AKS8 Fluorite on Calcite, Quartz

Mahodari Quarry, Near Nasik, Maharashtra Prov., India
10.5x 8.7x 5.3 cm

$400

Although Indian specimens are everywhere these days, some minerals from the country are still rather uncommon.

Botryoidal red fluorite is one of those "harder to get" minerals, and this is a striking example, with numerous red fluorite balls on a large calcite crystal, which itself is in a quartz-lined vug.

As is typical of virtually all Indian minerals, the specimen has been carved out of hard quarry rock, and the traces of this are left behind in the horizontal lines visible at the leftmost part of the specimen.

Please note that when viewed from straight on, the part of the geode that curves upwards (see bottom image) encroaches on the display face, so it must be displayed at a slight angle.