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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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5.3 x 4.2 x 3.0 cm. From a NEW FIND at the Okarusu - which turned up crystals in a range of colors. This specimen has deep purple crystals, some of them with sharp, dark phantoms inside.
5.4 x 4.4 x 4.3 cm. From a NEW FIND at the Okarusu - which turned up crystals in a range of colors. This specimen has golden yellow crystals to 1.5 cm on edge.
4.6 x 4.1 x 2.3 cm. Of all the Tongbei spessartine specimens you have seen over the past few years, have you seen a single one where the spessartines are intermixed with FLUORITE crystals? This is an exceptionally rare combo piece. The fluorites are colorless, and octahedral in form.
4.0 x 3.6 x 3.4 cm. A BIZARRE Illinois fluorite specimen - this is NOT an etched fluorite corner from Elmwood, no - it really is Illinois, where this is not at all a common phenomenon! It is also a strange color, a very gemmy light purple more like Berbes than Illinois. Two of the edges have bevels, but one is razor-sharp. All-around weird!
9.2 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm. A largish cluster of fine, glowing golden fluorite crystals to 3.3 cm along the edge, with faint hints of purple that add a beautiful accent. Ex. Feist Collection.
6.8 x 5.9 x 4.2 cm. A cluster of glowing green fluorite with a beautiful pebbly surface that has grown around and all but engulfed two large quartz prisms. Accompanied by a 1999-dated Collectors Edge label - was in the collection of Ed David in the 1990s, and sold to George Elling Collection at some point. Really unique piece, to this day. This is a style, and a richness of fluorite, seldom seen for the locale.
6.0 x 5.4 x 4.0 cm. A bright, beautiful piece with two prominent, cuboctahedral fluorite crystals resting on a bed of lustrous, jet-black sphalerite and nicely accented with brassy chalcopyrite crystals. The crystals are just stunning in their clarity, color, and gemminess. The cubocts are bi-colored, a rich pastel-green and a washed-out gray. Most of the lustrous faces on this beauty are lightly frosted, which makes the crystals translucent. BUT, a couple of side faces are gem-clear, which give a television-like view in to the crystal interior. A really neat effect. Very fine Naica material from the recent find. These are contemporary classics.
28.2 x 18.4 x 4.4 cm. Huge, gemmy, pastel lavender compound crystals of fluorite are spread all across the starkly contrasting quartz matrix, on this MAJOR Chinese specimen! As abundant as fluorite specimens are, think of how few from around the world have this sort of size and presence; this specimen is almost a foot across and covered with crystals any ONE of which would make a fine specimen all by itself This is a true significant showpiece that would grace any collection - and, in fact, it came out of the superb collection of Ed David.
A strange combination specimen featuring a single stark green fluorite isolated on top of schorl crystals. This in itself is unusual. The larger crystals are schorl, and I am told (though havent analysed), that the smaller tourmaline crystals , almost needlelike, are the related tourmaline species foitite 6.5 x 5.8 x 3.7 cm
6.6 x 5.0 x 2.9 cm. These gemmy fluorites are famous from Naica. This is from the NEW finds at this classic old mine, late last year and early this year. These crystals have frosty bevels framing clear "windows" into their gemmy interiors. You can see some accenting sphalerite and chalcopyrite as well.
11.2 x 9.4 x 5.1 cm. This is a classic combo from the Rock Candy Mine in British Columbia: platy, light blue-grey barites with translucent purple fluorite. The translucent lavender fluorite crystals are incredibly intricate, looking up-close like assemblages of hundreds of tiny cubes stacked in layers. The barites are nicely isolated on the fluorite in a good balance, standing on edge, with white edges and translucent faces.
11.1 x 6.1 x 5.1 cm. Two complete and two partial balls of the relatively new and sought-after botryoidal purple fluorite from China. The largest ball here measures 3 cm across. Interesting white frosting, not sure why.
8.3 x 8.1 x 6.3 cm. I have seen literally tons of Yaogangxian material, but cannot recall seeing a single specimen like this one - with purple cubes of fluorite on this beautiful contrasting background of microcrystalline green muscovite. The effect is just beautiful! The fluorites measure to 2 cm across, and are arranged in an attractive ring on the matrix. Fine and unusual!
9.7 x 7.1 x 3.2 cm. An old-time, excellent plate of very glassy, transparent, amber fluorite cubes to 3.0 cm nicely accented with siderite blades on one end. Classic material from Weardale, England with super purple fluorescence. Ex. George Elling Collection.
This odd specimen and in person you can see that the color intensity is really so shocking that it stands out dramatically from about 2000 other Erongo fluorites i have seen. its almost neon. out of all the fluorites in the collection there is only one like this. The fluorites are perched on a contrasting muscovite matrix. 6.0 x 5.2 x 3.0 cm
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