[Rockhounds] Chinese mineral - help with verification

Lyle Pai lpai at hotmail.com
Tue May 5 21:36:22 PDT 2009


sorry, http://mineralcollectors.ning.com/photo

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> 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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