Fluorite with Baryte ''roses"

Item Description

Here we have a classic specimen from the Qinglong Mine in Guizhou, China featuring beautiful, sharp, translucent, purple color, cubic "phantom" crystals of Fluorite up to 1.4 cm on edge which are associated with attractive "rose"-esque groups of Baryte consisting of sharp, lustrous, well-formed "blades" ranging in color from a soft golden-yellow hue to a darker tan-beige shade sitting on white Quartz matrix. The Fluorite crystals have distinctive dark purple edges, but are lighter in color in the middle. From what I have seen, there have been very few of these specimens from Qinglong on the market in recent years, and this particular piece was actually collected in 2009. The are certainly some of the most distinctive and attractive Fluorite specimens to hit the market in recent years.