Fujian Province

Fujian — coastal fluorite and color-zoned classics

Fujian Province on China's southeast coast is best known among collectors for high-saturation green and purple cubic fluorite, often with sharp color zoning and well-developed phantoms. The province also produces calcite, quartz, and minor stibnite from its hydrothermal vein systems.

Geological setting

Fujian's fluorite deposits are hosted in faulted volcanic and volcaniclastic terrane of Late Mesozoic age, with later hydrothermal overprinting. The fluorite occurs in epithermal vein systems with low temperatures of formation — producing the sharp cubic habit and clear color preservation that Fujian material is known for.

What Fujian is known for

• Green and color-zoned cubic fluorite
• Purple-phantom fluorite with sharp zoning
• Fluorite + quartz combination pieces
• Smaller production of associated calcite

Collector value

Fujian fluorite trades at a slight discount to Hunan because of lower locality recognition abroad, but the best Fujian pieces compete on color saturation and crystal sharpness. Color-zoned and gem-clear specimens are the value drivers.

From our inventory

Browse Fujian specimens or learn more in our fluorite buying guide.

Where it is mined

Fujian holds some of China's largest fluorite reserves. The mineral is worked across the province — for example in the Yongchun area (including the Xia Yang workings) and the Jiangle district (the Changkou deposit) — within the wider Nanling fluorite belt that straddles the Fujian–Jiangxi border, one of the most important fluorite-producing regions in the country.