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Chinese Mineral Guides
Chinese mineral localities, classic species, and collector-grade specimens — buying guides, locality stories, and field knowledge.
- How to Buy Chinese Mineral Specimens
- Natural vs Treated Chinese Minerals
- Yaogangxian Fluorite Buying Guide
- Xuebaoding Scheelite Buying Guide
- Chinese Fluorite Buying Guide
- Best Chinese Minerals for Collectors
- How We Source and Verify Chinese Mineral Localities
- Chinese Stibnite: The Xikuangshan Collector's Guide
- Pyromorphite: China's Green Treasure
- Classic Chinese Localities
- Fluorite — From Lab Curiosity to Showpiece
- Calcite — The Most Variable Mineral
- Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan
- Daye, Hubei — Iron-Belt Calcite & Pyrite
- Famous Mineral Localities of the World
- Fluorite Price Guide: How Much Is Fluorite Worth?
- China's Mineral Renaissance
- Why China Produces So Many World-Class Mineral Specimens: The Geology
- Five Thousand Years Underground: A Short History of Mining in China
- Viewing Stones and Crystal Treasures: Two Ways of Loving Stone
- Hunan Province: The Beating Heart of Chinese Mineral Collecting
- Inner Mongolia and the Huanggang Phenomenon
- Sichuan Province: Scheelite Orange and Aquamarine Blue
- Guangxi: Green Fire in the Karst Country
- Hubei Province: Calcite Country with Bronze Age Roots
- Jiangxi Province: Giants of Copper, Tungsten and Stibnite
- Fujian Province: The Orange Garnets of Tongbei
- Guangdong Province: Copper Blooms and Golden Mimetite
- Guizhou Province: Dragon's Blood — The Cinnabar Capital
- Anhui Province: Blue Velvet — The Azurite of Liufengshan
- Shanxi Province: Silver from Coal Country
- Xinjiang: Minerals from China's Wild West
- Yunnan Province: Tin, Sky-Blue Hemimorphite and Hidden Emeralds
Crystal & Carving Guides
Natural crystals and carved pieces — how to choose, display, and care for crystal carvings, spheres, skulls, and decorative objects.
Buying & Collector Basics
The essentials every collector returns to — evaluating quality and condition, reading locality labels, identification, care, and value.
- How to Spot Fake, Repaired & Assembled Mineral Specimens
- Fluorescent Minerals: A Beginner's Guide to UV Collecting
- How Minerals Form: The Four Geological Processes
- The 7 Crystal Systems
- Reading Mineral Formulas
- The Mohs Hardness Scale
- Luster, Streak, Cleavage & Fracture
- Recognizing Crystal Habits
- Color, Pleochroism & Fluorescence
- Specimen Care, Storage & Display
- Ethical Sourcing & Provenance
- Twinning & Intergrowths
- How Hydrothermal Veins Form
- Streak Plates & Field Kits
- Cleaning Specimens at Home
- Labeling & Cataloguing
- Silicates — The 90% Family
- Carbonates — Calcite vs. Aragonite
- Sulfides — Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
- How to Buy Your First Cabinet Specimen
- Photographing Your Specimens
- Rare Minerals: A Collector’s Primer
- Mineral Specimen Price Guide: What Specimens Really Cost
- Mineral & Crystal Gift Guide: Real Specimens for Every Budget
- Birthstones as Natural Mineral Specimens: Month-by-Month Guide
- What Makes a Mineral Specimen Great? A Collector's Guide to Quality