Color-zoned Fluorite & Sphalerite (Ross Lillie Coll.)

Item Description

A dramatic and sculptural large fluorite combination from the famous Minerva No. 1 Mine. A striking, elongated cluster of intergrown fluorite cubes is fantastically attached to a plate of intensely sparkly, tiny, translucent, rubyjack sphalerite crystals. The beautiful water-clear, color-zoned cubes, to 3.4 cm, have pretty blue edge phantoms around white to light straw-yellow interiors. The highly waxy lustrous faces have fabulous dense stepped-growth and resemble fluorites from Elmwood! Very nearly pristine, with only two tiny, barely noticeable spots of edge wear to two cubes and the contacted cube on the bottom middle. Excellent and unusual combination material from the Ross Lillie Collection # 0248.