A beautiful example of blue fluorite with scattered
purpleish blue phantoming, from a recent find at the Yindu Mine, in Inner
Mongolia. The majority of specimens from
this area have come from Huanggang, I have seen some pieces (most notably of
pyrrhotite) from this mine over the last several years, but nowhere near the
quantity of specimens that has come from Huanggang. On this
trip however, I did come across a number of these fluorites—unfortunately all
were damaged. It may sound ridiculous,
but this was the one piece I found that was entirely clean— even a few that
seemed to be almost perfect, upon closer inspection, turned out to have
issues. The color is a spectacular aqua blue, and I really wanted to bring examples back. Luckily I was able to find this one.... it's a bit difficult to express how annoyed I was getting by the end of the trip, when every single piece I saw kept having damage.