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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”

Azurite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MXL1AO0: Group, on matrix, of Azurite crystals very rich in sharp crystal forms, with good luster and a very vivid color.
Tongshan Mine, Guichi District, Chizhou Prefecture, Anhui Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.2 × 3.9 cm = 2.83” × 2.44” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1.3 × 0.6 cm = 0.51” × 0.24”

Azurite. Front
Front
Azurite. Side
Side
Azurite.
Pyrite with Quartz and carbonates

Recorded under neon light
 

EAF46CD1: Small but fine. From the enormous amount of material that continually arrives from China there are always little things that attract attention, like this Pyrite with crystallographically complex crystals, well placed in their matrix.
Tongling Prefecture, Anhui Province  China (2023)

Specimen size: 4 × 3.2 × 4.4 cm = 1.57” × 1.26” × 1.73”

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

Pyrite with Quartz and carbonates
 

EAE56CD1: Small but fine. From the enormous amount of material that continually arrives from China there are always little things that attract attention, like this Pyrite with crystallographically complex crystals, well placed in their matrix.
Tongling Prefecture, Anhui Province  China (2023)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.7 × 1.8 cm = 1.81” × 1.46” × 0.71”

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


Recorded under neon light

FUJIAN PROVINCE


Calcite
Calcite. Front
Front
Calcite. Rear
Rear
Calcite.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TGA47AN4: Group of complex Calcite crystals on matrix, very rich in faces and some doubly terminated, extraordinarily lustrous, transparent and rich in highly visible inclusions.
Longyan Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 4.3 × 4.1 cm = 2.83” × 1.69” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 5 × 1.4 cm = 1.97” × 0.55”

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.
Fluorite
Fluorite. Front
Front
Fluorite. Top
Top

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TRM50AO8: A novelty at Sainte-Marie 2022. A floater group of crystals of Fluorite with polycrystalline growths and very marked curvatures, transparent, with good luster and an intense blue color, with violet tones in some areas of the crystal.
Kengzikou Mine, Kengzikou, Yongchun, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (02/2022)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 8.3 × 6.1 cm = 3.35” × 3.27” × 2.40”

Fluorite with Quartz

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MFR70AO0: Fluorite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and very aerial, with the shapes of the cube clearly beveled by the dodecahedron, transparent, with good luster and an intense and deep violet color. On matrix, with Quartz crystals.
Xia Yang Mine, Yongchun, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 3.2 × 2.8 cm = 2.01” × 1.26” × 1.10”

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

Fluorite with Quartz. Fluorite with Quartz.
Fluorite with Quartz
Fluorite with Quartz. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Fluorite with Quartz. Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Detail / Photo: Joaquim Callén
 

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

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

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

Fluorite with Quartz
 

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

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

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

Fluorite with Quartz. Front
Front
Fluorite with Quartz. Side
Side
Fluorite with Quartz.
Calcite coated by Hematite and Quartz
Calcite coated by Hematite and Quartz. Calcite coated by Hematite and Quartz.
Calcite coated by Hematite and Quartz.

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MFF94AO1: Two large, extraordinarily sharp, translucent, rhombohedral Calcite crystals with fine Hematite coatings that are in turn coated by very lustrous and completely colorless Quartz microcrystals. Extraordinary aesthetics.
Liangxi mining district, Datian, Sanming Prefecture, Fujian Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 12.4 × 9.8 × 7 cm = 4.88” × 3.86” × 2.76”

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

Fluorescent long & short UV
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, smoky Quartz and Chlorite
 

MD86X4: 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: 6.6 × 3.7 × 3.6 cm = 2.60” × 1.46” × 1.42”

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

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

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

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 Feldspar
Spessartine with Feldspar. Front
Front
Spessartine with Feldspar. Rear
Rear
Spessartine with Feldspar.
 

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

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

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

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.
Spessartine with smoky Quartz
Spessartine with smoky Quartz. Front
Front
Spessartine with smoky Quartz. Rear
Rear
 

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 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 manganese oxides after Helvine. Spessartine with manganese oxides after Helvine.
Spessartine with smoky Quartz and Feldspar
Spessartine with smoky Quartz and Feldspar.
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
 

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. Spessartine.
Spessartine with smoky Quartz and Clinochlore
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
 

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”

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

GUANGDONG PROVINCE


Octahedral Fluorite
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
Azurite
 

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”

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

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
 

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

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

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TFM27AN6: 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 × 6 × 4.4 cm = 2.68” × 2.36” × 1.73”

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

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TGM98AN3: Botryoidal growth of very 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: 6.9 × 6.8 × 4 cm = 2.72” × 2.68” × 1.57”

Malachite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EFR89AO0: Botryoidal growth of very aesthetic forms (nicknamed 'The Kiss') of Malachite, banded with different shades of green and with an intense silky luster, which gives it a peculiar chatoyant appearance.
Shilu Mine, Yangchun, Yangjiang Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±1995)

