I’ve added a selection of fine, distinctive specimens in the new China Update (click here). The pieces in this group are very high quality, picked from many different lots. There are beautiful fluorites of various colours and habits, including stunning clear crystals, deep blue, green, purple, and there are great phantoms and zoning in some of them. The update also includes a great pyromorphite, an unusually fine quality Xiefang golden barite (these are virtually always damaged) with a nice phantom, a super cabinet specimen of Shimen calcite with a large twinned crystal, excellent lustrous spessartines and more.

Fluorite, Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner, Ulanhad, Inner Mongolia A.R., China – crystal 1.1 cm

Fluorite, Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner, Ulanhad, Inner Mongolia A.R., China – crystal 1.2 cm

Fluorite and Quartz, Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner, Ulanhad, Inner Mongolia A.R., China – 5.1 cm

Pyromorphite, Daoping Mine, Gongcheng Co., Guanxi Zhuang A.R., China – 6.2 cm

Fluorite (Phantoms), Huangshaping Mine, Guiyang Co., Hunan Province, China – field of view 4.5 cm

Fluorite and Quartz, Yaoganxian Mine, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
Field of view 4.0 cm

Fluorite, Quartz, Shangbao Mine, Leiyang Co., Hunan Province, China
Field of view 2.3 cm

Barite, Xiefang Mine, Ruijin Co., Jianxi Province, China – 5.1 cm

Calcite, Jiepayu Mine (Shimen Mine), Shimen Co., Hunan Province, China – 11.8 cm

Quartz, Fluorite, Magnetite and Calcite, Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner, Ulanhad,
Inner Mongolia A.R., China – 7.1 cm

Spessartine Garnet, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Fujian Province, China – 5.2 cm

Fluorite, Huanggang Mines, Hexigten Banner, Ulanhad, Inner Mongolia A.R., China
Field of view 5.7 cm