Abstracts of the 26th annual Tucson Mineralogical Symposium: China!

From: The Mineralogical Record | Date: March 1, 2005 | Copyright information

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...