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[taoxue]

Here has some pictures what I phoned on the babingtonite mine.
The mine is located in zhaotong yunnan province China.
I collectet some beautiful specemens .
Have a enjoy.

[mmauthner]

Thanks!
I enjoy seeing locality photos.

Cheers,
Mark

[Antonio Alcaide]

Thanks a lot for sharing. Wonderful pics. It isn't very common to see the original mines or the people extracting minerals by themselves.

Please, could you post the measures of the pieces?. I suppose they are babingtonite and prehnite -the last one with a beautiful range of colors-.

Best wishes, xiè xiè

Antonio

[Peter]

Sao san shao Taoxue

Thank you for sharing these wonderful images!!!
Peter

[taoxue]

Sharing is the biggst joy.
My english is very bad. If I have something wrong. please don"t mind.
Cheers
taoxue

[taoxue]

HI Antonio
I am sorry. Maybe I have past the time of edit. So I don"t know how to edit the pictures now.
The specimens size is about:
pics43: 5+4+4cm
pics41: 11+5+5cm
pics40: 12+5+6cm.
I guess the last picture"s colour is not natural. I think the prehnite would turn into yellow from green after a long time

[taoxue]

你好
peter!
Thinks for your peplying .When I see yours word I feel happier.

[Peter]

你好 Taoxue
When I was a student I arranged a study tour for 48 students and our geology professor to Tsinghua University and Beijing surroundings.We continued to Japan, S Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand. Your English is much better than most of our Chinese!
Arabic, Chinese, Russian are much more difficult languages! It is very nice to meet you here. Mostly we see only Chinese mineral dealers in Europe and other western shows.

We all LOVE to see your locality photographs!!! There is nothing better than field colelcting, and only then you realize how fantastic specimens are which are offered on the world market for a days salary!!! Most colelctors will only find a few of such quality in a lifes time unless one is very very active and spend long time, many times and great effort, patience in one deposit. Best regards Peter

[taoxue]

Hi peter
I am very glad to meet you here too.
When I found this forum yesterday I loved on here at once .Everything here is so novel and everybody here is so friendly.
Really admire you have chance to go to so many countries.
My biggst wish is only go around the world to have a look outside"s world.
Welcome you come to China again and welcome you come to yunnan.
Best regards . taoxue

[Antonio Alcaide]

Hi Taoxue,

I strongly agree with Peter. Don't worry, your English is ok. It's communication what worths.

Nobody can edit his post if anyone has written an answer. If you feel confident with your English, please share with us more details about your extracting and mining activity: for example I would love to know the altitude, the way to the finds. In general how chinese minerals are mined.

Thanks in advance. Best regards,

Antonio

[Peter]

My dream was alrready when I was 3-4 years old (or young I should say) to explore the world, see volcanoes, forests, mines, architecture, mountains, cultures. But no matter where you live it is hard work, saving and prioritizing, what one choose to do.
As we were students it was very tough to get money for this BIG trip. Never before at my University there had been so many participants and never such a long extensive trip. So plan one, get sponsors, plan two get very very inexpensive airline ticket, bus and hotel package. Everybody were laughing - impossible!!! Crazy dream!!! But we did it!

I agree w Antonio, we love to hear your stories, see images. And I agree with you, this site is having many very good and interested people willing to help fellow colelctors.

[vic rzonca]

Taoxue
Welcome from me also, your additions to the forum have, at once, expanded our experience. At one time the Lane Quarry, in Westfield Ma. was a premiere location for babbingtonite. It was also where I began my interest in minerals at age 7, having found prehnite and calcite in the crushed traprock in my dad's driveway, and tracing it back to it's source. Alas, your neighborhood has become the place for the blackest of black and biggest of big babbingtonites, but another blasting season is upon us, so who knows and luck to all.

[Peter]

Vic! Thank you for your story and the image! Peter

[Linda Smith]

Wonderful photos. Thank you very much for sharing them with us.

[Jordi Fabre]