Honey Fluorite Ball on MM Quartz – Natural Mineral Specimen from Nashik, Maharashtra, India # B 5627

Features:

Primary Mineral: Fluorite (honey)
Secondary Mineral: Quartz
Size: 2 x 1 inches (5.1 x 2.5 cm)
Size Class: Miniature
Weight: 79 g (2.8 oz)
Locality: Nashik, Maharashtra, India

A honey-yellow fluorite ball with a finely pebbled surface, perched on top of a small cluster of pale lavender-pink quartz crystals from Nashik. The warm sphere sits high on its base and contrasts nicely with the faceted crystals below.

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

A miniature-sized example of honey fluorite on quartz with good color.