Rare Fluorite Ball on MM Quartz – Natural Mineral Specimen from Nashik, Maharashtra, India # B 6097

Features:

Primary Mineral: Fluorite
Secondary Mineral: Quartz
Size: 2 x 1.5 inches (5.1 x 3.8 cm)
Size Class: Miniature
Weight: 75 g (2.6 oz)
Locality: Nashik, Maharashtra, India

A large, translucent honey-yellow fluorite ball with faint internal banding, resting on a small base of pinkish quartz, from Nashik. The sphere fills nearly the whole miniature and glows when light passes through 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 neat miniature of honey fluorite on quartz.