Fluorite

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An EXCEPTIONAL specimen from the now-finished mining of these pink fluorites. Until these pink fluorites were discovered in Mexico, Peru and the Alps were the only sources for pink fluorite, and the cost of a specimen such as this was (and still is) astronomical from those localities. This specimen stands out from 98% of the rest of the find in that the crystals are ISOLATED on the matrix, rather than massed together wall-to-wall. It was very difficult to come by specimens such as this, which are obviously the most desirable specimens from the find. The crystals themselves have fine deep pink color, and measure to 1.5 cm.