Calcite and Beta Quartz on Fluorite

Item Description

A glassy, tranparent, pretty purple to colorless fluorite cube is richly wreathed in cream-colored, tabular calcite rhombs and tiny, gem-like, transparent, dipyramidal, beta quartz crystals. The quartz crystals are technically quartz pseudos after beta quartz, as beta quartz is the high temperature quartz varietal, above 573 degrees C. The contacting on the side and back are pretty much out of sight. Classic, desirable combination material from the famous mines at Weardale, England. Super purple fluorescence, as you would expect!