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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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5.0 x 3.7 x 3.0 cm. This fine crystal measures 2.3 cm on longest edge and is perfect all around, hanging off a bit of matrix and so exposed more than usual for a cubic crystal on matrix. It is subtly phantomed with purple cores in green outer layers. The crystal, along with an associated quartz crystal, is perched in muscovite matrix which forms a nice natural knoll. It is complete-all-around. Minute chalcopyrite (?) inclusions add a nice accent when studied close up.
3.2 x 2.8 x 2.6 cm. This is a very rare combination from the mine, with a deep purple fluorite (perfect and complete) richly included by acicular crystals of stibnite. It looks like silver hairs inside the fluorite. Minute bits of chalcopyrite are in association on the bottom of the piece. So far as I know, this is a unique association to this mine.
5.0 x 3.6 x 3.0 cm. A totally gem clear, transparent crystal measuring 1 inch across is perched upright on a bit of matrix and accented by thin translucent white calcite blades. This is a fine miniature from a single characteristic pocket that produced a unique style.
6.4 x 3.8 x 3.7 cm. Beautiful, gemmy, transparent crystals to 1.7 cm are perched on matrix of quartz and yellow muscovite. It is a very colorful combination. The quartz is perfect, pristine, and the whole piece sparkles with lustre.
5.1 x 3.7 x 3.3 cm. A sharp 2-cm crystal, perched on matrix. Perfection in crystal form, and a deep color, combined with the contrasting matrix make this a fine miniature.
7.2 x 6.4 x 5.2 cm. An intense purple phantom with incredible transparency. This crystal glows with color, and is 2 cm across. It is perched on the "shoulder" of a lustrous quartz cluster.
4.1 x 3.9 x 3.5 cm. A large, bluish, phantomed crystal of translucent fluorite; and a floater, overall.
5.2 x 4.2 x 3.5 cm. Sharp crystals to 2.7 cm in cluster, very gemmy and bright. It is contacted but complete in back, and complete on all other sides. It is a real "gem" fluorite.
7.0 x 5.3 x 5.1 cm. A large stepped cuboctahedron to 4 cm, is perched on spiky quartz on this nice small cabinet specimen. Intense purple fluorite of this color and saturation is not common for the locality. The piece is complete all around, and the association of minute pyrite bits adds some sparkle. It is pristine.
7.0 x 5.4 x 4.3 cm. This is a very rare combination from the mine, with purple fluorite cubes to 2 cm included by acicular crystals of stibnite. It looks like silver hairs inside the fluorite. So far as I know, this is a unique association to this mine. The crystals of fluorite are perched on top and form a sharp horizon line, with great sharpness.
6 x 5.5 x 3.4 cm. The crystal is 2.7 cm across, absolutely limpid and transparent, and stands off the matrix on full display. It has a beautiful phantom, deep purple, asymmetrically included. The overall effect is striking.
4.5 x 3.2 x 1.9 cm. A fine miniature with a sharp, gemmy, 1.7-cm phantom crystal perched at the apex of muscovite matrix. The purple on yellow contrast is attractive and the phantom inside really makes it more special.
6.0 x 5.8 x 4.0 cm. One of the few purple fluorites to ever come out of Shangbao, it seems, this is even more rare…one of the few purples to come out in the end-2008 dolomite finds. Most of the crystals associated with the dolomite in a series of several pockets were light blues and pastel greens, with a few pinks. This features a sharply phantomed purple crystal about 2 cm across, with others, in a pristine floater cluster with quartz and sparkling pyrite. Overall, a striking combination and quite unique for the locality.
7.7 x 6.0 x 5.9 cm. A huge 6-cm crystal, very nicely colored a pastel blue with phantoms, perched on quartz and a bit of matrix. The fluorite is beautiful for its color and its unusual elongation. It is very gemmy, so that you can look deep down into it. In person it is extremely 3-dimensional.
5.0 x 4.4 x 4.0 cm. A pristine, fat single crystal, complete all around except for a contact in back, that is just unusually intense in color for this locale.
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