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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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9.3 x 9.2 x 4.2 cm. Classic Weardale. Lovely purple zoned twinned and single Fluorites with very good luster and gemminess in combination with attractive rounded Galenas. Superb fluorescence.. The largest Fluorite cube is 2.1 cm on edge. There are some cleaved corners, but you gotta know this is an old-timer! Very lovely, very aesthetic!
5.4 x 4.3 x 2.3 cm. An old-time and showy Japanese combination specimen of sharp, lustrous, steel-gray arsenopyrite crystals covering matrix and attractively resting above a highly complimentary and contrasting band of intergrown, frosted, translucent, sea-green fluorite crystals. A fine, old specimen from a historic copper mine. Ex. John Ydren Collection.
4.5 x 3.1 x 2.5 cm. Wonderful water-clear, purple fluorite cubes to 1.4 cm with beautiful edge phantoms and unusual frosted, modified corners very aesthetically set on lustrous, off-white calcite rhombs from the famous Shangbao Mine of China. Fluorites of this quality are becoming a classic and this super piece has two very displayable views.
14.4 x 9.5 x 6.3 cm. GLASSY and sharp cubes of fluorite to 1.5 cm - water-clear, with blushes of purple inside - on a field of quartz crystals.
8.9 x 5.9 x 4.9 cm. A cluster of intergrown fluorite cubes dramatically isolated on matrix. These razor-sharp crystals, to 1.7 cm, are a glassy teal color, with super-sharp internal PURPLE phantoms that look so striking through the light teal outer portion of the crystals! Much more transparent and striking in person - really glassy.
5.9 x 5.9 x 2.1 cm. Tongbei is known almost exclusively for its spessartine-on-smoky combination - but rarely, it produces fluorites too. This one is really striking, in that you have a single, isolated, perfect octahedral crystal perched right on the edge of matrix. It measures 2 cm. Hard to find! Purple is most rare, here.
5.4 x 4.4 x 3.1 cm. You can see that this fluorite from the Elmwood Mine shows a unique distinction that a few of the crystals from here have - gemmy golden corners that are actually a bit raised above the surrounding faces. When crystals of this type are large and perhaps damaged, these corners are sometimes cut into gemstones, because they are so pure. There is a bit of sphalerite attached here - the zinc ore that was the reason for the Elmwood Mine. This cluster is complete on the display side, with the back being the flat contact face where the specimen was removed from the matrix - it is not a cleave, but is actually re-healed and has formed micro-faces, so the crystal is technically complete all around!
9.6 x 5.9 x 3.4 cm. From the brand new finds at the Okarusu, a cluster of transparent crystals that mix a base green color with isolated corners and spots of intense purple. The crystals measure to 1.6 cm on edge.
9.5 x 6.5 x 2.9 cm. A plate of gemmy fluorites with intense scarlet phantoms inside that are rotated 90 degrees! From the new finds at the Okarusu!
7.4 x 5.5 x 2.9 cm. The so-far very uncommon YELLOW fluorite from the new finds at the Okarusu; that large crystal measures 2.5 cm along the edge.
15.2 x 12.3 x 3.3 cm. Incredibly sharp octahedrons that beautifully mix green and purple tones. There must be a hundred translucent crystals here, measuring to 2 cm.
9.9 x 9.9 x 4.7 cm. The Ruyuan Mine did not produce these fluorites in quantity, and then the mining seemed to end not long after it began. They are now very difficult to find in specimens with sharp, complete and un-contacted crystals, as on this specimen. These octahedrons measure to 4 cm across, and have the best color and translucency for this find. They are attractively arranged on the matrix. The largest crystal has naturally modified flattened tips. Remarkably free of damage, and again, very hard to obtain now in good specimens!
7.9 x 6.9 x 3.4 cm. Botryoidal fluorites are rare from anywhere, so there was a huge hubbub when these sensational purple ones were found in China around a year ago. There were not very many, and they were and still are rather pricey. This is a large, thick one with two main "domes". When you put good light on or behind these they just GLOW a gorgeous purple.
18.8 x 14.6 x 5.6 cm. Xianghualing has turned out glassy fluorites, one of which appears in this set of auctions. But recently, it also began producing these very large, translucent green octahedral crystals, in large plates such as this one. The largest crystal here is over 9 CENTIMETERS across!
8.3 x 4.1 x 1.9 cm. Check out the range of color in this specimen from the new finds at the Okarusu! Crystals to 2 cm along the edge.
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