front
Front
Quartz after Helvine with Fluorite and smoky Quartz. Rear
Rear
Quartz after Helvine with Fluorite and smoky Quartz.
 

TM31W1: Perimorphic growth of Quartz overlying a tetrahedral crystal, crystal which was probably Helvine, 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 Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2011)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.3 × 3 cm = 2.36” × 1.69” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.4 cm = 1.22” × 0.94”

Quartz with inclusions
 

TB76W1: A novelty at St. Marie 2012. Parallel growth of crystals with a dipyramidal habit, sometimes erroneously described as β-Quartz. They are translucent, have very well defined faces and edges and have some areas with inclusions.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 3.8 × 3.1 cm = 2.60” × 1.50” × 1.22”

Quartz with inclusions. Front
Front
Quartz with inclusions. Rear
Rear
Quartz with inclusions, Calcite-Dolomite and Magnetite
Quartz with inclusions, Calcite-Dolomite and Magnetite. Quartz with inclusions, Calcite-Dolomite and Magnetite.
 

ET66AA5: Parallel growths of dipyramidal Quartz crystals with sceptered terminatios. 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 small, white Calcite-Dolomite crystals and by Magnetite.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 2.4 × 1.8 cm = 2.95” × 0.94” × 0.71”

Quartz with inclusions Chlorite, Calcite-Dolomite and Magnetite
 

MG37AA7: Divergent Quartz crystals with dipyramidal-shaped sceptered terminations, and with Chlorite inclusions. They are on matrix, with Magnetite and Calcite-Dolomite. Some of the crystals have no prism faces and such crystals have sometimes been erroneously described as β-Quartz.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 5.4 × 4.4 cm = 2.80” × 2.13” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 1.9 cm = 1.22” × 0.75”

Quartz with inclusions Chlorite, Calcite-Dolomite and Magnetite. Front
Front
Quartz with inclusions Chlorite, Calcite-Dolomite and Magnetite. Rear
Rear
Quartz (variety prase)
Quartz (variety prase). Front
Front
Quartz (variety prase). Rear
Rear
 

MB66AE7: Pinecone-like aggregate of very well defined spear-point-shaped crystals that are dipyramidal, with no prism faces. They are bright with an intense green color due to inclusions, probably Actinolite and/or Hedenbergite. On the sample there are parallel thin laminar gaps, left by dissolved Calcite crystals.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2015)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.4 × 3.1 cm = 1.57” × 1.34” × 1.22”

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

Quartz (variety prase)
 

EN49AE4: Spear-shaped crystals on matrix. They are dipyramidal with absent prismatic faces, and are bright with an intense green color due to inclusions, probably Actinolite and/or Hedenbergite.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2016)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.6 × 4.2 cm = 2.91” × 2.20” × 1.65”

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

Quartz (variety prase). Quartz (variety prase).
Quartz (variety prase) with Calcite-Dolomite
Quartz (variety prase) with Calcite-Dolomite. Front
Front
Quartz (variety prase) with Calcite-Dolomite. Side
Side
 

EH37AA5: Quartz crystals with very well defined polycrystalline surfaces, with the typical spindled shape of a lot of the samples from this locality and with a rosette of thin-tabular Calcite-Dolomite crystals.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 8 × 4.4 × 3.9 cm = 3.15” × 1.73” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2.5 cm = 2.76” × 0.98”

Quartz (variety prase) with Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TPQ91AN5: Parallel aggregates of Quartz crystals (variety prase) with a very sharp dipyramidal habit and the absence of prism faces. They exhibit bright luster and an intense green color due to inclusions, probably Actinolite and/or Hedenbergite. In this specimen, the same Quartz coincides with a very different habit that could correspond to a first growth phase together with Calcite, which later disappeared, leaving the Quartz as parallel, flattened and almost lamellar polycrystalline forms following the spaces left by the Calcite.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2021)

Specimen size: 14 × 13.1 × 7 cm = 5.51” × 5.16” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 4 × 1.2 cm = 1.57” × 0.47”

Calcite fluorescent short UV
Quartz (variety prase) with Calcite. Front
Front
Quartz (variety prase) with Calcite. Top
Top
Quartz (variety prase) with Calcite.
Quartz (variety prase)
Quartz (variety prase). Quartz (variety prase).
Quartz (variety prase).

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

NMR97AO1: Very aesthetic group of Quartz crystals elongated by parallel growths, with good luster and an intense green color (prase variety), probably due to inclusions of Actinolite and/or Hedenbergite. Becomes clearer and more translucent, until reaching colorless, in the terminations.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2019)

Specimen size: 14.8 × 10.6 × 5.8 cm = 5.83” × 4.17” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 0.8 cm = 1.73” × 0.31”

Hematite
 

EB37AA8: Complete floater aggregate, almost spherical and rosette shaped (we could name it an “iron rose” if Alpine). The crystals of the aggregate are thin laminar and very bright.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 1.34” × 1.34” × 0.94”

Hematite. Front
Front
Hematite. Rear
Rear
Hedenbergite with Quartz
Hedenbergite with Quartz. Front
Front
Hedenbergite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
 

EA27T8: A novelty at Munich 2011. Elongated crystal of Hedenbergite with parallel growths, of slightly fibrous aspect, grayish green color and silky luster. It is crowned by a group of Quartz crystals.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2011 Munich Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 102, page 21 and also in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 260 in number 2011/4
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2011)

Specimen size: 10.7 × 4.6 × 5.1 cm = 4.21” × 1.81” × 2.01”

Hedenbergite with Quartz and Calcite
 

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

Specimen size: 11.3 × 4 × 3.3 cm = 4.45” × 1.57” × 1.30”

Hedenbergite with Quartz and Calcite. Front
Front
Hedenbergite with Quartz and Calcite. Rear
Rear
Hedenbergite with Quartz and Calcite
Hedenbergite with Quartz and Calcite. Front
Front
Hedenbergite with Quartz and Calcite. Rear
Rear
 

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

Specimen size: 12.5 × 6.2 × 4.5 cm = 4.92” × 2.44” × 1.77”

Scheelite on Magnetite
 

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), Chifeng (Ulanhad), 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”

Intense fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Scheelite on Magnetite. Scheelite on Magnetite.
Scheelite with Molybdenite inclusions and Quartz
Scheelite with Molybdenite inclusions and Quartz. Front
Front
Scheelite with Molybdenite inclusions and Quartz. Side
Side
 

TE90Z0: Dipyramidal Scheelite crystal with very well defined faces and edges and on a matrix of Quartz crystals. It is translucent, with a light bluish color, very bright and has notable Molybdenite inclusions that give it 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), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 5.4 × 4.4 cm = 2.20” × 2.13” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 5.6 × 4.2 cm = 2.20” × 1.65”

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Scheelite with Molybdenite inclusions
 

TC99AB5: Partially doubly terminated Scheelite crystal with polycrystalline growths on the base. It is translucent, bright, richer in faces than usual and with very well defined faces and edges and with Molybdenite inclusions, very visible on the lower part of the sample. The natural white color of the crystal has been recovered by eliminating an artificial greenish patina, an amorphous iron arsenate produced by a previous chemical attack on the former Calcite. The Scheelite, the Molybdenite and the eliminated patina has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the three analyses to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2013)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.6 × 4.2 cm = 2.28” × 1.81” × 1.65”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Scheelite with Molybdenite inclusions. Front
Front
Scheelite with Molybdenite inclusions. Side
Side
Phenakite with Fluorite and Orthoclase (adularia)
Phenakite with Fluorite and Orthoclase (adularia). Front
Front
Phenakite with Fluorite and Orthoclase (adularia). Side
Side
Phenakite with Fluorite and Orthoclase (adularia).
 

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

Specimen size: 8.5 × 6.7 × 4.3 cm = 3.35” × 2.64” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.1 cm = 0.24” × 0.04”


Olshanskyite

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Olshanskyite
 

EP67AF7: 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 very recent find has raised the roof of quality to unforeseen levels. From this new find we had the opportunity to select from the best samples found. They are aggregates with crystals, some of them very elongated and very well differentiated, clear, colorless and extraordinarily bright, with very sharp crystalline forms. The great quality of the pieces offered here, due their neat shape, the beauty of the aggregates and the crystal size, make them deserving to be in the best private and museum collections.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China II', by Berthold Ottens, on page 249
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 3 × 3.1 cm = 1.69” × 1.18” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.4 cm = 0.51” × 0.16”

Olshanskyite. Olshanskyite.
Olshanskyite
Olshanskyite. Olshanskyite.
 

EQ48AF7: 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 very recent find has raised the roof of quality to unforeseen levels. From this new find we had the opportunity to select from the best samples found. They are aggregates with crystals, some of them very elongated and very well differentiated, clear, colorless and extraordinarily bright, with very sharp crystalline forms. The great quality of the pieces offered here, due their neat shape, the beauty of the aggregates and the crystal size, make them deserving to be in the best private and museum collections.
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.5 × 2.2 cm = 2.24” × 1.77” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.5 cm = 0.63” × 0.20”

Olshanskyite
 

EC97AF7: 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 very recent find has raised the roof of quality to unforeseen levels. From this new find we had the opportunity to select from the best samples found. They are aggregates with crystals, some of them very elongated and very well differentiated, clear, colorless and extraordinarily bright, with very sharp crystalline forms. The great quality of the pieces offered here, due their neat shape, the beauty of the aggregates and the crystal size, make them deserving to be in the best private and museum collections.
The specimen's photo has been reviewed and published in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 404 in the volume 96, number 5, Sep/Oct 2021
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.6 × 2.2 cm = 2.44” × 1.81” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.3 cm = 0.43” × 0.12”

Olshanskyite. Olshanskyite.
Olshanskyite with Andradite
Olshanskyite with Andradite. Olshanskyite with Andradite.
 

