Mineralogical Characteristics of Meihuayu-Jade from Ruyang County,Henan Provipce
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    Meihuayu-jade occurring in Ruyang Goapty, Henan Province, is a kind of black amygdaloidal andesite. Its matrix is characterized by thin lath-shapedlow albite microcrystals, exhibiting vitropatic-interlocking texture. Porphyritic crystals are low albite. Mineral composition of amygdaloidal bodies is quitecomplex, and the major minerals include low albite, maximum-microcline,epidote, ripidolite, quartz, calcite, magnetite etc., making up a set of typical epithermal mineral assemblage formed as a result of postmag matic hydrothermal alteration. In this paper, the authors made a detailed study on feldspars, epidote and chloxite by means of X-ray diffraction analysis, electric microprobe analysis and ihfrared spectroscopic analysisi It is found that Plagioclase is low albite inorder, alkali feldspar is low temperature maximum microcline with fairly high triclinity and order, epidote contains abundant iron, and chlorite is ripidolite.In addition, micro-hardness test-was made on several spots of the matrix in the jade, and the result shows that the jade has rather high hardness (Mohs'hardness being 5.2) and beautiful streaks, and is massive and of good quality,thus serving as a good jade material.

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张建洪,康日仓,李劲松,1993,河南省汝阳梅花玉的矿物学特征[J].岩石矿物学杂志,12(1):76~86. Zhang Jianhong, Kang Ricang, Li Jinsong China University of Geosciences, Beijing Gemmological Association of China, Beijing ,1993,Mineralogical Characteristics of Meihuayu-Jade from Ruyang County, Henan Provipce[J]. Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica,12(1):76~86.

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