Fluorite
at-auction- Locality
- Surprise Mine, Cookes Peak, Luna Co., New Mexico, USA
- Minerals
- Fluorite
- Dimensions
- 12 x 11 x 7.5 cm
- Size class
- Cabinet
- SID
- MK793
Octahedral and cubic Fluorite crystals on matrix from the Surprise Mine in New Mexico. The second generation of Fluorite occur as intensely colored purple crystals with green cores with individual crystals to 1.2cm on edge. The purple crystals formed over an earlier generation of blue/grey cubic Fluorite. The largest Fluorite cube is 3.5cm wide. 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. Ex. John Sulzbach collection and valued at $275.