Mineral Specimens - page 13
China

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TC98Z7: Aggregate of very sharp tetrahedral crystals, bright with a dark brown color and with small parallel Quartz aggregates and a strongly flattened Calcite crystal with its contour almost 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: 3.2 × 2.4 × 2.7 cm = 1.26” × 0.94” × 1.06”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

E36X6: Group of very sharp tetrahedral crystals on matrix, with Calcite and Magnetite. They have very well defined faces and edges, and are very bright, with a salmon color. They are zoned so the crystals are Helvine inside and Genthelvite on their edges. The sample has been individually analyzed and we’ll send a copy of this analysis to the buyer.
Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner (Kèshíkèténg Qí), Chifeng (Ulanhad), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region  China (2012)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EJA88AP3: Very sharp cubic Galena crystals, very shiny, implanted on a matrix of small white Quartz crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2014)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.7 × 2.4 cm = 2.36” × 1.46” × 0.94”

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

EFE99AP3: Cubic crystal of Galena with the vertices beveled by minor octahedron forms, on a little matrix with Quartz coatings and Pyrite microcrystals.
Exceptional quality for the species at this locality.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2018)

Specimen size: 7 × 4.2 × 4.1 cm = 2.76” × 1.65” × 1.61”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 3.8 cm = 1.61” × 1.50”

EFL86AP2: Very aerial stalactitic growth of Quartz crystals with reddish iron oxides inclusions, partially covered by very sharp trapezohedral crystals of Chalcopyrite.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (07/2021)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 2 × 1.4 cm = 1.89” × 0.79” × 0.55”

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

ETP37AP2: Very aerial group of Tennantite-Tetrahedrite crystals covered by a fine surface film of Chalcopyrite, on matrix with Quartz crystals rich in reddish inclusions of iron oxides.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (07/2021)

Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.4 × 2 cm = 1.54” × 0.94” × 0.79”

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

EJL47AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Group of sharp twinned Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and an intense reddish orange. On matrix, with cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena and white Calcite crystals.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 664 in the volume 53, number 5, September-October 2022
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 4.1 × 3.4 × 3 cm = 1.61” × 1.34” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 3 cm = 1.22” × 1.18”

ELY98AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Group of sharp twinned Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, lustrous, and an intense reddish orange. On matrix, with small white Calcite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.1 × 3.4 cm = 2.05” × 1.61” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.02” × 0.94”

EBR50AP3: New at Ste. Marie 2022
Twinned Sphalerite crystals, more isolated than usual, sharp and with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, lustrous and very intense reddish, on matrix, with small white Calcite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 8.4 × 6.7 × 4.4 cm = 3.31” × 2.64” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2.4 cm = 1.10” × 0.94”

ETV89AP3: New at Ste. Marie 2022
Twinned Sphalerite crystals, more isolated than usual, sharp and with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, lustrous and very intense reddish, on matrix, with small white Calcite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 8.7 × 6.3 × 5.8 cm = 3.43” × 2.48” × 2.28”

Main crystal size: 2.8 × 2 cm = 1.10” × 0.79”

ETB88AP1: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022. Twinned Sphalerite crystals more isolated than usual, sharp, with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and an intense reddish orange color. On matrix, with small white crystals of Calcite and Quartz.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 11.3 × 5.2 × 4.1 cm = 4.45” × 2.05” × 1.61”

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

EMA37AQ0: Twinned Sphalerite crystals with the dominant forms of the tetrahedron, translucent and of orange color, on matrix, with spheroidal aggregates of Pyrite crystals, groups of white Calcite crystals and small groups of Quartz crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 10.3 × 6 cm = 4.92” × 4.06” × 2.36”

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

ERT90AP3: New at Ste. Marie 2022
Twinned Sphalerite crystals more isolated than usual, sharp and with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, lustrous, with an intense reddish color, on matrix, with small white Calcite crystals and Galena crystals with a cubic habit.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 12.8 × 9.4 × 6.8 cm = 5.04” × 3.70” × 2.68”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 2.1 cm = 0.94” × 0.83”

EXL49AP1: Group of Quartz crystals with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with bright luster and intense red color due to Hematite inclusions, partially bordered by crystals of white Calcite and with small Pyrite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2010)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 7 × 4.7 cm = 4.02” × 2.76” × 1.85”

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

XM275ELJ: Cubic Fluorite crystals with faces and edges well defined, on a matrix of crystalline Quartz dotted with small Calcite crystals, from a mine that exploits tungsten and tin hosted in Quartz veins.
Piaotang Mine, Dayu, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (03/2022)

