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ex. Charlie Key
Gemmy, transparent, lavender-colored fluorite crystals perched on the edge of a quartz cluster make for a really distinct specimen, here.
ex. Charlie Key
This specimen comes from the Uis tin mine, from the 1970s or earlier according to Charlie. It features a large freestanding crystal perched on quartz matrix - and the crystal is , in person, translucent and of a nice pastel green color. Such specimens are extremely hard to obtain today and , especially in such aesthetic form, are rare in fluorite collections.
ex. Charlie Key
Charlie had only one flat of this very unusual association, which he said was found at the end of the 1990s. The fluorites here are mattte-green, but translucent, and they sit on contrasting amethyst crystals to 2 cm in size. The largest fluorite on this plate, which is also our largest specimen of the pocket, is 3.6 cm. These are octahedral, translucent crystals and on the edges have oriented outgrowths of minute cubic faces. I cannot think of a fluorite on amethyst association from any other locality (can you!?).
ex. Charlie Key
An absolutely ugly fluorite cluster serves host to some absolutely fantastic locality ferberite crystals, that are sharp and well formed from any place but particularly rare in the suite of minerals found in the Erongos. Charlie valued this highly and took care to point it out to us in the collection. These ferberites, he said, were the best he was ever able to obtain and frankly i had NEVER even heard of such crystals being reported from the region so i was shocked.
ex. Charlie Key
Extremely rare both for this locality or for ANY location, this association just amazed me when Charlie identified what it was for us during packing of the collection. Like the above specimen, it is not the best of species, but it IS significant nonetheless for its proof of the complexity of minerals to be found here and to any Erongo suite others may be assembling. Charlie spent a LONG TIME there...and he was pretty impressed by these.
ex. Charlie Key
A MASSIVE, football-sized specimen with glowing color and total 100% translucency throughout! You'd swear it was Chinese in quality if you didn't trust Charlie that it came out of this old tin mine when he got his other Uis pieces! Weight is several kilos! When backlit, this is more intense green and rivals even Chinese material! It GLOWS. NO DAMAGE to the 3-dimensional display face. contacted only about the periphery
ex. Charlie Key
One of those strange Erongo combos! This piece features sharp matte-green fluorite crystals perched smartly upon zoned goshenites!
ex. Charlie Key
This is the best large piece we have seen in about a flat's worth of this material, which Charlie had stashed. It is one of those strange Erongo combos! This piece features sharp matte-green fluorite crystals perched smartly upon zoned goshenites to about an inch!
ex. Charlie Key
Incredibly weird specimen with gemmy, transparent purple fluorites showing oriented growth and coloration patterns, perched atop a splaying schorl crystal! Dramtic and certainly unusual
ex. Charlie Key
Another unusual combo piece, this one particularly well-balanced and with a very gemmy goshenite, and large fluorite for the find as well!
ex. Charlie Key
The pic pretty much says it all...this is one of the most extremely sculptural combos I have seen, and althoug a slender spray, is dramatic beyond its size. Repaired (the fluorite attachment), or it would be "priceless" at a higher price...
ex. Charlie Key
These beautiful specimens are rare survivors of a small find that produced GREAT carving rough for cabochons and jewelry made of chalcedony (its gemmy and transparent/translucent!), to the detriment of the original specimens from our point of view! Charlie saved some from the wrecker, though, and these are a few selected from a flat we have of this rare and beautiful old material from the 1980s. This one is particularly nice because it shows the lace agate in layers around the chalcedony, that provided the silica for replacement of the fluorite crystals that were originally inside this vug. In other words, this piece preserves the full geological context of the pocket, with crystals in a vug in the ground, changing over timeto another mineral due to alterations in the chemistry and environment. Besides, its beautiful, too!
ex. Charlie Key
These beautiful specimens are rare survivors of a small find that produced GREAT carving rough for cabochons and jewelry made of chalcedony (its gemmy and transparent/translucent!), to the detriment of the original specimens from our point of view! Charlie saved some from the wrecker, though, and these are a few selected from a flat we have of this rare and beautiful old material from the 1980s. This one is particularly nice because it is a good-sized plate with excellent translucency and good horizons abou the edge. IN person, you'd displayit set down a bit, to better show off the crystals!
