“12.3 x 6.3 x 4.3 cm. A wonderful cabinet sized piece from the Shangbao Mine. This piece hosts a pair of beautiful, sharp, lustrous, gemmy purple fluorite crystals with cubic and dodecahedral faces measuring up to 2.8 cm on edge with pinkish colored curved rhombic dolomite with minor "needle" quartz on matrix . Showy and three-dimensional. Ex Dr. Stephen Smale Collection. Along with amassing one of the finest private mineral collections in the world, Steve is a renowned mathematician. His accomplishments include being awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 along with being the awarded the Wolf Prize in mathematics in 2007. You can read Steve's bio on the Mineralogical Record website (https://mineralogicalrecord.com/labels.asp?colid=671&page=1) or on Wikipedia.
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Robert Lavinsky - 4th December 2019