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[Jason]

Sweet..my favorite threads anywhere are th ones with mines, mine locations and the pics associated..well done taouxe

[taoxue]

Follow your encourage, I decide to have a try to explain the details of the babingtonite mine for my foreign friends .
The mine is located in yongshan zhaotong, not in qiaojia. Maybe that is only dealer"s lie. I didn"t hear qiaojia output babingtonite at all.
Zhaotong"s altitude is about 3000M . The place where output babingtonite is very cliffy. The first time I went there nearly lost my life.
As I know , both Zhaotong and Meigu are all not far away from Yangtze. I guess maybe the babingtonite‘s form has some relations to the Yangtze.
The crystal cave is very interesting . Every crystal cave"s distance is nearly same .
Experienced miners can find them easily. But only a few caves have big babingtonite.
Most of them are prehnite.
My English is bad .But I am studying hard now .

[taoxue]

babingtonite was first found here in 2004

[taoxue]

wild fruit in the mountain

[taoxue]

A small crystal cave

[taoxue]

BIg crystal cave , when I found it the crystals all took away

[taoxue]

The patch leads to the mine cave

[Tobi]

Hello Taoxue,

thank your for the pictures. As many others here, i like to see pictures from inside of the mines, this is very interesting. So please go on and show us more! And don't mind about your English: It works well to communicate here, and i think all of us (except those from the U.K. or the U.S. and other native speakers) sometimes make a mistake in their sentences, that's not a problem!

Cheers!
Tobi