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ET98AH9: A novelty at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2018. Group of very sharp cubic Fluorite crystals, between transparent and translucent, with an intense green color and very rich with inclusions. It is from a new locality found thanks to intensive prospective works for Baryte in Morocco, in which accidentally appeared also this Fluorite. This specimen was photographed and published as a novelty at the 2018 Ste. Marie Show in the magazine ‘Mineralogical Record’ on page 874 in the volume 49, number 6, in the magazine "Le Règne Minéral", number 142, page 20, and the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 35 of the 2018/02 edition.
Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (2018)
Specimen size: 9.5 × 8.7 × 7.7 cm = 3.74” × 3.43” × 3.03”
Main crystal size: 5 × 4.8 cm = 1.97” × 1.89”
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