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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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An unusual specimen from the 1990s production here, this pastel-green cluster features a series of increasingly larger octohedra surmounting a natural base of more massive fluorite (though it is also crystallized). Wonderfully 3-dimensional and a classic style , now not seen very often for sale. 12.1 x 10.3 x 9.7 cm
An extremely elegant, 3-dimensional specimen of this classic! This piece features a red-pink octohedraon sitting smack in the middle of VERY gemmy smoky quartz crystals which serve to frame it and highlight the color! This remarkable specimen was acquired from the collection of the strahler who found it, Otto Werther. For its size and price range, I think it is one of the best out there on the market and it was one of Ed's more well-known specimens in its original state (by which I should clarify - it was a larger plate with damage in the middle, and so I trimmed it to release this piece, and another which will be shown later featuring two slightly smaller fluorites on a plate about twice this size). 6.1 x 4.9 x 3.2 cm
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... 11.9 x 6.5 x 2.7 cm
10.2 x 8.0 x 6.3 cm. A SUPERB and AESTHETIC CABINET specimen of lustrous, purple fluorite cubes and upright, bladed, white barite on matrix from the Oviedo Mine in Spain. The beautifully located, large zoned fluorite cube is 2.6 cm, and has excellent purple fluorescence. This piece has stunning 3-dimensionality!
5.6 x 4.5 x 2.6 cm. A gorgeous, large, deep cherry-red rhodochrosite rhomb beautifully accented with purple fluorite cubes and tiny pyrite crystals from recent Chinese finds. This huge, flattened rhomb has an overgrowth of secondary rhodochrosite which gives part of it a matte finish, and makes the contrast with the other portions all the more apparent . The backlit photos highlight the super intense cherry-red color when lit up, as good as the best Sweet Home rhodos. This piece does have some cleavages on the edges, but they seem to have been healed over and were thus natural in the pocket in geologic time. A significant, large Chinese rhodochrosite.
15.6 x 10.7 x 2.8 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. These octahedrons measure up to 1.5 cm on edge.
15.4 x 14.4 x 7.2 cm. Green fluorite covered with scalenohedral crystals of calcite that have been pseudomorphed by microcrystalline quartz. We photographed it with a light behind it so that you can see that this thick piece is nearly solid fluorite, mixed with some veins of quartz.
6.7 x 5.6 x 3.3 cm. A MAJOR and showy stannite specimen richly covered with lustrous, discrete crystals and nicely complimented by water-clear quartz crystals and even a 1.0 cm fluorite cube.
5.0 x 4.6 x 2.8 cm. This is the classic Berbes combination - stark-white bladed barite with gemmy (ZONED!) purple fluorite crystals. The barite here is particularly attractive, forming a roof-like "cap" on the fluorite cluster. The fluorites measure to 1.1 cm.
4.1 x 4 x 3.6 cm. Very nice Fluorite specimen with three generations of growth, starting with beautiful apple-green octahedrons and ending with heavily modified cube/octahedral crystals on the corners of each original crystal. The luster is good, the color is good, and the crystal habits are intriguing.
5.7 x 3.8 x 2.7 cm. Gorgeous sherry-colored 1 cm Topaz crystal sitting attractively in a vug. The Topaz is completely gemmy, and the luster is superb. To add even more to the specimen, there is purple fluorite laced throughout the outer edges of the vug. Great simply for the Topaz, it a terrific combination piece. Charlie Key traded this from AL McGuinness in the 1960s.
12.6 x 7.8 x 6.6 cm. Excellent cluster of the classic green fluorites that we have all coveted from China. Each and every crystal is mostly-to-completely gemmy with some exhibiting interesting zoning and modified edges similar to Berbes. The largest crystal is 3.2 cm on edge.
8.7 x 8.3 x 3.2 cm. Lovely series of intergrown Fluorite balls averaging about .5 cm in size. The Fluorites are all translucent, have a beautiful honey color and a rich silky luster. The Fluorites rest on a beautiful matrix of drusy quartz on a blue chalcedony, giving the piece incredible aesthetics.
8.2 x 7.2 x 5.5 cm. Outstanding combination piece from a famous locality. The large (over 5 cm across) Microcline twin is one of the finest I have ever seen of this habit. Combined with the other prismatic Microcline and the pale smoky quartz crystals, this is truly a remarkable specimen. There are even small cubes of pale green fluorite to several mm perched on the faces of some of the Microcline.
6.5 x 5.7 x 5.6 cm. This is an oddball from India, a geode of agate with drusy quartz inside, and a small 1 cm fluorite ball of yellow color tucked down in the crevasse. Also in there is a sheet of clear selenite, above the fluorite.
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