EX87AI0: 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, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 7 × 5.2 × 2.3 cm = 2.76” × 2.05” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.2 cm = 0.24” × 0.08”

Olshanskyite with Roweite and Andradite
 

ET51AG5: 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 very recent find has raised the roof of quality to unforeseen levels. The sample, included among the best samples found from this new find, forms elongated and very well differentiated crystals that are clear, colorless and extraordinarily bright, with very sharp crystals. They are on matrix, with Roweite and Andradite crystals with a white coating of a silicate that very probably is altered Andradite.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery of Munich 2017 in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 62 in number 2017/2
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 4.6 × 3.4 cm = 2.95” × 1.81” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.12”

Olshanskyite with Roweite and Andradite. Olshanskyite with Roweite and Andradite.
Olshanskyite with Roweite and Andradite.
Olshanskyite
Olshanskyite. Olshanskyite.
 

EN69AF7: 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 very recent find has raised the roof of quality to unforeseen levels. From this new find we had the opportunity to select from the best samples found. They are aggregates with crystals, some of them very elongated and very well differentiated, clear, colorless and extraordinarily bright, with very sharp crystalline forms. The great quality of the pieces offered here, due their neat shape, the beauty of the aggregates and the crystal size, make them deserving to be in the best private and museum collections.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Munich 2017’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 72 of number 1/2018
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 5.8 × 3.4 cm = 3.35” × 2.28” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.3 cm = 0.47” × 0.12”

Olshanskyite with Andradite, Wurtzite and Galena
 

ED96AB8: Aggregates of Olshanskyite crystals that are white and transparent, with a silky luster and on matrix, with Wurtzite, Andradite and Galena. The Olshanskyite crystals from Shijiangshan, that can be considered among the best in the world, have been carefully analyzed to avoid possible confusion with other similar calcium borates. The results of the first Raman analyses were not coincident with the previously published data, so their study has been supplemented with thermal and XRD analyses, whose results are coincident with those of the type samples. For further information you can use the link at the top of this section.
All of the Olshanskyite samples we obtained in 2014 are published here and we haven’t had any more notices about new finds.
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.7 × 3.1 cm = 1.54” × 1.46” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.12”

Olshanskyite with Andradite, Wurtzite and Galena. Olshanskyite with Andradite, Wurtzite and Galena.
Olshanskyite with Andradite, Wurtzite and Galena
Olshanskyite with Andradite, Wurtzite and Galena. Olshanskyite with Andradite, Wurtzite and Galena.
 

EC48AB8: Aggregates of Olshanskyite crystals that are white and translucent, with a silky luster and on matrix, with Wurtzite, Andradite and Galena. The Olshanskyite crystals from Shijiangshan, that can be considered among the best in the world, have been carefully analyzed to avoid possible confusion with other similar calcium borates. The results of the first Raman analyses were not coincident with the previously published data, so their study has been supplemented with thermal and XRD analyses, whose results are coincident with those of the type samples. For further information you can use the link at the top of this section.
All of the Olshanskyite samples we obtained in 2014 are published here and we haven’t had any more notices about new finds.
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.3 × 2.4 cm = 1.93” × 1.30” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.3 cm = 0.47” × 0.12”

Olshanskyite with Andradite, Wurtzite and Galena
 

EM74AB8: Aggregates of Olshanskyite crystals that are white and transparent, with a silky luster and on matrix, with Wurtzite, Andradite and Galena. The Olshanskyite crystals from Shijiangshan, that can be considered among the best in the world, have been carefully analyzed to avoid possible confusion with other similar calcium borates. The results of the first Raman analyses were not coincident with the previously published data, so their study has been supplemented with thermal and XRD analyses, whose results are coincident with those of the type samples. For further information you can use the link at the top of this section.
All of the Olshanskyite samples we obtained in 2014 are published here and we haven’t had any more notices about new finds.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 66 in number 2015/1
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 10 × 5.7 cm = 4.06” × 3.94” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.16”

Olshanskyite with Andradite, Wurtzite and Galena. Olshanskyite with Andradite, Wurtzite and Galena.

Roweite

Roweite with Olshanskyite
Roweite with Olshanskyite. Roweite with Olshanskyite.
 

EB99AF9: Rosette 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 transparent Olshanskyite 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, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.9 × 2.6 cm = 1.46” × 1.14” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.8 cm = 0.67” × 0.31”

Roweite with Olshanskyite, Magnetite and Andradite
 

ET57AJ3: Lenticular Roweite crystals with an orange color and of great size and quality for what has been known of this species, with very sharp, colorless, clear and very bright Olshanskyite crystals, octahedral Magnetite crystals and small reddish Andradite crystals. The sample has been analyzed to confirm the identity of the species and we will send a copy of the different analyses to buyers.
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.73” × 1.38” × 1.34”

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

Olshanskyite fluorescent short UV
Roweite with Olshanskyite, Magnetite and Andradite. Front
Front
Roweite with Olshanskyite, Magnetite and Andradite. Rear
Rear
Roweite with Olshanskyite, Magnetite and Andradite.
Roweite with Andradite
Roweite with Andradite. Front
Front
Roweite with Andradite. Side
Side
Roweite with Andradite.
 

EK29AF9: Aggregates of between laminar and tabular Roweite crystals of great size and quality for what has been known of this species. They are on matrix, with 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, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4.3 × 2.1 cm = 1.73” × 1.69” × 0.83”

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

Roweite with Olshanskyite
 

EF29AF8: Extraordinary crystals of Roweite of great size and quality for what has been known of this species and occurring on Olshanskyiite crystals. They are in groups of differentiated crystals of a light creamy color and tabular morphology, with 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 Olshanskyiite, 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 analysis to buyers.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Munich 2017’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 72 of number 1/2018
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.5 × 2.5 cm = 1.89” × 1.77” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.55” × 0.51”

Roweite with Olshanskyite. Roweite with Olshanskyite.
Roweite with Olshanskyite and Andradite
Roweite with Olshanskyite and Andradite. Roweite with Olshanskyite and Andradite.
 

EH57AF9: Aggregates of platy Roweite crystals of great size and quality for what has been known of this species. They are on matrix, with radial aggregates of colorless, clear and very bright 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.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Munich 2017’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 72 of number 1/2018 and in the magazine ‘Rocks & Minerals’ on page 405 in the volume 96, number 5, Sep/Oct 2021
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.7 × 3.6 cm = 1.97” × 1.85” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.35” × 0.28”

Roweite with Olshanskyite
 

ED68AF9: Aggregates of platy Roweite crystals of great size and quality for what has been known of this species. They are on matrix, with radial aggregates of colorless, clear and very bright Olshanskyite crystals, and with Calcite. 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, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 4.5 × 4 cm = 2.83” × 1.77” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.39” × 0.24”

Roweite with Olshanskyite. Roweite with Olshanskyite.
Roweite with Olshanskyite and Andradite
Roweite with Olshanskyite and Andradite. Roweite with Olshanskyite and Andradite.
 

MT52AI0: Aggregates of between laminar and tabular Roweite crystals of great size and quality for what has been known for the species. They are on matrix with small Andradite crystals. The Roweite crystals are well differentiated and have well defined faces and edges with a light creamy color and are partially coated by groups of white Olshanskyite crystals. The quality of these specimens is undoubtedly superior to what was previously known, both for the individuality of the crystals and for their sharpness, but also for their crystal size which makes them deserving to be in the best private collections and museums. We have analyzed samples to confirm the identity of the different species and we’ll send a copy of the analyses to the buyer.
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (04/2017)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.9 × 4.4 cm = 2.95” × 2.32” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63”


Pentahydroborite

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Pentahydroborite with Andradite, Galena and Wurtzite
 

EV46AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show, and from a mine unknown until now. Very sharp colorless tabular crystals, transparent and on matrix, with Andradite, Galena and Wurtzite. Among the highest quality for the species. The samples have been analyzed and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What’s New in the Mineral World?’ section, report #38, July 19, 2014 edition, and it was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2014 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 118, page 45
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 6.2 × 3.7 × 2.7 cm = 2.44” × 1.46” × 1.06”

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

Pentahydroborite with Andradite, Galena and Wurtzite. Pentahydroborite with Andradite, Galena and Wurtzite.
Pentahydroborite with Andradite, Galena and Wurtzite
Pentahydroborite with Andradite, Galena and Wurtzite. Pentahydroborite with Andradite, Galena and Wurtzite.
 

ER91AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show, and from a mine unknown until now. Very sharp colorless tabular crystals, transparent, very bright and on matrix, with Andradite, Galena and Wurtzite. Among the highest quality for the species. The samples have been analyzed and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 66 in number 2015/1
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 6.7 × 3.5 cm = 2.91” × 2.64” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.20” × 0.08”

Pentahydroborite with Andradite, Galena and Wurtzite
 

EQ72AA0: A novelty from the 2014 Ste. Marie Show, and from a mine unknown until now. Very sharp colorless tabular crystals, transparent, veryy bright and on matrix, with Andradite, Galena and Wurtzite. Among the highest quality for the species. The samples have been analyzed and we'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines 2014’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 20 of number 5/2014
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2014)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 5.8 × 6.8 cm = 4.06” × 2.28” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

Pentahydroborite with Andradite, Galena and Wurtzite. Pentahydroborite with Andradite, Galena and Wurtzite.

