1.7" Green, Cubic Fluorite Crystals on Quartz - Inner Mongolia

Green, Cubic Fluorite Crystals on Quartz - Inner Mongolia #216787

This is a beautiful association of cubic green fluorite and quartz collected from the Huanggang Fe-Sn deposits of Inner Mongolia, China. The fluorite formed over milky-white quartz crystals with secondary growths below their terminations. Under short-wave ultraviolet light, the fluorite exhibits a purple fluorescence.

It has been mounted to an acrylic display base with mineral tack.

The "Huanggang Mine" is a complex of seven somewhat interconnected mines located near Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China. Incredible mineral specimens started coming out of this mining complex around 2009. However, the location provided for the specimens was a long ways away from the actual site. This is a practice commonly performed by dealers and miners following a new discovery to try and preserve the mineral site's true location, and/or for political purposes.

As the site's popularity increased, more and more fascinating specimens were popping up on the market. Some of the earlier minerals included world-class ilvaite crystals, pink fluorite octahedrons, hedenbergite-included quartz (many of which were discarded at first), and arsenopyrite. Over the following years, garnets, pink manganoan calcite, gorgeous fluorites, sphalerite, löllingite, borcarite, scheelite, and a variety of other minerals began to surface on the market. To this day, new mineral discoveries are often made in these mines.

A brief description of the mine and minerals from the Huanggang Deposit.

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