[Rockhounds] Chinese mineral - help with verification

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

A link to the pictures would help...


On Wednesday, May 6, 2009, at 00:15 America/Detroit, Lyle Pai wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I recently came across something that was a very interesting and 
> aesthetic combination (natural copper on epidote with malachite and 
> quartz on matrix).
>
> The story was that it came out of a small pocket in a Sichuan mine so 
> there's not a lot of it around...
>
> However, there are some questions surrounding its pedigree; like 
> whether it was 'natural' and whether it was from China, etc....
>
> I have uploaded some pictures to the Minerals Collectors Network.
>
> If anyone has seen this item before or has something to share, I would 
> appreciate it profusely...
>
> Thanks,
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