This is a beautiful specimen, from recent finds at the Wudong Mine of China. It features several minerals: apatite, sitting in the middle sits front and center on cherry-red rhodochroite rhombs. The purple cubes are fluorite crystals, and of course, brass-yellow cubes are pyrite. Everything is surrounded by beautiful quartz crystals coming in from all over the place. It’s extremely rare that such a gorgeous rock is found, a true geological gem.

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