$2,500.00 €2,224 £1,990.00 approx. This specimen is priced in US dollars, all other prices are approximate.
A spectacular terminated yellow-cream Orthoclase crystal with colour-zoned Fluorapatite crystals from Chywoon quarry in the Carnmenellis Granite pluton, at Mabe near to Falmouth in Cornwall. The Orthoclase termination and two of the prism faces are coated in a very thin veneer of orangey-buff Orthoclase with a rough texture over which are scattered hundreds of micro crystals of pale blue-green Fluorapatite, plus several terminated Quartz crystals to 8 mm. Close to the Orthoclase termination are three large, lustrous sea-green Fluorapatite crystals to 9 x 9 mm, displaying zoning and mirror bright pinacoid faces. Four patches of lustrous cream Orthoclase show where Fluorapatite crystals have become detached while in situ in the pegmatite pockets.