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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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)
This specimen has been photographed and published as a reference in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 02/2024, page 23
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”

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)
This specimen has been photographed and published as a reference in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 02/2024, page 17
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm = 2.48” × 1.50” × 1.26”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

TLR89ASN2: A delightful and delicate miniature formed by Veszelyite crystals on a matrix, with two clearly dominant, elongated, and very well-defined crystals. They are translucent, very bright, and display an intense, deep, and uniform color.
This is a high-quality example of this copper-zinc phosphate species.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China

Specimen size: 2.2 × 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.87” × 0.59” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.28” × 0.20”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

TVX46CD1: Very abundant Veszelyite crystals, with the quality and intense color expected from those of this locality. But also when the crystals appear filling a vug, this makes them very visible, clearly giving the image of being a 'matrix piece'.
Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 4.3 × 3.4 cm = 2.64” × 1.69” × 1.34”

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

TRX97CD5: Group of tabular Baryte crystals showing very marked rhombic morphology, with the faces and edges of the crystals perfectly defined, transparent, with extraordinarily bright luster and with very marked geometric color zoning, darker towards the center of the crystal and an intense uniform yellow color towards the edges.
This very elegant specimen comes from the collection of Bill Dameron.
Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China

Specimen size: 7.8 × 4 × 4.2 cm = 3.07” × 1.57” × 1.65”

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

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”