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Creedite

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This is an amazing example of Creedite, a calcium aluminium sulphate fluoro-hydroxide, occurring as a Sputnik-like ball of radiating, pale tangerine to peachy-orange crystals, averaging about 8 cm in diameter. Attached to this is a similar 3 cm ball of more transparent, light tangerine crystals. From the Navidad mine at Abasolo, in Durango, Mexico, the mine name means Nativity or Christmas mine, most appropriate as the Creedite sphere is like the most spectacular of Christmas tree decorations. These spheres form in clay-filled vugs within Fluorite veins at this mine and show no point of attachment. A superb Creedite from the Navidad mine in Mexico.

Product details

Species
CreediteAbout Creedite →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions8.0 x 9.5 x 7.7 cm
Listed on10/24/2024
Locality
Mexico, Indé Municipality, Navidad MineRegional guide →
SKUCC15210

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Creedite
Mineral guide
Learn about Creedite
delicate calcium aluminum sulfate fluoride forming radiating sprays and orange spheres on contrasting matrix; prized for fragility and Santa Eulalia.
Creedite
Regional guide
Creedite from Navidad Mine, Mexico
from the Navidad Mine is one of the great “available classics” of modern Mexican mineral collecting: distinctive enough to recognize across a room, abundant enough that serious collectors can still acquire fine examples, and good enough that the best pieces stand comfortably among world-class creedites. The hallmark is the orange to burnt-orange floater cluster—rounded balls and intergrown rosettes bristling with sharp, glassy, radiating blades. Many specimens look less like ordinary matrix pieces than crystallized sea urchins or flower heads, with individual creedite prisms thrusting outward in all directions from a hidden core.