Fluorite, Calcite, Quartz

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A fine and strange looking cabinet combination specimen from a new find at the San Antonio Mine at Santa Eulalia. Sharp, pretty lavender fluorite cubes to 2.5 cm are nestled amongst very strange looking, etched/melted, karstic-looking calcite formations. The large calcite looks like a castle with towers on the top. Two generations of calcite are present: lower, massive, translucent, whitish calcite; and capped by sharp, tan to colorless calcite scalenohedrons. The fluorites and calcite rest on a matrix plate covered by sharp, colorless quartz needles. Unusually, the massive calcite fluoresces vivid orange-pink, while the crystallized calcite does not fluoresce.