Fluorite (ex Al Kidwell Collection)

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Please note: This specimen is simply labeled as coming from "San Martin, Argentina". Unfortunately this isn't specific enough because there is a San Martin Mine located in the Rio Negro Province of Argentina, but there is also a San Martin Department in the San Luis Province, so I can't say for certain exactly where it might be from. If anybody out there is familiar with Fluorites from Argentina, please feel free to reach out and let us know if you have information as to where this piece might specifically have been found. With that said, this small cabinet piece hosts a handful of sharp, translucent, lovely purple color, cubic crystals of Fluorite measuring up to 5 mm sitting on little sparkling Quartz crystals on host rock matrix. I can't say I've seen a piece of Fluorite from Argentina prior to this piece, so it's a cool esoteric locality specimen for anybody who collects worldwide Fluorites. From the worldwide mineral collection of Albert Lewis Kidwell (January 1, 1919 - August 16, 2008). Al was a well-known mineral collector and research geologist with Carter Oil Company and later Exxon Oil Company in Houston, Texas. The phosphate species Kidwellite was named in his honor in 1974.