- RLIL15-070
- Twinned Calcite on Fluorite
- Hill-Ledford Mine, Ozark-Mahoning, Cave-in-Rock Dist., Illinois, USA
- Cabinet, 11.0 x 10.9 x 4.6 cm
- Ex. Ross Lillie
- SOLD
As with so many pieces in the Lillie collection, this one is unique! An intergrown, lustrous and translucent, lavender colored crystals of fluorite, to 1.2 cm across, host a few lustrous and translucent, straw colored calcite crystals to 5 cm across. The calcite crystal perched aesthetically on top of the fluorite crystals is twinned and complete all around!. A 9 mm galena crystal can be seen just to the left of the twinned calcite. Mined in the mid 1960's. Sering Collection. Former price $5500 on tag. RCL 1987.