Fluorite on Quartz With Topaz
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An elegant and beautiful combo piece from a rare locale! Two lustrous and translucent, colorless quartz crystals to 7.9 cm in length are literally draped with lustrous and translucent, richly purple-colored fluorite crystals to 1.5 cm across. The larger fluorites clearly exhibit the phantoms and the classic stepped growth and micro-detail of surface patterning, often seen in fluorite from Elmwood in Tennessee. Collected 2005-5-24th, and from a prominent and carefully assembled collection of Jiangxi minerals with precise localities. Surprisingly, in a very rare association, there is a 1.5-cm TOPAZ crystal intergrown with and embedded by fluorites, near the base of the specimen.
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| Date | Collector | Acquisition price |
|---|---|---|
| 08/2024 | Unknown Owner | Not disclosed |
| — | The Arkenstone | Not disclosed |
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hard, glassy orthorhombic crystals from pegmatites and rhyolites; colors range from colorless to pink; sharp terminations aid identification, localitie…Regional guide
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