1978年,法国一家宝石学杂志报道说:近年来,外国80%以上的宝石新矿床,是由于地学爱好者和矿物标本收藏家的活动而发现的。因而,矿物标本收藏家的活动,引起地质界的极大重视。早在十八和十九世纪,欧州的一些矿物收藏家,保存了欧洲现已采空的某些矿山中大量的矿物标本,其中不少是难以复得的 In 1978, a French gemological magazine reported that in recent years, more than 80% of foreign new gem deposits have been discovered by the activities of geologist lovers and mineral specimen collectors. Thus, the activities of mineral specimen collectors have drawn great attention from the geological community. As early as the 18th and 19th centuries, some mineral collectors in Europe kept a large collection of mineral specimens from some of the mines that are now emptied in Europe, many of which are hard to come by