[Rockhounds] Chinese mineral - help with verification

[Jim Daly]

My first thought on reading the message was that it's a common association in the Keweenaw peninsula of Michigan. On looking at the pictures, though, it's definitely not from Michigan. The color of the epidote is wrong, as is the matrix.
I see nothing that would disprove the claimed locality, or prove it either.
Jim Daly

--- On Tue, 5/5/09, Lyle Pai <lpai at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Lyle Pai <lpai at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Rockhounds] Chinese mineral - help with verification
To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors" <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 9:15 PM


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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