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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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Fluorites from Musquiz are immediately recognized by their complex and beautiful stepped surfaces. This specimen features large, translucent purple crystals to 3 cm across the edge, wrapped around a flat crystal of celestine! The back side is all fluorite. There are some cleaves, but due to the nature of these fluorites they are not all that distracting. 8.1 x 6.6 x 4.0cm
This is a BIG plate of transparent fluorite crystals, of an uncharacteristically bright green (with hints of purple), from the Okarusu. The crystals measure up to over 2.5 cm across. This showy, impressive fluorite specimen was sawn flat on the back to remove it from the pocket (as is usual for these). BETTER IN pERSON, when backlit! these photos show it at minimal lighting and not as good as can be! 12.5 x 10.3 x 3.6cm
A big, beautiful smorgasbord of Yaogangxian minerals! In person, this whopper specimen just glitters with brassy gold and red from the chalcopyrites, lavender touches here and there from fluorite, and silvery arsenopyrites scattered amongst the quartz points! 20.8 x 13.2 x 8.4cm
A cluster of three fine crystals of clear fluorite, bright and undamaged, with the silky surface characteristic of last year''s finds at the Nikoloaevsky Mine. 5.5 x 3.5 x 3.2cm
On one end of this specimen are two large, extraordinary intergrown crystals measuring 3 cm along the edge, with very clear DOUBLE phantoms: frosted purple, inside of a sharp thin purple band, inside a layer of gemmy teal-blue! Between the larger crystals on this specimen are very small, sparkly crystals of a later generation, which make the whole specimen really glitter. There are accenting quartz points as well, and sparing muscovite. 10.6 x 6.6 x 4.4cm
A fine, translucent fluorite crystal measuring 1.8 cm on edge, perched on the edge of a shard of matrix sparkling with microcrystals of dolomite. Fluorite is complete on front, cleaved on back where removed from pocket wall. 4.7 x 3.8 x 2.8cm
Until these pink fluorites were discovered in Mexico, Peru and the Alps were the only sources for pink fluorite, and the cost of a specimen such as this was (and still is) astronomical from those localities. This sizeable specimen has wonderful deep pink color. The octahedrons measure up to 1.5 cm on edge. 11.7 x 10.2 x 3.3cm
A plate of gemmy fluorite cubes of the classic Blanchard blue, measuring to 1 cm on edge. 7.2 x 5.2 x 2.3cm
Pale purple fluorite with the super-complex stepped growth characteristic of Musqiz, on a matrix of white celestine. The fluorite is not just an ill-defined stepped mass, but a couple of well-defied cubic crystals, the larger 3.5 cm on edge and very gemmy through the interior! 10.8 x 9.5 x 4.6cm
Look at how striking this Illinois fluorite is with the spiky calcites against the deep, gorgeous teal-blue of the fluorites! One area of contact, but overall in very good shape despite some minor damages, and a truly beautiful specimen. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection. 6.2 x 5.7 x 5.5cm
A large, pretty combo specimen combining quartz crystals with purple and teal fluorites and a few accenting brassy chalcopyrites. 10.8 x 6.5 x 6.4cm
Another pretty Yaogangxian combo specimen, combining shiny arsenopyrite crystals with quartz, sparing muscovite and a single purple fluorite cube. BETTER IN PERSON! 7.0 x 6.2 x 3.4cm
The 2.5-cm fluorite you see here is an absolute GEM - sharp as a razor, super-transparent purple and damage-free! It sits tilted at an attractive angle on a slightly concave matrix covered with pearly, isolated DOLOMITE. A really different and beautiful Yaogangxian piece! NOTE: PREVIOUSLY LABELLED AS WITH STILBITE, CARRYING ON AN ERROR FROM PREVIOUS DEALER WITHOUT THINKING...IT IS DOLOMITE IN ASSOCIATION, NOT STILBITE. ANY PREVIOUS BIDDERS WILL OF COURSE BE LET OUT OF THEIR BID IF SO DESIRED 11.0 x 9.0 x 6.0cm
A whopper version of another specimen in this auction . . . HUGE milky quartz crystals, to 10 cm in length, with big, shiny arsenopyrites (to 5 cm) and touches of purple fluorite here and there. A big, flashy specimen! BETTER IN PERSON! 17.8 x 14.6 x 8.0cm
A fine specimen of the bright, sharp fluorite cubes Berbes is famous for – with crystals to 1.4 cm artfully arranged on a perfectly-trimmed matrix. Pretty zoning, clear in the middle with purple towards the outer faces. SUPER glassy and gemmy! 7 x 6.3 x 3.5 cm
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