Fluorite on Fluorite (ex Dr. Stephen Smale Collection)

Item Description

This showy and fine quality cabinet sized display specimen is from the early finds at Xianghualing from the late 1990s featuring a less common style from the locality. This specimen host several few sharp, well-formed, very gemmy, beautiful green color, cubic crystals of Fluorite measuring up to 2.3 cm sitting on an earlier layer of smaller, almost "watery"-green colored octahedral Fluorite crystals on a thin layer of matrix. The piece is in great shape overall, and displays very nicely as you can see from the photos. Priced at $2,850 in the inventory. Ex Dr. Stephen Smale Collection. Along with amassing one of the finest private mineral collections in the world, Steve is a renowned mathematician. His accomplishments include being awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 along with being the awarded the Wolf Prize in mathematics in 2007. You can read Steve's bio on the Mineralogical Record website ( https://mineralogicalrecord.com/biographies_labels/smalestephen/ ) or on Wikipedia.