ex. Charlie Key
I was shocked to see purple fluorite from India. Never seen it, in 20 years-plus of looking at Indian specimens. Recently over the last 4 years, we have seen for the first time (at least so I believed and everybody else I know), rounded botryoidal fluorite from India : red and yellow hemispheres from Mahodari in Nasik. Somehow, Charlie had bought and stahed a whole previous pocket of fluorites, and a novel color for India no less, and nobody knew. I BUY A LOT of Indian minerals and believe me, I would have bought ANY purple fluorite from India if i had seen ONE SINGLE specimen out of the tens of thousands of pieces I have been offered over the years. It simply wasn't to be had. I asked Charlie how the hell...and he just chuckled and said he "got good things from time to time an dput them away." Charlie had apparently bought this small pocket in the late 1980s , and it was all he had seen, as well. This is the largest specimen of the small group we found in his collection - nestled in with a large and extensive Indian Collection Suite which we will post later in the year. This piece is pristine , and it positively glows when backlit with the light shining through both the translucent fluorite and the thin quartz late on which it rests. This hemisphere measures 5 cm across. NOT a pale lavender, but a nice rich shade of purple! Rare and unusual, I would say...
ex. Herb Obodda
A really pretty combination piece with unusually rich coverage of fluorite for the locality, associated with pretty pink rhodo to teh side. From teh fluorite collection (with label) of Herb Obodda, sold perhaps 6 years back.
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share specimen![Fluorite on Quartz from Oranje River, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-131a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-131a.jpg)
![Fluorite on Quartz from Oranje River, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-131b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-131b.jpg)
![Fluorite on Quartz from Oranje River, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-131c.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-131c.jpg)
![Fluorite on Quartz from Uis, Damaraland District, Kunene Region, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-132a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-132a.jpg)
![Fluorite on Quartz from Uis, Damaraland District, Kunene Region, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-132b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-132b.jpg)
![Fluorite on Amethyst from Oranje River, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-133a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-133a.jpg)
![Ferberite on Fluorite from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-134a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-134a.jpg)
![Ferberite on Fluorite from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-134b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-134b.jpg)
![Ferberite on Fluorite from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-134c.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-134c.jpg)
![Xenotime on Fluorite from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-134ba.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-134ba.jpg)
![Xenotime on Fluorite from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-134bb.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-134bb.jpg)
![Xenotime on Fluorite from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-134bc.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-134bc.jpg)
![Fluorite from Uis, Damaraland District, Kunene Region, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-141a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-141a.jpg)
![Fluorite on Goshenite Beryl from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-162a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-162a.jpg)
![Fluorite on Goshenite Beryl from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-162b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-162b.jpg)
![Fluorite on Goshenite Beryl from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-167a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-167a.jpg)
![Fluorite on Goshenite Beryl from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-167b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-167b.jpg)
![Fluorite on Schorl from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-173a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-173a.jpg)
![Fluorite on Schorl from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-173b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-173b.jpg)
![Fluorite on Schorl from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-173c.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-173c.jpg)
![Goshenite on Fluorite from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-176a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-176a.jpg)
![Goshenite on Fluorite from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-176b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-176b.jpg)
![Goshenite on Fluorite from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-176c.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-176c.jpg)
![Fluorite on Aquamarine from Erongo Mountains, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-190a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-190a.jpg)
![Gem Chalcedony pseudomorph after Fluorite from Blinkpan, Karas Region, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-192a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-192a.jpg)
![Gem Chalcedony pseudomorph after Fluorite from Blinkpan, Karas Region, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-192b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-192b.jpg)
![Gem Chalcedony pseudomorph after Fluorite from Blinkpan, Karas Region, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-193a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-193a.jpg)
![Gem Chalcedony pseudomorph after Fluorite from Blinkpan, Karas Region, Namibia [db_pics/pics/k-193b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k-193b.jpg)
![Purple Fluorite on Quartz from Nasik, Maharashtra, India [db_pics/pics/k294a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k294a.jpg)
![Purple Fluorite on Quartz from Nasik, Maharashtra, India [db_pics/pics/k294b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/k294b.jpg)
![Fluorite with Rhodochrosite from American Tunnel, Silverton, San Juan County, Colorado, USA [db_pics/pics/kbx1a.jpg]](db_pics/pics/kbx1a.jpg)
![Fluorite with Rhodochrosite from American Tunnel, Silverton, San Juan County, Colorado, USA [db_pics/pics/kbx1b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/kbx1b.jpg)