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Fluorite with Calcite

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A sharp cluster of intergrown, gemmy purple fluorites from the famous Yaogangxian Mine in China, this large miniature is stunning! It features razor sharp crystals, to 4.5 cm on edge. Look up close and at just the right angle and you can see these amazing growth features on the surface, little scallops like patterns, that you simply do not see from head on. It is really more interesting in person!

Product details

SpeciesCalcite, Fluorite
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions6.4 x 6.0 x 4.8 cm
Added on10/23/2024
LocalityChina, Hunan, Yaogangxian Mine

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
10/2024Unknown Owner$1,900.00
—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.