FLUORITE ON QUARTZ

Grandiose display of this contemporary classic material that popped up from Inner Mongolia a few years back. True to the locality, the fluorites show polycrystalline growth and highly complex modifications, with a few cubic dominant, and the majority being octahedral dominant with dodecahedral bevels and rounded areas that make them look almost botryoidal. These crystals have an intensely saturated electric-blue to inky hue and are strewn across sharply contrasting white quartz crystals of a second generation, grown over a first generation of transparent quartz. At the center of it all is a pristine 5.5 cm crystal that is cubic dominant, with closer inspection revealing an uncountable number of octahedral faces all across it, and diamond-shaped color zoning that brilliantly illustrates the competing crystal growth formations. Such a large crystal is unusual for this mine, and really gives it a “wow” factor. Altogether, the whole ensemble is so amazingly three-dimensional it almost pops out at you from the shelf! The front face of the specimen is in excellent condition, there's only some roughness on the backside from where the specimen was extracted, with the quartz crystals incomplete on the rear. Though specimens from this find aren't uncommon on the market, there's not a single one we've seen with the same combination of size, balance, and flair, and it easily stands out as the best we’ve seen from this find. It's worth noting that the camera really doesn't pick up on the true color of the specimen, the crystals are more blue-green than they appear in the photos.