FLU3670 Price: $310
FLUORITE with
QUARTZ
Yaogangxian Mine
Yizhang County; Chenzhou Prefecture
Hunan Province, China
Miniature (4.7 x 4.2 x 2.9 cm)
Very aesthetic specimen consisting of lustrous intergrown cubic fluorites to 2 cm across, on quartz with minor muscovite. The fluorites are mostly transparent and colorless inside, but contain a thin, dark purple zone within the outside 0.1 cm of each crystal face, providing the color seen in the photos. See Rocks & Minerals, Volume 80, No. 1 (January/February, 2005), pages 46-57, for a recent update on minerals from this mine.
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