Fluorite with Quartz epimorphs after Calcite

specimen number:
2063819

location:
La Fluorita Dulcita prospect, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

description:
Purple semi lustrous slightly translucent octahedral crystals of fluorite to 1.3 cm in size across the top of a sparkling white crystallized quartz. This quartz is forming hollow casts after now gone calcite. Underneath the quartz is another generation of purple crystallized fluorite. A neat specimen that is in very good condition. The specimen comes with a previous label from the collection of Ray DeMark.

The La Fluorita Dulcita prospect in Cochise County, Arizona, is a modern, small-scale locality established primarily through shallow surface excavations on private ranch land. Geologically, the site is celebrated for unique hydrothermal replacement processes and low-temperature mineral deposition that formed complex pseudomorphs and hollow casts. While it holds no history of commercial ore production, it has gained significant renown among advanced mineral collectors for yielding striking specimens, notably translucent purple fluorite crystals exhibiting distinct ox-eye habits, as well as fluorite resting upon quartz epimorphs after earlier carbonate minerals .

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