Our finest from a Limited find, “Purple Haze” pocket 2018, Color change Fluorite. Diana Maria mine, Weardale, Co. Durham, U.K. 1.9 pound

Offering a large shocking color change Fluorite. In direct sunlight its the most shocking purple of all we have had. Sharp edge twinned cubes with a large 30 mm cube at top. Discovered at the Diana Maria mine, Purple Haze pocket 2018, Weardale, Co. Durham, U.K. Grab one now as this was a limited find. 1 pounds 12.1 ounce. All you see which is white color is interior within the crystals of micro quartz, thus "purple haze" name. The purple is shocking rich color in sunlight. This piece has no damage. The video was shot indoors, all other shots in direct sunlight.

The following is the mines write up. The Purple Haze pocket was discovered in Autumn 2018 adjacent to, and connected with, the Galena Pocket. The two pockets clearly show similarities in their deep purple Fluorites and drusy coatings of lustrous micro-Quartz crystals. Depletion of lead in the depositional fluid chemistry has resulted in only minor amounts of Galena throughout the Purple Haze Pocket. The color of Fluorite appears hazy yet lustrous because of the naturally frosted crystal faces and the complexity of color zoning within individual crystals and interpenetrant twins. Very rarely, the pocket produced Fluorites distorted to an orthorhombic-like habit wherein all three axes are of unequal length.
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