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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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11.8 x 11.0 x 8.8 cm. An aesthetic and fine cabinet fluorite specimen from the recent, very highly touted finds at Riemvasmaak, South Africa. A well-placed, gemmy and lustrous band of unique grass-green fluorite octahedrons leads toward the crowning 2.5 x 2.2 cm octahedron. The starkly contrasting, 3-dimensional quartz crystal matrix is dominated by the 5.0 cm quartz spire. This specimen is highly representative of the find. These are contemporary classics. The color is intense, deep green; very nice.
13.2 x 5.4 x 4.4 cm. Beautiful blue, glassy, transparent fluorite cubes to 4.5 cm form a fine, elongated, cabinet specimen from the famous fluorite mines of La Collada, Spain. Some of the cubes are nicely accented with purple edge phantoms and the highly lustrous crystal faces have interesting, micro stepped-growth. This is a large, highly representative example of the species and locale and has outstanding blue color for the locality.
3.7 x 3.3 x 3.2 cm. Absolutely limpid and beautiful, pastel-green fluorite cubes make up an aesthetic cluster from recent finds at the Yaogangxian Mine of China. The large cube is 2.4 x 2.0 cm. All of the cubes have very interesting, frosted, beveled edges. The two primary crystals are pristine. This is contemporary classic material of excellent quality.
9 x 8 x 5.5 cm. This matrix specimen is characterized by two distinct fluorite colorations meeting along a diagonal in the middle. The lower color zone is a 2 cm wide band of glassy and gemmy, pastel-green crystals which reach 1.5 cm across. The upper/top generation is composed of glassy and gemmy dark green-gray crystals to 1.0 cm across. On this later occurrence are colorless crystals of calcite, to .2 cm across. Fascinating combination of colors, somewhat more obviously so in person.
7.5 x 5 x 4 cm. A complete-floater all around. This sculptural cluster is totally without a growth contact, all terminated, all around. Highly stepped growth shows atop modified octahedrons with lustrous and gemmy "phantom" centers. The largest crystal measures 3 cm in length. I particularly like the gemmy, darker-purple-within-lavender, color centers.
7 x 5.5 x 3 cm. This is a classic Clay center specimen with the fluorite crystals exhibiting a rich cognac color and good luster and translucence. The fluorite crystals, to 3.8 cm across, are cubes which show a clear color zoning originating about .4 cm from the crystal edges. For added flavor there are a few lustrous and colorless celestine crystals to 2.5 cm in length. A superb example for the size. This is also highly fluorescent.
9.5 x 7.75 x 8 cm. Two intergrown, octahedral crystals of fluorite have a muted luster along with fine translucence. At first glance they look a little rounded, and indeed are unusually, but naturally, etched (a characteristic of nearly all fluorite from this old mine). The slightly etched crystals exhibit a superb emerald-green color among the most intense greens in the fluorite kingdom - again, classic for the locale. It is complete-all-around, with just a few minor bits of wear (slight dings on a few edges, par for the course on an old piece like this). The form, color, etching, and even the pocket clay on bottom, all indicate this is a Wise Mine piece (which is why I am not cleaning the clay off the bottom). They are extremely hard to get today in any quality. According to MINDAT: this fluorite mine started ca. 1890's and closed about 1919. Worked intermittently since for specimens until present. However, it has been hit or miss in recent years. Weighs 578 grams.
12.1 x 9.9 x 5.9 cm. Beautiful, rich green crystals with incredibly glassy lustre made this mine famous. The pockets have come and gone over the years, and few have such deep green as this, though it has minor edge wear and abrasions on a few crystals in the middle, and damage around the edges. Weighs 925 grams.
5 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm. Glassy and gemmy crystals of fluorite, exhibiting stepped growth, make up this specimen. The largest crystal measures 2.0 cm across. For added interest there are three cloudy white crystals of calcite, to 1.0 cm across perched on the fluorite cubes. Nearly pristine. Absolutely gemmy and clean, these are shockingly bright little fluorites.
8 x 5.5 x 4 cm. Emplaced on matrix is a plate of glassy and gemmy, light lavender colored fluorite cubes, to 1.5 cm across. Associated sprays of doubly terminated, white calcite, to 2.5 cm in length add color contrast and sharpness around the periphery. The large fluorite crystal in the center of the specimen has at least three inclusions of pyrite. This is classic and rare fluorite, for lustre and color and the calcite association, for this locality. Often it is confused with more common Naica material but they look subtly different.
4.0 x 2.8 x 2.1 cm. The Huanzala mine in Peru has produced some of the most attractive and impressive Fluorites from all of South America. The mine has produced both green and pink Fluorites, and even pieces with both colors in the same crystal. These highly modified Fluorite crystals (a combination of cube, octahedron and dodecahedron) have a lovely pale "water green" color with excellent transparency and are associated with lustrous pyritohedral Pyrite crystals. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
13.8 x 9.9 x 7.0 cm. A striking, mounded fluorite cabinet specimen from recent Chinese finds. These incredibly clear fluorite cubes from the Chashan Mine have proven nearly impossible to photograph, due largely to their clarity. Crystals on this piece reach 2.0 cm. You cannot see that they actually have a pretty, light pastel-green color. In person, their faces are like clear windows into the perfectly transparent interiors, and they have beautiful frosted bevels on the edges.
4.2 x 3.8 x 3.6 cm. A classic, "Blanchard blue" fluorite specimen. A 3.6 x 3.4 x 3.0 cm, lustrous, translucent crystal with beautiful blue color saturation and striking, purple color zoning on the edges with smaller fluorite cubes make up this fine specimen from this famous locale.
17.0 x 14.7 x 5.8 cm. A sculptural and dramatic, large cabinet fluorite and quartz specimen. The hole in the etched quartz surrounded by the partial halo of green fluorite and the fluorite octahedrons is striking. This Chinese fluorite find has to be one of the most exciting of the past five years - large plates of razor-sharp octahedrons with unique purple and green tones, in contrasting stark white quartz. The mining has stopped now - any specimens you see are from existing stock. The crystals on this plate measure to 3.0 cm.
3.6 x 3.0 x 1.8 cm. A really fine and aesthetic rosette of lustrous, translucent, flattened, rose-red rhodochrosite rhombs from recent finds at the Wudong Mine of China. This piece is fabulously accented by a little "corsage" of purple fluorite cubes.
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