Fluorite on Quartz

Fluorite on QuartzThe Mahodari Quarry in India is quite famous for producing some of the most unique specimens of Fluorite in the world. There are many habits for Fluorite, often showing a combination of multiple isometric forms, but the Mahodari specimens are uniquely spherical, which is rarely seen in the species from anywhere. Additionally, the majority of the Mahodari Fluorites are some shade of yellow golden (sometimes they're red due to iron oxide coatings), but

especially for someone with a November birthday

as you'll probably not find another like anywhere else

This specimen was collected by Robert Stoufer in 1989 and is a superb small cabinet display piece featuring a predominant

Here we have a really attractive miniature specimen featuring a few green colored Apatites from the famous Sapo mine from a few years ago

This piece features a few attractive "cogwheel"-twinned crystal groups of Bournonite with superb luster sitting atop a matrix of micro Pyrite

I'm told that the color is caused by nickel content

bladed crystals of what were once Azurite and later replaced by Native Copper

These pieces have what I think is some of the best matrix for these crystals from Bolivia

Good Bolivian Coppers are not common on the market

along with some dubious or erroneous information in terms of the locality

making it even more enticing

very well-formed crystals make these more than just simple Quartzes