Fluorite, Pyrite & Lepidolite on Smoky Quartz ex Obodda

Kara-Oba W deposit, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan
Small Cabinet, 8.8 x 7.4 x 4.7 cm
Start Time: 02/27/2014 6:30:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 03/06/2014 6:30:00 pm (CST)
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Item Description

A dramatic and excellent, 360-degree combination specimen from this well-known locale. Etched, translucent, light purple fluorite octahedrons to about 2.3 cm are aesthetically scattered on the impressive, glassy, translucent, tabular, smoky quartz crystal. One end is richly and preferentially covered with sparkly pyrite cubes and yellow-green lepidolite microcrystals. Technically doubly terminated, as the base is healed with intense stepped-growth faces. Pristine. High quality and uncommon older material from the Herb Obodda dealer stock and valued by him at $600, over ten years ago.

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