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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| CCN1738 | _18 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5.5x4x2cm | 51g |
| Light purple fluorite with white phantoms. 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 cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence in the otherwise blue fluorescent fluorite. |
| fluorescent fluorite SW zoned greenish LW zoned yellowish and blue |
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| CCN1819 | _18 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 6.5x3x2.5cm | 85g |
| 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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| CCN1821 | _18 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5.5x3.5x3cm | 70g |
| 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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| DCN1850 | _18 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 12x8.5x6cm | 410g |
| Light purple phosphorescent fluorite with iridescent and brown coating. The unilateral overgrowth on the 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 white phosphorescent! |
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| BCN1977 | _18 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 4x3.5x2cm | 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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| CCN1817 | _19 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 9x5x5cm | 165g |
| 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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| CCN1975 | _19 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5.5x4x2.5cm | 60g |
| 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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| CCN1980 | _20 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 6.5x5x3.5cm | 125g |
| 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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| LCN1994 | _20 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 3-5 avg. 4cm | 250g |
| Lot of five specimens of 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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| CCN1897 | _21 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 6x2.5x2.5cm | 45g |
| Purple fluorite associated by light brown scalenohedral calcite. Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into secondary antimony minerals that may also be present on this specimen. Green fluorescence is caused by whitish surface minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent LW white calcite SW bluish white phosphorescent calcite! |
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| CCN1974 | _21 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5.5x4.5x3.5cm | 75g |
| 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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| CCN1820 | _22 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 6.5x4x2.5cm | 75g |
| 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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| CCN1822 | _22 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 6x3x2.5cm | 55g |
| 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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| LCN1993 | _22 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 3-5 avg. 4cm | 250g |
| Lot of five specimens of 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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| CCN1905 | _24 € |
| Calcite, Fluorite, Stibiconite with Aragonite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 7.5x6.5x3.5cm | 115g |
| 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. Green fluorescence is caused by whitish surface minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite SW greenish white phosphorescent |
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| BCN1808 | _25 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 4.5x2.5x2.5cm | 30g |
| 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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| DCN1908 | _25 € |
| Stibiconite, Calcite, Fluorite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 12x9x9cm | 870g |
| Light brown rounded scalenohedral calcite associated by purple, surface coated and heavily overgrown fluorite and other minerals. Elevations represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into secondary antimony minerals that form extensive pure white pockets at the sides and the underside of this specimen. Note the green SW fluorescence, caused by whitish surface minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent SW bright green! |
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| LCN1996 | _25 € |
| Fluorite, Stibiconite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 3-5 avg. 4cm | 260g |
| 7 Pieces lot of purple fluorite with good color. Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into bright white secondary antimony minerals that are present as accessories. Associated by light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite (bright white balls) gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. |
| fluorescent SW green and blue |
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| DCN1842 | _27 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 10x8x7cm | 680g |
| 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. |
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| CCN1788 | _28 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5.5x3x2cm | 49g |
| 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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| CCN1796 | _28 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5x4.5x3.5cm | 95g |
| 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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| CCN1961 | _28 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Aragonite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 9x8x6cm | 370g |
| Light purple fluorite associated by light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite (bright white balls) gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. The specimen basically consists of two columns that represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into bright white secondary antimony minerals that are present as minor accessories. Has Damages to some fluorites. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish blue fluorite, yellow surface minerals |
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| CCN1797 | _33 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 7x2.5x2.5cm | 50g |
| 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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| CCN1809 | _33 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 6.5x3.5x2.5cm | 80g |
| 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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| CCN1841 | _33 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 7x4.5x4.5cm | 180g |
| 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 calcite xx, aragonite (bright white balls) and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| DCN1843 | _33 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 12x8x6cm | 550g |
