Mushroom Fluorite with Calcite

Minerva No. 1 Mine, Hardin Co., Illinois
Cabinet, 14.0 x 12.0 x 8.8 cm
Start Time: 05/03/2012 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 05/10/2012 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

This is about the most unusual and weirdest looking etched fluorite we have seen from the famous Minerva Mine. The heavily etched lavender body with amber tips looks like a fanciful cluster of strange-looking, angular mushrooms. The smooth hollows look like slot canyons with a sinkhole in Utah. And the back of the piece is covered with sprays of lustrous, creamy, calcite scalenohedrons. A large, strange-looking, bi-colored Illinois fluorite!

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