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Quartz, Calcite, Fluorite

Locality: Xianghualing Mine (Hsianghualing Mine), Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China

9.7 x 8.6 x 6.4 cm. A showy and excellent pseudomorph from recent finds at the famous Xianghualing Mine of China. Snow-white, sparkly quartz after calcite scalenohedrons are richly encrusted on glassy, translucent, sea-green fluorite. A few broken pseudos show that the crystals are hollow! This is indeed, a neat revelation, highlighting the pseudomorphing process of the calcite crystals by the quartz.

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