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Fluorite with Calcite

$5,500.00

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An alluring and unusually colored Fluorite specimen from the Yaogangxian Mine, a mine that produces a variety of Fluorite specimens in a seemingly inexhaustible variety of colors. And yet, this is something new and different, even after all these years of watching the location! This piece consists of several, transparent, bright, sea-green Fluorite cubes that display subtle zoning. The larger, more isolated crystal measures 3 cm on its longest edge and the others are somewhat smaller and more tightly clustered. The large crystal is completely transparent to the point that the Calcite in the back of the crystal can be easily discerned; it's completely water-clear! Thin, less than 1 mm parallel, consecutive zones are evident in the outer 1 cm portion of the crystal while the central portion is completely clear without zones. The other Fluorites are in a cluster off to the left side and are just slightly paler green in color and the zones are more subtle. The Fluorite crystals are embellished with starkly contrasting, white Calcite. The Calcite consists of 2 to 5 mm, platy crystals in tight groupings that selectively blanket portions of the Fluorite crystals for perfect composition. Traces of granular Pyrite are found on the back side of the piece along with a small area of purple Fluorite. A really unusual specimen with color that leaps out, shape, and subtle beauty inside. This was a special pocket from 2019.

Product details

SpeciesCalcite, Fluorite
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions7.1 x 6.5 x 6.4 cm
Listed on10/23/2024
LocalityChina, Hunan, Yaogangxian Mine
SKUSM21-021

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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.