Pink Fluorite on Smoky Quartz

LOCALITY
Pt. Kurz
Mont Blanc, France

PHOTO CREDIT
Joe Budd

SIZE
17 cm

THIS FAMOUS 1994 POINT KURZ POCKET YIELDED A SMALL NUMBER OF RED-PINK FLUORITE OCTOHEDRONS ON DARK SMOKY QUARTZ, SOME ON WHITE MATRIX. THIS IS ONE OF THE LARGEST, BEST, AND MOST FAMOUS OF THAT FIND. THIS WAS FOUND BY STRAHLER RENE JILLINI, AND THE ENTIRE LOT WAS BOUGHT BY ERIC ASSELBORN. FROM HIM THIS PLATE WENT TO STUART WILLENSKY INTO THE ED DAVID COLLECTION, THEN TO ROB LAVINSKY AND INTO THE MARC WEILL COLLECTION. FEATURED - MARC WEILL COLLECTION, MINERALOGICAL RECORD SUPPLEMENT, JAN/FEB 2008, P. 43.