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Description: Fluorite, Quartz Locality: Mahodari, Nasik District, Maharashtra, India (Locality at mindat.org) Size: 4.8 x 4.4x 3.9 cm. A perfect, totally pristine, translucent, 1-inch ball of botryoidal "fried-egg"-looking fluorite is here perched on a calcite crystal, on a pedestal of sparkling, white quartz points. Botryoidal fluorite is rare in nature, coming from only a few locales despite the worldwide abundance of the species. Ex. Dr. Stephen Smale Collection.
Title: Fluorite-Quartz-226312
Credit: http://www.mindat.org/photo-226312.html
Author: Robert M. Lavinsky
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