Fluorite
at-auction$ 50
- Locality
- Surprise Mine Cookes Peak, Luna Co., New Mexico, USA
- Minerals
- Fluorite
- Dimensions
- 10 x 7 x 5 cm
- Size class
- Cabinet
- SID
- MK730
Octahedral Fluorite crystals on matrix from the Surprise Mine in New Mexico. The Fluorite occur as intensely colored purple crystals with green cores with individual crystals to 1.8cm on edge. The purple crystals formed over an earlier generation of blue/grey cubic Fluorite. This specimen was mined in 2014. A brief description of this find was presented in Tom Moore's report in the Jan/Feb 2015 issue of the Mineralogical Record.