Article: Welcome to the minerals of China.(Editorial)

The sleeping giant has awakened. What did any of us know about Chinese minerals two short decades ago? There was Chinese cinnabar pictured in Dr. Pough's book (A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals), and then there was that Chinese cinnabar so wonderful and so rare that we had seen somewhere, sometime, and then there was also, well, did I mention cinnabar? Actually, we knew nothing beyond a few photos and a sentence or two about a single species, and even less if we tried to read the confusing technical literature. A trickle of azurite roses and an occasional newly mined cinnabar could be seen in the mid-1980s; suddenly spectacular and plentiful realgars and orpiments ...

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