Gem Fluorite with Quartz

Item Description

Stunning water-clear clarity to the striking, mounded, cluster of gem, pretty ice-blue, intergrown, very glassy and lustrous, densely stepped-growth fluorite cubes from the famous Yaogangxian Mine of China. The dominating, large crystal cube is about 2.2 x 2.2 cm. You can see straight through this crystal face and adjacent crystal faces to the underlying earlier generation of purple fluorite covered with scattered patches of druzy, white quartz. Like looking through water to the sea bottom. The 4.5 cm pair of intergrown Quartz crystals on one side is a fine and typical accessory. Purple LW UV fluorescence. Yaogangxian has produced a wide variety of world-class mineral species, including fluorite. See the 2011 article in the Mineralogical Record China-III, Special Issue, Vol. 42, No. 6. Valued at $2000. An impressive, excellent and striking small cabinet example of this 2-generation fluorite varietal with quartz.