Specimen size: 5.6 × 4.4 × 3.7 cm = 2.20” × 1.73” × 1.46”

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

TXP97AP3: Equant translucent Fluorite crystals with a very deep color and irregular zoning. On matrix, with Quartz and yellow Calcite microcrystals.
The specimen comes from finds made in March 2022.
Piaotang Mine, Dayu, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (03/2022)

Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.7 × 3.4 cm = 2.28” × 1.85” × 1.34”

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

EPM96AP3: Equant translucent Fluorite crystals with a very deep color and irregular zoninG. On matrix, with Quartz and yellow Calcite microcrystals.
The specimen comes from finds made in March 2022.
Piaotang Mine, Dayu, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (03/2022)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.5 × 4 cm = 2.48” × 1.77” × 1.57”

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

SV420MMB: Pair of very sharp octahedral Fluorite crystals completely covered by very lustrous Quartz microcrystals that perfectly preserve the Fluorite crystal morphology. They are arranged in a matrix of rock totally covered by an earlier generation of Quartz crystals, some of them with dark inclusions of Hematite. This material was unknown until now at this locality.
Ruijin, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (09/2022)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 4.1 × 3.5 cm = 1.93” × 1.61” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 2 cm = 0.83” × 0.79”

SV280MFF: Group of octahedral Fluorite crystals completely coated by very lustrous Quartz microcrystals that perfectly preserve the morphology of the Fluorite crystals. One of the crystals preserves part of the original greenish Fluorite, as can be seen on the left side of the specimen. They are arranged in a matrix of rock completely coated by an earlier generation of Quartz crystals. This material was unknown until now at this locality.
Ruijin, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (09/2022)

Specimen size: 9.3 × 5.4 × 4.4 cm = 3.66” × 2.13” × 1.73”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 2.4 cm = 1.02” × 0.94”

SV230MLH: Group of octahedral Fluorite crystals completely covered by microcrystals of very lustrous Quartz that perfectly preserves the morphology of the Fluorite crystals. They are arranged on a rock matrix fully carpeted by an earlier generation of Quartz crystals. This material was unknown until now from this locality.
Ruijin, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (09/2022)

Specimen size: 10.1 × 8 × 5.4 cm = 3.98” × 3.15” × 2.13”

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

SV560MXA: Group of octahedral Fluorite crystals completely covered by microcrystals of very lustrous Quartz that perfectly preserves the morphology of the Fluorite crystals. They are arranged in a rock matrix fully covered by an earlier generation of Quartz crystals.
Ruijin, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (09/2022)

Specimen size: 11.3 × 7.6 × 5.1 cm = 4.45” × 2.99” × 2.01”

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

MTR89AO0: Druse of Calcite and Quartz crystals with one much larger crystal that was once a Calcite scalenohedron, completely hollow and replaced by microcrystalline Quartz that preserves the perfectly sharp forms of the previously existing Calcite. The application of a strong light source shows that the crystal is completely empty inside.
Xiefang Mine, Ruijin, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2014)

Specimen size: 9.2 × 6.6 × 6 cm = 3.62” × 2.60” × 2.36”

Main crystal size: 6.6 × 3.3 cm = 2.60” × 1.30”

EFB69AP3: Very aerial arborescent aggregate of Copper in which sharp crystals coexist with lamellar forms, with two different metallic tones, one more yellowish and the other more reddish.
Chengmenshan Mine, Jiujiang Co., Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 10.3 × 6.4 × 4.8 cm = 4.06” × 2.52” × 1.89”

ME56AK3: Group of very elongated crystals, two of them clearly dominant, with excellent terminations, brilliant, with a small white lenticular crystal of Calcite. This type of specimen, which used to be relatively common, are becoming a rarity.
Wuning Mine, Qingjiang, Wuning, Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2004)

Specimen size: 14.2 × 6.5 × 2.4 cm = 5.59” × 2.56” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 14.2 × 1.1 cm = 5.59” × 0.43”

TCZ89AO2: A novelty on the market in 2022. Very aerial and aesthetic arborescent growth of Silver, 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.
This specimen has been published on the Mineralogical Record´s web page, in the 'What’s New on the Internet Reports' section, report 63, April 15, 2022 edition, page 2
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.79” × 0.63” × 0.24”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.1 cm = 0.59” × 0.04”

