Fluorite

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I have NEVER in 23 years seen such a massive fluorite plate from Naica as this one! It is solid fluorite, completely made up of bright and TRANSPARENT crystals to 3.5 cm. There is no damage at all to the display face, just the inevitable contact aorund the sides where it was removed, as you'd expect. Even so, it has great horizons on most edges, with 3-dimensional crystals overhanging the edge...very well trimmedout, I would say. In person, its actually more 3-dimensional than flat, aided in the appearance by the superb bevelled crystals popping out at you like bug eyes. In person, this has an overall pleasing green color although some of the larger crystals are more pale than the core. It is an impressive specimen for the locality, but the complex crystal forms present make it really impressive by worldwide standards too, for sheer number of faces on one plate here!