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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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8.7 x 3.8 x 3.5 cm. A STUNNING and VERY AESTHETIC Pakistan combination specimen. A gemmy and lustrous, 1.9 cm, green fluorite cube is artfully set at the base of a highly lustrous and striated schorl crystal with a complex, modified pinacoid termination. The schorl is exquisitely wrapped in snow-white, bladed cleavelandite. This elegant specimen is a visual treat, a 360 degree beauty, with two, sharp and gemmy, smoky quartz crystals hidden in the cleavelandite on the back. Ex. Wayne Thompson stock.
One of those strange Erongo combos! This piece features sharp matte-green fluorite crystals perched smartly upon zoned goshenites! 5.8 x 5.6 x 4.0 cm
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! 10.1 x 6.8 x 4.3 cm
Incredibly weird specimen with gemmy, transparent purple fluorites showing oriented growth and coloration patterns, perched atop a splaying schorl crystal! Dramtic and certainly unusual 7.5 x 4.1 x 3.5 cm
Another unusual combo piece, this one particularly well-balanced and with a very gemmy goshenite, and large fluorite for the find as well! 4.3 x 3.5 x 2.2 cm
5.5 x 5.1 x 4.4 cm. From the fluorite collection of Herb Obodda, a striking Naica fluorite not from the recent finds, but from mining in the 1980s there. What makes it so exceptional is the stark white calcite crystals on the back side that wrap around the front to create a pretty "frame" for the fluorite.
7.4 x 3.6 x 2.9 cm. A ball of the rare red fluorite from India, measuring 1.4 cm, nestled in a bed of quartz crystals. The quartz crystals are peppered with tiny balls of gyrolite.
4.7 x 4.5 x 3.9 cm. This beautiful fluorite specimen is from the recent re-mining at Naica, which turned up some specimens of terrific quality. With this specimen, you see the typical extremely complex faces, with some rather distinct cuboctahedrons emerging from the background of microfaces. These euhedral areas provide clear windows into the transparent, light green interior of the compound crystal. The crystal is complete all around, with a contact face underneath where you can still see a bit of sphalerite.
19.4 x 12.4 x 4.9 cm. A BIG PLATE of sharp, glassy, large crystals of fluorite, from Xianghualing. These crystals measure to 3 cm along the edge - and actually one right at the end of the specimen that is a full 4.5 cm across! If you have seen these before, they are not a dull green but a really pretty, grassy green. They have a unique "glass" look to them.
12.4 x 9.4 x 7.3 cm. You have probably seen the wonderful purple fluorite balls from this new find of botryoidal fluorite in China. Here, however, you have a thin ridge that was sticking into a pocket that ended up completely covered with this fluorite! Even the edges, except one that contacted the pocket wall, have botryoidal fluorite on them! Fortunately, this ridge sticks up like a wall from a natural "base" that extends in front, so it displays very naturally.
4.1 x 3.3 x 2.9 cm. The photo does no justice at all to this superb fluorite - there was just no way to shoot it that came out at all, so you will have to trust the description. In person, it is GLASS CLEAR through the interior, with just a slight blush of purple, and with a large "window" face that is like looking into a limpid pool. The crystal is actually a healed floater, complete all around. The original contact on the back naturally healed after the crystal came loose in the pocket.
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! 18.3 x 10.2 x 3.4 cm
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! 7.3 x 3.9 x 3.0 cm
20.5 x 9.7 x 2.9 cm. You almost never see one of these celestines from Musquiz that is complete and undamaged. But this is a floater that is complete all the way around, with the typical serrated edges. It has a nice pearly luster, too, and is translucent. But what caps it off is this purple fluorite - that sits right on its edge! A large, dramatic crystal! Classic combo for this locale, circa 1960s.
12.9 x 7.9 x 4.9 cm. We actually hesitated in determining whether this was from Illinois or Elmwood, until we spotted the gemmy corner on one of the crystals - very distinctive of the Elmwood. These very large crystals (one of them measures 6.5 cm along the edge!) blend a very light golden tone with an equally subtle light purple.
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