Fluorite
Xiefang Mine, Ruijin Co., Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
This is a truly unusual and attractive mineral specimen which exhibits THREE generations of fluorite. Deep green, frosted, octahedrons, up to 3 cm in length, are topped by a layer of drusy purple fluorite, which, in turn, appear to have colorless crystals, to .5 cm, epitactic on the corners of the underlying octahedral crystals. All I can say is ...
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