Fluorite with Quartz

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This is a very funky unusual combination specimen. It reportedly comes from Josef mine at Krupka, Teplice District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic, but we have found no record of a Josef mine there. It is, nevertheless a very fine, large, intensely amber coloured glassy Fluorite crystal and the studding of its surface with prominent bipyramidal milky Quartz crystals (to 9 mm in length) is quite distinctive, and possibly relates to the Vrchoslav fluorite deposit at Krupka. The crystal, which reaches about 7 cm on edge, is missing its rear, but the front display face is really nice, especially with its combination with individual Quartz crystals and the way light transmits through the amber crystal. Ex Arvid Pasto Collection.