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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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The major crysatl here is 4.5 cm , or almost 2 inches, tall! EVERYTHING is a consistent, deep red, cherry color that is tops for the locality. Lustre is very high, and the surfaces are not pitted as you sometimes see on large crystals from Peru. The sharp terminations stick out every which way and you can display this as shown, upside down or right side up, or vertically with the major crystal pointing up and the others pointing to the left and out. There is no damage showing form the display face, and only a small bit of contacting, and that on the periphery. It is very 3-dimensional and dramatic, any way you look at it! The small, dodecahedral fluorites aadd a nice accent. This thing GLOWS in a showcase. 5 x 3.8 x 2.6 cm
This is another monster crystal for the update, weighing in at 6.8 pounds or just over 3 kilos! These massive large crystals were found, I am told, in the 1930s. Many are attributed to Sir Arthur Russell though its hard toknow if this was one of his pieces. It is composed of two brilliantly lustrous, deep purple, penetration-twinned crystals to 10.5 cm on edge. The lustre is like glass, and the color is as deep and rich as you could want for the locality. They also fluoresce like a banshee (see upper-right pic). Of course, given teh size and age, some damage is expected but honestly its just minute edge wear, which I am OK with in context. I have only once before seen so massive a crystal from the mine for sale, and it cost a lot more money, so I regard this as a pretty good deal I am passing on. It comes from a well-known collection (info on purchase). 18.1 x 14.3 x 13.3 cm
This fluorite specimen features gorgeous, deep green fluorite octohedra to almost 5 cm on edge, perched on contrasting white matrix of CRYSTALLIZED quartz. The combo is very distinct, and classic for this locale. This is a rare specimen from a locality that is older than, and much more collectible now that it is gone, than Dalnegorsk. I am told that it is probably from the 1950s or 60s, and is certainly one of the best of its kind. It is a piece I first saw about 10 years ago and recently was able to get back from the collector I sold it to at the time. I was told at the time that it was from the collection of noted Russian collector Vladimir Pelepenko, although I do not have a label to that effect. 18.1 x 14.8 x 6.3 cm
This is a specimen I first handled in the late 90s and had tried to get back for years, before I was able to trade it back from Joe Freilich around 2002. Then I sold it again and got it back again, last month. It is SPECTACULAR! This specimen is one of my absolute favorites from the find of ice-clear, water-clean, transparent fluorites that camne out briefly from this mine. It is a large, impressive piece with extremely high-quality crystals, showing good relief. The largest crystal measures to 4 cm on edge! There are pristine, or as near to as you could ask for anyhow. The fluorites rest on a beautfiful matrix culminating in an elegant and contrasting galena crystal that is elongated and twists from left to right behind and underneath the fluorites. You can look right through the fluorite to the galena. MOST specimens from this pocket were simply "on matrix" and but this is on matrix with STYLE. I had not seen others even remotely similar. Also, most specimens from this pocket were stacks of closely touching crystals and this is unusual for the isolation of the crystals, and their relative individuality. It is a spectacular specimen for a colorless crystal, and has always been one of my alltime favorite Dalnegorsk specimens 10.8 x 8.5 x 5 cm
This has, like the above, a bit of sentimental history for me. It is a piece I have known about and followed for a long time, and always regarded as one of the finest for its type, if not the biggest or most expensive out there. I finally own it now, from the Ed David collection. He had bought it from Collectors Edge in 1997 when it came out of Steve Neely's incredibly fine and noted Elmwood collection suite. It features three gorgesou, colorful crystals to 2 inches (5 cm) on edge, perched gracefully and isolated on contrasting sphalerite matrix. The sphalerite is in turn perched upon a shard of dolomite rock that becomes a perfect natural pedestal for the piece as displayed on a custom lucite base we have made for it. Moreover, the style of the fluorites is worth commenting on. This type, with the glassy smooth corners , is among the rarest style of Elmwood fluorite to find on matrix and truly oustanding specimens like this one are few and far between! This one was already owned in the last 15 years by two of the great collectors of our time, both good friends of mine. I would love to see it find a third home and continue to add to its pedigree! The pics do not convey, by the way, the brilliant sparkle and lustre of the underlaying sphalerite knoll. BETTER AND MORE 3-DIMENSIONAL IN PERSON! 14.6 x 10.6 x 8.1 cm