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (excl. Huanggang)

Borcarite with Cahnite
Borcarite with Cahnite. Front
Front
Borcarite with Cahnite. Side
Side
Borcarite with Cahnite. Side
Side
 

EM90Y3: Very aerial group of sharp and very well defined crystals of Borcarite, a rare borate-carbonate. They have a very uniform green color and are partially coated by small crystals, between colorless and white, of Cahnite, an arsenate also considered as very rare.
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2011)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 1.02” × 0.67” × 0.59”

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

Quartz (variety scepter) with Hematite (variety iron rose)
 

ER90AE8: A novelty at Tucson 2017. Aggregate of Quartz crystals with a very well defined scepter terminal growth and a rosette aggregate (iron-rose variety) of thin laminar Hematite crystals. Those crystals have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. Due their similarity the samples from this mine can be easily confused with those from the Huanggang mines.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China II', by Berthold Ottens, on page 231
Qagan Obo deposit (Rongguan), Diyanqinamu mining district, East Ujimqin Banner (Dongwu Qi), Xilin Gol League (Xilinguole Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2016)

Specimen size: 11.5 × 8.3 × 4.8 cm = 4.53” × 3.27” × 1.89”

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

Quartz (variety scepter) with Hematite (variety iron rose). Front
Front
Quartz (variety scepter) with Hematite (variety iron rose). Rear
Rear
Quartz (variety scepter) with Hematite (variety iron rose).
Quartz with Hematite (variety iron rose)
Quartz with Hematite (variety iron rose). Front
Front
Quartz with Hematite (variety iron rose). Rear
Rear
Quartz with Hematite (variety iron rose).
 

TA27AE8: A novelty at Tucson 2017. A single clear Quartz crystal with pinkish areas due to Hematite staining. It is partially coated by rosettes (iron-rose variety) of thin laminar Hematite crystals. Those crystals have been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. Due their similarity the samples from this mine can be easily confused with those from the Huanggang mines.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China II', by Berthold Ottens, on page 231
Qagan Obo deposit (Rongguan), Diyanqinamu mining district, East Ujimqin Banner (Dongwu Qi), Xilin Gol League (Xilinguole Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2016)

Specimen size: 14.2 × 3.5 × 2 cm = 5.59” × 1.38” × 0.79”

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

Quartz with Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite
 

TM47AF7: Aggregates of Chalcopyrite crystals with tetrahedral morphology and superficially substituted and recrystallized by Sphalerite. The Chalcopyrite-Sphalerite aggregates are implanted on a transparent Quartz crystal.
Qagan Obo deposit (Rongguan), Diyanqinamu mining district, East Ujimqin Banner (Dongwu Qi), Xilin Gol League (Xilinguole Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (05/2016)

Specimen size: 15.3 × 3.7 × 3.2 cm = 6.02” × 1.46” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.7 cm = 0.71” × 0.67”

Quartz with Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite. Front
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Quartz with Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
Quartz with Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite.
Quartz with Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite
Quartz with Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite. Front
Front
Quartz with Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite. Rear
Rear
Quartz with Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite.
 

TR97AF7: Chalcopyrite crystals with tetrahedral morphology superficially substituted for and recrystallized by Sphalerite. The Chalcopyrite-Sphalerite crystals are implanted on a transparent Quartz crystal.
This sample has been referenced and figured as a novelty in Ste. Marie 2017, in the magazine "Le Règne Minéral" (Num. 136. 2017; page 43)

Qagan Obo deposit (Rongguan), Diyanqinamu mining district, East Ujimqin Banner (Dongwu Qi), Xilin Gol League (Xilinguole Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (05/2016)

Specimen size: 20.3 × 7.7 × 4.3 cm = 7.99” × 3.03” × 1.69”

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

Rhodonite with manganoan Tremolite
 

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, and in the book 'China II', by Berthold Ottens, on page 227
Chaobuleng Mine, East Ujimqin Banner (Dongwu Qi), Xilin Gol League (Xilinguole Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2011)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 5.1 × 2.8 cm = 2.09” × 2.01” × 1.10”

Rhodonite with manganoan Tremolite. Front
Front
Rhodonite with manganoan Tremolite. Rear
Rear
Rhodonite with manganoan Tremolite.
Rhodonite
Rhodonite. Rhodonite.
 

EX17V0: Aggregate on matrix of extremely sharp and flattened prismatic crystals. They have a clear salmon-pink color. One of the nice surprises offered by the mineralogy of Inner Mongolia in the past year 2011.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Mineralientage München 2011’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 18 of number 1/2012 and also in the magazine ‘Rivista Mineralogica Italiana’ on page 260 in number 2011/4 and in the book 'China II', by Berthold Ottens, on page 227
Chaobuleng Mine, East Ujimqin Banner (Dongwu Qi), Xilin Gol League (Xilinguole Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2011)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 6.8 × 4.7 cm = 2.91” × 2.68” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.39” × 0.24”

Bultfonteinite with Andradite and Tobermorite (Group)

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MAM90AO2: A novelty for 2021. Tobermorite-Clinotobermorite forms small fibrous spheroidal coatings of an intense pink color that accompany spheroidal growths of Bultfonteinite, of good size and of an orange-brown color. On massive Andradite matrix with some small crystals at the base.
The specific spot at the locality where the find was made has already been closed, so no new discoveries can be expected in that specific place.
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (09/2021)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.8 × 3.7 cm = 2.01” × 1.50” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.31” × 0.28”

With analysis copy
Bultfonteinite with Andradite and Tobermorite (Group). Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Bultfonteinite with Andradite and Tobermorite (Group). Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Bultfonteinite with Calcite and Tobermorite (Group)
Bultfonteinite with Calcite and Tobermorite (Group). Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Bultfonteinite with Calcite and Tobermorite (Group). Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MLP99AO2: A novelty for 2021. Tobermorite-Clinotobermorite, on matrix, forms small fibrous spheroidal coatings of an intense pink color that accompany spheroidal growths of Bultfonteinite, of a good size and of an orange-brown color, all of this on a matrix of cleavages of Calcite.
The specific spot at the locality where the find was made has already been closed, so no new discoveries can be expected in that specific place.
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (09/2021)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4.4 × 3.2 cm = 2.24” × 1.73” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.31” × 0.28”

With analysis copy
Bultfonteinite with Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MRF50AO2: A novelty for 2021. Tobermorite-Clinotobermorite forms small fibrous spheroidal coatings of an intense pink color that accompany spheroidal growths of Bultfonteinite, of good size and of an orange-brown color. On massive Andradite matrix with some small crystals at the base.
The specific spot at the locality where the find was made has already been closed, so no new discoveries can be expected in that specific place.
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (09/2021)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.4 × 3.4 cm = 2.40” × 1.73” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.35” × 0.31”

With analysis copy
Bultfonteinite with Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Bultfonteinite with Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Bultfonteinite with Tobermorite (Group), Andradite and Calcite
Bultfonteinite with Tobermorite (Group), Andradite and Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Bultfonteinite with Tobermorite (Group), Andradite and Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MMP26AO2: A novelty for 2021. Tobermorite-Clinotobermorite forms small fibrous spheroidal coatings of an intense pink color that accompany spheroidal growths of Bultfonteinite, of good size with an orange-brown color. On matrix, with Calcite cleavages and a single Andradite crystal.
The specific spot at the locality where the find was made has already been closed, so no new discoveries can be expected in that specific place.
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (09/2021)

Specimen size: 12.1 × 7.2 × 6.7 cm = 4.76” × 2.83” × 2.64”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm = 0.51” × 0.39”

With analysis copy
Tobermorite (Group) with Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MJP96AO0: A novelty for 2021: Tobermorite-Clinotobermorite forms fibrous spheroidal coatings of a pink color on transparent crystals of yellow Calcite.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. If you want to go deeper into the species and the paragenesis of this mine, you can consult the article by Menor-Salván, C.; Ottens, B.; Richard, E. “Rare borate minerals from the Shijiangshan-Shalonggou Deposits, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China.” Rocks & Minerals, 96(5) (September/October 2021)
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (09/2021)

Specimen size: 8.3 × 6.8 × 3.2 cm = 3.27” × 2.68” × 1.26”

Tobermorite (Group) with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Tobermorite (Group) with Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite, Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite
Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite, Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite, Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite. Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite, Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén

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EYT26AN8: A novelty in the summer of 2021 and, in all likelihood, the best known for the species thus far. Imayoshiite occurs in numerous very sharp crystals, with a tabular habit and hexagonal outline, transparent, very lustrous and colorless to slightly yellow, associated with spheroidal growths of pinkish Bultfonteinite, with small white fibrous coatings of Tobermorite (Group) and on an Andradite matrix.
The specimens have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
To learn more about this species and the rest of the paragenesis discovered so far in this mine, it is essential to read the article 'Rare Borate Minerals from the Shijiangshan-Shalonggou Deposits, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China' whose authors are César Menor-Salván, Berthold Ottens and Ed Richard, featured in Rock & Minerals magazine of September/October 2021, volume 96, number 5
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (09/2021)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.7 × 1 cm = 0.87” × 0.67” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.4 cm = 0.20” × 0.16”

Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite, Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite

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EXR47AN8: A novelty in the summer of 2021 and, in all likelihood, the best known for the species thus far. Imayoshiite occurs in numerous very sharp crystals, with a tabular habit and hexagonal outline, transparent, very lustrous and colorless to slightly yellow, associated with spheroidal growths of pinkish Bultfonteinite, with small white fibrous coatings of Tobermorite (Group) and on an Andradite matrix.
The specimens have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
To learn more about this species and the rest of the paragenesis discovered so far in this mine, it is essential to read the article 'Rare Borate Minerals from the Shijiangshan-Shalonggou Deposits, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China' whose authors are César Menor-Salván, Berthold Ottens and Ed Richard, featured in Rock & Minerals magazine of September/October 2021, volume 96, number 5
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (09/2021)

Specimen size: 3 × 3 × 1.9 cm = 1.18” × 1.18” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.16”

Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite, Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite. Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite, Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite.
Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite, Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite
Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite, Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite. Front
Front
Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite, Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite. Side
Side
Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite, Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite. Side
Side
Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite, Tobermorite (Group) and Andradite.

