Name: Fluorite
Brand: The Arkenstone
Price: 2500 USD
Availability: InStock

Fluorite

A very elegant and old small cabinet piece sporting two very nice pale yellow fluorite crystals on an elegantly shaped limestone matrix from the May Sand and Stone Quarry in Indiana. The two, golden-yellow fluorite crystals measure 2.6 and 2.2 cm, respectively, on edge and have a glassy luster. They are transparent, golden-yellow gems that have sharp edges and you can see right through them to the matrix, although they are a bit turbid in the center. The larger crystal is in excellent condition with only a few tiny tiny dings that are hard to see by eye (but the camera picks up here to show you); and the smaller one is good as well (however, the back is lightly contacted where it was separated from the limestone matrix). As pristine as you can ask given the age and times they were found. These date to a single large pocket zone collected in 1969-1971 and this was found in 1970 by Henry Fisher, Rob's mentor in Columbus, Ohio - and comes from his collection which we recently purchased from the family. The fluorites fluoresce yellow under short-wave UV and violet with bright yellow cores in long-wave UV! We rarely see these available on the marken, let alone in major collections of Midwest U.S. minerals. The matrix, by the way, is limestone after coral fossils.

$2,500.00