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  • A spectacular blueberry fluorite specimen from Inner Mongolia featuring intense blue-green botryoidal formations and a prominent 5.5 cm cubic crystal, all dramatically mounted on pristine white quartz matrix. The exceptional three-dimensional arrangement and rare cubic growth make this 15 cm piece a superior example from this contemporary locality.
  • A spectacular blueberry fluorite specimen from Inner Mongolia featuring intense blue-green botryoidal formations and a prominent 5.5 cm cubic crystal, all dramatically mounted on pristine white quartz matrix. The exceptional three-dimensional arrangement and rare cubic growth make this 15 cm piece a superior example from this contemporary locality.
  • A spectacular blueberry fluorite specimen from Inner Mongolia featuring intense blue-green botryoidal formations and a prominent 5.5 cm cubic crystal, all dramatically mounted on pristine white quartz matrix. The exceptional three-dimensional arrangement and rare cubic growth make this 15 cm piece a superior example from this contemporary locality.
  • A spectacular blueberry fluorite specimen from Inner Mongolia featuring intense blue-green botryoidal formations and a prominent 5.5 cm cubic crystal, all dramatically mounted on pristine white quartz matrix. The exceptional three-dimensional arrangement and rare cubic growth make this 15 cm piece a superior example from this contemporary locality.
  • A spectacular blueberry fluorite specimen from Inner Mongolia featuring intense blue-green botryoidal formations and a prominent 5.5 cm cubic crystal, all dramatically mounted on pristine white quartz matrix. The exceptional three-dimensional arrangement and rare cubic growth make this 15 cm piece a superior example from this contemporary locality.
  • A spectacular blueberry fluorite specimen from Inner Mongolia featuring intense blue-green botryoidal formations and a prominent 5.5 cm cubic crystal, all dramatically mounted on pristine white quartz matrix. The exceptional three-dimensional arrangement and rare cubic growth make this 15 cm piece a superior example from this contemporary locality.
  • A spectacular blueberry fluorite specimen from Inner Mongolia featuring intense blue-green botryoidal formations and a prominent 5.5 cm cubic crystal, all dramatically mounted on pristine white quartz matrix. The exceptional three-dimensional arrangement and rare cubic growth make this 15 cm piece a superior example from this contemporary locality.
  • A spectacular blueberry fluorite specimen from Inner Mongolia featuring intense blue-green botryoidal formations and a prominent 5.5 cm cubic crystal, all dramatically mounted on pristine white quartz matrix. The exceptional three-dimensional arrangement and rare cubic growth make this 15 cm piece a superior example from this contemporary locality.

FLUORITE ON QUARTZ

Huanggang #4 Mine, Hexigten Banner, Chifeng City, Uleanhad League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
17.5 x 11.5 x 11.2 cm
$8,000.00
$8,000.00
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ABOUT THE SPECIMEN

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. 

 

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Sharing the same Yanshanian-age skarn origin as the No. 6 mine's pink octahedral fluorite roughly two kilometers distant, the No. 4 workings produced a strikingly different expression of the same mineral. The trade name "blueberry" encompasses a morphological spectrum: some material is genuinely botryoidal, reflecting rapid crystallization from supersaturated fluids in confined fractures, while a significant portion consists of heavily modified cuboctahedral crystals whose strongly curved octahedral faces create a pseudo-botryoidal appearance — the distinction is rarely made explicit in the market. Straightforwardly cubic examples also occur. Deep indigo-blue coloration is most plausibly attributed to irradiation-induced lattice defects, though trace rare earth involvement has not been ruled out and no formal characterization study appears to have been published. The fluorite drapes across a two-generation quartz matrix — earlier clear prismatic cores overcoated by drusy milky secondary quartz — producing sharp visual contrast against the blue. Pieces where the aggregates remain fully intact across a wide matrix face are considerably less common than the fragmentary material that dominates the market, and the genuinely botryoidal examples within the broader "blueberry" category are rarer still.