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EER99AN8: A novelty in the summer of 2021 and, in all likelihood, the best known for the species thus far. Imayoshiite occurs in numerous very sharp crystals, with a tabular habit and hexagonal outline, transparent, very lustrous and colorless to slightly yellow, associated with spheroidal growths of pinkish Bultfonteinite, with small white fibrous coatings of Tobermorite (Group) and on an Andradite matrix.
The specimens have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the 'What's New' section, report 62, June 5, 2022 edition, page 8
To learn more about this species and the rest of the paragenesis discovered so far in this mine, it is essential to read the article 'Rare Borate Minerals from the Shijiangshan-Shalonggou Deposits, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China' whose authors are César Menor-Salván, Berthold Ottens and Ed Richard, featured in Rock & Minerals magazine of September/October 2021, volume 96, number 5
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (09/2021)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.5 × 2.2 cm = 1.26” × 0.98” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.8 cm = 0.55” × 0.31”

Imayoshiite with Tobermorite (Group) y Andradite

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MBC90AO0: New for 2021 and, in all probability, the best known so far for the species. Imayoshiite occurs in numerous very well defined crystals, with a tabular shape and hexagonal outline, transparent, very lustrous and between colorless and slightly yellow, which are associated with small white fibrous coatings of a Tobermorite-Clinotobermorite, on an Andradite matrix.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. If you want to go deeper into the species and the paragenesis of this mine, you can consult the article by Menor-Salván, C.; Ottens, B.; Richard, E. “Rare borate minerals from the Shijiangshan-Shalonggou Deposits, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China.” Rocks & Minerals, 96(5) (September/October 2021).
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (09/2021)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.46” × 1.02” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.28” × 0.16”

Imayoshiite with Tobermorite (Group) y Andradite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Imayoshiite with Tobermorite (Group) y Andradite. Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Imayoshiite with Tobermorite (Group) y Andradite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite and Tobermorite (Group)
Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite and Tobermorite (Group). Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Imayoshiite with Bultfonteinite and Tobermorite (Group). Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

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EDM56AN7: A novelty in the summer of 2021 and, in all likelihood, the best known for the species thus far. Imayoshiite occurs in numerous very sharp crystals, with a tabular habit and hexagonal outline, transparent, very lustrous and colorless that are associated with spheroidal growths of Bultfonteinite of good size and pinkish color, and with small white fibrous coatings of some Tobermorite group species. This specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This sample has been referenced and pictured, as a novelty in Munich 2021, in the magazine 'Le Règne Minéral' number 162, November-December 2021, page 15
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (15/07/2021)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 4 × 1.6 cm = 1.73” × 1.57” × 0.63”

Imayoshiite and Tobermorite (Group) with Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Datolite (variety bakerite)

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EPT27AN6: A novelty from the summer of 2021: Very sharp crystals of Imayoshiite, a rare carbonate-borate of calcium and aluminum, many of them doubly terminated, with a prismatic hexagonal habit and very marked parallel growths, transparent, very lustrous and largely covered by white spheroidal growths of a Tobermorite group mineral. On matrix, associated with small reddish brown crystals of Datolite (variety bakerite) and Fluorapophyllite-(K). Very good quality for the species.
The species have been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (15/07/2021)

Specimen size: 5 × 2.7 × 1.8 cm = 1.97” × 1.06” × 0.71”

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

Imayoshiite and Tobermorite (Group) with Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Datolite (variety bakerite). Imayoshiite and Tobermorite (Group) with Fluorapophyllite-(K) and Datolite (variety bakerite).
Hydroxyapophyllite-(K)
Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). Hydroxyapophyllite-(K).

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ERM94AP0: Druse of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) crystals that form centered groups with very acute prism and dipyramid forms, transparent, with excellent luster and an intense and vivid salmon-pink color. In matrix, associated with Galena.
Very unusual for the locality.
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (06/2022)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 7.2 × 4.1 cm = 4.06” × 2.83” × 1.61”

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

With analysis copy
Hydroxyapophyllite-(K)

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ETV99AP0: Druse of Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) crystals that form centered groups with very acute prism and dipyramid forms, transparent, with excellent luster and an intense and vivid salmon-pink color. In matrix, associated with Galena.
Very unusual for the locality.
Shijiangshan Mine, Yinwu, Linxi, Ulanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (06/2022)

Specimen size: 11.6 × 5.1 × 3.7 cm = 4.57” × 2.01” × 1.46”

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

With analysis copy
Hydroxyapophyllite-(K). Hydroxyapophyllite-(K).

JIANGXI PROVINCE


Sphalerite with Galena and Calcite
Sphalerite with Galena and Calcite. Front
Front
Sphalerite with Galena and Calcite. Side
Side
Sphalerite with Galena and Calcite. Rear
Rear

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EFF27AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Group of sharp twinned Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and an intense reddish orange. On matrix, with cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena and white Calcite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.7 × 2.9  cm = 1.81” × 1.46” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.8× 2.7 cm = 1.10” × 1.06”

Sphalerite with Quartz, Calcite and Galena

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ETM48AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Group of sharp twinned Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and an intense reddish orange. On matrix, with cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena and white Calcite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.3 × 3 cm = 2.24” × 1.30” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.06” × 0.98”

Sphalerite with Quartz, Calcite and Galena. Front
Front
Sphalerite with Quartz, Calcite and Galena. Side
Side
Sphalerite with Calcite
Sphalerite with Calcite. Front
Front
Sphalerite with Calcite. Light behind
Light behind
Sphalerite with Calcite. Detail
Detail
Sphalerite with Calcite. Light behind
Light behind

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EFG97AP3: New at Ste. Marie 2022
Twinned Sphalerite crystals, more isolated than usual, sharp and with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, lustrous and very intense reddish, on matrix, with small white Calcite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3 × 3.2 cm = 2.40” × 1.18” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.3 cm = 0.71” × 0.51”

Sphalerite with Calcite

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EJK89AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Outstanding twinned Sphalerite crystals, more isolated than usual, with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, shiny, with an intense reddish color. On matrix, with small white Calcite crystals.


Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.8 × 5.2 cm = 2.68” × 2.28” × 2.05”

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

Sphalerite with Calcite. Sphalerite with Calcite.
Sphalerite with Calcite and Quartz
Sphalerite with Calcite and Quartz. Sphalerite with Calcite and Quartz. Front with light behind
Front with light behind
Sphalerite with Calcite and Quartz. Sphalerite with Calcite and Quartz. With light behind
With light behind

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ETX89AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Outstanding twinned Sphalerite crystals, more isolated than usual, with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, shiny, with an intense reddish color. On matrix, with small white Calcite crystals and Quartz.


Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 9 × 5.7 × 3.7 cm = 3.54” × 2.24” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1 cm = 0.79” × 0.39”

Sphalerite with Galena and Calcite

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ERF90AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Group of outstanding twinned Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, lustrous, and an intense reddish orange. On matrix, with cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena and white calcite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 10 × 7.8 × 6.4 cm = 3.94” × 3.07” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.67”

Sphalerite with Galena and Calcite. Sphalerite with Galena and Calcite.
Sphalerite with Calcite and Galena
Sphalerite with Calcite and Galena. Sphalerite with Calcite and Galena.
Sphalerite with Calcite and Galena. With light behind
With light behind

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ERB71AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Group of outstanding twinned Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, lustrous, and an intense reddish orange. On matrix, with cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena and white Calcite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 8 × 3.5 cm = 4.02” × 3.15” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.9 cm = 1.18” × 0.75”

Sphalerite with Calcite and Galena

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EXY51AP3: New at Ste. Marie 2022
Twinned Sphalerite crystals more isolated than usual, sharp and with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, lustrous, with an intense reddish color, on matrix, with small white Calcite crystals and Galena crystals with a cubic habit.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 9.7 × 4.7 cm = 4.65” × 3.82” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 2 cm = 0.83” × 0.79”

Sphalerite with Calcite and Galena. Front
Front
Sphalerite with Calcite and Galena. Detail
Detail
Sphalerite with Calcite and Galena. Detail
Detail
Sphalerite with Calcite and Galena. Light behind
Light behind
Fluorite with Calcite, Pyrite and Siderite
Fluorite with Calcite, Pyrite and Siderite. Fluorite with Calcite, Pyrite and Siderite.
 

MV47J3: Magnificent group of cubic crystals with echeloned growths on the edges. It is very bright, transparent and has an extraordinary color, between deep blue and deep green. On the sample, with micro-crystals of Pyrite there also are small groups of very acute crystals of Calcite and small crystals of Siderite.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 198
Chongyi, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 8.7 × 4 cm = 3.74” × 3.43” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 4.2 cm = 1.89” × 1.65”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Quartz, Galena and Baryte
 

TM64Z0: Aggregate of Fluorite crystals consisting of smooth cube faces and the clearly dominant octahedron with polycrystalline surfaces. The crystals are very large, very bright, have an intense, deep and uniform green color and are on matrix, with cubic Galena crystals, Quartz crystals and small white platy Baryte crystals.
Piaotang Mine, Dayu, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 16 × 12.8 × 9.7 cm = 6.30” × 5.04” × 3.82”

Main crystal size: 10.5 × 8 cm = 4.13” × 3.15”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Fluorite with Quartz, Galena and Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz, Galena and Baryte. Side
Side
Euclase
Euclase.
 