This super-sharp 1.3-cm purple fluorite was shot under strong light to bring out the color; in person it is darker, though still quite transparent. It is centered on the matrix, with a gemmy quartz crystal rising next to it. Between the quartz crystal and the larger fluorite is actually sandwiched a smaller fluorite, which has grown around the corner of the larger one! 5.1 x 2.9 x 2.6cm
This is an unusually WATER-CLEAR fluorite crystal, rivaling Dalnegorsk, from China! You can look right through the 2-cm crystal as if looking through glass! There is a tiny bit of edge wear, but nothing that really detracts from this wonderful crystal! 5.4 x 4.3 x 3.4cm
An EXCELLENT and AESTHETIC combination specimen from the famous, ONE-TIME find at the Huanzala Mine in 1980 of gemmy, water-clear, pastel-pink with green centers, octohedral fluorite crystals associated with lustrous, brass-yellow pyrite cubes and black sphalerite nicely perched on matrix. The front and back are viewable on this fine piece. All of the pyrite cubes are pristine and you hardly notice that the small fluorite cube on the upper right has a corner cleaved off. Fluorites from this find are some of the world"s most sought-after fluorites from any locality. Ex Richard Hauck Collection. 4.6 x 4.5 x 2.9 cm
This is an unusual specimen in that it is a complete floater: a crust of translucent, pastel pink, inetergrown fluorite octahedrons to .5 cm across, COMPLETELY covers one face of a flattened, gemmy, light smoky, quartz crystal. The quartz crystal measures 8 cm across and again, is complete all around. The fluorite is preferentially only on one side, while the back of the specimen is the flat major face of the quartz crystal. VERY RICH AND COLORFUL with lots of pink for the price! 8 x 6.7 x 2.4 cm
This combo piece features several cubes of fluorite, to 2.8 cm across , which have been coated by drusy, lustrous pyrite crystals. All this is aesthetically perched on a lustrous, radiating knoll of quartz crystals, reaching 1.0 cm across. COMPLETE ALL AROUND and brighter in person! An unusual yet interesting Moroccan piece! 5.1 x 4.5 x 4.3 cm
The best small cabient from the find to date, in my opinion; this is the piece I showed at Munich that was illustrated in the Mineralogical Record report from the show. It features a gorgeous 3.5-cm dodec of fluorite perched atop a stalactitic cluster of quartz points. Desmond Sacco obtained this piece while travelling in South Africa, and brough tit to the show where he exchanged it with me. The pics say it all, except that i should add it IS complete all around! 7 x 3.5 x 3.1 cm
Light green, translucent, satiny , fluorite has grown all around a thin slice of rock on this extremely rich locality specimen. I have not seen a more richly covered example of fluorite from teh locality. The best viewing side exhibits interlocked crystals to 1 cm across, and two knobs or rosettes of fluorite, the largest of which is 2.5 cm across. 9.5 x 9.5 x 6 cm
For a time there we were unable to get any more decent specimens of pink fluorite from our supplier. Then, this fine new batch came in, and they cherry-picked the lot for us before distributing it! 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. These DEEP PINK octahedrons measure to about 1.5 cm. 13.7 x 9.1 x 3.9cm
This fine fluorite crystal is technically a floater, in that it has microfaces on the back, apparently having come loose from the matrix in the pocket and then naturally "healed" in back. It shows fine transparency, pretty stepped growth along the display side, and only a couple of very minor dings on the whole specimen. 10.9 x 6.4 x 3.5cm
A big, waxy-golden crystal of calcite from Illinois, showing fine symmetrical form and sharp faces, with part of a purple fluorite crystal sticking out of it! The calcite does have some edge wear in places, but you can easily oil these whitish spots out if you wish - they are not actual dings and there is no missing crystal, just very slight bruising along a couple of edges. This impressive crystal was mined in March of 1993, according to the label that came with it. 9.9 x 7.4 x 5.9cm
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