Fluorite

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This wonderful fluorite find was so small that it was virtually overlooked, and I have bought up every specimen I could find. The fluorites were found in an extremely inhospitable area of the Sahara desert, alternately very cold and very hot, and the clusters are spread out and isolated in crevices rather than in pockets where you can take out a number of specimens at a time. So the mining was extremely painstaking, and the miners have given up, probably for good. The crystals have a unique silky luster and intense purple color. Though this specimen has some dings, it is one of the largest specimens I have seen from the find, and the crystals are very large for the find as well - up to 2.3 cm across, which is the biggest I have seen. 8.9 x 8.6 x 7 cm