Color-zoned Fluorite

Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee
Miniature, 4.4 x 3.5 x 2.8 cm
Start Time: 05/18/2012 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 05/24/2012 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

A classic and very showy miniature from the famous Elmwood Mine. A highly lustrous, translucent, rich grape-purple fluorite cube is attached to a cleavage of rubyjack sphalerite. The fluorite has very intense, stepped-growth faces, giving a flashy, scintillating look and classic, darker purple, edge phantoms surrounding the near-colorless core. This cutie is very nearly pristine, with only two, very gently bruised corners. A very fine, older specimen from this noted locale. MUCH BETTER IN PERSON!!

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