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China, Hunan

Yaogangxian Mine, China

Mineral locality Inferred from historyProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: wolframite, scheelite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: W-Sn quartz vein/greisen

World-renowned mindat locality for fluorite on wolframite/scheelite matrix.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Underground workings, unstable dumps

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