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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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2.3 x 2.2 x 2 cm
Gorgeous, bright, sparkling specimen of a weird association!. 2.8 x 2.4 x 2.1 cm
As with the pink fluorites from the same locality, until these creedites were discovered, good crystallized specimens were exceedingly rare and expensive from ANY locality. Suddenly, you could own a really fine creedite without selling your house to get it. Then, about 4 months back, we heard that the mining was FINISHED, supposedly for good. So if you do not have one, well, here is another chance. We were lucky enough to put some aside before the mining stopped. This is a BIG specimen, with crystals all over it (to 1.2 cm). It has rough spots from contacts, but is more notable for its size and the richness of crystallization than a pristine condition. Also, bits over fluorite here and there add a decorative appeal and fluorite is MOST UNUSUAL for the locale! The display face is quite aesthetic, since the creedite has formed a semicircle around a plate of contrasting white matrix. it is better in person as pics are small and the rock is big......15.7 x 13.5 x 11.3cm
A VERY large crystal of light mint green fluorite from Peru, from the collection of Steve Smale. The crystal does have some damage, but is notable for being quite large for this locality, and having fine translucency. 7.8 x 7.0 x 4.2cm
This is a very unusual and rather pretty specimen of purple fluorite that has coated and actually pseudomorphed/replaced a plate of calcite crystals! The plate has these pseudomorphed crystals on both sides and around the edges, indicating that both sides were exposed in the pocket. It is a very fascinating piece from a unique find! I got this from the collection of Dr. Peter Megaw some years ago. I seldom see them for sale. 9.3 x 7.1 x 3.6cm
With the new “style” of modified fluorite crystals coming out of Dalnegorsk for the past couple of years, it is becoming rapidly more difficult to get these gorgeous old-style, water-clear cubes that came out in the mid to late 90s. This specimen , which has been i na collection since that time, features cubes to 2 cm on edge. Some small contacts around the periphery of the specimen do not detract. I still think these are among the world’s finest fluorites, ever – I have always loved them! Much better in person than in photos, because of the clarity which makes them hard to capture 8.5 x 4 x 3 cm
A VERY LARGE and RICH old Weardale piece, with dozens of cubes of gemmy purple fluorite interspersed with platy calcites. Under fluorescent light, the calcites glow pink and of course the fluorites are an intense bright purple (this is after all the locality which lent its fluorites to discovery of the phenomenon of fluorescence!). The fluorite crystals measure to 0.7 cm on edge. 18 x 11.2 x 7.4 cm
I had to look at this specimen closely to figure out what was going on with that two-toned effect - and was amazed to see what had happened. Inside the top crystal, with its stepped corner modifications, is a flat-topped octahedron that grew in an earlier generation of growth in the pocket! A dark mineral coating, which appears to be microcrystalline purple fluorite, was deposited on the phantom crystal, so that you can clearly distinguish its outline inside the next-generation stepped, modified cube. I have seen a lot of Okarusu fluorite, but nothing quite like this! Beyond that, this cluster has fine bright color and transparency, and no damage at all except the normal stuff around the periphery where the specimen was removed. The back was sawn flat to take the cluster off the pocket wall. 8.8 x 8.2 x 3.5cm
This find caused a big stir when it turned up about a year ago, but the specimens disappeared quickly and no more have been seen since. It it truly unique even from China, from where fluorite specimens flow quite regularly. Here you have wonderfully transparent, bright green (MUCH PRETTIER AND BRIGHTER GREEN THAN IN THE PICS!) octahedrons of fluorite that have formed on an earlier generation of darker fluorite. The octahedrons measure up to 4 cm across. Really MUCH nicer in person - guaranteed! 8.2 x 7.8 x 5.4cm
A BIG plate of fluorite crystals, deep purple at their core and transparent green on the outside. These crystals are piled up thickly on the matrix, and are distinguished by very complex and pretty stepped corner modifications. 16.7 x 11.2 x 4.3cm
We saw no more of these at the Tucson show, and wonder if there are any more coming out? At any rate, they were one of the most sensational finds of last year - distinct, euhedral crystals of purple fluorite floating clearly inside of fine, terminated quartz crystals! This is a very good one, with good size, very sharp fluorites, and a fine termination on the quartz crystal. It is interesting to look inside the quartz and see air-filled spaces where fluorites once were that we later dissolved by the solution, then covered up again by quartz. One of these is in a perfect octahedral shape, retaining the form of the fluorite that was once there! 8.9 x 2.8 x 2.4cm
This superb specimen was expensive when I bought it, and you can see why. These stunning combo specimens from the Elmwood can no longer be taken for granted with the mine now closed. This is a galena crystal that is complete all the way around, with striking hoppered growth, and with a jewel-like, pristine transparent purple fluorite on top. You could hardly ask for a cuter Elmwood piece. BETTER IN PERSON, TOO! WILL fit in a Perky box, for the thumbnail collector. According to Rory Howell who was the Mine Superintendent when these were found, they came from the O.G. Heading & only about 150 or so of these Galena/Fluorite associations were found in the mid 1980’s. Supposedly this was the only place in the mine that yielded this association. 3 x 2.7 x 1.7 cm
These were one of the big sensations of last year, but there were NONE to be seen at Tucson. What you see are small euhedral purple fluorites INSIDE a crystal of quartz (which is actually more transparent in person). Just a sensational example of a crystal-in-crystal inclusion! 6.9 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm
An exquisite Illinois fluorite with unusual transparency and intense zoning. Many of the crystals show architectural growth patterns. In good lighting, the specimen just lights up, highlighting the glowing golden cores, sharp purple phantoms, and light teal-blue exteriors of the crystals. These are getting SO HARD to obtain now that the mines are closed and gone! 9 x 6 x 5 cm
superb , complex, bevelled crystal! translucent and with great color - better in person! 2.5 x 1.7 x 1.7 cm
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