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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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2.1 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm. A beautiful thumbnail from the Auglaize quarry. These Fluorites are renowned for their superb purple phantom that sits in the center of the crystals. In this specimen, the largest crystal is 1.2 cm across with a sharp .7 cm zone in the middle. Ex. Charlie Key.
4.2 x 3.3 x 2.5 cm. The green Erongo Fluorites have become famous in their own right, but to find them in such superb combination with the rare and desirable clear Goshenite Beryls, as well as minor Orthoclase, is amazing. The Beryls range up to 3 cm, and the Fluorites about 1.5 cm. The luster on the fluorites is silky and very good, as is the gemminess and zoned coloration. The Beryls have superb luster and are gemmy. Ex. Charlie Key.
8.5 x 5 x 2.7 cm. A superb 2.8 cm golden "fried-egg" botryoidal Fluorite from the now-classic locality in India. Under good light, you can actually see some of the underlying Quartz crystals under the edge of the ball. Ex. Charlie Key.
4.9 x 4.5 x 4.3 cm. A superb, very large (4.9 cm) Fluorite cube on Orthoclase from Erongo Mountain. The deep green color is classic for Erongo, and this size for a single cube is virtually unheard of. The luster is good, and the gemmy corners add even more to the aesthetic appeal. Ex. Charlie Key.
An old, big, and impressive Cumberland combo specimen, featuring transparent, honey-colored fluorites to 2.2 cm and well-formed tan calcites, on a bed of sphalerite, with some galenas thrown in for accent. Old English specimens such as this are not easy to come by. Ex. Dan Ehrling Collection to Robert Faber collection and back again to me 4 years later. NOTE THAT YELLOW FLUORITE from any locale in UK other than the Hilton mine is quite rare. This one has the sphalerite characteristic of Nenthead area, though the color IS comparable to that of a good Hilton Mine piece ! MUCH BETTER IN PERSON. 14.5 x 11 x 4.5 cm
13.5 x 11.8 x 7.5 cm. A superb grouping of three terrific Fluorite cubes, the largest of which is 5 cm on edge, on a white Quartz matrix (itself on underlying massive Fluorite). The Fluorites are very translucent and have a delicate green color with just a hint of purple along the edges (and perhaps the cores). Very reminiscent of the excellent Fluorite find from the Blanchard Mine’s Portales Pit in 1995. Ex. Charlie Key.
A SPECTACULAR CABINET specimen of 3 vugs filled with beautiful lustrous and transparent zoned purple fluorite cubes to 9 mm and the world-famous lustrous brown iridescent fluorite cubes for which the Auglaize Quarry is justly famous for. The fluorites have a pale lavender fluorescence, but the calcite lining each vug has a very bright white fluorescence! Damage-free! Ex Ed David Collection. 12.3 x 8.0 x 7.5 cm
13.8 x 8.8 x 7.5 cm. This is a very geometric and just fascinating pseudomorph specimen from a find in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, called a "box cast". What you have are these huge blocky crystals of fluorite that have been pseudomorphed by sparkly, light amethystine quartz. Across the top lies a poker-chip calcite crystal which has also been pseudomorphed in this way. The largest of the pseudomorphs measures 9 cm along the edge. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
5.7 x 4.4 x 2.9 cm. Botryoidal fluorites are rare from anywhere; they are best known as the yellow ones that come from Nasik. So there was a lot of excitement when these purple ones were found in China. This is a single "bubble" of a nice small cabinet size, showing the pretty, glowing purple translucency you see when you put them under good light. It has a natural flattened face on one side where it grew against either matrix of another fluorite globe.
8.1 x 3.9 x 2.6 cm. Small, super-lustrous, gemmy crystals cover the display side of this specimen of Mexican rhodochrosite. They have a very faint pink color to them. Amongst the rhodochrosites are a couple of very complex crystals of clear fluorite. Ex. Consie Prince Collection.
11.4 x 7.0 x 4.4 cm. These fluorites from Xianghualing are just amazing for their glassy clarity - they really do look like cubes of glass, though they are very hard to capture on camera. They have pretty frosted bevels along the edges framing the window-like views into the limpid crystal interiors. The crystals here measure to 2.5 cm along the edge.
8.4 x 6.4 x 4.4 cm. This is quite an unusual specimen, even for a prolific mine that has turned out more than its share of mineral specimens. First, the fluorites have ghostly phantoms inside - some of them, colorless phantoms in a field of purple, and others, purple-outlined in a colorless field. But also, the association with these hexagonal, prismatic calcites makes the specimen even more unusual and interesting.
8.2 x 5.4 x 3.8 cm. Gemmy, "invisible", water-clear, intergrown, cuboctahedral fluorite crystals to 2.5 cm form a striking and aesthetic crest atop stalactitic quartz matrix on this fine specimen from the Nikolaevskiy Mine at Dal’negorsk. From finds of the 1990s. Ex. Ryan Bowling Collection.
An AMAZINGLY SHAPED HUGE " MUSHROOM" of translucent yellow fluorite with a frosted cap from the Deccan Traps of India. One side of the mushroom has a quartz spray. Three different lighting systems were used to display the unique qualities of this unusual specimen, because it positively glows orange-yellow when backlit in halogen or fluorescent lights, but even in poor lighting it is a pleasing color. The fluorite mushroom is pristine, except for the attachment at the base and the quartz spray has a very minimal amount of damage, certainly not detracting from the overall uniqueness of this piece. THIS IS A VERY LARGE SPECIMEN OF THE SPECIES. See the Mineralogical Record Indian Zeolites Special Issue January-February 2003, where it says that most of these only get to 5 cm. In fact, I will include a free copy of that backissue of the MR to the buyer to prove it. 8.1 x 6.9 x 5.8 cm
MD-20283 - Catapleiite, Fluorite, Epididymite, Manganoneptunite, Aegirine - - Archived
Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry), Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
miniature, 3.5 x 3 x 1.75 cm
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A choice miniature of this unusual material, because it features several species in aerial agglomeration. The pseudomorph forms the base for the manganoneptunite and Epididymite sprays, and is itself perched delicately upon aegirine-speared albite. This particular specimen also shows off the new find of Epididymite, in the form of shockingly well-formed crystals! There were just a few miniatures of this quality - most were thumbnails. 3.5 x 3 x 1.75 cm
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