EFF27AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Group of sharp twinned Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and an intense reddish orange. On matrix, with cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena and white Calcite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.7 × 2.9  cm = 1.81” × 1.46” × 1.14”

Main crystal size: 2.8× 2.7 cm = 1.10” × 1.06”

ETM48AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Group of sharp twinned Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, with good luster and an intense reddish orange. On matrix, with cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena and white Calcite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 5.7 × 3.3 × 3 cm = 2.24” × 1.30” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 2.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.06” × 0.98”

EFG97AP3: New at Ste. Marie 2022
Twinned Sphalerite crystals, more isolated than usual, sharp and with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, lustrous and very intense reddish, on matrix, with small white Calcite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 6.1 × 3 × 3.2 cm = 2.40” × 1.18” × 1.26”

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

EJK89AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Outstanding twinned Sphalerite crystals, more isolated than usual, with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, shiny, with an intense reddish color. On matrix, with small white Calcite crystals.


Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.8 × 5.2 cm = 2.68” × 2.28” × 2.05”

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

EQR28CD3: These were new at Sainte Marie 2022. Twinned Sphalerite crystals, more isolated than usual, sharp and with very well-defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, lustrous and intense red with yellow tones. On matrix, with small white Calcite crystals and they somewhat resemble those from Áliva in color, although their crystallography is different. Extremely perfect without the slightest damage or abrasion.
It was an occasional discovery from which nothing further has been heard, and no specimens like these are seen anymore.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China

Specimen size: 7.6 × 5.5 × 4 cm = 2.99” × 2.17” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.7 cm = 1.02” × 0.67”

ETX89AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Outstanding twinned Sphalerite crystals, more isolated than usual, with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, shiny, with an intense reddish color. On matrix, with small white Calcite crystals and Quartz.


Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 9 × 5.7 × 3.7 cm = 3.54” × 2.24” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1 cm = 0.79” × 0.39”

ERF90AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Group of outstanding twinned Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, lustrous, and an intense reddish orange. On matrix, with cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena and white calcite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 10 × 7.8 × 6.4 cm = 3.94” × 3.07” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.67”

ERB71AO9: A novelty at Sainte Marie 2022
Group of outstanding twinned Sphalerite crystals with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, lustrous, and an intense reddish orange. On matrix, with cubo-octahedral crystals of Galena and white Calcite crystals.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 10.2 × 8 × 3.5 cm = 4.02” × 3.15” × 1.38”

Main crystal size: 3 × 1.9 cm = 1.18” × 0.75”

EXY51AP3: New at Ste. Marie 2022
Twinned Sphalerite crystals more isolated than usual, sharp and with very well defined faces and edges, between translucent and transparent, lustrous, with an intense reddish color, on matrix, with small white Calcite crystals and Galena crystals with a cubic habit.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 11.8 × 9.7 × 4.7 cm = 4.65” × 3.82” × 1.85”

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

EPD94CD3: These were 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 intense red with yellow tones. On matrix, with small white Calcite crystals and they somewhat resemble those from Áliva in color, although their crystallography is different. Some crystals have small abrasions, but still...
It was an occasional discovery from which nothing further has been heard, and no specimens like these are seen anymore.
Huxu Mine, Dongxiang, Fuzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (12/2021)

Specimen size: 16 × 10 × 7 cm = 6.30” × 3.94” × 2.76”

Main crystal size: 3 × 2.2 cm = 1.18” × 0.87”

MV47J3: Magnificent group of cubic crystals with echeloned growths on the edges. It is very bright, transparent and has an extraordinary color, between deep blue and deep green. On the sample, with micro-crystals of Pyrite there also are small groups of very acute crystals of Calcite and small crystals of Siderite.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 198
Chongyi, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2006)

Specimen size: 9.5 × 8.7 × 4 cm = 3.74” × 3.43” × 1.57”

Main crystal size: 4.8 × 4.2 cm = 1.89” × 1.65”

TM64Z0: Aggregate of Fluorite crystals consisting of smooth cube faces and the clearly dominant octahedron with polycrystalline surfaces. The crystals are very large, very bright, have an intense, deep and uniform green color and are on matrix, with cubic Galena crystals, Quartz crystals and small white platy Baryte crystals.
Piaotang Mine, Dayu, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2005)

