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Chinese Minerals hunting trip in Jiangxi province short report 2010 Jan 21-25th

Last Updated: 16th Mar 2010


We started a minerals hunting trip in Jiangxi province during the 21th,Jan-25th,Jan 2010. Weather is a little bit cold now and our spring festival is coming, during these days, we have had wonderful time there, though a little rainning there...Here is a short report, hope you would like to have a look.



You can found some info show spring will coming after the winter, still some cute green, the landscape around the miner or miner dealer home.

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View minerals and try to negotiated with miner dealer, with this guy, he upseted me a lot with two specimens which I like price, I had to give up...

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A Dayu dealer collected a huge quartz associated with tourmaline crystal, heavy! Anyway it is a interesting piece, but not for me.


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Another miner dealer home, just got some headache with his packing for minerals....

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piece of fluorite on quartz, may looks much better after good cleanning work.

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Just two or three piece looks not bad, a small piece of molybdenite crystal associated with quartz looks interesting, but too small...

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He got some cassiterite and fluorite specimens back recently..

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Another miner dealer home, when I arrived there, dark is coming, anyway, see one piece of transparent fluorites associated with calcite and quartz, just some damage on edge and inside crack, also headache with price..though they are new materials. Anyway, glad to see these new material, I may make the decision and try to get it back if crystal perfect.

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Some interesting artwork in a fleamarket there, nice national cloth baby.

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Chen Xiao Jun
Nickname: John or John Chen
From ShangHai city, China





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