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| BCN1985 | _6 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 3.5x3x2.5cm | 30g |
| Dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimen represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| BCN1987 | _6 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 3.5x3.5x2.5cm | 30g |
| Dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimen represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| CCN1988 | _6 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5.5x3x2.5cm | 55g |
| Dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimen represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| CCN1991 | _6 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 6x4x3cm | 75g |
| Dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimen represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| CCN1992 | _6 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5x4x3.5cm | 75g |
| Dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimen represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| CCN1984 | _7 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5x3.5x3cm | 50g |
| Dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimen represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| BCN1956 | _8 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 4.5x3.5x3cm | 50g |
| Light purple, strongly phosphorescent fluorite! Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into bright white secondary antimony minerals that are present on this specimen as well. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals, such as coquandite are present. Opaque white areas on the fluorite lining the stibiconite pockets may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of the Sb-minerals. Bubbly transparent surface structures on the fluorite xls, (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. It is yet unclear if these are inclusions or surface coatings. The overgrowth on some fluorite consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite (bright white balls) gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish blue phosphorescent! |
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| CCN1981 | _8 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5.5x4x3cm | 55g |
| Dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimen represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| CCN1983 | _8 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5x4x3cm | 70g |
| Dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimen represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| CCN1986 | _8 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5x4x3cm | 55g |
| Dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimen represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| CCN1989 | _8 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 6.5x3.5x2.5cm | 55g |
| Dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimen represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| CCN1990 | _8 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5x2.5x2.5cm | 40g |
| Dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimen represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| CCN1955 | _9 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5x3x3cm | 55g |
| Light purple, strongly phosphorescent fluorite! Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into bright white secondary antimony minerals that are present on this specimen as well. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals, such as coquandite are present. Opaque white areas on the fluorite lining the stibiconite pockets may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of the Sb-minerals. Bubbly transparent surface structures on the fluorite xls, (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. It is yet unclear if these are inclusions or surface coatings. The overgrowth on some fluorite consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite (bright white balls) gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish blue phosphorescent! |
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| BCN1972 | _9 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 4.5x3x2.5cm | 45g |
| Light purple, strongly phosphorescent fluorite. Bubbly transparent surface structures on the fluorite xls, (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. It is yet unclear if these are inclusions or surface coatings. Partially overgrown by peculiar yellow platy calcite. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish blue phosphorescent! |
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| BCN1953 | _10 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 4x4x2.5cm | 45g |
| Light purple, strongly phosphorescent fluorite! Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into bright white secondary antimony minerals that are present on this specimen as well. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals, such as coquandite are present. Opaque white areas on the fluorite lining the stibiconite pockets may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of the Sb-minerals. Bubbly transparent surface structures on the fluorite xls, (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. It is yet unclear if these are inclusions or surface coatings. The overgrowth on some fluorite consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite (bright white balls) gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish blue phosphorescent! |
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| CCN1849 | _12 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 9x5.5x4.5cm | 175g |
| Light purple phosphorescent fluorite! Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into secondary antimony minerals that are also present on this specimen. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals, such as coquandite are present. Opaque cloudy to white areas, usually along the edges of the otherwise transparent fluorite xls may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of amorphous secondary Sb-minerals. The inclusions, (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. The unilateral overgrowth on the fluorite column consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite (bright white balls) gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| BCN1957 | _14 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 4.5x3.5x2.5cm | 50g |
| Light purple, strongly phosphorescent fluorite! Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into bright white secondary antimony minerals that are present on this specimen as well. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals, such as coquandite are present. Opaque white areas on the fluorite lining the stibiconite pockets may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of the Sb-minerals. Bubbly transparent surface structures on the fluorite xls, (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. It is yet unclear if these are inclusions or surface coatings. The overgrowth on some fluorite consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite (bright white balls) gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish blue phosphorescent! |
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| CCN1907 | _15 € |
| Calcite, Fluorite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5.5x5x5cm | 130g |
| Light brown rounded scalenohedral calcite associated by purple, surface coated and heavily overgrown fluorite and other minerals. Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into secondary antimony minerals that may also be present on this specimen. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent SW patchy bright green! |
