Mineral: Fluorite
Locality: Nyaung-gyin Village, Thabeikkyin Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin District, Mandalay Region (Mandalay Division), Myanmar (Burma)
Dimensions: 42x27x22mm

Description: Myanmar (Burma) is classed as poor for richness of fluorite in terms of its overall mineral resources. Unusual rounded (botryoidal) aggregates of fluorite surfaced from Myanmar a few years ago, but they now seem to have largely disappeared from the collector market. Although fluorite is relatively common around the world, Burmese material is pretty scarce on the market. This small specimen of botryoidal lavender fluorite, showing the crystal growth in concentric layers, is from Nyaung Gyin village in Tha-Beik-Kyin Township, west of Mogok, Burma (Myanmar).

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