Fluorite Pseudomorph After Calcite - image 1

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Fluorite Pseudomorph After Calcite

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An extremely rare specimen from small finds over the years here of beautiful, sparkly, fluorite pseudomorphed after scalenohedral calcite crystals. However, I have not had a specimen with such a large, robust, sharp pseudomorph arranged as aesthetically as this piece - they are normally jumbly. Moreover, the color here is a more saturated grape juice purple, though opaque, than other specimens I have seen which had a lighter lavender color to them. Admittedly, I have seen only a few to make that comparison with - maybe half a dozen? They are not common at all. The sparkle is in part due to an overgrowth of tiny drusy calcite. Excellent, display-quality specimen from the Evan Jones Collection. Evan sold off his Mexico collection in the past, and this then went into the well known fluorite collection of dealer Alain Martaud in France, from whom I obtained it when he sold that collection recently. Joe Budd photos