Creedite

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Mineral guide

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delicate calcium aluminum sulfate fluoride forming radiating sprays and orange spheres on contrasting matrix; prized for fragility and Santa Eulalia.

Regional guide

Creedite from Qinglong Mine, China

from the Qinglong Mine occupies a particular niche among modern Chinese minerals: it is not the famous product of the mine, yet it is often the specimen that makes collectors stop and look twice. Qinglong is better known as a stibnite-bearing antimony-gold district, and more recently for fluorite, carbonatecyanotrichite, odd vanadium and uranium species, and rare aluminofluorides. Against that background, creedite appears as a late, delicate mineral of cavities and fractures—transparent to translucent sprays, colorless rosettes, lavender balls, and, on the best pieces, intensely glassy prismatic crystals with real sculptural presence.