Specimen size: 7 × 6.8 × 3.3 cm = 2.76” × 2.68” × 1.30”

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

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TRM66AN7: Botryoidal growths of very aesthetic Malachite 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: 7.2 × 7 × 3.7 cm = 2.83” × 2.76” × 1.46”

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.
Malachite
Malachite. Front
Front
Malachite. Rear
Rear

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EEL94AP5: Botryoidal growth of extraordinarily aesthetic shapes of Malachite, with banding in 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: 7.4 × 7 × 2.8 cm = 2.91” × 2.76” × 1.10”

Malachite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TRT91AN4: Aerial Malachite floater group with very aesthetic irregular growths. It has an intense silky luster, bands of different shades of green, and surface areas with a fibrous appearance. Very elegant.
Shilu Mine, Yangchun, Yangjiang Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±1995)

Specimen size: 7.7 × 4.3 × 3.7 cm = 3.03” × 1.69” × 1.46”

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

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TFN27AN6: 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: 7.9 × 5 × 3.2 cm = 3.11” × 1.97” × 1.26”

Malachite

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

TMA66AN7: Botryoidal growths of very aesthetic Malachite 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: 8 × 4.5 × 2.7 cm = 3.15” × 1.77” × 1.06”

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

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

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.
Malachite
Malachite. Front
Front
Malachite. Rear
Rear

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”

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”

Scorodite with Pyrite.
Scorodite with Pyrite.
Calcite with Quartz

Recorded under neon light
 

MBX96CD5: Calcite crystal with a very sharp trigonal shape, implanted on a matrix formed by Quartz crystals, with both species tinted by iron oxides. The faces of the Calcite crystal are smooth, with delicate growth striations and darker, perfectly sharp edges.
The specimen comes from a recent limited discovery in the Laohuao area in China.
Laohuao, Zhaogang township, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±09/2023)

Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.5 × 2 cm = 1.65” × 1.38” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 3.1 cm = 1.42” × 1.22”

Calcite with Quartz
 

MBT46CD5: Calcite crystals with very sharp trigonal shapes, one of them clearly dominant, implanted on a matrix formed by Quartz crystals, with both species stained by iron oxides. The faces of the Calcite crystals are smooth, with delicate growth striations and darker, perfectly defined edges.
The specimen comes from a recent limited discovery in the Laohuao area in China.
Laohuao, Zhaogang township, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±09/2023)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.8 × 2.5 cm = 2.20” × 1.89” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 2 cm = 0.87” × 0.79”


Recorded under neon light
Calcite with Quartz

Recorded under neon light
 

MTC16CD5: Calcite crystals with very sharp trigonal shapes, one of them clearly dominant, implanted on a matrix formed by Quartz crystals, with both species stained by iron oxides. The faces of the Calcite crystals are smooth, with delicate growth striations and darker, perfectly defined edges.
The specimen comes from a recent limited discovery in the Laohuao area in China.
Laohuao, Zhaogang township, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±09/2023)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 4.2 × 3.9 cm = 2.40” × 1.65” × 1.54”

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

Calcite with Quartz
 

MTB14CD5: Calcite crystals with very sharp trigonal shapes, one of them clearly dominant, implanted on a matrix formed by Quartz crystals, with both species stained by iron oxides. The faces of the Calcite crystals are smooth, with delicate growth striations and darker, perfectly defined edges.
The specimen comes from a recent limited discovery in the Laohuao area in China.
Laohuao, Zhaogang township, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±09/2023)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.5 ×  4.4 cm = 2.48” × 1.77” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.6 cm = 0.75” × 0.63”


Recorded under neon light
Calcite with Quartz

Recorded under neon light
 

MBR46CD5: Calcite crystals with very sharp trigonal shapes implanted on a matrix formed by Quartz crystals, with both species stained by iron oxides. The faces of the Calcite crystals are smooth, with delicate growth striations and darker, perfectly defined edges.
The specimen comes from a recent limited discovery in the Laohuao area in China.
Laohuao, Zhaogang township, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±09/2023)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 4.1 × 1.3 cm = 2.56” × 1.61” × 0.51”

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

Calcite with Quartz
 

MBY86CD5: Calcite crystals with very sharp trigonal shapes, two of them clearly dominant, implanted on a matrix formed by Quartz crystals, with both species stained by iron oxides. The faces of the Calcite crystals are smooth, with delicate growth striations and darker, perfectly defined edges.
The specimen comes from a recent limited discovery in the Laohuao area in China.
Laohuao, Zhaogang township, Liannan, Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangdong Province  China (±09/2023)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 5.6 × 2.8 cm = 3.74” × 2.20” × 1.10”

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


Recorded under neon light

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