TM97J6: One of the most conspicuous novelties of 2007 on China. The crystals, on matrix and with morphology very different to those from other classic localities, show an extraordinary definition of their faces and edges and an excellent luster. The locality seems to be correct but as usual on novelties from this country, we are waiting the time confirm it.
Piaotang Mine, Dayu, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2007)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 1.9 × 1.8 cm = 1.34” × 0.75” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.51”

Copper
 

ET46K3: Group of rounded crystals with well defined faces at the top of the specimen and the same kind of crystals combined with small laminar hooked growths on the lower part.
Weijia, Chengmenshan, Jiujiang, Jiangxi  China (2007)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.8 × 2 cm = 1.97” × 1.89” × 0.79”

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

Fluorescent short UV
Copper. Copper.
Cuprite
Cuprite.
 

TR26J8: Octahedral reddish crystals of perfectly defined faces and edges. Their color contrasts with the darker matrix. Unusual.
Weijia, Chengmenshan, Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2007)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.73” × 0.98” × 1.34”

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

Stibnite with Baryte
 

ET17G8: Crystals, prismatic, bright and sharp, form an elegant open fan that shows light and interesting curvatures in some of them.
Wuning Mine, Jiangxi  China (03/2005)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 5.5 × 1.5 cm = 4.92” × 2.17” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 8.5 × 1.2 cm = 3.35” × 0.47”

Stibnite with Baryte. Front
Front
Stibnite with Baryte. Rear
Rear
Cassiterite with Quartz
Cassiterite with Quartz. Front
Front
Cassiterite with Quartz. Top
Top
 

JH66H7: The stout prismatic crystal has very uncommon transparency and color, in view of its large size. The elongated habit of the crystal and its position on a matrix of Quartz crystals makes the specimen special from an esthetic point of view.
The sample is from an accredited collection and we’ll send the label with it.
Ganzhou, Jiangxi  China

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.3 × 3.9 cm = 2.83” × 2.09” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 3 cm = 2.17” × 1.18”

Bismuth
 

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

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.81” × 1.38” × 1.34”

Bismuth. Front
Front
Bismuth. Top
Top
Bismuth. Rear
Rear
Molybdenite
Molybdenite.
 

EH29E9: The crystal is very well defined, has extraordinary brilliance, both of which are rare in a specimen of this size. One can see all the sides of the hexagonal form and the edges and growth patterns are perfectly preserved. This was shown, photographed and published as a novelty at the Ste Marie show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 58, page 50. We will send the buyer a copy of the magazine.
Dayu, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2004)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.5 × 2.7 cm = 2.95” × 2.17” × 1.06”


SHANDONG PROVINCE


Silver with Calcite

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TRB47AO3: A novelty on the market in 2022. Aerial and aesthetic arborescent growth of Silver, with a very marked spinel-law twin plane. With small Calcite crystals that differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and which showed no evidence of such good silvers until now.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3 × 1.2 cm = 1.61” × 1.18” × 0.47”

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

Calcite fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Silver with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite
Silver with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

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MFM72AO2: A novelty on the market in 2022. Very aerial and aesthetic arborescent growth of Silver, with a very marked spinel-law twin plane. On matrix, with numerous small Calcite crystals that adorn it and differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and which showed no evidence of such good silvers until now.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 1.8 × 1.1 cm = 1.73” × 0.71” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 3 × 0.1 cm = 1.18” × 0.04”

Calcite fluorescent long UV & minor fluorescence short UV
Silver with Calcite

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MPB16AO2: A novelty on the market in 2022. Very aerial and aesthetic arborescent growth of Silver, with a very marked spinel-law twin plane. On matrix, with numerous small Calcite crystals that adorn it and differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and which showed no evidence of such good silvers until now.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 4.2 × 1.3 cm = 1.81” × 1.65” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.1 cm = 0.79” × 0.04”

Calcite fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Silver with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite
Silver with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén

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TTX10AO3: A novelty on the market in 2022. Very aerial and aesthetic arborescent growth of Silver, with a very marked spinel-law twin plane. On matrix, with small Calcite crystals that differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and which showed no evidence of such good silvers until now.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 5 × 2.1 × 1.9 cm = 1.97” × 0.83” × 0.75”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 0.15 cm = 1.69” × 0.06”

Calcite fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Silver with Calcite

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TFB1AO3: A novelty on the market in 2022. Very aerial and aesthetic arborescent growth of Silver, with a very marked spinel-law twin plane. On matrix, with numerous small Calcite crystals that adorn it and differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and which showed no evidence of such good silvers until now.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.97” × 1.34” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.87” × 0.04”

Calcite fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Silver with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite
Silver with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén

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TLP48AO4: A novelty on the market in 2022. Aerial and aesthetic arborescent growth of Silver, with a very marked spinel-law twin plane. With small Calcite crystals that differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and which showed no evidence of such good silvers until now.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 5 × 3.6 × 2.2 cm = 1.97” × 1.42” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 0.1 cm = 0.87” × 0.04”

Calcite fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Silver with Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TBL27AO5: A novelty on the 2022 market. Very aerial arborescent Silver growths, with a very distinct spinel-law twin plane and with small Calcite crystals that differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and from which until now there was no evidence that such good silvers could be found there.

Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

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

Main crystal size: 2 × 0.2 cm = 0.79” × 0.08”

Calcite fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Silver with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite
Silver with Calcite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Silver with Calcite. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TFM90AO3: A novelty on the market in 2022. Aerial and aesthetic arborescent growth of Silver, with a very marked spinel-law twin plane. On matrix, with small Calcite crystals that differentiate it from the classic Hongda silvers.
These pieces come from a find made in a small gold working, currently closed, and which showed no evidence of such good silvers until now.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.9 × 3.6 cm = 2.24” × 1.54” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.2 cm = 0.71” × 0.08”

Calcite fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV

SHANXI PROVINCE


Acanthite with Silver
 

EG48I1: The crystal is very well-defined and rich with faces with the dominion of the cube. On one end there is an esthetic growth of native Silver, bright and unaltered.
66 line Mine, Gaoliangchun, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.63” × 0.55”

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

EK10I1: Group if very well-defined cubic crystals, with a small matrix of Quartz and partially covered by spongy groups of Silver, bright and unaltered.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 468.
66 line Mine, Gaoliangchun, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.8 × 2 cm = 1.38” × 1.10” × 0.79”

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

Silver with Acanthite
 

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

Specimen size: 6 × 4.1 × 2.8 cm = 2.36” × 1.61” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.3 cm = 0.71” × 0.12”

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

SICHUAN PROVINCE


Quartz (variety amethyst) with Epidote
Quartz (variety amethyst) with Epidote.
Quartz (variety amethyst) with Epidote.
 

MR79E9: These were one of the most attractive novelties at the 2004 Munich Show. This large one has perfect crystals and excellent color, with the groups of Epidote that have formed on many of the crystals of Quartz amethyst. The really amazing things are the inclusions within the crystals that include a first generation of intensely red amethyst and small crystals of really strange forms of black Hematite.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 513
Shuangmaoshan Epidote Mines, Meigu, Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2004)

Specimen size: 18 × 14 × 5 cm = 7.09” × 5.51” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 2.9 cm = 1.69” × 1.14”

Smoky Quartz doubly terminated
 

MN49W4: Floater group of doubly terminated crystals of smoky Quartz. Between transparent and translucent, and very bright, they have a very intense and deep color and their quality is similar to the good Alpine samples.
Jinkouhe, Leshan, Ebian County, Sichuan  China (2009)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 5.5 × 3.7 cm = 4.41” × 2.17” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 8 × 3 cm = 3.15” × 1.18”

Smoky Quartz doubly terminated. Front
Front
Smoky Quartz doubly terminated. Rear
Rear
Baryte with Quartz
Baryte with Quartz.
Baryte with Quartz.
 

DB70E2: A doubly terminated Baryte crystal, which is partially covered by a second generation of yellow Baryte. So some faces of the first generation are visible, while others are covered. There is also some transparent quartz on it as well. Simply put: a pretty specimen that has no damage.
Jinkouhe, Leshan, Ebian County, Sichuan  China (2003)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.5 × 6.5 cm = 3.35” × 2.95” × 2.56”

Main crystal size: 5.2 × 2.8 cm = 2.05” × 1.10”

Wulfenite with Baryte
 

ED9G3: Crystals are little but very well shaped bipyramidal with excellent color and luster. Due to its uncommon form we analyzed them suspecting they were another species. At the same time we also analyzed the little white Baryte crystals on the matrix. We'll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Mianning County, Sichuan  China (2005)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.54” × 0.91” × 1.10”

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

Baryte fluorescent long & short UV
Wulfenite with Baryte.
Gold
Gold. Front
Front
Gold. Rear
Rear
 

TM49Z7: Floater octahedral crystal, elongated, partially flattened, and with skeletal and hollow growths but with very well defined crystalline forms.
Dongbeizhai Mine, Songpan, Ngawa Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 1.2 × 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.47” × 0.24” × 0.12”

Gold
 

MB71Q0: Group of flattened and deformed crystals, practically laminar, some them forming very well shaped skeletal growths.
Dongbeizhai Mine, Songpan, Ngawa Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2008-2009)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.3 × 0.9 cm = 0.67” × 0.51” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.5 cm = 0.35” × 0.20”

Weight: 5.3 grams
Gold. Front
Front
Gold. Rear
Rear
Gold
Gold. Front
Front
Gold. Rear
Rear
 

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.
Dongbeizhai Mine, Songpan, Ngawa Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2008-2009)

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.8 × 0.8 cm = 0.71” × 0.71” × 0.31”

Weight: 6 grams
Gold
 

MG92Q0: Group of skeletal and deformed crystals some them of very well shaped forms.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 29 in number 2010/2
Dongbeizhai Mine, Songpan, Ngawa Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2008-2009)

Specimen size: 1.9 × 1.3 × 1.2 cm = 0.75” × 0.51” × 0.47”

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

Gold. Front
Front
Gold. Rear
Rear
Gold
Gold. Gold.
 

