CAU39 Fluorite, Quartz with Calcite
Huanggang Mine, Hexigten Banner (Keshiketeng Co.), Ulanhad League (Chifeng Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
9.7x 1.5x 1.5 cm
$200
An unusual and aesthetic quartz crystal, from a locality that seems to specialize in unusual quartz. This is a single elongated and terminated crystal with patches of brownish quartz that have grown in selective patches along the crystal's lateral faces. Over this have grown a number of calcite rhombs, and even a small, etched fluorite octahedron. The color is slightly less intense in person.