Fluorite

specimen number:
2063472

location:
Shangbao Mine, Leiyang Co., Hengyang, Hunan, China

description:

A beautifully aesthetic specimen from this famous Chinese locality. Aesthetically stacked gem quality almost colorless, with slight purple inclusions, crystals of cubic fluorite to 1.8 cm in size coming off a crystallized quartz. In super condition all around. This attractive and aesthetic specimen comes with a previous label from the collection of Ray DeMark.

The Shangbao Mine, located in Leiyang, Hunan Province, China, originated as a base-metal and pyrite extraction site that later transitioned into a renowned source of world-class mineral specimens. While exact formal opening and closing dates for the original commercial operations are not widely documented, large-scale and specimen-mining activities intensified significantly around the mid-1990s, with commercial extraction largely slowing down and winding into a defunct or dormant status by the early 2000s alongside sporadic local specimen recovery. Geologically, the deposit is hosted within sedimentary and metamorphic rock sequences featuring complex hydrothermal veins. These structures have produced exceptional hydrothermal mineral assemblages, most notably highly prized, sharp cubic fluorite crystals exhibiting striking color zoning and clarity, accompanied by quartz, pyrite, calcite, and dolomite.

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