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Abstracts of the 26th annual Tucson Mineralogical Symposium: China!
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The Mineralogical Record
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March 1, 2005
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The Development and Future Potential of China as a Supplier of Mineral Specimens
Rock H. Currier
13100 Spring Street
Baldwin Park, CA 91706
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, specimens began flooding out of former Soviet-bloc countries and China. While it has proven difficult to export specimens from Russia, China has taken to the export of mineral specimens with a passion that shows no signs of diminishing.
The initial suppl...