Fluorite on Quartz with Galena (M056)
This is from a new discovery - I guess you already saw some photos in the web. The color is spectacular and unique for Peru. Green is the most difficult color for photography, I think you have already recognized when you try to shot Dioptas, Emerald or Malachite. In person it is emerald-green with incredible saturation! The problem with this discovery: you can get single crystals, clusters, inter-grown crystals somewhere between matrix - what you usually do not get is an isolated, exposed crystal! I guess there was not even a fist full of pieces like this! The complete, free-standing crystal is 35mm across and up to 26mm on edges. It is an octahedron with tiny faces of cube at each corner. The faces are lustrous to satiny lustrous. The matrix is a thin plate covered with tiny milky Quartz crystals - really a wonderful contrast. The specimen is a little larger than the size you prefer - but again; the matrix is just a thin plate and it would take 5 minutes work to make the matrix 5 to 10mm smaller.
On the left hand side you can see two larger crystals of almost black Galena, two further smaller crystals are placed at the right hand side of the specimen. Below the Fluorite crystal there is a tiny spot of sparkling micro-crystals of Pyrite. Just a wonderful, aesthetic and exceptional piece!
This is from a new discovery - I guess you already saw some photos in the web. The color is spectacular and unique for Peru. Green is the most difficult color for photography, I think you have already recognized when you try to shot Dioptas, Emerald or Malachite. In person it is emerald-green with incredible saturation! The problem with this discovery: you can get single crystals, clusters, inter-grown crystals somewhere between matrix - what you usually do not get is an isolated, exposed crystal! I guess there was not even a fist full of pieces like this! The complete, free-standing crystal is 35mm across and up to 26mm on edges. It is an octahedron with tiny faces of cube at each corner. The faces are lustrous to satiny lustrous. The matrix is a thin plate covered with tiny milky Quartz crystals - really a wonderful contrast. The specimen is a little larger than the size you prefer - but again; the matrix is just a thin plate and it would take 5 minutes work to make the matrix 5 to 10mm smaller.
On the left hand side you can see two larger crystals of almost black Galena, two further smaller crystals are placed at the right hand side of the specimen. Below the Fluorite crystal there is a tiny spot of sparkling micro-crystals of Pyrite. Just a wonderful, aesthetic and exceptional piece!
This is from a new discovery - I guess you already saw some photos in the web. The color is spectacular and unique for Peru. Green is the most difficult color for photography, I think you have already recognized when you try to shot Dioptas, Emerald or Malachite. In person it is emerald-green with incredible saturation! The problem with this discovery: you can get single crystals, clusters, inter-grown crystals somewhere between matrix - what you usually do not get is an isolated, exposed crystal! I guess there was not even a fist full of pieces like this! The complete, free-standing crystal is 35mm across and up to 26mm on edges. It is an octahedron with tiny faces of cube at each corner. The faces are lustrous to satiny lustrous. The matrix is a thin plate covered with tiny milky Quartz crystals - really a wonderful contrast. The specimen is a little larger than the size you prefer - but again; the matrix is just a thin plate and it would take 5 minutes work to make the matrix 5 to 10mm smaller.
On the left hand side you can see two larger crystals of almost black Galena, two further smaller crystals are placed at the right hand side of the specimen. Below the Fluorite crystal there is a tiny spot of sparkling micro-crystals of Pyrite. Just a wonderful, aesthetic and exceptional piece!
Fluorite on Quartz with Galena (M056)
Peru
LOCATION
Cerro de Pasco, Pasco province, Pasco, Peru
SIZE
57 x 41 x 27 mm
DESCRIPTION
This is from a new discovery - I guess you already saw some photos in the web. The color is spectacular and unique for Peru. Green is the most difficult color for photography, I think you have already recognized when you try to shot Dioptas, Emerald or Malachite. In person it is emerald-green with incredible saturation! The problem with this discovery: you can get single crystals, clusters, inter-grown crystals somewhere between matrix - what you usually do not get is an isolated, exposed crystal! I guess there was not even a fist full of pieces like this! The complete, free-standing crystal is 35mm across and up to 26mm on edges. It is an octahedron with tiny faces of cube at each corner. The faces are lustrous to satiny lustrous. The matrix is a thin plate covered with tiny milky Quartz crystals - really a wonderful contrast. The specimen is a little larger than the size you prefer - but again; the matrix is just a thin plate and it would take 5 minutes work to make the matrix 5 to 10mm smaller.
On the left hand side you can see two larger crystals of almost black Galena, two further smaller crystals are placed at the right hand side of the specimen. Below the Fluorite crystal there is a tiny spot of sparkling micro-crystals of Pyrite. Just a wonderful, aesthetic and exceptional piece!