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Sold Quartz with Fluorite and Dolomite
Shangbao Pyrite Mine, Leiyang
Hunan, China
9.4 x 7.5 CM (cabinet)
price: $300


A really different, esthetic and quite remarkable specimen from the fantastic mine of Shangbao. This piece is a cluster of long, slender doubly terminated quartz arranged like a picket fence. This is decorated by pearly dolomite crystals and hosts a single glassy gem-like fluorite crystal. The Fluorite is a complex cubo octahedron and has a good purple phantom inside. The color of the Fluorite also changes depending on the type of light it is displayed in. In great condition, this specimen is quite unlike any other, and a fine addition to a fluorite suite or