Mineral: Fluorite with Quartz
Locality: Ruyuan Fluorite Mine, Ruyuan, Shaoguan Prefecture, Guangdong Province, China
Dimensions: 97 x 87 x 67 mm

Description: A group of highly-lustrous, light-green Fluorite crystals to 16 mm is richly coated with numerous sharp, whitish Quartz points to 18 x 10 mm. These Fluorites are highly transparent, and the cubes have dodectahedral modifications. Small white grains of Quartz are included within these very glassy Fluorites, and some seem to be preferentially oriented. It is an excellent specimen, supposedly from a small 2013 find, and damage free. The Quartz shows strong orange fluorescence in LW.

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