Zhejiang Province

Zhejiang — coastal fluorite in glassy cubes

Zhejiang Province on China's east coast hosts epithermal fluorite veins in Mesozoic volcanic terrane — the same broad setting as neighboring Fujian — plus carbonate pockets that produce the locality's distinctive "petal" calcite.

What Zhejiang is known for

• Transparent green cubic fluorite with glassy faces
• Blue cubic fluorite
• Banded "lollipop" purple fluorite forms
• Petal calcite clusters with pyrite

Typical specimen style

Clarity-driven fluorite — diamond-clear cubes where color zoning shows in clean bands — and sculptural calcite with metallic pyrite accents.

Collector value

Zhejiang trades below Hunan on name recognition; the best gem-clear cubes compete well above their price point. Petal calcite pieces are conversation specimens.

From our inventory

Browse Zhejiang specimens or the fluorite guide.

The Wuyi fluorite field

Zhejiang's fluorite centres on the Wuyi ore field in Jinhua — including mines such as Yangjia and Yushantou — a large hydrothermal vein system in volcanic rock celebrated for richly zoned, multi-stage crystals: sea-green cores rimmed by blue and purple and capped by colourless growth, each band recording a fresh pulse of mineralising fluid.