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Fluorite

Fluorite on stibnite

Origin: Dushan Mine, Dushan, Guizhou Province, China

Sample size: 12 x 9 x 8 cm

Fluorite on stibnite

Origin: Dushan Mine, Dushan, Guizhou Province, China

Sample size: 8.5 x 6 x 6 cm (top 3), 6.5 x 2 x 1.5 cm (bottom)

Photo courtesy of:

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

This specimen has heavy coverage of water clear bertrandite crystals and scattered octahedral crystals of deep violet fluorite to 2.3 cm across. There are also numerous blue fluorapatite crystals to 1 cm in length present.

This specimen has abundant lustrous, blue crystals of fluorapatite crystals to 1.7 cm in length. Several are doubly terminated. There are also abundant bertrandite crystals and scattered crystals of octahedral fluorite up to 1.7 cm across.

Origin: Akchatau Tungsten Mine, Kazakhstan, Asia

Ex. Marty Zinn collection

Sample size: 7.5 x 6 x 3.5 cm (top/2nd row), 13.2 x 9.2 x 6.3 cm (3rd/bottom row)

Photo courtesy of:

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

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