Fluorite on Quartz

Item Description

A good sized, classic and now very hard to find example of Fluorite from the famous Climax Open Pit Mine, which is one of the largest molybdenum producers in the world. This small cabinet sized piece features attractive, rich purple colored, gemmy cubes of Fluorite measuring up to 4 mm sitting on almost "drusy" Quartz crystals on matrix. If you collect Fluorites or Colorado minerals, don't miss out on this hard to find specimen from this classic locality. The piece is in good shape overall, but there are some contacted areas around the lower edge where it was separated from the pocket wall. From the collection of Gary Weaver of Prescott, Arizona (1944-2019). Gary was an electrical engineer who worked for many years for Hughes Aircraft in California. After retiring to Prescott, Arizona in the early 2000s, Gary rekindled his childhood love of minerals, amassing a collection of roughly 2000 specimens focusing on localities in which he and his wife had lived or visited (Mexico, Peru and the western / southwestern United States). You can read Gary's obituary here https://www.dcourier.com/news/2019/apr/27/obituary-gary-richard-weaver/