Fluorite

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From the Alpine collection of Richard A. Kosnar, this is a lovely little red Fluorite from France. The French Alps are renowned for their superb pink and red Fluorite specimens, and this piece is from the historic find from 1997 which produced some of the finest red Fluorites extant. It is a fantastic thumbnail showing relatively sharp octahedral faces, but the transparency and rich internal pink-red hue are what make it so desirable. Fluorite is found in virtually every color of the rainbow, but true gem red Fluorite is not common from any locality. Fluorite is one of those species that typically is more pale in smaller crystals, and the color is usually intensified as the size of crystals increases, so to have crystals of this size with this color is very impressive.