| Light purplish gray phosphorescent fluorite with iridescent coating! 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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| BCN1882 | _33 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 3.5x3x2cm | 20g |
| Golden iridescent fluorite! The iridescence is caused by a thin layer of a surface mineral, the fluorite itself is light purple. The columnar structure of the aggregates represents a perimorph after stibnite that completely vanished into secondary, usually pure white to pink antimony minerals. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals are present, such as coquandite. Opaque white areas at the inside of the columns may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of amorphous secondary Sb-minerals. The unilateral overgrowth on the fluorite column consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite and secondary antimony minerals. New find of 2009. |
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| CCN1718 | _35 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 9x7x7cm | 480g |
| Light purple, strongly phosphorescent fluorite! The fluorite grew around stibnite, which vanished into thin stibiconite pseudomorphs. 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 consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite, gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW zoned yellowish and blue SW zoned green! |
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| CCN1786 | _35 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5.5x2.5x2.5cm | 40g |
| 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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| CCN1787 | _35 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 5x3x2.5cm | 48g |
| floaterLight 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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| LCN1749 | _36 € |
| Lot 10: Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 2-5.5 avg. 3.5cm | 200g |
| Lot of seven specimens of light purple fluorite associated by calcite, aragonite, valentinite and possibly other minerals. Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into secondary antimony minerals that may also be present on this specimen. Green fluorescence is caused by whitish surface minerals. |
| fluorescent fluorite SW zoned greenish LW zoned yellowish and blue |
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| BCN1878 | _36 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 4x3x3cm | 25g |
| Golden iridescent fluorite! The iridescence is caused by a thin layer of a surface mineral, the fluorite itself is light purple. The columnar structure of the aggregates represents a perimorph after stibnite that completely vanished into secondary, usually pure white to pink antimony minerals. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals are present, such as coquandite. Opaque white areas at the inside of the columns may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of amorphous secondary Sb-minerals. The unilateral overgrowth on the fluorite column consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite and secondary antimony minerals. New find of 2009. |
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| CCN1803 | _38 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 9x5x4cm | 185g |
| 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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| DCN1837 | _38 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite with Gypsum |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 10x9x6cm | 530g |
| Light purple phosphorescent fluorite! 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 and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| CCN1840 | _38 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 9x6x6cm | 350g |
| 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 calcite xx, aragonite (bright white balls) and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| CCN1851 | _38 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite with Aragonite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 9x7.5x5cm | 320g |
| Purple fluorite associated by a multitude of white minerals. 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. The unilateral overgrowth on the fluorite column consists mainly of corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite, gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
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| CCN1870 | _38 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite with Aragonite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 8x6x6cm | 290g |
| 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, usually pure white to pink antimony minerals. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals are present, such as coquandite. Opaque white areas at the inside of the columns may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of amorphous secondary Sb-minerals. Translucent surface minerals, usually along the edges of the otherwise transparent fluorite xls (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 fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| DCN1814 | _39 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 13x6.5x5.5cm | 490g |
| Light purple fluorite with pink to 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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| LCN1728 | _40 € |
| Lot 9: Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Miniature | 3.5-5 avg. 4cm | 145g |
| Lot of seven specimens of light purple fluorite associated by calcite, aragonite, valentinite and possibly other minerals. Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into secondary antimony minerals that may also be present on this specimen. Green fluorescence is caused by whitish surface minerals. |
| fluorescent SW greenish outer zone with bluish center fluorite |
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| DCN1838 | _40 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 11x8x6cm | 470g |
| Light purple phosphorescent fluorite, widely overgrown by a layer consisting of a multitude of species, namely aragonite, calcite, gypsum, fluorite, quartz and secondary antimony minerals, not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite". 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. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| DCN1912 | _40 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 13.5x9x9cm | 1110g |
| Matrix specimen dominated by one side of sharp, purple fluorite cubes with iridescent, strongly reflective coating. The specimen is populated by numerous other minerals, namely light brown calcite and pockets of pure white secondary antimony minerals, possibly valentinite or coquandite. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW and SW blue, calcite SW yellow |
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| CCN0932 | _42 € |
| Hubeite, Dolomite, Calcite, Apophyllite with Quartz |
| Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper-Wollastonite mine), (TL), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 9x6x5cm | 215g |
