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Fluorite with Calcite

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We were lucky to buy much of the pocket and get them to a proper lab, for cleaning - resulting in these dramatic "drapery" specimens of calcite on stunning green fluorite. This is a dramatic green phantomed fluorite crystal from 2020 finds at the famous Yaogangxian Mine. The color is accented and perhaps accentuated by the calcite crystals atop, that help block light from going out and darken the apparent color within. This is one of the more gorgeous specimens in this size, for association, color, and balance. The closer you look, the more subtle green-hued phantom layers you will see, ending with a deep purple phantom floating within the core.

Product details

SpeciesCalcite, Fluorite
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions7.3 x 6.5 x 4.3 cm
Added on10/23/2024
LocalityChina, Hunan, Yaogangxian Mine

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
08/2024Unknown OwnerNot disclosed
—The ArkenstoneNot disclosed

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Calcite
Mineral guide
Learn about Calcite
diverse shapes, colors, and optical quirks; widely available yet scarce elite pieces from Elmwood and Charcas drive collecting value and display.
Calcite
Regional guide
Calcite from Yaogangxian Mine, China
from the Yaogangxian Mine is not merely an accessory carbonate on famous Chinese fluorites; at its best it is one of the visual signatures of the locality. Collectors most often encounter it as crisp white to pale pink “poker-chip” aggregates, bladed rosettes, stacked pagoda-like sprays, steep scalenohedra, or flattened rhombohedral groups perched on fluorite, quartz, ferberite, scheelite, muscovite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and other Yaogangxian species. The appeal lies in contrast: delicate, pearly calcite set against glassy purple or blue-green fluorite; pink manganese-bearing calcite on sparkling quartz; or a single water-clear calcite twin rising from metallic black ferberite.