Botryoidal Fluorite

Item Description

This recent find really shocked the mineral collecting world, because botryoidal fluorites are rare, and here you had intensely rich PURPLE ones (which had rarely been seen before). The translucent specimens glow a luscious purple under good light. The matrix is banded multi-hued fluorite and you can see oxide-tinted fluorite underneath the nearly transparent, lighter purple fluorite on the back of this fine two-sided plate. The overlap of the darker purple to the backside is striking. The front is pristine, with only trivial periphery wear. Very highly representative of the rare species and find.