[Rockhounds] Chinese mineral - help with verification

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Lyle,

The associations make sense. The specimens are unusual. I see nothing 
in the pics that would make me suspect they are not natural. It is hard 
to identify minerals from photographs.  Fake or not, I would be tempted 
to pick one up. Interesting find.

Kreigh



On Wednesday, May 6, 2009, at 00:36 America/Detroit, Lyle Pai wrote:

> 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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