China – a vast country and an inexhaustible source of beautiful minerals. Stones have been collected in China for thousands of years. But it wasn't until the mid-1980s that the Chinese market opened up and a trade in minerals, as we understand it in the West, slowly began.
 For several years now, China has been known for its outstanding collectibles – often of exceptional quality. Countless mines and quarries continually yield new, remarkable, and surprising finds. This issue provides detailed descriptions of the most spectacular treasures discovered so far, along with their precise locations.

 Contents:
 Mineral trade in China (Berthold Ottens)/Collecting in China (Yue Tutt and Christian Weise)/Image gallery - The most beautiful specimens and crystals/Pyromorphite and Mimetite, the colored lead minerals (Guanghua Liu and Berthold Ottens)/China - Geology and mineral deposits (Guanghua Liu)/Mining in China - with a 3000-year tradition! (Bethold Ottens)/Fluorite - All Colors and Forms (Berthold Ottens)/The Red Sulphides: Spectacular and Light-Sensitive (Guanghua Liu and Berthold Ottens)/World-Famous: Antimonite in its Highest Perfection (Guanghua Liu and Berthold Ottens)/Xuebaoding - The World's Best Scheelites Between Pandas and Eternal Ice (Berthold Ottens)/Quartz: Of Scepters and Japanese Twins (Berthold Ottens)/Spessartine from Fujian (Berthold Ottens)/The Ore Mines of Southern Hunan: An Eldorado Not Only for Fluorite Collectors (Berthold Ottens)/Calcite - The Most Beautiful Thing in the World (Guanghua Liu)/Copper - Silver - Gold (Berthold Ottens)/Wollastonite Mine Fengjiashan near Daye (Berthold Ottens)/Gemstones - The Untapped Potential (Guanghua Liu)/Jade - The Promise of Eternity (Maximilian Glas)/Important Chinese Mineral Sites and Their Minerals/Chinese Mineral Directory/Literature.
 200 pages in lapis format, including cover. Published: 2004