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Fluorite with Calcite

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This is a combination specimen featuring a pastel blue fluorite with purple edge phantoms, 5 cm across, nestled in matrix of calcite. From finds in 2013, and lost in our drawers since, this color palette combination is just unusual. In person, there are more subtleties of color and phantom edges that the eye picks up better than the camera.

Product details

SpeciesCalcite, Fluorite
SizeCabinet
Dimensions11.4 x 9.2 x 5.1 cm
Added on12/02/2024
LocalityChina, Hunan, Yaogangxian Mine

Known provenance

DateCollectorAcquisition price
08/2024Unknown OwnerNot disclosed
—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.