XM2220TPF: On a spherical aggregate of Calcite crystals there is a swarm of Silver filaments, some of them more developed and more isolated, enveloping the Calcite core.
Comes from a gold deposit in Shandong Province in China.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

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

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.1 cm = 0.71” × 0.04”

MTA37AO2: A novelty on the market in 2022. Very aerial and aesthetic arborescent growth of Silver. On matrix of Calcite.
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: 2.5 × 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.98” × 0.43” × 0.35”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.08”

TTE96AO4: 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: 4.4 × 2.3 × 2.4 cm = 1.73” × 0.91” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.1 cm = 0.55” × 0.04”

XM2640TBT: Elegant specimen composed of a matrix of tabular Calcite crystals on which are arranged thick, very aerial and arborescent Silver crystals, curved and with twisted terminations.
Comes from a gold deposit in Shandong Province in China.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 5 × 2.1 × 1.8 cm = 1.97” × 0.83” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 0.3 cm = 1.26” × 0.12”

SV2420TRM: Novelty on the market in 2022.
Arborescent Silver, very aerial and aesthetic, with very marked spinel-law twinning. On matrix, surrounding a rocky core, and adorned with 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 had been found there.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 1.8 × 1 cm = 2.05” × 0.71” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 4.7 × 0.1 cm = 1.85” × 0.04”

TXF99AO4: A novelty on the market in 2022. Very aerial and aesthetic arborescent growth of Silver, with a very marked spinel-law twin plane. With Calcite 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: 5.4 × 4 × 2.8 cm = 2.13” × 1.57” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 3.5 × 0.1  cm = 1.38” × 0.04”

TFR89AO6: New on the market in 2022. Different from the usual. Apart from the filiform growths, the main crystal stands out, extraordinarily elongated but thick and sharp and with a very distinct spinel-law twin. With 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 of which until now there was no evidence that silver of such quality had been found there.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 5.4 × 4.8 × 3.3 cm = 2.13” × 1.89” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 0.2 cm = 0.98” × 0.08”

SV2680TGA: Novelty on the market in 2022.
Arborescent Silver, very aerial and aesthetic, with very marked spinel-law twinning. It is on matrix, surrounding a rocky core decorated by 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 had been found there.
Jizishan deposit, Linqu, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province  China (±2014)

Specimen size: 6.3 × 3.2 × 2 cm = 2.48” × 1.26” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 0.15 cm = 1.22” × 0.06”

TVM88AO4: A novelty on the market in 2022. Very 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: 6.7 × 2.3 × 1.2 cm = 2.64” × 0.91” × 0.47”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 0.1 cm = 1.89” × 0.04”

TBM88AO5: 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: 6.7 × 4.5 × 2.8 cm = 2.64” × 1.77” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 0.3 cm = 1.02” × 0.12”

TXF73AO5: 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: 7.1  × 6 × 3.9 cm = 2.80” × 2.36” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 4.4 × 0.1 cm = 1.73” × 0.04”

TBR27AO3: A novelty on the market in 2022. Very aerial and aesthetic arborescent growth of Silver, with a very marked spinel-law twin plane. With 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: 9.5 × 3.1 × 1 cm = 3.74” × 1.22” × 0.39”

Main crystal size: 8.8 × 0.1 cm = 3.46” × 0.04”

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

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

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

EA56K0: Group of cuboctahedral crystals with strange curvatures and deformations. Hooked and coiled wirelike crystals of native Silver contrast with the darker Acanthite.
66 line Mine, Gaoliangchun, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province  China (2007)

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

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

ED89K0: Very stylized group of deformed cubic crystals. An aerial branch is partially covered by mossy native Silver that contrasts with the darker Acanthite. Very esthetic.
66 line Mine, Gaoliangchun, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province  China (2007)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm = 2.05” × 0.98” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.1 cm = 1.18” × 0.43”

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

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

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

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

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

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

NGB66AN7: Group of water-clear quartz crystals, very transparent and lustrous, with sharp, transparent and colorless Baryte crystals.
The specimen comes from the Miguel David Martínez collection (number 837), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Jinkouhe District, Leshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 9.7 × 8.4 × 4.7 cm = 3.82” × 3.31” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 4.5 × 1.1 cm = 1.77” × 0.43”

ERM86AP1: Two rare species in a single specimen, on matrix, with lamellar Muscovite crystals. The Mushistonite, of light green color, covers disphenoidal Kësterite crystals, a crystal form generally hardly distinguishable but which in this specimen is clearly defined.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (04/2022)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 2.4 × 2 cm = 1.81” × 0.94” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.20” × 0.12”

