Fluorite (ex Rich Kosnar Collection)

Item Description

From the famous Alpine collection of Richard A. Kosnar, this is a lovely little pink-red Fluorite from this classic French locality. The French Alps are renowned for their superb pink and red Fluorite specimens, and this little beauty is from the historic find from 1997 at Pointe Kurz which produced some of the finest RED Fluorites extant. It is a good thumbnail showing relatively sharp octahedral faces, with good translucency/transparency and saturated internal pink-red hue are what make it so desirable. Fluorite is found in virtually every color of the rainbow, but true gem RED Fluorite is not common from any locality. Fluorite is one of those species that typically is more pale in smaller crystals, and the color is usually intensified as the size of crystals increases, so to have a crystal of this size with this color is impressive.