Fluorite

  
Origin: Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks BC, Canada
Sample size: 5 x 5 x 2 cm
 
  
Fluorite on sphalerite
Origin: Elmwood mine, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 2 cm
 
  
Origin: Elmwood mine, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
Sample size: 3.5 x 2 cm
Origin: Frunthorn, Valsertal, Graubunden, Switzerland
Sample size: 1.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Bingham, Socorro Co., New Mexico
Sample size: 6 x 6 x 4 cm
 
  
Origin: Bingham, Socorro Co., New Mexico
Sample size: 12 x 6 x 4 cm, soft blue crystals to 1.1 cm with purple phantoms
 
  
Origin: Elizabethtown, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 3 cm, hopper growth
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
Water-clear fluorite (1.2-cm crystal) perched atop a matrix of quartz stalks, with some of them penetrating the fluorite
Origin: Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
Sample size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 2.8 cm
 
  
Origin: Baden, Germany
Sample size: 4 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm
 
  
Fluorite twin
Origin: Chumar Bakhoor, Nagar, NWFP, Pakistan
Sample size: 4 x 3.75 x 1 cm
 
Origin: Deer Trail Mine, Marysville, Piute County, Utah, U.S.A.
Sample size: 7 x 6 x 4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

Twinned clusters of pink/purple micro fluorites stand in small columns above larger cubic fluorites overgrown on azurite and malachite
Pink micro fluorite clusters over azurite, hematite and as yet unID'd white mineral
Origin: Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry District, Mt Isa - Cloncurry area, Queensland, Australia
Sample size: field of view 1 mm (top), field of view about 1 mm (bottom)
Sample owner: Vic Cloete
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Vic Cloete 

 

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