HECK-121
Fluorite With Calcite, Sphalerite, & Galena
Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico
Cabinet, 10.8 x 8.0 x 3.4 cm
Ex. Richard Heck
SOLD
A curious and unusual association piece, which just glitters with color and sparkle! Glassy and gemmy, pastel green crystals of fluorite, to 2.5 cm across, are richly decorated by lustrous and translucent crystals of colorless calcite to 7 mm across. The calcite crystals appear to be doubly terminated scalenohedrons. Perched on one corner is a cluster of jet black, lustrous sphalerites enclosing a silvery sharp galena. very unusual piece. And the color is a pastel hue rarely seen from here, intense in its saturation. At first glance the piece looks more like a Russian blue-green datolite!