EJ74I0: On the group coincide octahedral skeletal, but well-defined, crystals and flattened crystals. They have a very intense luster and full color.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 281.
Dongbeizhai Mine, Songpan, Ngawa Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2004)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.7 × 1.5 cm = 0.87” × 0.67” × 0.59”

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

Gold
 

EA96Y1: Dense spongy dendritic growth, with laminar and hooked forms and octahedral crystals, one of them of a considerable size, with very well defined edges and hoppered faces. We especially note that Chinese gold samples entering the marked are very scarce.
This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2013 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 112, page 19
Dongbeizhai Mine, Songpan, Ngawa Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2013)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3 × 1.8 cm = 1.34” × 1.18” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.1 cm = 0.39” × 0.04”

Weight: 15.2 grams
Gold. Front
Front
Gold. Rear
Rear
Gold.
Gold
Gold. Front
Front
Gold. Rear
Rear
 

TR56J6: The sample is very rich of gold and the crystals, flat or skeletal are on a small Quartz matrix.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China' on page 11, volume 41, number 12, December 2016
Dongbeizhai Mine, Songpan, Ngawa Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.8 × 1.4 cm = 1.54” × 1.50” × 0.55”

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


Xuebaoding

Scheelite on Mica
 

EY38G7: Bipyramidal crystal of a good development of faces and edges, standing on a Mica matrix. Color, brightness and transparency are magnificent giving to the sample a special intensity.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 4.1 × 2.9 cm = 3.03” × 1.61” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2 cm = 1.02” × 0.79”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Scheelite on Mica. Front
Front
Scheelite on Mica. Side
Side
Scheelite
Scheelite.
 

BC13: Huge, colorful, extremely brilliant and partially gemmy Scheelite. Recrystallized at the bottom with minor Beryl crystals on the right corner. A color-rich Wolfram dream.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2001)

Specimen size: 8 × 7.5 × 9 cm = 3.15” × 2.95” × 3.54”

Fluorescent short UV
Scheelite with Calcite
 

TA66Z5: Single dipyramidal crystal with very well defined parallel growths. It is translucent, very bright and has a very intense color. The sample, of large size and great quality, is very much better than the images shown because the color is highly saturated and, so, in the photographs the transparent areas are very difficult to reproduce.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 7.1 × 6.2 cm = 3.23” × 2.80” × 2.44”

Extremely fluorescent short UV
Scheelite with Calcite. Front
Front
Scheelite with Calcite. Rear
Rear
Scheelite with Calcite. Top
Top
Doubly terminated Scheelite with Quartz
Doubly terminated Scheelite with Quartz. Front
Front
Doubly terminated Scheelite with Quartz. Rear
Rear
Doubly terminated Scheelite with Quartz. Side
Side
 

TG26K0: Multiple growth of large, acute dipyramidal crystals with very well defined faces and edges and excellent color, very deep. On the sample there is also a colorless transparent crystal of Quartz. A great specimen!
Shuijing, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 8.3 × 7 cm = 3.43” × 3.27” × 2.76”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Scheelite
 

TR76W7: Very large dipyramidal crystal with parallel growths, translucent, very bright and with an extraordinarily intense, deep and uniform orange color.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 30 in number 2013/1
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (±2005)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 7.5 × 4 cm = 3.62” × 2.95” × 1.57”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Scheelite. Front
Front
Scheelite. Light behind
Light behind
Scheelite with Albite and Muscovite
Scheelite with Albite and Muscovite. Front
Front
Scheelite with Albite and Muscovite. Side
Side
 

MX46N8: Parallel growth of big dipyramidal crystals of Scheelite of excellent color and luster. They are on matrix, with Albite and Muscovite.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (09/2008)

Specimen size: 11.2 × 9 × 6.3 cm = 4.41” × 3.54” × 2.48”

Main crystal size: 8.8 × 8.2 cm = 3.46” × 3.23”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Cassiterite on Quartz
 

TD90C1: The crystal size and habit is bigger and better than usual for the regular Chinese Cassiterite material. But the real attraction is its transparency. Although it is not very visible due to the Quartz matrix, with the use of a strong light we can appreciate that the crystal is partially gemmy showing a clear brown rather funny phantom at its bottom left corner. Plus the contrast with the white Quartz matrix increase the beauty of the specimen.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (1998)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 4.3 × 2.4 cm = 2.17” × 1.69” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 4 cm = 1.77” × 1.57”

Cassiterite on Quartz.
Cassiterite with Mica and Fluorite
Cassiterite with Mica and Fluorite. Front
Front
Cassiterite with Mica and Fluorite. Side
Side
Cassiterite with Mica and Fluorite.
 

TT67H3: Well-defined and esthetic group of twinned crystals of Cassiterite on a matrix of crystallized Muscovite. On one side of the Cassiterite is a crystallization of Fluorite (fluorescent under UV light) which is very uncommon for the locality.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.5 × 4 cm = 2.91” × 2.17” × 1.57”

Fluorite fluorescent long & short UV
Cassiterite with Mica
 

AQ96D4: The crystals are not that big but the luster in incredible! The Mica is also nice, and the Cassiterite crystal's form is excellent.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2002)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 7 × 3 cm = 3.43” × 2.76” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.8 cm = 0.59” × 0.31”

Cassiterite with Mica.
Cassiterite with Mica.
Cassiterite with Muscovite
Cassiterite with Muscovite. Cassiterite with Muscovite.
 

MA48X8: Single twinned Cassiterite crystal with very well defined faces and edges. It is very bright, has vivid brown transparency and its matrix is an aggregate of leafy Muscovite.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2012)

Specimen size: 10 × 6.7 × 4.2 cm = 3.94” × 2.64” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2 cm = 1.02” × 0.79”

Beryl with Mica
 

TE47K0: Parallel growth of thick tabular, very clear, crystals in which also appear faces of the pyramid. On the sample there also is a thin coverage of Mica, probably Muscovite.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2007)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 4.2 × 3.6 cm = 1.65” × 1.65” × 1.42”

Beryl with Mica. Front
Front
Beryl with Mica. Side
Side
Beryl with Mica. Top
Top
Beryl with Cassiterite
Beryl with Cassiterite. Front
Front
Beryl with Cassiterite. Top
Top
 

JY87G1: Two tabular crystals of Beryl, bright, clear and slightly bluish in an unusual association with twinned crystals of Cassiterite.
The sample is from an accredited collection. With this specimen we will send to the buyer the original label of the collection.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (±1997)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.7 × 3 cm = 2.36” × 1.46” × 1.18”

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

Beryl with Mica
 

DA48G6: A preciousness! The crystal is complete in all its faces and is divided in two in the front, fusing into a single body. Surface of crystal is irregular, with forms that seem to be dissolution, but it is complete, lustrous and with an inner soft blue and a centered mist of inclusions, visible by reflection. The base is a little matrix of Mica crystals. Its luster is exceptional.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2003)

Specimen size: 6.9 × 7.3 × 4 cm = 2.72” × 2.87” × 1.57”

Zoned fluorescence short UV
Beryl with Mica.
Beryl with Tourmaline
Beryl with Tourmaline.
Beryl with Tourmaline.
 

CG37: Sharp flat pale blue Beryl crystals including black Tourmaline crystals. Everything well placed on the matrix and associated with Mica. The luster of the Beryl crystal is great, the whole specimen is especially attractive.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (04/02)

Specimen size: 7 × 6 × 3.2 cm = 2.76” × 2.36” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.4 × 0.9 cm = 1.18” × 0.94” × 0.35”

Beryl with Albite and Muscovite
 

EQ17H7: Tabular crystal of very well defined faces and edges. It has slight color and it is very transparent. The crystal is esthetically implanted on a matrix of well developed crystals of Albite and Muscovite.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.7 × 3.8 cm = 2.76” × 2.64” × 1.50”

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

Beryl crystal's corner lines fluorescent short UV
Beryl with Albite and Muscovite. Front
Front
Beryl with Albite and Muscovite. Top
Top
Beryl with Muscovite
Beryl  with Muscovite. Beryl  with Muscovite.
 

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

Specimen size: 7.4 × 7 × 5.4 cm = 2.91” × 2.76” × 2.13”

Main crystal size: 6 × 5 cm = 2.36” × 1.97”

Fluorite with Beryl, Scheelite and Muscovite
 

TT93M2: Group of cubic colorless Fluorite crystals showing a good transparency and accompanied by Beryl (Goshenite), Muscovite and a group of dipyramidal Scheelite crystals. This association is extraordinary, I have never before seen a Fluorite from this locality of this quality and associated with Beryl and Scheelite.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2008)

Specimen size: 6 × 5.3 × 4.3 cm = 2.36” × 2.09” × 1.69”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2 cm = 1.06” × 0.79”

Fluorite with Beryl, Scheelite and Muscovite. Front
Front
Fluorite with Beryl, Scheelite and Muscovite. Side
Side
Fluorite with Beryl, Scheelite and Muscovite. Top
Top
Fluorite with Beryl, Scheelite and Muscovite. Rear
Rear
Quartz with Dolomite and Scheelite
Quartz with Dolomite and Scheelite. Front
Front
Quartz with Dolomite and Scheelite. Side
Side
 

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.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2011)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 3.8 × 6.2 cm = 3.03” × 1.50” × 2.44”

Main crystal size: 7 × 2.7 cm = 2.76” × 1.06”

Scheelite fluorescent long & short UV
Kësterite and Mushistonite
 

EK88E6: In this specimen the crystals of the very rare mineral Kësterite are on a small Mica matrix, that you can only see when you look at the back of it. The Kësterite has very good crystal definition and the Mushistonite, that forms a thin film on the Kësterite, give it a very neat color.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2002)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.9 × 1.5 cm = 0.79” × 0.75” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.31” × 0.28”

Kësterite and Mushistonite.
Kësterite and Mushistonite with Beryl
Kësterite and Mushistonite with Beryl.
Kësterite and Mushistonite with Beryl.
 

