Treasures from Pacific Shores: Numismatics, Mining, & Americana

A recent find from Henan Province are attractive, reniform masses of emerald-green fluorite. The fluorite masses have small, but, well defined crystal

Fluorite is the mineralogical form of calcium fluoride. Fluorite crystallizes in the isometric system, this specimen demonstrates quite well the &qu...

The Huanggang Iron-Tin Deposit in Inner Mongolia is perhaps the most prolific mineral specimen producing locality in China today. The locality has bee

An unusual specimen of fluorite (light green), calcite and quartz from Jiangxi Province, China. located in the southeast of the country. Jiangxi, loca

The Xianghualing Mine is a skarn-type, Tin-Lead-Zinc deposit located about 70 km southwest of Chenzhou, China. The mine is most famous to mineral coll

The Xiefang Mine is a volcanic-hydrothermal fluorite deposit possessing a fluorite vein system of 10 kilometers in length. The mine has yielded numero

Well-formed, colorless to white, prismatic quartz crystals form the "matrix rock" for numerous, lustrous, transparent, light-purple, cubic...

Numerous intergrown, lustrous, color-zoned (blue-purple), cubic fluorite crystals reaching 1" across which are associated with colorless quartz...

Yaogangxian is a huge, underground tungsten-tin deposit. The mine covers an area of about 4 x 2.5 km and includes two large deposits of distinct type

An outstanding example of the garnet family species, Andradite. Andradite is a calcium iron nesosilicate mineral which occurs in skarns developed in c

A very well-formed cluster of greenish-bronze, dodecahedral andradite (garnet) crystals. The specimen is in outstanding condition and possesses very s

The name "Wenshan Mine" is most likely a generic name, referring to one or more deposits in the area around Wenshan, Yunnan Province. The ...

An exceptional example of the bright blue, botryoidal (grape-like) hemimorphite specimens that have recently been recovered at Wenshan. Large undamage

These crystals of Magnetite from the Huanggang Mine in Inner Mongolia, China are simply HUGE. Magnetite is an oxide of iron and is a primary ore of ir

Manganoan Calcite is a variety of calcite rich in manganese, which gives the mineral a pink color. This specimen features dozens of thin, "disk...

Huge, rhombic crystals of light-pink, manganese-rich calcite crystals from the prolific specimen producing mines at Huanggang, Inner Mongolia. The gro

Plumbogummite seems a very odd name for a mineral species, however, the name has real significance. Named in 1819 by Francois Pierre Nicolas Gillet de

This is a spectacular pseudomorph of plumbogummite after pyromorphite. The term pseudomorph means "false form" and indicates that the unde...

The aesthetic beauty of this quartz crystal cluster from the Huanggang mine in Inner Mongolia is undeniable. Large, well-formed, lustrous, slightly-ye

An attractive combo specimen Wuhuashan Mountain. The specimen features a plate of hematite included (reddish-orange color) quartz points partially cov