| Sharp white dolomite rhombohedrons to 3cm completely overgrown ("iced") by flat transparent calcite xls. The secondary coating (only on one side) consists of clear apophyllite and quartz, both crystallized. Included in the apophyllite and also freestanding are clusters of brown hubeite. Type locality. Looks better (more regular) in person! |
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| DCN1835 | _45 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 15x9x6cm | 650g |
| Sharp, purple fluorite with iridescent coating, associated by yellow calcite and secondary antimony minerals. Small edge damages. Secondary antimony minerals are 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. On matrix. Note the color change between light purple and blue. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| DCN1836 | _45 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 10x9x8cm | 630g |
| Light purple phosphorescent fluorite, widely overgrown by a thick, sparkly layer consisting of a multitude of species, namely aragonite, calcite, gypsum, fluorite, quartz and secondary antimony minerals, 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. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| DCN1869 | _45 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 10x9x6cm | 450g |
| 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, usually pure white to pink antimony minerals. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals are present, such as coquandite. Opaque white areas at the inside of the columns may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of amorphous secondary Sb-minerals. Translucent surface minerals, usually along the edges of the otherwise transparent fluorite xls (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 fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| DCN1919 | _45 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 12x9x8cm | 840g |
| Light purple, strongly phosphorescent fluorite! The fluorite grew around stibnite, which vanished into thin stibiconite pseudomorphs. 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 consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, aragonite, gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| DCN1427 | _50 € |
| Calcite, Aragonite, ?Stibiconite with Selenite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 17x7.5x6.5cm | 510g |
| At first glance, this unanalyzed specimen looks like ordinary calcite on limonite. The calcite however is highly recrystallized and probably pseudomorphed by other minerals. The limonite could in fact be antimony ochre, consisting mainly of stibiconite. Moreover there are some delicate stalks of aragonite var. flos ferri present. |
| fluorescent Aragonite SW greenish white LW yellow and white |
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| CCN1871 | _55 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 8x6.5x5.5cm | 270g |
| Glassy transparent fluorite with purple edges and partial golden iridescent coating! The columnar structure of the aggregate represents a perimorph after stibnite that completely vanished into secondary, usually pure white to pink antimony minerals. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals are present, such as coquandite. Opaque white areas at the inside of the columns may in fact be inclusions related to antimony content, as the "whitest" fluorite xls occur in immediate vicinity of amorphous secondary Sb-minerals. Translucent surface minerals, usually along the edges of the otherwise transparent fluorite xls (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 fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| DCN1915 | _65 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 14x9x6cm | 650g |
| Pale yellow fluorite with purple core. The columnar structure of the aggregate represents a perimorph after stibnite that completely vanished into secondary, usually pure white to pink antimony minerals. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals are present, such as coquandite. Translucent surface minerals, usually along the edges of the otherwise transparent fluorite xls (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence. The unilateral overgrowth on the fluorite column consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons and secondary antimony minerals. Yellow fluorite is quite rare from this findplace! |
| fluorescent fluorite LW greenish to yellow-white SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| DCN1914 | _68 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 12x7x6cm | 630g |
| Pale yellow fluorite with purple core. The columnar structure of the aggregate represents a perimorph after stibnite that completely vanished into secondary, usually pure white to pink antimony minerals. Not analyzed and preliminarily named here "stibiconite", there are strong hints that rarer secondary Sb-minerals are present, such as coquandite. Translucent surface minerals, usually along the edges of the otherwise transparent fluorite xls (which often look like edge damages!) cause a green shortwave fluorescence with noticeable phosphorescence. The unilateral overgrowth on the fluorite column consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons and secondary antimony minerals. Yellow fluorite is quite rare from this findplace! |
| fluorescent fluorite LW greenish to yellow-white SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| DCN1834 | _70 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite with Aragonite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 12x10x9cm | 780g |
| Light purple phosphorescent fluorite with golden iridescent coating, widely overgrown by a thick, sparkly layer consisting of a multitude of species, namely aragonite, calcite, gypsum, fluorite quartz and secondary antimony minerals, 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. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| CCN1521 | _80 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 9x7x7cm | 570g |
| Tightly intergrown, penetration twinned fluorite, resulting in a rounded appearance. Quite transparent with noticeable color change from sky blue in overcast daylight to light purple in incandescent light. Associated by yellow, scalenohedral calcite and secondary antimony minerals! Note the four-color fluorescence, particularly the unusual greenish-blue fluorescence of the fluorite! |
| fluorescent LW multicolor blue Fluorite, yellow Calcite, SW blue, green, yellow and orange zones |
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| DCN1717 | _85 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite, ?Coquandite with Aragonite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 15x14x13cm | 2300g |
| Matrix specimen dominated by sharp, purple fluorite cubes with iridescent, strongly reflective coating. The specimen is populated by numerous other minerals, namely light brown calcite and pockets of pure white secondary antimony minerals, possibly valentinite or coquandite. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue SW greenish aragonite yellow and white |
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| DCN1779 | _85 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 10.5x8x5cm | 300g |
| 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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| DCN1512 | _90 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 13.5x6x5cm | 400g |
