Fluorite with Sphalerite Galena and Pyrite

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Although not as colourful as many of the new green Fluorites from Milpo mine, this piece to me is arguably one of the most interesting and aesthetic. Why, you might ask? Well, smaller cabinet in size, it has a rarely seen balance between slightly larger striated cubic golden Pyrite crystals as its matrix, with dotted rounded dark brown Sphalerite crystals and 'molten' lead-grey Galena on its surface, and large (to 2.5 cm across), perfect, pyramidal (or bipyramidal/octahedral) and cubo-octahedral mottled green Fluorite crystals sat on top. The Fluorite is admittedly not the intense emerald-green for which Milpo mine has become renowned, but is so distinctive - like the skin of a toad - just bursting with character. Added to this, the Fluorite crystals are sharp, damage-free and present their magnificent shape extremely well, with fascinating surface growths drawing one in too.