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Fluorite from
Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Zhangzhou, Fujian, China


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Habit:octahedral xls
Colour:colorless, pale green, pale to dark blue
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Spessartine122 photos of Fluorite associated with Spessartine at this locality.
Smoky Quartz66 photos of Fluorite associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Microcline57 photos of Fluorite associated with Microcline at this locality.
Muscovite37 photos of Fluorite associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Feldspar Group15 photos of Fluorite associated with Feldspar Group at this locality.
Pyrite11 photos of Fluorite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Quartz10 photos of Fluorite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Helvine6 photos of Fluorite associated with Helvine at this locality.
Hematite5 photos of Fluorite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Milarite4 photos of Fluorite associated with Milarite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Zhangzhou, Fujian, China
Photo GalleryView Gallery (29 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:286050
Long-form Identifier:1:3:286050:3
GUID (UUID V4):8265bb16-9421-4ed0-bd84-19c372f41615
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Libraries, Kingston"] at 08:14 13 August 2013 Fluorite in Granitic Pegmatites MARK IVAN JACOBSON 1714...octahe- dral or cubic fluorite crystals perched on earlier-formed minerals. Fluorite is almost always a...quartz are enhanced by a purple or green cube of fluorite hanging from a crystal face or nestled on a crystal...Index map showing the major worldwide pegmatitic fluorite localities, prepared by William Besse. The numbers...right page). 134 ROCKS & MINERALS Figure 1. Fluorite, 10 × 7.2 × 5.7 cm, from the Conway Granite, near
Journal (issue)
Laura Aaron collection, page 11. (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite-Bruce and Marcia Friedman collection, page 105;...collection, page 155; Fluorite-Samuel Cooper collection, page 67. (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite, 5.3 cm, from Naica...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...many fine specimens of gadolinite, smoky quartz, fluorite, feldspar in crystals to five feet across, and
Journal (issue)
are quartz, morion (= smoky quartz), and albite. Fluorite inclusions are indicated in Sinkankas (1981) and...likely locality for fluorite; however both localities are said to be sources for fluorite (see p. 517). 5----...occasional awkward phras:; (i.e., ~.."o~en cast" mine i?ste~d of the more commonly ~sed open pit mme)...deposits of the following elements: Ag, Al, Au, Bi, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, PGEs, Sb, Sn, Ti...climate. Nature, 438, 623-627. Minera(09ica£ Research Co. MINERALS, METEORITES, BOOKS, BOXES, MICROSCOPES
Journal (issue)
Rhodonite, 4.7 cm, from the 1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection...collection, John Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia. George Stacey collection, Jeff...Scovil photo. Middle row from left: • 2.3 cm, Kintore mine, Coolgardie, Western Australia. Aloe Family collection;...spent the rest of their lives there as miners and mine captains. Cornish tradition favored the collecting...build his mineral collection. His job at the Moonta mine was sampling ore for the company’s assay office
Catalog/List
AUCTION SEPTEMBER 2, 2021 | DALLAS TREASURES OF CHINA Front Cover Lot: 72078 Inside Front Cover Lot:...#8067 NATURE & SCIENCE FINE MINERALS Treasures of China September 2, 2021 | Dallas Heritage Auctions 2801...President International Steve Ivy Roberta Kramer CEO Co-Chairman of the Board Managing Director Chicago...LONDON Jim Halperin CHICAGO HONG KONG Mike Haynes Co-Chairman of the Board Chief Financial Officer Greg...and Gemstones, exclusively from the country of China. With due respect for the storied history of that
Journal (issue)
row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...collection; Tom Spann photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane Brownlee...from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd photo. Topaz, 2...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...collection; Jordan Root photo. Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan
Catalog/List
first offered for sale. 73007 TOURMALINE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam A classic Vietnamese...online, visit HA.com/6150 73008 ELBAITE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam This unusual...2015 | 12:00 PM CT   15 73009 ELBAITE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam Clearly defined...2015 | 12:00 PM CT   17 CHINA 73012 PYROMORPHITE Daoping Mine, Gongcheng Co., Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi...Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China Daoping has produced some of the finer Pyromorphite specimens in
Journal (issue)
with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite...discovery at tbe Red Cloud mine, Ed Over moved on in 1939 to investigate tbe Hilltop mine in Cochise County.
Journal (issue)
Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children...time collection,” he said, “collected by a former mine superintendent over a period of many years. Nearly
Catalog/List
31867 Nature & Science Specialists Steve Ivy CEO Co-Chairman of the Board James Walker Director, Nature...Associate Director, Nature & Science Jim Halperin Co-Chairman of the Board Greg Rohan President Paul...directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume
Journal (issue)
Care! ARIZONA WULFENITE Down Deep in the Rowley Mine GEM GARNETS Popular for Centuries THE BALTIMORE...toxic. This 6 cm spray of needles is from the Herja mine (Baia Mare, Maramures), Romania. (Gerhard Brandstetter...in the Rowley................... 22 This Arizona mine is a specimen treasure trove Winter rockhounding...Notes New owners took possession of the Mary Ellen mine property on July 1, 2014 and no collecting is being...are Mary Ellen jasper or came from the Mary Ellen mine, just west of Biwabik, Minnesota, is speculative
 
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