Specifications
Description
Locality: Xianghualing, Hunan, China
Description: This fluorite and calcite grew where molten granite met ancient limestone. The Xianghualing deposit in Linwu County, southern Hunan, lies in the Nanling belt, one of China's great tin and tungsten regions. In the Late Jurassic, a highly evolved granite pushed into Middle Devonian carbonate rocks. Hot fluids rich in fluorine and boron poured out of the cooling magma and reacted with the limestone, forming a skarn.
Geologists split the deposit into four stages, from garnet-forming fluids above 500 °C to late veins below about 230 °C. Fluorite formed alongside tourmaline in the skarn, and calcite came in the late, cooler sulfide stage with quartz, sphalerite and galena. As the fluids cooled and mixed with groundwater, they dropped their minerals into open spaces.
Xianghualing is a large tin deposit, estimated at about 250,000 tonnes of tin and 850,000 tonnes of lead and zinc, plus niobium and tantalum. It is also the type locality of hsianghualite, a rare lithium-beryllium mineral first described from this mine. The mine's name means "fragrant flower".
At 30 cm and 5.8 kg, this is a large display piece of fluorite on calcite from the locality.
In crystal traditions, fluorite is associated with clarity and focus, and calcite with cleansing energy.
Chemical Composition: Fluorite: CaF2
Calcite: CaCO3
Chakra: Heart & Crown
Size : 30cm x 22cm x 10cm
Weight: 5.8kg
Quantity: 1pc (Stand not included)
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