The earliest of these dentures were entirely wooden, but later versions used natural human teeth or sculpted pagodite, ivory, or animal horn for the teeth.

Other soft compact minerals (steatite and pinite) used for these Chinese carvings are included with pyrophyllite under the terms agalmatolite and pagodite.

Names also used in this context are agalmatolite, steatite, pyrophyllite and pinite; sometimes also referred to (loosely) as soapstone.

Most are engaged in the extraction of kaolin, fluorspar and Agalmatolite and Kaolin is exported.

Other soft compact minerals (steatite and pinite) used for these Chinese carvings are included with pyrophyllite under the terms agalmatolite and pagodite.

The stones used in carving are also known as agalmatolite and are mined in the Shoushan village in northern Fujian.

A Mineralogical and Petrographical Study of Shoushan Stone (Agalmatolite)

Agalmatolite consists predominantly of massive, felted, very fine-grained muscovite of the form called pinite together with variable amounts of relict quartz.

So do several eighth-century sculptures of zodiac figures in the show's second part, including a wonderful pair of sword-wielding deities with human bodies and animal heads (a horse's and a boar's) crisply carved in high relief from cutting-board-size slabs of agalmatolite.

The earliest of these dentures were entirely wooden, but later versions used natural human teeth or sculpted pagodite, ivory, or animal horn for the teeth.

Other soft compact minerals (steatite and pinite) used for these Chinese carvings are included with pyrophyllite under the terms agalmatolite and pagodite.