TFX71AO3: Very sharp bipyramidal Scheelite crystal, with parallel growths, translucent, lustrous and with a bright orange color. Associated with an unusually transparent-translucent polycrystalline growth of Albite, and also with lamellar Muscovite crystals.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.8 × 4 cm = 2.24” × 1.50” × 1.57”

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

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

BRB94AP3: Parallel polycrystalline growth of octahedral Scheelite crystals, translucent, very lustrous and a very vivid orange, on matrix.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (1996)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5 × 3.4 cm = 2.64” × 1.97” × 1.34”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1 cm = 0.55” × 0.39”

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

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

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

TFR53AP3: Group of dipyramidal Scheelite crystals of good size, translucent and deep orange, in an Albite matrix.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 9.1 × 6.4 × 3.6 cm = 3.58” × 2.52” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 7.1 × 5 cm = 2.80” × 1.97”

MR47AL5: Multiple growth of dipyramidal crystals with sharp faces and edges, excellent color, very intense, on matrix with leafy aggregates of Muscovite crystals. Large size of both the piece as a whole and the Scheelite crystals, which at the time were a relatively abundant species and which today have become difficult to obtain, especially in pieces like this.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 13.2 × 11.6 × 8.6  cm = 5.20” × 4.57” × 3.39”

Main crystal size: 7.2 × 6.6 cm = 2.83” × 2.60”

EBX49AP3: Polycrystalline aggregate of twinned Cassiterite crystals, with very sharp crystal forms, extraordinarily lustrous and with a deep black color, on a matrix of very sharp lamellar Muscovite crystals.
Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China

Specimen size: 6 × 4.4 × 3.1 cm = 2.36” × 1.73” × 1.22”

Main crystal size: 4.1 × 2.5 cm = 1.61” × 0.98”

TT50X5: Polycrystalline growths of Cassiterite with a very prominent twinning, very bright deep black color and with a small matrix of colorless beryl and leafy growths of Muscovite.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (2012)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5 × 3.5 cm = 2.56” × 1.97” × 1.38”

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

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

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

EM99T7: Tabular crystal of Beryl (Aquamarine), more aerial than usual with samples from this locality, very transparent and bright, clear color, very rich in faces and on a matrix of Albite and Muscovite crystals.
Pingwu Mine, Huya township, Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province  China (06/2011)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.8 × 4.2 cm = 2.64” × 2.28” × 1.65”

Main crystal size: 3.6 × 3.5 cm = 1.42” × 1.38”

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

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

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

MJK53AP5: Groups, on matrix, of Beryl crystals (emerald variety) with an elongated prismatic habit, translucent and lustrous, with a vivid and uniform color.
Dayakou Mine, Mengdong township, Malipo, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (08/2022)

Specimen size: 10.4 × 7.6 × 5.3 cm = 4.09” × 2.99” × 2.09”

Main crystal size: 3.7 × 0.7 cm = 1.46” × 0.28”

EEB92AP5: Twinned Cassiterite crystal with very sharp crystal forms, transparent dark brown, with an extraordinarily bright luster, in a very aerial position on a matrix of Quartz crystals with leafy Mica aggregates.
Yalian Township, Yongde, Lincang, Yunnan Province  China (2022)

Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.8 × 4.6 cm = 2.91” × 2.28” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.8 cm = 0.79” × 0.71”

XM2230MFR: Druse of Calcite crystals (cobalt-rich variety) showing scalenohedral habits in some deeper toned crystals and globular forms of lighter color in others. Accompanied by fine acicular radiating crystals.
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.6 × 1.6 cm = 1.46” × 1.02” × 0.63”

XM2230MAX: Druse of Calcite crystals (cobalt-rich variety) with mauve-pink tones, in a rock matrix, on a first generation of Calcite crystals which were not stained by cobalt ions.
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.6 × 2.9 cm = 1.73” × 1.42” × 1.14”

XM2340MAB: Crystals of Calcite (cobalt-rich variety) as growths between coralloidal and arborescent, on a rock matrix, with a gradation of color, partially covering a first generation of lamellar Calcite crystals.
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 5.1 × 2.1 × 2.7 cm = 2.01” × 0.83” × 1.06”

EMR68AP6: Botryoidal growths of Calcite of an intense mauve color (Co-bearing variety), in matrix, and with a second generation of botryoidal Calcite with bluish tones.
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 6.5 × 5.1 × 3.8 cm = 2.56” × 2.01” × 1.50”

