Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, China
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Top quality purple Fluorite cling to one side of a pristine Quartz crystal. Fluorite is very transparent with top luster, some have needle-like inclusions of Jamesonite (or similar mineral), 4.9 x 3 x 3 cm.
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Fine, near floater grouping of light purple Fluorite cubes, Arsenopyrite in and interlocking 4cm cluster, pearlescent pink Dolomite that wraps all around the backside, and Muscovite, size 5.2 x 4.5 x 4 cm.
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Bright and lustrous yellow Wulfenite crystals to 3mm all over matrix, size 6.2 x 3.5 x 3 cm.
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Copper included within transparent Quartz crystals on green Prehnite with attached small spheres of Chrysocolla. Unusual, colorfull specimen. Size 6 x 3.5 x 3 cm.
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Terminated single Stibnite crystal with attached translucent white Calcite crystals to 2.1 cm wide, size 4.3 x 2 x 1.5 cm.
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Botryoidal blue Hemimorphite with superb blue color, size 4.8 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm.
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Botryoidal blue Hemimorphite with dark blue color, size 6 x 5 x 2.5 cm.
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Transparent light purple Fluorite octahedrons to 8mm wide with orange Spessartine and green coated Mica clusters on tan Orthoclase. I count 6 Fluorites. Colorful mixture of minerals on this specimen, size 8 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm.
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Transparent light purple/green Fluorite octahedrons to 7mm wide with orange Spessartine and green coated Mica clusters on tan Orthoclase. I count 3 Fluorites. Colorful mixture of minerals on this specimen, size 11 x 9 x 3.5 cm.
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A small bit of matrix serves as the base for a 3cm wide white Calcite crystal with a 4.5 cm Stibnite crystal grown sideways through the Calcite, size 4.5 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm.
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Red Inesite cluster, 1.2cm, on Quartz with Pyrite crystals. Most Inesite from
this locality is pink, this one an undamaged red cluster, size 7 x 5.5 x 4 cm.
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Excellent Stannite specimen in the thumbnail size with large, distinct crystals to 9mm set around Quartz crystals with Jamesonite needles and Chalcopyrite for added interest, size 2.8 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm.
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Long, terminated Stibnite crystal with an attached 1cm Calcite crystal, 10.5 cm.
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These Quartz and garnet combos have been coming out of China steadily for a while now, however most of the Quartz, while being a good dark color, are not very transparent. This piece features a 4cm water clear Quartz with attached gemmy orange Spessartine on a matrix with similar Quartz and spessartine. Sawn base, size 7 x 6 x 6 cm.
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Large plate of stacked disk shaped pink Calcite crystals. These are sometimes called "poker-chip" crystals as they are stacked up one upon the next, size 21 x 11 x 6 cm.
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Large intergrown Arsenopyrite crystals across top of matrix. Showy piece, 5 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm.
Tongbei, Fujian Province, China
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Orange Spessartine garnet crystals to 5mm with smokey quartz crystals, muscovite, orthoclase, 5.5 x 5 x 3 cm.
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Transparent purple Fluorite crystals on a Ferberite crystal with white Calcite and Chalcopyrite, size 5 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm.
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Spherical mass of Pyrite crystals 4.1cm wide on Quartz crystals with a pale green 1.5cm Fluorite cube, size 7.5 x 6 x 4.5 cm.
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Single terminated crystal, intense transparent/translucent red color. A couple
nicks but overall in good condition, size 3.8 x 1.7 x 1 cm.
Tongbei, Fujian Prov., China
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Gemmy orange Spessartine crystals covering an Orthoclase crystal matrix with a gemmy 3.8cm smokey Quartz crystal rising straight up out of matrix, one mica crystal group also present, size 7.5 x 6 x 4.7 cm.
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Mirror lustrous 3cm Arsenopyrite with blue and purple Fluorite cubes and muscovite, super Yaogangxian combo, size 4.8 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm.
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Simply a large, fine single crystal. Somewhat common now, these will soon, if not already, be classics ranking as the worlds best, size 5.5 x 4.5 x 2 cm.
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Large, well displayed single crystal 3.2 cm wide on muscovite and Quartz. About as good as it gets for a single crystal, size 6 x 7 x 6 cm.
Shi Lu Copper Mine, Guangdong Province, China
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Spherical cluster with crystals projecting out on all sides, one tip (out of many) is damaged, size 6 x 5.5 x 5 cm.
Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Hunan Prov., China
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Large single arsenopyrite crystal with bright luster, 4.5 x 4.2 x 2 cm.
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Single Green Quartz crystal with particularly good form for the find - flaring out fromt he bottom then coming together in a curved, perfectly symetrical termination. From the new find, size 6.7 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm.
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Cluster of bright silvery Stibnite crystals, size 6.5 x 6 x 4 cm.
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