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Mineral Specimens with Fluorite
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8.3 x 6.5 x 3.0 cm. Until these lustrous, translucent, pink fluorites were discovered in Mexico, Peru and the Alps were the only sources for pink fluorite, and the cost of a specimen such as this was (and still is) astronomical from those localities. These octahedrons measure up to 2.3 cm, and have vivid, deep pink color against the beautifully contrasting white matrix.
3.6 x 2.4 x 2.0 cm. A superb and aesthetic fluorite and quartz combination from the Yaogangxian Mine and the Steve Smale Collection. A shimmering, water-clear, beautiful blue fluorite cube is dramatically impaled by a gem, water-clear, quartz "spear". Two, smaller quartz crystal add character.
9.8 x 9.0 x 5.3 cm. An aesthetic and excellent fluorite specimen from the recent finds at Riemvasmaak, South Africa. Gemmy and lustrous, unique grass-green fluorite octahedrons to 3.8 cm are beautifully clustered on the starkly contrasting, 3-dimensional quartz crystal matrix.
3.8 x 3.5 x 2.3 cm. The Ransom mine is probably best known for its Fluorite specimens. This piece is an attractive, very gemmy, somewhat lustrous, pale green cuboctahedral crystal group of Fluorite off matrix. I have seen very few of these available on the market in recent years and there are no more coming out. Ex. Brian Kosnar Collection.
Classic, bright yellow crystals to 1.5 cm on edge. This is a very showy specimen with an almost perfect display face, showing only minor damage on one corner of a lesser crystal in the center (hardly noticeable). 7.9 x 7 x 3.3 cm
2.8 x 1.9 x 1.7 cm (largest). A fine and unique, 9-piece set from the Shangbao Mine. All of the thumbnails are spinel-twinned fluorite crystals, either as singles or multiples. All of the specimens are translucent, light purple and have the classic, darker purple edges and/or crystal faces. One spinel-twin is even attached to feldspar matrix.
7.5 x 4.6 x 3.6 cm. A fine, 3-dimensional specimen richly covered with very glassy, transparent, golden-yellow fluorite cubes to 9 mm from recent finds at the Moscona Mine, Spain.
8.1 x 6.4 x 3.3 cm. A fine fluorite with dolomite specimen from the Shangbao Mine of China. The sea-green fluorite cubes are attractively set on a plate nicely accented with complimentary sugary dolomite crystals and couple of quartz needles. The central fluorite cube is 3.5 cm. The two large cubes have transparent, TV-like, frontal faces and you can look right down into the green and purple color zoning in the interiors. The side faces have distinctive, frosted-look, stepped growth. The perfect, little fluorite cube on the lower left has incredible purple and green color zoning.
12.7 x 8.4 x 5.2 cm. Ice-like, water-clear, light green fluorite cubes form a fine cabinet specimen from recent finds at the Xianghualing Mine of Hunan Province. The largest cube is 2.7 cm.
Unusually large crystals for the locality, which is one of the harder yellow fluorite locales to get good specimens from these days 4.5 x 3.6 x 2.5 cm
WOW! I have never seen topaz from this mine, productive though it may be for other species. For that matter, topaz with fluorite isn't common from anywhere. These topaz crystals, to 6mm, provide a nice accent to the bright purple fluorite, making for a pretty specimen as well as an interesting combo. 7 x 7 x 1.7 cm
32.0 x 17.5 x 9.0 cm. A gigantic, large cabinet fluorite plate from the Elmwood Mine. Two of the translucent, purple fluorite cubes reach 6.8 cm, which are aesthetically complimented and highlighted by the four clusters of bladed baryte and three calcite crystals. Backlighting highlights the translucency, edge zoning and beautiful, purple color saturation of the fluorites. Ex. Consie Prince Collection.
5.2 x 4.6 x 4.3 cm. An uncommon combination specimen from the Elmwood Mine. A small cluster of iridescent sphalerite crystals are attached to the side of three intergrown fluorite cubes. The translucent, highly lustrous, cubes have fine purple color, scintillating, stepped-growth faces and beautiful, darker purple, color-zoned edges. This is classic, color, form and habit from Elmwood. These were found in one pocket, long ago.
9.7 x 5.9 x 1.8 cm. Until these lustrous, translucent, pink fluorites were discovered in Mexico, Peru and the Alps were the only sources for pink fluorite. These octahedrons measure up to 1.6 cm, and have vivid, deep pink color against the beautifully contrasting white matrix.
3.8 x 3.8 x 2.9 cm. Gemmy, "invisible", water-clear, intergrown, cuboctahedral fluorite crystals to 2.5 cm form an aesthetic cluster atop a shard of matrix on this specimen from the Nikolaevskiy Mine at Dal’negorsk. All of the fluorite crystals on the frontal and top views are pristine and the secondary crystal faces are very interestingly, preferentially etched. Common in the 1990s, these are hard to fine today in good specimens.
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