EFX99AP5: Botryoidal growths of Calcite of an intense mauve color (cobalt-bearing variety), in matrix, with fibrous aggregates of Talmessite covering small Calcite crystals.
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 6.6 × 6.3 × 2.7 cm = 2.60” × 2.48” × 1.06”

EPT68AP6: Botryoidal growths of Calcite of intense blue color, with Calcite (Co-bearing variety) also botryoidal but of a very intense mauve color, all covered with Malachite.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a reference in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 02/2024, page 20
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.2 × 4.4 cm = 2.83” × 2.44” × 1.73”

EXP51AP1: From important finds made in the Lanping area in early 2022. Coralloidal growths of Calcite on matrix with an intense pink-mauve color (cobalt-bearing variety)
This specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 168/2022, page 17
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (03/2022)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 10.3 × 5.6 cm = 4.92”

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

ERF27AP1: A novelty from China. Calcite crystals coated by Talmessite with pinkish tones, more or less reddish depending on the area of the specimen.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 5.3 × 2.8 cm = 2.24” × 2.09” × 1.10”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.16” × 0.12”

EFF49AP6: Calcite crystals coated by Talmessite with shades that vary from mauve to pink on different spots on the specimen. They are on matrix and with coralloidal growths of Calcite (Co-bearing variety) of an intense mauve color.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 6 × 3.8 × 3.8 cm = 2.36” × 1.50” × 1.50”

ERE69AP6: Growths of pink lenticular crystals of Talmessite, on botryoidal Calcite of bluish color, along with Calcite (Co-bearing variety) also botryoidal but of an intense mauve color.
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 7.2 × 4.4 × 3.6 cm = 2.83” × 1.73” × 1.42”

SV3290MFR:

A recent new discovery from China. Calcite crystals coated by Talmessite with pinkish tones, more or less reddish depending on the area of the specimen. On matrix, with botryoidal growths of Calcite (cobalt-bearing variety) of a very intense color.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 8 × 7 × 5.2 cm = 3.15” × 2.76” × 2.05”

ETP33AP1: A novelty from China. Calcite crystals coated by Talmessite with pinkish tones, more or less reddish depending on the area of the specimen. On matrix, with white, slightly bluish growths of Calcite and with Calcite (cobalt-bearing variety) with a very intense mauve color.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 168/2022, page 17
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 8.5 × 8.1 × 4.1 cm = 3.35” × 3.19” × 1.61”

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

ERM73AP1: A novelty from China. Calcite crystal rosettes coated by Talmessite with pink tones, more or less reddish depending on the area of the specimen. On matrix, with slightly bluish botryoidal growths of Calcite.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
This specimen has been photographed and published as a reference in the magazine ‘Lapis‘ number 02/2024, page 22
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 8.6 × 8 × 4.4 cm = 3.39” × 3.15” × 1.73”

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

EFX90AP1: A novelty from China. Calcite crystals coated by Talmessite with pinkish tones, more or less reddish depending on the area of the specimen. On matrix, with coralloidal growths of Calcite (cobalt-bearing variety) of a very intense mauve color.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (06/2022)

Specimen size: 9 × 5.2 × 1.9 cm = 3.54” × 2.05” × 0.75”

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

EAX33AP1: A novelty from China. Calcite crystals coated by Talmessite with pinkish tones, more or less reddish depending on the area of the specimen. On matrix, with botryoidal growths of Calcite (cobalt-bearing variety) of a very intense mauve color.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 9.1 × 8.2 × 5 cm = 3.58” × 3.23” × 1.97”

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

SV740EBB: Druse of Calcite crystals partially covered by pinkish Talmessite, deeper pink in some areas of the specimen, showing coralloidal forms, with darker banded areas caused by manganese oxide stains.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 10 × 5.8 cm = 4.02” × 3.94” × 2.28”

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

EPT99AP1: A novelty from China. Calcite crystals coated by Talmessite with pinkish tones, more or less reddish depending on the area of the specimen.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Lanping, Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (07/2022)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 11.6 × 9.2 cm = 4.65” × 4.57” × 3.62”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.3 cm = 0.20” × 0.12”

EFM67AP2: Botryoidal and spheroidal growths of light bluish green Aurichalcite, on matrix, associated with trapezohedral Chalcopyrite crystals with an external patina of oxides.
The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (06/2022)

Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.9 × 2.7 cm = 1.89” × 1.54” × 1.06”

