Color-zoned Fluorite (New Find)

Item Description

Impressive, colorful and rich large two-sided fluorite and quartz combination plate from China. The sculptural plate is richly and aesthetically covered with surreal color-zoned cubes with patches of contrasting drusy quartz matrix. Stunning dark purple edge phantoms colorfully outline the starkly contrasting pretty light mint-green translucent fluorite cubes with satin lustre faces. The shocking cubes reach 1.5 cm on edge. The distinctively different backside is partially covered coated small fluorite cubes with a lavender tint. This is an outstanding example from a New Find at this well-known antimony-gold mine, which we cherrypicked when I was in China last June. Specimens of this unique style have trickled out from the mine over the last 10 years, but never in any quantity or size like this, until this one pocket. Essentially pristine, except for very minor and acceptable periphery wear at some edges and a corner. The base has been sawed to enhance the fine display quality. Purple fluorescence. An exceptional RARE large example with beautiful exotically colored cubes from the small lot we recently received.