Gem(s): Aquamarine, Fluorite, and Smokey Quartz
Weight: 3.91 Grams
Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 13 mm
Clarity: N/A - All of the minerals are fairly to very gemmy and clean.
Origin: Erongo Mountains, Namibia
Treatments: None
Comments:
I am very pleased to be able to offer this little firecracker!!
Combo mineral specimens are extra special, because it means conditions were perfect for three seperate types of crystallization occurring simultaneously, or perhaps concurrently. It's really uncommon most of the time to find two or more distinctive and non-related minerals attached to each other in a complimentary way. THREE types of mineral all together is hitting the lottery. I've personally never owned or offered such a concise, well crystallized example of complex gemstone pegmatite material in such a perfect, compact package.
Green fluorite with a cool feathered / etched exterior sits partially wedged, and partially perched on a gemmy smokey quartz crystal, and an absolute log-jam of aquamarine crystals.
All the crystals are terminated. The aquamarine crystals are in especially good shape, showing very crisp terminations, and very clean interiors. The largest aqua is a very nice deeper blue color, just to make it punch that much more above its weight class. The fluorite shows a perfect cleavage plane, but is externally pristine. The smokey quartz has a few small dings on it, which is too bad, but they are pretty minor. On the tip of the smokey quartz there is an unidentified cluster of small, matte black crystals, which are probably goethite, siderite, or something similar.
The back of this piece shows where it was broken off of the host matrix as a whole cluster. If displayed as it is in the photos, 90% of that area is underneath, and the rest is tucked in back away from most of the crystallized areas.