FLU3115 Price: $120
FLUORITE on
DRUSY QUARTZ
Xianghualing Mine
Xianghualing Polymetallic Ore Field
32 km north of Linwu; Chenzhou area
Hunan Province, China
Large Cabinet (17.6 x 15.3 x 5.2 cm)
This large plate is covered in transparent lime-green cubic fluorite crystals to 2.8 cm across, many twinned, on white drusy quartz. There is edge and corner chipping, as seen in the photo. It is a relative “old timer” for Chinese fluorites, having been mined in the early 2000’s. For a brief description of this and other Chinese fluorite occurrences, see the Mineralogical Record Special China Issue, Volume 36, No. 1 (January/February, 2005), pages 59-68.
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