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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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6 x 4.4 x 1.6 cm. An excellent, well-defined sphere of yellow-grey Fluorite (approx 2 cm) on a plate of Chalcedony. The Fluorite has a silky matte luster, and is very attractive and balanced proportionately on the matrix. A fine specimen from a classic locality. Ex. Charlie Key.
3.9 x 3.6 x 1.6 cm. A plate of beautiful teal Fluorite crystals, the largest of which are about .55 cm in size. The silky luster and rounded habit are both very attractive, and the fluorescence is excellent. The Fluorites sitting on the sparkly white matrix make an appealing combination. Quite choice, really. These are extremely rare critters from one pocket of a few years ago. Ex. Charlie Key.
10.3 x 6.5 x 5 cm. A first-class golden-yellow Fluorite, an amazing 4 cm across, nestled in a bed of sharp Quartz crystals. The Fluorite has the normal matte finish, and both the color and size are very impressive. A modern classic for this classic locality. Botryoidal fluorites are actually quite rare in nature, in fact. Ex. Charlie Key.
7 x 5 x 3 cm. A fantastic plate of classic green-with-purple-zones Fluorites from Okarusu. The largest crystal is a very desirable 1.5 cm on edge. What make this so exceptional is the incredible gemminess of virtually all the crystals. Not often do you see Fluorites this gemmy from anywhere, let alone Okarusu. Ex. Charlie Key.
6.2 x 5.8 x 5 cm. An exceptional single crystal of Fluorite from one of the world's great localities. This beauty has superb luster, dramatic size, and excellent gemminess, a combination not often found in Cave-in-Rock Fluorites. Also, the zoning is super-sharp and the Fluorite is fluorescent! Ex. Charlie Key.
7 x 6 x 5.5 cm. An exceptional deep purple Fluorite that is an amazing 4 cm on edge. This modified octahedron is mostly complete (contact on back lower side), and it has a deep purple color and silky luster very reminiscent of the famous 1990's Fluorite pocket from Akchatau, Kazakhstan. With the terminated attached Quartz crystal and light purple matrix attached, this unusual and high-quality piece has both visual and mineralogical appeal. Ex. Charlie Key.
12.7 x 9.3 x 6.0 cm. Here we have a superb old-time English Quartz and Fluorite specimen from Weardale. This piece features dozens of sharp, white, lustrous, "stubby" Quartz crystals coating very good sized, gemmy, purplish cubic Fluorite crystals. The Quartz crystals seem to have a higher concentration along the edges of the Fluorites and are thinner on the actual Fluorite faces. These pieces are English classics, and seldom seen in such high quality display specimens on the market today. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
4.9 x 3.9 x 3.6 cm. This is another "special" Erongo specimen - a large (for the find) cube of bright green fluorite, with a few smaller ones, on euhedral crystals of white feldspar; the large fluorite measures over 2 cm along the edge. The specimens from this particular find disappeared quickly. Those bevels you see on the corners are NATURAL - not damage!
5.9 x 5.9 x 3.8 cm. This Erongo combo specimen features shiny little black crystals of schorl tourmaline in combination with little sea-foam green fluorites, on a cluster of feldspar crystals. This specimen has a really unusual balance of minerals for the locality, resulting in a unique locality piece!
8.4 x 5.9 x 3.2 cm. This is a plate of dark scarlet fluorite from the Okorusu Mine, Namibia! These lustrous crystals cover the entire side of the matrix - under strong light and close up you can see that they actually have green exteriors with scarlet phantoms inside!
5.9 x 4.9 x 2.4 cm. This Erongo Mountain fluorite has green cuboctahedral crystals, with frosty faces alternating with clear "windows" into the limpid interiors.
10.6 x 7.8 x 4.0 cm. An aesthetic CABINET plate nicely covered with clusters of sea-green fluorite cubes to 2.3 cm from the First Sovietskiy Mine at Dal’negorsk. The cubes are highly lustrous and interestingly, some of the cube faces are preferentially frosted, while others are water-clear. The top face on the large cube is frosted and 3 of the 4 side faces are water-clear. Strange. The matrix is nicely accented with an abundance of tiny calcite rhombs. Mined in September, 2001. New Dal’negorsk material has about disappeared from the market.
24.0 x 21.5 x 5.5 cm. An OLD-TIME, SUPERB, LARGE CABINET fluorite plate from the famous Alston Moor District of England. Glassy, transparent, light taupe fluorite cubes to 2.8 cm richly cover matrix and are very nicely accented by a scattering of lustrous, tan siderites blades. This large, dinner plate-sized is a striking, classic specimen mined in the 1850s. This huge, old-timer is in incredibly good shape, with only a bit of periphery bruising on the right side and comes from an old European collection, where everything dates to the 1800s. The outdoor photo shows the natural purple fluorescence common to many English fluorites. SUPERB purple fluorescence.
9.0 x 4.7 x 4.0 cm. A WEIRD and SHOWY Shangbao Mine specimen of hollow/empty, drusy quartz casted after calcite scalenohedrons and aesthetically draped on mountains and valleys of glassy, transparent, stepped-growth, emerald-green fluorite cubes on massive fluorite matrix. An unusual and very showy combination specimen from this famous locale.
9.9 x 5.4 x 2.3 cm. Another unusual New Mexico specimen from the collection of Dave Stoudt, from a little-known locality - complexly modified crystals of purple fluorite with intricate stepping, with a partial covering of what is probably hematite-included calcite.
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