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LA96AK8: Group of very sharp Fluorite crystals, translucent, very lustrous and extraordinarily intense and uniform blue. The fluorite grew in the void left by a scalenohedral Calcite crystal with some relict faces covered by epitactic Quartz. The specimen is from the Philippe Morelon collection (number 962), whose label we will send to the buyer.
Le Beix Mine, Saint-Germain-près-Herment, Herment, Clermont-Ferrand District, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (1980)
Specimen size: 11.3 × 6.2 × 4.7 cm = 4.45” × 2.44” × 1.85”
Main crystal size: 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 0.75” × 0.55”
Fluorescent long & short UV
Former collection of Philippe Morelon
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