EPR87AP2: Botryoidal and spheroidal growths of light green Aurichalcite, on matrix, associated with trapezohedral Chalcopyrite crystals with an external patina of oxides, Baryte and small Quartz crystals. The specimen has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (06/2022)

Specimen size: 8.8 × 4.1 × 3.8 cm = 3.46” × 1.61” × 1.50”

MLB46AO2: 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: 4.8 × 3.1 × 3.4 cm = 1.89” × 1.22” × 1.34”

MLC96AO2: 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: 9.3 × 6.3 × 3.9 cm = 3.66” × 2.48” × 1.54”

MLE68AO2: 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: 13.7 × 8.4 × 5.1 cm = 5.39” × 3.31” × 2.01”

SV180MBR: Groups of crystals in radial fibrous aggregates composed of Tyrolite crystals, with bluish green tones, arranged on a matrix partially covered by a thin crystalline crust of Theisite. From a Chinese locality, Sanguozhuang, where lead and zinc are extracted, and which is the type locality for 5 new mineral species.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China

Specimen size: 3.4 × 3 × 1.8 cm = 1.34” × 1.18” × 0.71”

TVM36AO3: 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 mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.5 × 2.4 cm = 1.26” × 0.98” × 0.94”

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

MJR99AO3: Translucent and lustrous spheroidal aggregates with a pale bluish green color 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, accompanied by numerous Veszelyite crystals, very sharp and deep blue.
The specimen is from the type locality for the species.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.1 × 1.6 cm = 1.38” × 1.22” × 0.63”

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

TVX46AO3: 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 mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.6 × 1.8 cm = 1.42” × 1.02” × 0.71”

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

TVV37AO3: 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 mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 4.5 × 2.9 × 2.6 cm = 1.77” × 1.14” × 1.02”

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

TJA98AO7: Group, on matrix, of elongated and extraordinarily sharp Veszelyite crystals, with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with great luster and an intense, deep and uniform color. Of optimum quality for the species, with its very unique-looking sheaf of crystals.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 1.2 × 1.2 × 1.1 cm = 0.47” × 0.47” × 0.43”

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

SV320MTR: Elegant miniature, very airy in appearance, composed of Veszelyite crystals grouped into spheroidal shapes and arranged in a fan-like structure. The crystals are sharp, well-formed, and display an intense, uniform color with excellent luster.
From Sanguozhuang, China, a lead and zinc mining locality that is also the type locality for five new mineral species.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 1.6 × 1.2 × 1 cm = 0.63” × 0.47” × 0.39”

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

TJB49AO7: Group, on matrix, of elongated and extraordinarily sharp Veszelyite crystals, with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with great luster and an intense, deep and uniform color. Of optimum quality for the species.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.5 × 1.2 cm = 0.67” × 0.59” × 0.47”

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

SV280MBX: Distinct groups of Veszelyite crystals on matrix, aggregated in sheaf-like habits, each with preferred and parallel orientations, elongated and very sharp, with well defined crystal forms and an intense and uniform color, standing out on a thin crystalline layer of very pale blue Theisite coating the rock matrix, which gives a beautiful color contrast with the Veszelyite crystals. From a Chinese locality, Sanguozhuang, where lead and zinc are extracted, and which is the type locality for 5 new mineral species.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (11/2022)

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm = 0.71” × 0.59” × 0.51”

MAR88AO0: Group of elongated and very sharp Veszelyite crystals, with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with great luster and an extraordinarily intense and uniform color. Of the highest quality for the species.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 2 × 1.1 × 1.1 cm = 0.79” × 0.43” × 0.43”

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

TMB98AN7: Druse on matrix of aggregates of very sharp Veszelyite crystals, with sharp crystal forms, translucent, with good luster and an extraordinarily intense and uniform color. High quality for the species.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 2 × 2.3 cm = 0.98” × 0.79” × 0.91”

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

TPE77AN3: Spheroidal group of tabular crystals of the rare species Veszelyite, with very sharp polycrystalline growths. Translucent, lustrous and deep blue. On matrix, with very pale greenish blue botryoidal Hemimorphite.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 3 × 2.3 × 1.9 cm = 1.18” × 0.91” × 0.75”

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

MFR16AO4: Small Veszelyite crystal, but peculiar for being isolated on the tip of a Quartz crystal. It has very sharp crystal forms, is translucent, and has good luster and an intense color.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.42” × 1.38” × 1.34”

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

TFE3AN3: Groups of fine tabular crystals of the rare species Veszelyite, with very sharp polycrystalline growths, translucent, lustrous and deep blue. On matrix, with greenish botryoidal Hemimorphite.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 3.6 × 3.6 × 2.2 cm = 1.42” × 1.42” × 0.87”

