Detailed information
Dimensions
25 x 45 x 20
mm
Weight
18 g
Locality
Ten Strike Mine, Klondyke Aravaipa Mining District Graham Co., Arizona, USA
Condition
No recorded repairs
The combination of intense purple Fluorite crowned by sprays of characteristic, stocky, glassy, pale cream to white coloured terminated Quartz crystals make specimens from Ten Strike mine at Klondyke, Graham Co., Arizona, USA instantly recognizable. Specimens from Ten Strike mine appear to have come out during the early 1990s and again in about 2009, but always in very limited quantities and getting a good one is hard. This miniature-sized specimen has nice overall aesthetics with rich colour to the Fluorite and well-defined Quartz crystals sprays. The bed of purple Fluorite is made up of predominantly octahedral crystals, but with some natural incisions as thin vertical lines. Large areas of the Fluorite are covered by perfectly terminated short prismatic Quartz crystals but the bright purple Fluorite pokes through to produce a really attractive display. Ex Paul Matt.
