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Fluorite with Manganoan Calcite

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An elegant and classic Yaogangxian Mine combination piece featuring pastel blue fluorites nestled amidst towers of stacked pastel pink calcite crystals. The combination of shape and texture is gorgeous and this is unusual, as the pink pagoda calcites in this style seldom occurred with fluorite. We are guessing that this is from late 1990s or early 2000s production. The fluorite in middle, a pastel lavender color, is 2 cm across. The pink tower of stacked discs next to it is 3 cm tall. A very beautiful, classic piece that makes one immediately realize how special this mine was in its heyday.

Product details

SpeciesCalcite, Fluorite
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions7.0 x 4.2 x 3.1 cm
Added on10/23/2024
LocalityChina, Hunan, Yaogangxian Mine

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
01/2025Unknown Owner$1,500.00
—The ArkenstoneNot disclosed

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Calcite
Mineral guide
Learn about Calcite
diverse shapes, colors, and optical quirks; widely available yet scarce elite pieces from Elmwood and Charcas drive collecting value and display.
Calcite
Regional guide
Calcite from Yaogangxian Mine, China
from the Yaogangxian Mine is not merely an accessory carbonate on famous Chinese fluorites; at its best it is one of the visual signatures of the locality. Collectors most often encounter it as crisp white to pale pink “poker-chip” aggregates, bladed rosettes, stacked pagoda-like sprays, steep scalenohedra, or flattened rhombohedral groups perched on fluorite, quartz, ferberite, scheelite, muscovite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and other Yaogangxian species. The appeal lies in contrast: delicate, pearly calcite set against glassy purple or blue-green fluorite; pink manganese-bearing calcite on sparkling quartz; or a single water-clear calcite twin rising from metallic black ferberite.