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Fluorite and Quartz
- Huanggang Mine, Hexigten, Inner Mongolia A.R., China
- Large Cabinet, 17.4 x 11.5 x 7.0 cm
- Start Time: 04/01/2013 1:00:00 am (CDT)
- End Time: 04/04/2013 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Lustrous, translucent, colorless, cuboctahedral, fluorite crystals to about 3.5 cm have lightly frosted/etched faces and a nifty iron oxide coating and cover about one-half of the large plate. The striking, mounded adjacent field of glassy, beta-type quartz crystals with sharp terminations and very unusual nubby lower sections makes this a very fine and showy large combination specimen from recent finds at this remote and now important Chinese mine. The piece displays well from several angles and is pristine.