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

ELM94AP3: Group, on matrix, of elongated Veszelyite crystals, with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with very good luster and an intense, deep and uniform color. Optimum quality for the species.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 3.7 × 3.1 × 2.3 cm = 1.46” × 1.22” × 0.91”

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

MXM99AO1: Group of very sharp Veszelyite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with very sharp crystal forms, translucent, with very bright luster and an extraordinarily intense and uniform color. On matrix with white globular Hemimorphite growths that partially cover small Quartz crystals. High quality for the species.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 4 × 2.7 × 3.2 cm = 1.57” × 1.06” × 1.26”

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

TML93AO4: Druse with aggregates of very sharp Veszelyite crystals, translucent, with good luster and an extraordinarily intense and uniform color. On matrix, with numerous spheroidal growths of translucent green Cuprodongchuanite.
It is from the type locality for Cuprodongchuanite.

Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 4.3 × 4.1 × 3 cm = 1.69” × 1.61” × 1.18”

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

TMA96AN5: 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 green Cuprodongchuanite and white Hemimorphite. Only a few specimens of this type were uncovered during the finds of the year 2021.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.3 × 2.7 cm = 1.73” × 1.30” × 1.06”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.4 cm = 0.35” × 0.16”

TPD70AN5: 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 mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 3.7 × 4.1 cm = 1.73” × 1.46” × 1.61”

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

EFF92AP5: Group of elongated crystals of Veszelyite, a rare phosphate of zinc and copper, of good size for the species, extraordinarily sharp and defined, in matrix, and associated with sharp Quartz crystals. An excellent miniature from a classic locality for the species.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 4.7 × 4 × 3.2 cm = 1.85” × 1.57” × 1.26”

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

MXE70AO2: Drusy aggregate of very sharp Veszelyite crystals, with well defined crystal forms, translucent, with great luster and an extraordinarily intense and uniform color. On matrix, with globular growths of light blue Hemimorphite. High quality for the species.
The Hemimorphite has been analyzed and we will send a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (10/2021)

Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.4 × 2.4 cm = 1.93” × 1.34” × 0.94”

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

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

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

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

MJB27AO2: Groups of very sharp Veszelyite crystals, with well defined crystal forms, translucent, with great luster and an extraordinarily intense and uniform color. On matrix, with colorless Quartz crystals, an uncommon paragenesis at this locality.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (10/2021)

Specimen size: 8 × 4.9 × 4.7 cm = 3.15” × 1.93” × 1.85”

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

TBR66AO4: Rosette aggregates of very sharp Veszelyite crystals on matrix, with well-defined crystal forms, translucent, with good luster, and an intense and uniform color.

The Sanguozhuang area lies within the Dongchuan copper–polymetallic district, one of the most significant in southwestern China. Mineralization is mainly hosted in Proterozoic volcano-sedimentary sequences, with stratiform and vein-type sulfide bodies that have undergone strong supergene alteration. This environment favors the formation of secondary Copper and Zinc minerals, including Veszelyite, related to oxidation processes in the upper parts of the ore bodies.
Sanguozhuang mining area, Sanguozhuang, Dongchuan District, Kunming Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 9 × 6.8 × 3.4 cm = 3.54” × 2.68” × 1.34”

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

XM2360MHM: A very curious specimen that shows two generations of Calcite: the first, constituting the matrix, formed by a druse of small lustrous scalenohedral crystals stained by iron oxides, and a second generation of globular to oolitic habit with fine concentric growth lamellae. A mineralogical curiosity.
Wenshan, Wenshan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (09/2022)

Specimen size: 6.7 × 3.3 × 6.6 cm = 2.64” × 1.30” × 2.60”

TRM67AN6: Group of Calcite crystals, one of them very aerial and clearly dominant, with the dominant forms of a rhombohedron and a scalenohedron, but rich in accessory faces too, between transparent and translucent and with very good luster.
Wenshan, Wenshan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China

Specimen size: 10.3 × 9.9 × 4.6 cm = 4.06” × 3.90” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 6.4 × 4 cm = 2.52” × 1.57”

TR94R9: Group of acute scalenohedral crystals of Calcite that formed on a stalactitic growth with a very neat central cannel.
Wenshan, Wenshan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (09/2008)

Specimen size: 16.2 × 10.4 × 10.4 cm = 6.38” × 4.09” × 4.09”

