Fluorite: Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado USA

Description

Species: Fluorite

Locality: Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado USA

Dimensions: 3.9 x 2.5 x 2 cm.

In addition to its world-class rhodochrosite specimens, Colorado’s Sweet Home mine has produced some outstanding fluorites, which have never been common on the market and are eagerly sought by collectors for their vivid colors and attractive associations. This beautiful miniature has fantastic bright blue color and consists of “mini-stalactites” of stacked cubic fluorite crystals that make it very aesthetically-pleasing. Retains on older Collector’s Edge label from the mid-1990’s. Mark Cross photo. Classic!!