DD26E2: I have never seen Kësterite on Beryl before. In this specimen one has a mixture of rarity (until recently crystallized Kësterite was un-heard of) with beauty. The thin coating of Mushistonite that covers the Kësterite adds some green to the theme, and the Mica on the base completes the whole. A beautiful rarity!
As is usual we will give the purchaser a copy of the analysis of the specimen.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2003)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 6 × 4.5 cm = 2.68” × 2.36” × 1.77”

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

Kësterite with Mushistonite, Quartz, Beryl and Calcite
 

TY87N0: Very big octahedral crystal of Kësterite. It is sharp, of very well defined faces and edges, partially coated (pseudomorphed) by Mushistonite and, lately, by Malachite (that has been analyzed) and on a matrix with Quartz crystals. An exceptional piece.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (05-06/2008)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 7.4 × 3.6 cm = 4.02” × 2.91” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.8 cm = 0.83” × 0.71”

Kësterite with Mushistonite, Quartz, Beryl and Calcite.
Kësterite with Mushistonite, Quartz, Beryl and Calcite.

XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION


Elbaite with smoky Quartz
Elbaite with smoky Quartz. Elbaite with smoky Quartz.
 

EJ93K6: One of the novelties of this year are these polychrome Elbaites that remind one of some classic Brazilian specimens. The Elbaite crystal, of very well defined faces and edges and perfectly terminated, has grown on a smoky Quartz crystal.
The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2020, page 61, and has been published in the book 'China II', by Berthold Ottens, on page 337
Altay Range, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region  China (2006)

Specimen size: 9 × 5.8 × 5 cm = 3.54” × 2.28” × 1.97”

Main crystal size: 5.4 × 0.8 cm = 2.13” × 0.31”


YUNNAN PROVINCE


Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite)

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EXF92AP1: From important finds made in the Lanping area in early 2022. Coralloidal growths of Calcite on matrix, translucent, with good luster and intense pink-mauve color (cobalt variety).
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (03/2022)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.7 × 3.7 cm = 2.40” × 1.85” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 0.75” × 0.55”

Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite). Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite) with Talmessite
Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite) with Talmessite. Calcite (variety Co-bearing calcite) with Talmessite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EXJ99AP5: Botryoidal growths of mauve-colored Calcite (cobalt-bearing variety), which coexist with similar growths of the same Calcite, but curiously with white and blue colorations. They sit on a matrix in which Talmessite aggregates appear too (analyzed).
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 2.48” × 1.50” × 1.26”

With analysis copy
Calcite
 

TT37K3: A curious crystalline growth that looks like a cup. The translucent crystal progressively increases its width from its base and at its termination it formed a very pronounced and deep hollow.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 386.

Wenshan, Wenshan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 6 × 4.3 × 3.8 cm = 2.36” × 1.69” × 1.50”

Extremely fluorescent long & short UV
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Top
Top
Calcite
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Rear
Rear
 

MR86E0: An unusual Calcite whose form reminds one of a stalactite but whose crystals are transparent, not cloudy, well defined, richly endowed with multiple faces, and quite large. It is very pleasant and decorative at the same time.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 479.
Wenshan, Wenshan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2003)

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

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 0.75” × 0.55”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV
Calcite
 

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 = 6.10” × 5.12” × 3.74”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 2.2 cm = 1.38” × 0.87”

Very fluorescent long & short UV
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Top
Top
Calcite.
Aragonite on Calcite
Aragonite on Calcite. Aragonite on Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MLD67AO2: New on the market in 2022. Botryoidal growths of Aragonite, very aerial, translucent and with an intense blue color due to inclusions of copper salts. Curiously, its duller green matrix is Calcite instead of Aragonite, as analysis surprisingly showed the presence of both polymorphs in the same piece.
Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.9 × 3 cm = 2.80” × 2.72” × 1.18”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Aragonite on Calcite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MLD77AO2: New on the market in 2022. Botryoidal growths of Aragonite, very aerial, translucent and with an intense blue color due to inclusions of copper salts. Curiously, its duller green matrix is Calcite instead of Aragonite, as analysis surprisingly showed the presence of both polymorphs in the same piece.
Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 12.3 × 5.9 × 3.6 cm = 4.84” × 2.32” × 1.42”

Fluorescent long & short UV
Aragonite on Calcite. Aragonite on Calcite.
Aragonite on Calcite.
Cuprodongchuanite with Hemimorphite and Veszelyite
Cuprodongchuanite with Hemimorphite and Veszelyite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Cuprodongchuanite with Hemimorphite and Veszelyite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TVA86AO3: Translucent, lustrous pale bluish green spheroidal aggregates of Cuprodongchuanite, a rare phosphate of lead, copper and zinc, discovered very recently and approved by the IMA as a new species in 2021. On matrix, with white aggregates of Hemimorphite and small blue crystals of Veszelyite.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 4 × 2.9 cm = 2.24” × 1.57” × 1.14”

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

Type locality
Veszelyite with Theisite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TTV50AN5: Veszelyite crystals isolated or in small groups, very sharp, of extraordinary quality for the species, translucent, with good luster and a deep blue color. On matrix, with Theisite, a rare copper and zinc arsenate, concretionary and greenish in color, partially covering the Veszelyite crystals.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 2.6 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.02” × 0.75” × 0.55”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

Veszelyite with Theisite. Front
Front
Veszelyite with Theisite. Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Veszelyite with Theisite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Veszelyite with Hemimorphite
Veszelyite with Hemimorphite. Veszelyite with Hemimorphite.
Veszelyite with Hemimorphite.
 

TT89AN2: Tabular Veszelyite crystals with very sharp polycrystalline growths, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform color. On matrix, with pale green botryoidal Hemimorphite.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 1.10” × 0.98” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.3 cm = 0.24” × 0.12”

Veszelyite with Hemimorphite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

ERE50AN6: Druse, on matrix, with aggregates of Veszelyite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with very bright luster and an extraordinarily intense and uniform color. High quality for the species.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.4 × 1.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.94” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.16” × 0.12”

Veszelyite with Hemimorphite. Veszelyite with Hemimorphite.
Veszelyite with Cuprodongchuanite and Hemimorphite
Veszelyite with Cuprodongchuanite and Hemimorphite. Front
Front
Veszelyite with Cuprodongchuanite and Hemimorphite. Side
Side
Veszelyite with Cuprodongchuanite and Hemimorphite. Veszelyite with Cuprodongchuanite and Hemimorphite.
 

TV49AN2: Fan-shaped aggregates of tabular Veszelyite crystals with polycrystalline growths, translucent, with good luster and an intense and uniform color. On matrix, with green Cuprodongchuanite and white botryoidal Hemimorphite.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm = 1.73” × 0.98” × 0.63”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

Veszelyite with Hemimorphite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TTA46AN4: Aggregates on matrix of Veszelyite crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with bright luster and an extraordinarily intense and uniform color. High quality for the species.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4 × 2.7 cm = 1.89” × 1.57” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.20” × 0.12”

Veszelyite with Hemimorphite. Veszelyite with Hemimorphite.
Veszelyite with Hemimorphite
Veszelyite with Hemimorphite. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Veszelyite with Hemimorphite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TNC46AN5: Veszelyite crystals isolated or in small groups, very sharp, of extraordinary quality for the species and very similar to the famous ones from the Black Pine mine but even more intense in color. They are translucent, lustrous and deep blue, and on a matrix with white Hemimorphite. Only a few specimens of this type were uncovered during the finds of the year 2021.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

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

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.39” × 0.24”

Veszelyite with Hemimorphite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TNB66AN5: Veszelyite crystals isolated or in small groups, very sharp, of extraordinary quality for the species and very similar to the famous ones from the Black Pine mine but even more intense in color. They are translucent, lustrous and deep blue, and on a matrix with white Hemimorphite. Only a few specimens of this type were uncovered during the finds of the year 2021.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.5 × 4.1 cm = 2.05” × 1.77” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 0.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.24” × 0.16”

Veszelyite with Hemimorphite. Front
Front
Veszelyite with Hemimorphite. Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Side / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Veszelyite with Hemimorphite. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Baryte
Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Rear
Rear
Fluorite with Baryte.
 

EH47AE8: Elongated cluster of cubic Fluorite crystals that have translucent, with intense violet color, even more saturated on the edges, and are partially coated by Baryte. They growth around a Stibnite crystal that is partially visible by transparence.
Weishan, Dali Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2016)

Specimen size: 5.5 × 2 × 2 cm = 2.17” × 0.79” × 0.79”

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

Fluorite with Baryte
 

EA98AE8: Elongated cluster of cubic Fluorite crystals that are translucent, with lilac color on their faces and strongly saturated violet color on the edges, and are partially coated by Baryte and small scalenohedral Calcite crystals. They growth around a Stibnite crystal that is partially visible by transparence.
Weishan, Dali Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2016)

Specimen size: 11.6 × 2.1 × 1.7 cm = 4.57” × 0.83” × 0.67”

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

Fluorite with Baryte. Front
Front
Fluorite with Baryte. Rear
Rear
Fluorite with Baryte.
Doyleite with Gibbsite
Doyleite with Gibbsite.
Doyleite with Gibbsite.
 

