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Fluorite with Calcite

$2,250.00

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A gorgeous, saturated green color makes these sharp fluorites from a single large pocket of summer of 2020, such amazing collectible pieces. The white calcite drapery upon the fluorite enhances the visual contrast to the eye. They are a really special, vibrant color that is a bit different than what we saw in previous finds; and this was one of the few COVID-era discoveries at the locality (luckily, although Rob could not go to China himself when they came out, his nephew there was able to run up to Hunan and get videos and strike a big deal for over 100 pieces of the newly found pocket while it was still on miners' beds!). This is a gorgeous piece. It really looks good simply sitting flat, with the height in the middle, but it works better for photography at an angle as shown (and can go on a base, either way). Note the sharp green phantoms within.

Product details

SpeciesCalcite, Fluorite
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions9.9 x 6.4 x 5.0 cm
Listed on01/17/2025
LocalityChina, Hunan, Yaogangxian Mine
SKUSM25-017

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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.