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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”