A vivid pink cobaltoan calcite from Congo, something of a fluke too. In recent years there has been an influx of wholesale material with smaller crystals, but the bigger ones haven’t been encountered since the 80’s. I’m sure there is some good geological reason for the scarcity, but the bottom line is, the big ones don’t come out.  This piece was one of two crystals (the other is peach colored) that miraculously turned up with a big lot of decorative malachite—its considerably more transparent than the ones from the 80’s, with much better luster… and of course it has that vivid pink color that only a Congolese cobaltoan calcite could have.