Minerals, Yiwu, Zhejiang, China
Fluorite with pyrite
Fluorite & Pyrite
Purple fluorite with a scattering of golden pyrite over its faces.
Price on request · In stock — Gimenei shopping centre
- Origin
- Yiwu, Zhejiang, China
- Size
- 48.5 × 29 × 10 cm
- Weight
- 26.8 kg
- Classification
- Halides
- Composition
- Calcium fluoride CaF₂ with pyrite inclusions
- Ref.
- R–0250
A massive specimen composed of more than ten botryoidal aggregates of fluorite in a saturated violet hue. Large rounded formations coalesce into a single mass of rock.
The entire surface is covered with small pyrite crystals. Golden, faceted grains form a dense layer between the fluorite flows and emphasize the depth of the violet colour.
This specimen approaches half a metre in its greatest dimension and weighs about twenty-seven kilograms. For Yiwu in Zhejiang Province, this is a characteristic type of fluorite–pyrite mineralization, though monoliths of such size are uncommon.