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[Jordi Fabre]

[bob kerr]

how about including the brochantites from Milpillas - I don't know of a close second best occurrence. the Lindstrom trophy winner this year was one (see photo attached) - and there are more that are better.

bob.

[Jordi Fabre]

[Peter Megaw]

Milpillas Rules! (I was waiting to get my latest shots from Jeff Scovil to post a decent brochantite from there)

The volborthites are very significant too...although perhaps too rare to make the "availability" cut.

[John S. White]

Don't know when the antimony was available but the brochantite appeared too late to be included in the article, which was written about a year before it was published.

[Jordi Fabre]

Is clear that the major sources of "new Standards of Excellence" in the last times have been Russia and China, two giants which came to the collector's specimens just recently.
One good example of this, not listed in the article, could be the Perovskites from Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
Nothing to compare was mined before, at least as far as i know.

[John S. White]

I thought the Russian perovskites appeared much too early to be included, but they certainly should be considered in any new listing.

[Jordi Fabre]

I believe no one will argue this! ;-)

[Jordi Fabre]

One more addition to the New Standards of Excellence "wonder list" : the Plumbogummites coating or replacing Pyromorphite from the Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo County, Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang, China.

[bob kerr]

[alfredo]

Bob, Heat treatment of tanzanites varies with the point of view: always natural, if you're selling; heat treated, if you're buying ;))

[bob kerr]