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| BCN1954 | _15 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 4x3.5x2.5cm | 41g |
| Light purple, strongly phosphorescent fluorite! Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into bright white secondary antimony minerals that are present on this specimen as well. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals, such as coquandite are present. Opaque white areas on the fluorite lining the stibiconite pockets may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of the Sb-minerals. Bubbly transparent surface structures on the fluorite xls, (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. It is yet unclear if these are inclusions or surface coatings. The overgrowth on some fluorite consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite (bright white balls) gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish blue phosphorescent! |
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| CCN1969 | _15 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5x4.5x3cm | 75g |
| Light purple, strongly phosphorescent fluorite. Bubbly transparent surface structures on the fluorite xls, (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. It is yet unclear if these are inclusions or surface coatings. Partially overgrown by peculiar yellow platy calcite. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish blue phosphorescent! |
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| CCN1970 | _15 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 7x5x3cm | 100g |
| Light purple, strongly phosphorescent fluorite. Bubbly transparent surface structures on the fluorite xls, (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. It is yet unclear if these are inclusions or surface coatings. Partially overgrown by peculiar yellow platy calcite. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish blue phosphorescent! |
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| BCN1973 | _15 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 4.5x2.5x2.5cm | 35g |
| Purple fluorite with white phantoms and iridescent coating. Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into bright white secondary antimony minerals that are present on this specimen as well. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals, such as coquandite are present. Opaque white areas on the fluorite lining the stibiconite pockets may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of the Sb-minerals. Associated by orange to light brown scalenohedral calcite. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue |
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| CCN1979 | _15 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 7x4x3cm | 95g |
| Dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimen represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| CCN1982 | _15 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5.5x3x3cm | 45g |
| Dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimen represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| CCN1846 | _16 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite with Gypsum |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 6.5x4x4cm | 145g |
| Light purple phosphorescent fluorite! Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into secondary antimony minerals that are also present on this specimen. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals, such as coquandite are present. Opaque cloudy to white areas, usually along the edges of the otherwise transparent fluorite xls may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of amorphous secondary Sb-minerals. The inclusions, (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. The unilateral overgrowth on the fluorite column consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite (bright white balls) gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| BCN1960 | _16 € |
| Fluorite with Aragonite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 4.5x4x3cm | 70g |
| Light purple, strongly phosphorescent fluorite! Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into bright white secondary antimony minerals that are present as minor accessories. Bubbly transparent surface structures on the fluorite xls, (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. It is yet unclear if these are inclusions or surface coatings. The overgrowth on some fluorite consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite (bright white balls) gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish blue phosphorescent! |
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| CCN1971 | _16 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5x2.5x2.5cm | 55g |
| Light purple, strongly phosphorescent fluorite. Bubbly transparent surface structures on the fluorite xls, (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. It is yet unclear if these are inclusions or surface coatings. Partially overgrown by peculiar yellow platy calcite. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish blue phosphorescent! |
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| DCN1802 | _17 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 10x4.5x4cm | 190g |
| Light purple fluorite with yellow coating of varying iridescence! The columnar structure of the aggregates represents a perimorph after stibnite that completely vanished into secondary antimony minerals which are also present on this specimen. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals are present, such as coquandite. Opaque white areas, usually along the edges of the otherwise transparent fluorite xls may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of amorphous secondary Sb-minerals. The inclusions, (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. Yellow effects are caused by whitish fluorescence shining through the yellow surface coating. The unilateral overgrowth on the fluorite column consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite (bright white balls) and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent LW yellow SW greenish white, also quite phosphorescent |
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| LCN1995 | _17 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 3-5 avg. 4cm | 300g |
| Lot of five specimens of dark purple fluorite with partial, copper colored to brown coating. The somewhat columnar structure of the specimens represents a fluorite perimorph after stibnite, with remnants sometimes still visible as a single white stibiconite pseudomorph in the center of the fluorite/calcite column. Unilateral overgrowth covers most of the fluorite, consisting of brown coated calcite xls in various stages of corrosion, partially recrystallized and often overgrown by other, yet unidentified and often fluorescent minerals. A colorful and quite unique combination! |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite SW green and yellow spots |
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| BCN0276 | _18 € |
| Fluorite with Quartz, Pyrite, Dolomite |
| Shangbao Pyrite mine, Leiyang, Hunan Province, China |
| Miniature | 4.6x3.0x2.5cm | 34g |
| Absolutely clear colorless fluorite cubes with stepped corners (peripheral ones cleaved, otherwise undamaged) growing over a white matrix with pyrite cubes that can be watched through the fluorite "windows". Looks much better in person, difficult to photograph. |
| fluorescent Multicolor: LW dimly blue fluorite, orange dolomite matrix! |
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