Fluorite (superb ''ice'' crystals)

Item Description

A showy and fine quality display specimen of the famous colorless "ice" Fluorites from the Huanggang deposit in Inner Mongolia. This piece features gorgeous, sharp, lustrous, GEMMY (virtually WATER-CLEAR) crystals measuring up to 2.8 cm across, aesthetically sitting on matrix. The Fluorites show a textbook octahedral (111) faces. The piece is in very good condition, with no major damage to the central Fluorites, but it's contacted around the periphery where the piece was removed from the pocket wall. This soon-to-be classic material from Huanggang is beloved by collectors as it's not common to find Fluorite without color from any locality. All of the various colors in Fluorite are caused by impurities to the chemistry, so this lack of color actually means this is chemically pure Fluorite. An impressive piece of this fantastic material. BETTER IN PERSON than the video indicates. Valued $2,500. This is from finds of around 2010-2015 when such material was coming out of Huanggang, but little has been found in recent years. Ex Brian Kosnar Collection.