Pink Fluorite (near ''floater'' specimen)

Item Description

When it comes to Fluorite as a species, most people will tell you the most desirable color is a strong pink (rarely red) hue, but there only a few places in the world where this color of Fluorite is found. Most notably the finest pink / red Fluorites ever found are those from the Swiss and French Alps in Europe. In August 2019, there was a discovery of some of the most significant Fluorite specimens at the Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, in Inner Mongolia, China. These specimens are genuinely some of the most important Fluorites found from any locality in China. It's key to remember the many tens if not hundreds of thousands of specimens of Fluorite that have been found in the last few decades, and these specimens from Huanggang certainly stand in the upper ranks. These pieces are instantly comparable to their Alpine counterparts, especially because they have the same habit and color, but in the case of the Chinese material, some of the crystals were incredibly GEMMY and actually facet-grade. This beautiful toenail specimen is a superb example of this material. It features a very sharp, well-formed, GEMMY, beautiful pink color octahedral crystal with no matrix. The piece is nearly a complete "floater", as it's crystallized all the way around, with only a few tiny points of attachment that I can see. If you look closely, you'll see very thin acicular inclusions of a green mineral (either Hedenbergite or an Amphibole species) frozen inside the Fluorite. This combination of green and pink together is very appealing! The color looks good in incandescent light, but even better in sunlight. A wonderful specimen of this now hard to find material, as these pink Fluorite crystals from Huanggang seem to have been mined out, as it's possible we may never see them again. Priced at $1,000 in the inventory.