Fluorite Ball on MM Quartz – Natural Mineral Specimen from Nashik, Maharashtra, India # B 5781

Features:

Primary Mineral: Fluorite
Secondary Mineral: Quartz
Size: 1.5 x 1.5 inches (3.8 x 3.8 cm)
Size Class: Miniature
Weight: 60 g (2.1 oz)
Locality: Nashik, Maharashtra, India

A large, honey-gold fluorite ball with a fine, sugary surface, nearly covering its small base of white quartz crystals, from Nashik. The sphere is the whole show here, round and evenly colored, with just a rim of sparkling quartz around it.

Fluorite usually forms cubes or octahedra, so rounded, botryoidal balls are an unusual habit, and one the Deccan Traps basalts of Nashik have become known for.

A compact miniature of honey fluorite on quartz.