Fluorite on Galena

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NOT FROM MODERN FINDS - which are quite different to my eye: This is a classic Naica combo, with super aesthetics! This piece features a sharp cluster of water-clear, glassy and gemmy, pastel-green fluorite cubes. Both form and the luster makes it distinct from modern finds. They reach to 3.5 cm across and are aesthetically perched on intergrown, lustrous, crystals of galena to 1 cm across. The underside of the specimen has modified cubes of apple green fluorite poking through the galena crust, which have imparted their color to the larger crystals on the display side (otherwise colorless). This is a superb combo specimen and the almost invisible fluorites look very similar to the famous ones from Dal'negorsk, Russia. It is much better in person, and features the complex "stair-step" fluorite formations that made Naica famous. The quality, and the clarity, and the style are all rarely seen in this older material in such condition. It is a top of the line, display sized specimen. In person, it has a green color hard to get in the photos without Photoshopping them