This specimen hosts truly spectacular, complex, sharp, colourless, transparent fluorite crystals. It is a piece that looks good from various angles and could easily be displayed in any orientation. It stands perfectly as photographed, and because colourless and transparent fluorite is a challenge to convey with photographs, the first four photos show a rotation of the specimen (to the right/counter-clockwise) to give a better sense of the 3-D nature and form of the crystals.

The fluorite crystals show a combination of four forms: the dominant cube, the dodecahedron (giving the “bevel”), the trapezohedron which shows as three small facets near each corner, and the almost imperceptible octahedron, giving the tiniest modification faces (visible only in a few spots and then only with magnification). Across the top of the piece, the fluorite crystals are well separated from one another, and these ones are water-clear, like the finest Herkimer diamonds, with sparkling rainbow-like reflections under the lights. In excellent condition – only incomplete crystals at the bottom where this was removed from surrounding rock, and otherwise you need to search with magnification for a couple of tiny chips, hard to find.

This is superb Dal’negorsk fluorite.