Fluorite (ex Paul Zerfass Collection)

Item Description

The Yaogangxian Mine has produced some of the most iconic minerals from any Chinese locality, and this piece is a great example of said material. This piece is from early mining at Yaogangxian dating back now nearly 20 years. It features dozens of WATER-CLEAR, very sharp, rather lustrous, soft lilac colored cubic crystals of Fluorite measuring up to 1.5 cm with associated Quartz on matrix. The Fluorites are so transparent, that you can see straight through to the underlying matrix! Very good quality as most of the crystals are undamaged. The piece was not easy to photograph, but you can see that it displays beautifully and trust me, it's better in person. Valued at $950. From the collection of the long time, beloved, well-known French field collector, Paul Zerfass (Collection #40). Zerfass built this worldwide collection over nearly 50 years, many of which were personally collected. A biography featuring specimens from his collection (along with his face on the cover) is in the May - June 2017 issue of French mineral magazine, Le Regne Mineral. We have a .pdf copy of the article for anybody interested in reading it (though it's mostly in French). Just drop us a line and know that you'd like to have a copy.