Fluorite on Quartz

Item Description

Like two cubes of light colored grape jello, this colorful duo of sharply formed Fluorite hosts purple spots internally and they sit on a matrix transparent needle Quartz. The two crystals display prominently at the center top of the piece and are largely transparent with a light satin luster (which makes them a little different from most others that are glassy, and unusually interesting in texture). The crystals are dominated by the cube form with prominent dodecahedral modifications on the edges making for very geometric crystals. The Fluorites are a light to medium purple overall, but have distinct darker purple areas that appear to be random spots, but seem to have specific internal crystal orientations, almost like faint, discontinuous crosses depending on how you see the angle of view. There is a third, much smaller portion of a 1.3 cm crystal at the base of the one to the left. The Fluorites contrast nicely with the off-white Quartz crystal matrix! This probably from late 1990's to early 2000s production at the Shangbao Mine, currently closed to economic mining but operated as a tourist site by the locals.