| Tightly intergrown, penetration twinned fluorite, resulting in a rounded appearance. Quite transparent with noticeable color change from sky blue in overcast daylight to light purple in incandescent light. Associated by yellow, scalenohedral, somewhat corroded calcite. Note the four-color fluorescence, particularly the unusual greenish-blue fluorescence of the fluorite! |
| fluorescent LW multicolor blue Fluorite, yellow Calcite, SW blue, green, yellow and orange zones |
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| CCN1780 | _90 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 8x7.5x5cm | 280g |
| 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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| CCN1781 | _90 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Small Cabinet | 9.5x6x4cm | 240g |
| 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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| DCN1833 | _90 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 14x10x7cm | 1010g |
| Sharp, purple fluorite with iridescent coating, associated by yellow, corroded calcite and secondary antimony minerals. On matrix. Note the color change between light purple and blue. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent LW blue fluorite, yellow matrix minerals SW |
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| DCN1830 | _110 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 18x16x9cm | 2530g |
| Large specimen of light purple phosphorescent fluorite, widely overgrown by a thick, sparkly layer consisting of a multitude of species, namely aragonite, calcite, gypsum, fluorite, quartz and secondary antimony minerals, 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. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| DCN1831 | _140 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 17x17x10cm | 3150g |
| Large specimen of 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, aragonite (bright white balls) and secondary antimony minerals. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges SW greenish white phosphorescent! |
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| ECN1832 | _140 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite with Aragonite, Gypsum |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Large Cabinet | 21x16x14cm | 3850g |
| Large specimen of light purple phosphorescent fluorite, widely overgrown by a thick, sparkly layer consisting of a multitude of species, namely aragonite, calcite, gypsum, fluorite quartz and secondary antimony minerals, 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. Found 2009. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW blue with greenish edges, green matrix minerals SW greenish phosphorescent fluorite, bright green matrix minerals |
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| DCN1764 | _165 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 16x10x9cm | 1320g |
| Light purple fluorite with yellow coating of varying iridescence! The columnar structure of the fluorite aggregates represent perimorphs 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 fluorite LW zoned whitish and blue SW zoned greenish, also phosphorescent |
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| DCN1762 | _190 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 19x15x10cm | 2120g |
| Large matrix specimen of light purple fluorite, coated yellow and iridescent. 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, mainly as bright white areas. 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. Transparent surface 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 fluorite LW zoned whitish and blue SW zoned greenish, also phosphorescent |
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| DCN1523 | _210 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Metastibnite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 11.5x9.5x8.5cm | 1010g |
| Tightly intergrown, penetration twinned fluorite, resulting in a rounded appearance. Quite transparent with noticeable color change from sky blue in overcast daylight to light purple in incandescent light. Associated by yellow, scalenohedral calcite and secondary antimony minerals! Note the four-color fluorescence, particularly the unusual greenish-blue fluorescence of the fluorite! Found 2008. This specimen is featured in the Mineralogical Record Magazine in the January/February issue 2010! |
| fluorescent LW multicolor blue Fluorite, yellow Calcite, SW blue, green, yellow and orange zones |
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| ECN1937 | _210 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Large Cabinet | 27x18x11cm | 5300g |
| Large specimen of vibrant bluish purple fluorite in xls to 1.5cm, some skeletal and with white phantoms. Color change between bluish purple and purple. Slightly blue iridescent! On a relatively large matrix that is populated by stibiconite, aragonite and white and brown, mostly crystalline and yet unidentified minerals. Strong Shortwave phosphorescence is observed on some of the matrix minerals! |
| fluorescent LW multicolor blue fluorite, yellow matrix minerals, SW strongly phosphorescent matrix minerals! |
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| ECN1760 | _290 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, Stibiconite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Large Cabinet | 21x19x12cm | 3350g |
| Large matrix specimen of light purple to pink, phosphorescent fluorite! Columnar structures represent perimorphs after stibnite, which completely vanished into secondary antimony minerals that are also present on this specimen. The unilateral overgrowth on the fluorite column consists mainly of light brown, corroded calcite scalenohedrons, transparent second-generation calcite xls, aragonite (bright white balls), gypsum and secondary antimony minerals. Specimens like this with several and undamaged fluorite columns can only be retrieved from suitable matrix outcrops, as the underlying fluorite/stibiconite structure is too brittle for the conventional retrieval techniques. The specimen therefore has a naturally grown underside. |
| fluorescent fluorite LW zoned whitish and blue SW zoned greenish and phosphorescent |
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| DCN1513 | _415 € |
| Fluorite, Calcite, ?Metastibnite, ?Coquandite |
| Dugupi-Maanshan Sb deposit, Niujie, Weishan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Cabinet | 14x14x11cm | 1720g |
| Medium purple fluorite xls, some with white rims, all with corner modifications, on matrix. Unilateral overgrowth of small, sparkly, yellow calcite xls. Note the red surface coating which is probably metastibnite! Under the calcite is a pocket of what is probably the rare antimony mineral coquandite with typical silky appearance. Quite colorful specimen at daylight as well as UV! Note the unusual greenish blue SW fluorescence of the fluorite! Found late 2008. This specimen is featured in the Mineralogical Record Magazine in the January/February issue 2010! |
| fluorescent LW multicolor blue Fluorite, yellow Calcite SW green Fluorite and orange patches! |
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