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

EF89AM3: Extraordinarily elongated scalenohedral-prismatic crystal, with parallel growths, transparent, lustrous, and with a second generation of crystals of the same Calcite. We highlight the first generation of Calcite ‘faden’ that can be seen perfectly thanks to the transparency of the crystal.
Wenshan, Wenshan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2020)

Specimen size: 19 × 2.5 × 2.3 cm = 7.48” × 0.98” × 0.91”

EB68AE8: Double elongated cluster of cubic Fluorite crystals beveled by the faces of the dodecahedron. They are translucent, with lilac color on their faces and strongly saturated violet color on the edges. They are partially coated by Baryte and they growth around a Stibnite crystal that is partially visible by transparence.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China II', by Berthold Ottens, on page 370
Weishan, Dali Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2016)

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

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

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

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

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

EFL69AP3: Stalactitic growth of translucent Fluorite crystals with an intense violet color, with geometric color zoning, more saturated on the edges, and with white coatings of Baryte.
Weishan, Dali Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (06/2022)

Specimen size: 11.7 × 3.4 × 3 cm = 4.61” × 1.34” × 1.18”

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

EFR97AP3: Twinned Cassiterite crystal, very aerial on matrix, with very sharp crystal forms, between transparent and translucent, with very bright luster and with color zoning, denser in the center of the crystal.
Amo deposit, Ximeng, Pu'er Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China

Specimen size: 3.6 × 2.4 × 2.2 cm = 1.42” × 0.94” × 0.87”

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

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

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

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

TR87V4: Transparent crystal of Cassiterite with a very transparent brown color. It is very bright and shows an uncommon morphology due to its extraordinary flatness. It is on Quartz matrix.
Amo deposit, Ximeng, Pu'er Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (08/2011)

Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.7 × 1.7 cm = 2.05” × 1.85” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 3.1 × 2.3 cm = 1.22” × 0.91”

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

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

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

TJ36AN1: Floater group of sharp Babingtonite crystals with well-defined crystal forms. With translucent and very shiny edges.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Babingtonite occurrences, Qiaojia, Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China

Specimen size: 2.3 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.91” × 0.87” × 0.63”

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

MX97G5: Crystals, very definite and bright, grown on a Quartz group standing on a Calcite crystal. We’ll give a copy of the analysis to the buyer.
Babingtonite occurrences, Qiaojia, Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (2005)

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

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

EFE88AP2: Botryoidal growths of Prehnite, translucent and intense green in color, with coatings of small, very sharp Babingtonite crystals, on a matrix of very lustrous water-clear Quartz crystals.
Babingtonite occurrences, Qiaojia, Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (06/2022)

Specimen size: 8 × 3.1 × 3.3 cm = 3.15” × 1.22” × 1.30”

THM46AQ1: Prismatic and flattened crystals of Babingtonite, many of them doubly terminated, very lustrous, on a matrix of light green botryoidal Prehnite and Quartz crystals.
The specimen comes from a find in April 2023.
Babingtonite occurrences, Qiaojia, Zhaotong Prefecture, Yunnan Province  China (04/2023)

Specimen size: 16.7 × 12.8 × 4 cm = 6.57” × 5.04” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.3 cm = 0.87” × 0.51”

TFY87AQ0: Isolated Fluorite crystal, very sharp, extraordinarily transparent and lustrous, of uniform green color, with geometric inclusions, on a matrix of Quartz crystals.
A fine miniature, very aesthetic and from a not well known locality.
Quzhou, Kecheng District, Zhejiang Province  China

Specimen size: 3 × 2.6 × 2.1 cm = 1.18” × 1.02” × 0.83”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.3 cm = 0.71” × 0.51”

TX17AN2: Druse of octahedral Fluorite crystals, lustrous, translucent and with an intense green color, with a second generation of violet crystals, and all of them outlined by fine white Quartz coatings. Some matrix has been cut awayt at the back, as is often the case with specimens from China.
Wuyi ore field, Wuyi, Jinhua Prefecture, Zhejiang Province  China (2021)

Specimen size: 22.4 × 10.2 × 3.9 cm = 8.82” × 4.02” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 3.4 × 2.8 cm = 1.34” × 1.10”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TA90AM8: Lenticular Calcite crystal formed by a very thin prism and an extraordinarily flattened, translucent, lustrous white rhombohedron with concentric geometric zoning. Larger than the usual size for specimens from this locality.
Lishui Prefecture, Zhejiang Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 6 × 3 cm = 4.02” × 2.36” × 1.18”