Specimen size: 16 × 12.8 × 9.7 cm = 6.30” × 5.04” × 3.82”

Main crystal size: 10.5 × 8 cm = 4.13” × 3.15”

TM97J6: One of the most conspicuous novelties of 2007 on China. The crystals, on matrix and with morphology very different to those from other classic localities, show an extraordinary definition of their faces and edges and an excellent luster. The locality seems to be correct but as usual on novelties from this country, we are waiting the time confirm it.
Piaotang Mine, Dayu, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2007)

Specimen size: 3.4 × 1.9 × 1.8 cm = 1.34” × 0.75” × 0.71”

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

ET46K3: Group of rounded crystals with well defined faces at the top of the specimen and the same kind of crystals combined with small laminar hooked growths on the lower part.
Weijia, Chengmenshan, Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2007)

Specimen size: 5 × 4.8 × 2 cm = 1.97” × 1.89” × 0.79”

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

TR26J8: Octahedral reddish crystals of perfectly defined faces and edges. Their color contrasts with the darker matrix. Unusual.
Weijia, Chengmenshan, Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2007)

Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.73” × 0.98” × 1.34”

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

ET17G8: Crystals, prismatic, bright and sharp, form an elegant open fan that shows light and interesting curvatures in some of them.
Wuning Mine, Qingjiang, Wuning, Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (03/2005)

Specimen size: 12.5 × 5.5 × 1.5 cm = 4.92” × 2.17” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 8.5 × 1.2 cm = 3.35” × 0.47”

JH66H7: The stout prismatic crystal has very uncommon transparency and color, in view of its large size. The elongated habit of the crystal and its position on a matrix of Quartz crystals makes the specimen special from an esthetic point of view.
The sample is from an accredited collection and we’ll send the label with it.
Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China

Specimen size: 7.2 × 5.3 × 3.9 cm = 2.83” × 2.09” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 5.5 × 3 cm = 2.17” × 1.18”

EGD61XXX: Tabular and thick Baryte crystals, of a deep and uniform yellow color, with well-defined faces and edges, on which a spherical concretion formed by metallic grey Pyrite crystals has been deposited, in strong contrast with the Baryte. An association not usual for the locality, but very interesting.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery of Munich Show 2025 in the magazine Mineralogical Record on page 299 in volume 57, number 2, March-April 2026, and it has been published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 02/2025, page 132

Xiefang Mine is a hydrothermal deposit hosted in Mesozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks, with vein-type mineralization rich in sulfides. Barite and Pyrite are associated with low- to medium-temperature hydrothermal fluid circulation, filling cavities and fractures and allowing the development of well-formed crystals.
Xiefang Mine, Ruijin, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (10/2025)

Specimen size: 8.2 × 8.1 × 6.9 cm = 3.23”

Main crystal size: 3.8 × 3 cm = 1.50” × 1.18”

TV64P1: Excellent sample whose penetrating angles had been molded by the faces of another preexisting mineral, probably Quartz. Those surfaces, then, aren’t real geometrical forms of Bismuth, but the small scales, echeloning and striations coating the surfaces correspond to crystalline growths of the mineral.
This specimen was photographed as a novelty at the 2009 Ste. Marie Show for the ‘Sainte-Marie Show 2009’ section of the magazine ‘Minéraux et Fossiles’ page 22, number 383 and also in the ‘Mineral Up’ magazine, on page 29, number 2009/2 and in the Russian magazine ‘Mineral Observer’ on page 60 in the volume 14, number 3.
Laikeng Mine, Gan, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2009)

Specimen size: 4.6 × 3.5 × 3.4 cm = 1.81” × 1.38” × 1.34”

EH29E9: The crystal is very well defined, has extraordinary brilliance, both of which are rare in a specimen of this size. One can see all the sides of the hexagonal form and the edges and growth patterns are perfectly preserved. This was shown, photographed and published as a novelty at the Ste Marie show in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 58, page 50. We will send the buyer a copy of the magazine.
Dayu, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province  China (2004)

Specimen size: 7.5 × 5.5 × 2.7 cm = 2.95” × 2.17” × 1.06”

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 District, Leshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province  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 District, Leshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province  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, Sichuan Province  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”