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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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An aesthetic and beautiful CABINET plate of lustrous, translucent, light honey to tan, fluorite spheroids to 1.4 cm on nicely contrasting blue-gray chalcedony from the ONE-TIME find a few years ago at the Mahodari Quarry in India. This piece has been beautifully prepared with the largest fluorite centrally located on the matrix. The rolling topography of the chalcedony really adds character. This is a very rich example - rarely do you see so many balls clustered together. Botryoidal fluorite is known from only a few locations in the world, this one having produced the best yet seen. 10.5 x 9.0 x 4.7 cm
A SPECTACULAR specimen of brilliant, azure-blue, flattened linarite blades on a matrix of tabular barite and some fluorite from the famous Sunshine #1 Adit, Blanchard Mine, New Mexico. Linarite is the mostly highly prized mineral from the Blanchard Mine. This is one of the finest linarites, that we have offered in the gallery or at auction. Its pretty enough I think it can do well her,e and frankly It is something i''d be torn about offering to several different people otherwise. 7.5 x 6.2 x 6.0 cm
You could hardly ask for a more dramatic example of the strange and pretty, translucent, perfectly spherical Nasik fluorites than this one -- as the fluorites (five of them) sit in a large vug of sparkly, dove-grey quartz crystals! The fluorite on the lip of the vug has a shallow bruise, but the others are pristine. A big, showy and wonderfully impressive mineral specimen! This is one of the nicest large fluorites of such style we have seen. Just came in from India. 17.2 x 13.1 x 12.4 cm
This Kentucky combo piece is quite obviously an old specimen, but more than that, it is extremely rare on the market! It features transparent fluorites to 0.6 cm on a lustrous, euhedral matrix of sphalerite. 4.2 x 2.4 x 2.0 cm
A gorgeous, gemmy, compound crystal of fluorite (2 cm) with a sharp phantom inside, starkly isolated on a cluster of quartz crystals. The isolation of this pretty crystal makes this specimen really dramatic and special! 9.0 x 7.8 x 4.8 cm
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. Now, you can get one without selling your house! These octahedrons measure up to 1.5 cm on edge. Fine deep pink color. 10.0 x 7.3 x 3.2 cm
The MOST UNUSUAL fluorite thumbnail from the Argentiere Glacier of Chamonix, France from the small lot we obtained. Nearly transparent, rose-pink octohedral fluorite crystals, modified by the cube, have PURPLE corners! This is the ONLY piece from the lot with the modified cubic faces and purple overtones. This is CLASSIC and very desirable material from a sought-after locality. 1.7 x 1.7 x 1.1 cm
A SUPERB, AESTHETIC and PRISTINE cluster of translucent, purple and green fluorite octohedrons to 3.5 cm on quartz matrix from the famed De An Mine of China. Common a couple of years ago, supplies have dried up and disappeared, with very little new material coming out. 7.2 x 4.8 x 4.3 cm
An AESTHETIC and UNCOMMON combination CABINET plate from the Tongbei Area of China. Very gemmy and lustrous orange spessartine garnets to 6 mm richly cover matrix along with lustrous, smoky quartz crystals and one, frosted, very light green fluorite octohedron. A couple of broken smoky crystals are barely noticeable and are certainly not detracting. Very few of these spessartine/fluorite combo pieces have come from Tongbei. The back and one side has been sawed to enhance display. 10.9 x 5.4 x 2.8 cm
A SUPER, very nearly pristine cluster of transparent and lustrous, golden-amber fluorite cubes to 1.7 cm on matrix from Aouli, Morocco. The minor bit of periphery damage is certainly not detracting. 6.7 x 5.7 x 4.6 cm
Crystals of gemmy green fluorite, to 2.5 cm, on matrix - a rich specimen of this pretty California fluorite that is not all that easy to find around in nice matrix specimens! 8.7 x 5.7 x 4.0 cm
A very large plate loaded with the famous "Blanchard Blue" fluorite. This teal color is not quite like fluorite from anywhere else, and in fact, this specimen came from mining last year where the crystals were intensely saturated with color, as you can see here. This one has a wonderful balance of grouped crystals with others in isolation on contrasting matrix. The crystals measure to around one centimeter. 22 x 13 x 7 cm
A pristine, frosty blue octahedron of fluorite on a bed of quartz crystals. The gorgeous fluorite (3 cm) has a silky, sparkly luster. OLD MATERIAL , probably 40-50 years out of the ground, and not to be confused with modern Dalnegorsk material! 6.5 x 5.5 x 2 cm
Beautiful, translucent crystals to 2.5 cm across the edge, teal-blue in the core and purple at the edges. Note the microcrystals of pyrite that have grown on the faces. The cluster is wrapped around a bit of sphalerite. In fine shape: damage is limited to the periphery of the specimen 8.5 x5.5 x 4 cm
3.9 x 3.4 x 3.1 cm. Gemmy, "invisible", water-clear, intergrown, cubic fluorite crystals to 1.4 cm form a striking and aesthetic cluster atop matrix studded with small fluorite cubes on this excellent specimen from the Nikolaevskiy Mine at Dal’negorsk. All of the fluorite crystals in the cluster are pristine, have stepped-growth faces and skeletal features and the secondary crystal faces are very interestingly, preferentially etched. Common in the 1990s, these are hard to fine today in good specimens. These are considered contemporary classics.
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