Mineral: Fluorite
Locality: Cookes Peak area, Cookes Peak District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
Dimensions: ~36 cm

Description: The "Camel". Mike holding the superb fluorite that looks like a kneeling camel, just collected from the pocket. I had been collecting in another area for a few minutes and came back to Mike and Chris shouting loud enough to wake the dead. The octahedrons reach over 5 cm, and the specimen has a good mix of all three colors. In my opinion, this is one of the finest fluorites to ever come from New Mexico.

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