XUEBAODING: Pingwu County, Sichuan Province, China

From: Mineralogical Record | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Ottens, Berthold | Copyright information

Beautiful specimens showing large, lustrous, deep orange crystals of scheelite associated with brilliant black twinned cassiterite crystals and tabular, gemmy crystals of aquamarine beryl on beds of muscovite crystals are characteristic of Mount Xuebaoding, Sichuan Province, China. These specimens have already become familiar to mineral collectors in the West, and supplies of them should continue to be available, thanks to active specimen mining and marketing by the Chinese.

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