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Calcite from Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan, China

$12,780.00

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These finely bladed white Calcite are famous from Yaogangxian Mine, highly sought after by collectors. Their fragile nature makes them hard to find in good condition, especially in large plates. Fine examples like this one can have blades so thin that they can cut fabric on contact. This specimen is speckled with Chalcopyrite in a reverse snowy aesthetic.

Product details

SpeciesCalciteChalcopyrite
SizeLarge Cabinet
Dimensions23.0 x 12.0 cm
Weight1700 grams
Listed on10/02/2026
LocalityChina, Hunan, Yaogangxian Mine
SKUP380
Current owner
David Freeland Minerals
David Freeland Minerals
Tucson, Arizona, United States
96 for sale·5 sold

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Calcite
Mineral guide
Learn about Calcite
diverse shapes, colors, and optical quirks; widely available yet scarce elite pieces from Elmwood and Charcas drive collecting value and display.
Calcite
Regional guide
Calcite from Yaogangxian Mine, China
from the Yaogangxian Mine is not merely an accessory carbonate on famous Chinese fluorites; at its best it is one of the visual signatures of the locality. Collectors most often encounter it as crisp white to pale pink “poker-chip” aggregates, bladed rosettes, stacked pagoda-like sprays, steep scalenohedra, or flattened rhombohedral groups perched on fluorite, quartz, ferberite, scheelite, muscovite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and other Yaogangxian species. The appeal lies in contrast: delicate, pearly calcite set against glassy purple or blue-green fluorite; pink manganese-bearing calcite on sparkling quartz; or a single water-clear calcite twin rising from metallic black ferberite.
Locality guide
Yaogangxian Mine
A collector's guide to Yaogangxian Mine, China: its geology, mining history and notable minerals, illustrated with the 1584 specimens documented from this locality on EarthWonders.