Fluorite

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This specimen is composed of intergrown, lustrous and translucent fluorite crystals, to 4 cm across. The crystals exhibit a rich puple or grape color and clearly intricately stepped growth - for which this old locale is historically known and justifiably famous for. Interestingly, all the color is zoned at or near the surface, with the core being colorless. The intensity of that color is high for the mine (higher in person, in fact, than in the photos as they appear on my monitor), with few attaining such a dark hue as this. It is a fine and dramatic specimen from Muzquiz.