Fluorite with Quartz

$1,750.00

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Tucson, Arizona, USA

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This classic, characteristically German Fluorite is from the Marienschacht mine in the W'lsendorf Fluorite Mining District of Bavaria, and is of dark blackberry purple, dappled with a delicate plum-pink patina and small druses of golden-orange micro-Quartz crystals. The intergrown cubic crystals range between 0.5 and 3 cm on edge, but average around 1.5 to 2 cm. All crystals are opaque and are so dark as to appear almost black. The faces are smooth yet display square geometric growth patterns with a lustre somewhere between glassy and waxy. Where the faces adopt the lighter patina, their lustre tends more towards matt. This is actually a shallow surface alteration to the Fluorite's structure, so interrupting its colour to produce these lighter hues. This delightful German Fluorite is ex. the Dr Joseph Clemente (1899-1987) Collection of southern Germany.