Fluorite on Dolomite

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This balloon-like, fat crystal of fluorite measures 4 cm across. It has a deep purple core and blue-green zones around it, leading to very complex, stepped faces on the surface. This is one of the larger cuboctohedral crystals in the find, and of a very high quality because of the color saturation, size, and the complete-all-around aesthetics. The fluorite is perched on, impaled on, a single dolomite crystal and stands upright as shown. The dolomite is complete all around and in fact, even on the bottom - so the whole combination is a floater! This is from a new pocket found at the end of 2008, and quietly trickled into Tucson in 2009. It should be remembered as a very distinct style, something different from any we have seen before for the mine or a fluorite combination.