MA86I5: Esthetic specimen of this rare hydroxide, a polymorph of Gibbsite. Both species are present on this nice miniature of botryoidal forms and excellent color, with nice changes of shade from green to brown, with white strips and spectacular greasy luster present on very few specimen. We’ll send the analysis to the buyer.
Baoshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2006)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 9 × 6 cm = 0.51” × 3.54” × 2.36”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Doyleite with Gibbsite
 

MG64I1: An excellent specimen of this rare hydroxide, a polymorph of Gibbsite. Both species are present on this beautiful miniature of botryoidal forms and esthetic green color.
We’ll give the results of the analysis to the buyer.
Baoshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2006)

Specimen size: 3 × 3.5 × 2.3 cm = 1.18” × 1.38” × 0.91”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Doyleite with Gibbsite.
Doyleite with Gibbsite
Doyleite with Gibbsite.
 

MH64I1: An excellent specimen of this rare hydroxide, a polymorph of Gibbsite. Both species are present on this beautiful miniature of botryoidal forms. We’ll give the results of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 489 and in the book 'China II', by Berthold Ottens, on page 357

Baoshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2007)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.4 × 3.7 cm = 1.89” × 1.73” × 1.46”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Doyleite with Gibbsite
 

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

Specimen size: 10.7 × 9.3 × 4.5 cm = 4.21” × 3.66” × 1.77”

Intense fluorescence short UV & fluorescent long UV
Doyleite with Gibbsite. Doyleite with Gibbsite.
Topaz with Albite, smoky Quartz and Muscovite
Topaz with Albite, smoky Quartz and Muscovite. Topaz with Albite, smoky Quartz and Muscovite.
 

EA86I0: The crystal is very rich of faces, neat, transparent and bright, on an esthetic matrix with Muscovite, slightly smoky Quartz and rosettes of laminar crystals of Albite. From a Chinese locality recently discovered.
Gaoligong Mountains, Nujiang, Yunnan  China (2006)

Specimen size: 5.3 × 5.2 × 2.9 cm = 2.09” × 2.05” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.2 cm = 0.71” × 0.47”

Albite fluorescent short UV
Topaz with smoky Quartz and Albite
 

EB38I0: The crystal is very rich of faces, neat, transparent and with a slight smoky color. It is implanted on a doubly-terminated crystal of Quartz, with inclusions, and a Feldspar crystal. It comes from a Chinese locality recently discovered.
Gaoligong Mountains, Nujiang, Yunnan  China (2006)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 6.3 × 3.2 cm = 3.03” × 2.48” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.5 cm = 1.02” × 0.59”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Topaz with smoky Quartz and Albite.
Topaz with smoky Quartz and Albite.
Beryl (variety emerald) with Quartz
Beryl (variety emerald) with Quartz.
 

EC86I1: Prismatic crystal of very well-defined faces and edges, of uniform color and esthetically situated on the Quartz matrix. It is from an uncommon locality.
Dayakou, Malipo, Wenshan, Yunnan  China (2005)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 1.77” × 1.50” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 1 cm = 1.06” × 0.39”

Tantalite-(Mn)
 

PH87C9: Pretty red and sharp Tantalite-(Mn) from China, the crystal is a floater with some minor associated feldspar.
Ximeng, Yunnan  China

Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 1.10” × 0.91” × 0.71”

Tantalite-(Mn).
Veszelyite with Hemimorphite
Veszelyite with Hemimorphite. Veszelyite with Hemimorphite.
 

MT99M5: A novelty in Munich 2008. Crystals and groups of crystals of this rare phosphate. They are very well defined, very deep in blue color and in botryoidal growths of light blue Hemimorphite. The locality had been well identified, which is not very common with Chinese specimens.
Laochang ore field, Gejiu, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan  China (08/2008)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 8.4 × 5.5 cm = 3.43” × 3.31” × 2.17”

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

Veszelyite with Hemimorphite
 

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

Specimen size: 4.3 × 2.6 × 2.5 cm = 1.69” × 1.02” × 0.98”

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

Veszelyite with Hemimorphite.
Veszelyite with Hemimorphite.

Babingtonite

Munich 2005 offered some samples from China that were offered as Manganbabingtonite. We had doubts about the composition so we did simple analysis and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The results leave no doubts: they are really Babingtonite. They are exceptional in size, their association with Prehnite and Quartz and their agreeable esthetics.
Once more, China amazes us with something surpassing the best previously known for a species!

Babingtonite with Prehnite
Babingtonite with Prehnite. Babingtonite with Prehnite.
 

MB97G5: On Prehnite, a big quantity of small Babingtonite crystals, but one of these crystals is very much bigger, doubly-terminated, bright and very sharp. We’ll give a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
The specimen has been published in the magazine ‘Lapis’ on page 24, volume 33, number 6, June 2008.
Babingtonite occurrences, Qiaojia, Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.3 × 2.6 cm = 2.01” × 1.69” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.31” × 0.24”

Babingtonite with Prehnite, Quartz and Epidote
 

EM68K3: Doubly terminated crystal of Babingtonite with very sharp faces and edges and a considerable size. The matrix is a group of small Quartz crystals with spheroidal Prehnite and small crystals of Epidote. Very esthetic.
Babingtonite occurrences, Qiaojia, Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 3.7 × 2.7 cm = 2.13” × 1.46” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 2.3 × 2 cm = 0.91” × 0.79”

Babingtonite with Prehnite, Quartz and Epidote. Front
Front
Babingtonite with Prehnite, Quartz and Epidote. Side
Side
Babingtonite with Prehnite, Quartz and Epidote. Top
Top
Babingtonite with Prehnite and Quartz
Babingtonite with Prehnite and Quartz. Front
Front
Babingtonite with Prehnite and Quartz. Top
Top
Babingtonite with Prehnite and Quartz. Rear
Rear
 

TT94N9: An excellent example with a Babingtonite crystal, quite large for the species. It has very well defined faces and edges with perfect terminations, and, most importantly, they are very bright. It is on a matrix of green botryoidal Prehnite and small crystals of Quartz. A definitive piece.
Babingtonite occurrences, Qiaojia, Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 6 × 4 × 4.8 cm = 2.36” × 1.57” × 1.89”

Main crystal size: 3.2 ×  2.7 cm = 1.26” × 1.06”

Babingtonite with Prehnite and Quartz
 

ED64K6: Group of doubly terminated crystals of Babingtonite. They have a more than considerable size for the species. They are on a matrix of Prehnite with Quartz.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘Sainte-Marie Show 2008’ section of the magazine ‘Minéraux et Fossiles’ and appears on page 24 of number 373. We will send the purchaser a copy of the magazine.
Babingtonite occurrences, Qiaojia, Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2007)

Specimen size: 6.4 × 4.4 × 2.7 cm = 2.52” × 1.73” × 1.06”

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

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Calcite with inclusions
Calcite with inclusions. Front
Front
Calcite with inclusions. Side
Side
Calcite with inclusions. Top
Top
 

TB50AE9: Floater aggregate of two 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: 5.2 × 4.7 × 4.2 cm = 2.05” × 1.85” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 4.2 × 4 cm = 1.65” × 1.57”

Minor fluorescence short UV
Calcite with inclusions
 

TR31AE9: 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.
This specimen was published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the ‘What's New’ section, report 46, April 14, 2017 edition.
Lishui Prefecture, Zhejiang Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.2 × 2.8 cm = 2.64” × 1.65” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 3.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.30” × 1.10”

Minor fluorescence long UV
Calcite with inclusions. Front
Front
Calcite with inclusions. Side
Side
Calcite with inclusions.
Calcite
Calcite.
 

TF96W7: Very acute scalenohedral crystal with very well marked parallel growths. It is very bright and has tones between yellow and orange due to limonite inclusions.
Chanhua, Zhejiang  China

Specimen size: 11.5 × 5.2 × 5.5 cm = 4.53” × 2.05” × 2.17”

Minor fluorescence long & short UV

OTHERS


Calcite
 

EF47AK9: Curious recrystallization and replacement of a fossil sponge by microcrystals of Calcite, granular in appearance, but lustrous and pale cream in color. The specimen, as frequently happens with novelties from China, comes from an unspecified locality.
  China (2019)

Specimen size: 6 × 4 × 4.6 cm = 2.36” × 1.57” × 1.81”

Fluorescence short UV & minor fluorescence long UV
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Rear
Rear
Calcite. bottom
bottom
Goethite with Calcite and Pyrite
Goethite with Calcite and Pyrite. Goethite with Calcite and Pyrite.
 

TM61Y7: Very well defined botryoidal, almost spheroidal, growths of grayish black Goethite with transparent Calcite crystals, with small cubic Pyrite crystals, and on matrix. The Goethite has been analyzed and we’ll send a copy of the analysis to the buyer. We regret we can not provide more precise details about the locality but, as frequently happens with Chinese material, the origin remains unknown.
  China (2007)

Specimen size: 9.6 × 9.2 × 3.5 cm = 3.78” × 3.62” × 1.38”

Calcite minor fluorescence long & short UV
Allophane
 

TY9X0: 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.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China II', by Berthold Ottens, on page 358
Baoshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2011)

Specimen size: 2.2 × 2 × 1.2 cm = 0.87” × 0.79” × 0.47”

Allophane.
Allophane
Allophane.
 

TQ76X0: 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: 9.3 × 6.5 × 2.5 cm = 3.66” × 2.56” × 0.98”



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