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Fluorite (rare color for the locality)
- Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China
- Ex. Brian Kosnar
- Small Cabinet, 7.1 x 4.7 x 3.2 cm
- Start Time: 05/23/2024 8:00:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 05/30/2024 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
- Winning Bid: $625
Item Description
The Huanggang Deposit has for many years produced some incredibly fine quality and distinctive mineral specimens, including a good number of Fluorites in various styles and colors. This piece is from a find circa 2012 and has one of the most distinctive colors I've seen from this locality, and frankly any locality. This piece is a fantastic, large, sharp, GEM quality, beautiful pink color (with a slight lavender overtone) stepped octahedral crystal, free of matrix. There is a bit of color zoning inside the crystal when backlit showing slightly more pink and slightly more lavender hues in certain areas. The front/display side of the piece is in great condition, with no major damage, but it's not totally complete on the back where it was separated from the matrix/pocket wall. Still, it's a nearly 3-inch crystal with a rare and alluring color from this soon-to-be-classic locality and if you collect Fluorites or Chinese minerals, I'll bet you don't have one of these in your collection.
Ex Brian Kosnar / Mineral Classics specimen.
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Bidding History
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$625 | 05/30/2024 6:18:54 pm (CDT) |
$610 | 05/30/2024 6:18:54 pm (CDT) |
$600 | 05/30/2024 4:01:32 pm (CDT) |
$575 | 05/30/2024 4:01:32 pm (CDT) |
$550 | 05/30/2024 4:00:37 pm (CDT) |
$525 | 05/30/2024 3:55:23 pm (CDT) |
$510 | 05/30/2024 3:55:23 pm (CDT) |
$480 | 05/30/2024 3:52:10 pm (CDT) |
$470 | 05/30/2024 3:52:10 pm (CDT) |
$460 | 05/30/2024 3:51:16 pm (CDT) |
$450 | 05/30/2024 3:51:05 pm (CDT) |
$440 | 05/30/2024 3:51:05 pm (CDT) |
$385 | 05/30/2024 3:40:00 pm (CDT) |
$375 | 05/30/2024 3:40:00 pm (CDT) |
$361 | 05/30/2024 10:51:22 am (CDT) |
$351 | 05/29/2024 7:19:16 am (CDT) |
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$341 | 05/29/2024 7:19:03 am (CDT) |
$331 | 05/29/2024 7:19:03 am (CDT) |
$321 | 05/29/2024 7:18:49 am (CDT) |
$311 | 05/29/2024 7:18:49 am (CDT) |
$301 | 05/28/2024 12:12:42 pm (CDT) |
$291 | 05/28/2024 12:12:42 pm (CDT) |
$249 | 05/23/2024 9:10:12 pm (CDT) |