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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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A striking, gorgeous and pristine CABINET cluster of lustrous and etched transparent fluorite cubes of varying sizes with beautiful purple edge phantoms on sphalerite matrix. The beautiful little cluster of smaller fluorite cubes and the larger cubes to 2.9 x 2.7 cm make this a special piece and pieces of this quality will become harder to obtain, as the Elmwood Mine is now closed. Two views are given of this fine piece. 13.7 x 10.0 x 5.5 cm
Transparent crystals to 1.4 cm with purple phantoms inside. Very pretty! 6 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm
Hard to photograph - the form of the crystals is better than what appears in the photo. This is a large crystal with modified faces, with small accenting calcites and some accenting galena as well. Under strong light you can see the yellowish core inside the purple exterior. There is a bit of damage, but not much relative to the size of the specimen. 11.7 x 8.5 x 5.5 cm
Okarusu fluorites are notoriously hard to capture in photos, but this is a really good one, with transparent crystals to 1.7 cm that show the classic green and purple. That rusty color you see is actually deep inside the crystals, iron oxide mineralization that is showing through the transparent crystals. Very sharp, lustrous and undamaged. 8.8 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm
From the new mining at the Rogerley, this is a large plate of nice crystals to one centimeter, some of them twinned. Crystals are missing on the upper left part of the specimen, but in good shape in the main part of it, a recess where the crystals were protected. INTENSE COLOR 12.5 x 7.5 x 4 cm
A good-sized plate of crystals of the classic Blanchard blue, to one centimeter. 10.5 x 9 x 3 cm
A wonderful specimen from the mining in Mina Navidad that has brought pink fluorite out of the stratosphere and in reach of average collectors. The crystals on this specimen show exceptional transparency. They measure to 2 cm across. 11.8 x 8.5 x 2 cm
Purple crystals to 1.8 cm with pretty beveled edges. 10 x 7 x 5.5 cm
25.0 x 19.9 x 11.0 cm. This is a very large plate, with deeper green color and an unusual secondary "frosting" of drusy fluorite atop the underlying large octahedra. It weighs nearly 14 pounds.
17.3 x 10.9 x 7.6 cm. A crowning wreath of sharp, transparent green octahedra to 5 cm across dominates this large matrix specimen. The piece is complete and the crystals actually wrap around the top ridge and down the back side.
12 x 8.4 x 8.1 cm. This fine specimen with multiple octahedral "peaks" has a sharp ridgeline that features 5 very gemmy crystals with intense green color. These crystals are to 4 cm, and pop out 3-dimensionally. They are all pristine and complete all around. The whole cluster leaps out of a mass of matrix that is actually a single large 8 cm crystal, on which they sit.
13.7 x 9.1 x 6.3 cm. This specimen is a complex piece with many features to it that are hard to convey. This specimen has among the deepest color, in a huge 6 cm gemmy crystal on top of the right side. In the lower-center spot, it features a strange 3.7-cm-long "bar" of fluorite that is either some weird twin or a weird concatenated crystal of 2 adjoining octahedra. This "bar" is perched below a third major featured crystal habit: a 3.5-cm gem octahedron that looks like almost triangular in form it is so compressed on one axis yet equant on the others. The two large octahedra are free of secondary coating but on the crevasses between, and on the "bar”, there is a secondary coating of minutely crystallized fluorite that sprinkles over some faces like sparkling sugar, adding lustre and accent to the specimen. Lastly, a thin ridge of translucent tiny fluorite crystals, piled one upon the other and measuring to 6 mm, runs like a wave spray in front of the largest octahedron, framing it separately from the rest of the specimen and giving the whole piece a more 3-dimensional look.
6.7 x 3.5 x 2.7 cm. An elegant, complete-all-around, stalactite-like cluster of fluorites. This piece is topped by a 1.8-cm crystal (1.8 cm on edge, 2.5 cm across diagonal) that is among the most gemmy and transparent crystals here. Small flecks of golden pyrite, perhaps 0.25 mm in size, decorate some crystal edges but are internal, included within, on close inspection. These little sparkling golden flecks provide a nice accent.
12.8 x 10.1 x 8.5 cm. This style was very rare from the find, and highly valued for the aesthetic appearance of more isolation and association with crystallized quartz. These darker crystals have a matte lustre that contrasts markedly with the quartz. They are translucent, and glow when backlit. The largest octahedron here reaches 3 cm across.
8.7 x 4.4 x 3.8 cm. This specimen features a 3.4 cm crystal, very gemmy and transparent, perched atop a column of fluorite that seemingly encloses a thin quartz matrix shard within.
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