Botryoidal Fluorite "Purple Turtle" - image 1

Botryoidal Fluorite "Purple Turtle"

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A stunning, rather large example of this new find which MUST be the finest examples yet known of botryoidal growth in fluorite....and the WHOLE SPECIMEN is composed of uniformly translucent and beautiful fluorite! The color is saturated throughout, meaning this has huge carving rough value for a start. When backlit, especially at the edges, it glows with an inner color. When not backlit, its still purple like grapes, without need of special lighting. In other words, its not too dark a color. This specimen is completely hemispherical and is contacted only on the bottom where it grew against the matrix. It is complete all aroun dthe sides as you see here, and has interesting bubbly outgrowths which make it look like a bike racer's helmet. But also kinda still like a turtle, what can I say? This is a new locality, and a mine name is not known at this time (well, not known to me, anyhow). This baby weighs in at about 12 pounds!